TYTAN™ AP20

CASE Ingredients Features: Good Heat Seal StrengthGood Pigment DispersionImproved Stability
Chemical Family: Ketones, Titanium CompoundsKetonesTitanium Compounds

TYTAN™ AP20 is primarily designed to strongly increase adhesion of solvent based inks to a variety of plastics used for food packaging or other purposes, but also pigment distribution and heat sealing resistance are improved allowing perfect hiding power and appearance of printing on otherwise problematic substrates.

Properties

Physical Form: Liquid

Identification

Chemical Name: Ethoxybis(pentane-24-dionato-OO')(propan-2-olato)titanium
CASE Ingredients Functions: Adhesion PromoterCoupling Agent

Product families

Applications

Printing & Packaging — Packaging

Food & Beverage Packaging

Printing & Packaging — Printing & Inks

Flexography
Gravure Printing

Product Families

CASE Ingredients — Additives

Functional Additives

Other characteristics

Brand: Dar-Tech TYTAN
End Uses: Flexography Ink, Gravure Ink, Nitrocellulose Ink, Non-Carbonyl Polyurethane Ink (NCPU Ink), Solventborne Coating, Solventborne Ink
Features: Good Heat Seal Strength, Good Pigment Dispersion, Improved Stability
Functions: Adhesion Promoter, Coupling Agent
Markets: Printing & Packaging
Benefits: Not sensitive to crystallization
Improved stability
Suitability: Flexographic/Gravure
NC/PA and NC/PU inks
Flexible packaging film
Technology: CASE Ingredients
Country Availability: Canada
USA
Coating End Applications: Solventborne Coating
Ink and Toner End Applications: Flexography Ink
Gravure Ink
Nitrocellulose Ink
Non-Carbonyl Polyurethane Ink (NCPU Ink)
Solventborne Ink
Compatible Substrates and Surfaces: Plastics

Technical data

Table 1 of 2

2 rows

Characteristic	Value	Unit
Viscosity (at 25°C)	5.5	mPa.s
Flash Point	min. 12	°C

Table 2 of 2

3 rows

Characteristic	Value	Unit
Titanium Content	8.3 - 8.9	%
Titanium (as Titanium Dioxide Content)	13.8 - 14.8	%
Specific Gravity (at 25°C)	0.96 - 0.98	—