Afcona 3033
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Enhanced Surface SmoothnessGood CompatibilityImproved Slip
- Chemical Family
- Polyether Polysiloxanes
Afcona 3033 is a liquid additive designed for clear coats, offering enhanced surface smoothness and improved slip. As a leveling agent, it ensures uniformity and quality in coatings for automotive OEM, floor, wood, and industrial applications. With compatibility across various polymers and resins like epoxies, polyurethanes, and polyamides, it provides versatility in formulation.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Liquid
Product families
- Functional Additives
- Surface Modifiers
Other characteristics
- Brand
- Afcona
- End Uses
Clearcoat, Radiation Curable Coating, Solventborne Coating, Wood Coating
- Features
Enhanced Surface Smoothness, Good Compatibility, Improved Slip
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
Epoxies (EP), Nitrocellulose, Polyamides, Polyurethanes (PU), Thermoplastic Acrylic
- Carrier
- Butyl Acetate
- Solvent-based
- Markets
- Automotive & Transportation
- Building & Construction
- Paints & Coatings
- Appearance
- Clear to slightly hazy/ yellowish liquid
- Shelf LIfe
- 5 years
- Cure
- Chemical Cure
- Radiation Cure
- Coating Type
- Clearcoat
- Radiation Curable Coating
- Solventborne Coating
- Wood Coating
- Technology
- CASE Ingredients
- Incorporation
AFCONA-3033 can be added at any stage during the production process. If added at the dispersion process, it speeds up wetting.
- Storage Condition
AFCONA-3033 should be stored in a cool dry place. When kept in an original unopened container, it will keep up to 5 years from the date of manufacture. The expiry date is indicated on the container.
- Application Methods
- Spray
- Product Properties
AFCONA-3033 is an end modification of a special Polysiloxane. With this modification, it enhances coatings slip performance and surface smoothness. The slip characteristic is dry type, which makes it very suitable for wood coatings and resins with thermoplastic character. It has excellent compatibility properties, making it very suitable for use in clear coatings. However, good compatibility also comes with more foam stabilizing effect. Thus, for foam sensitive systems defoamers like AFCONA – 2020, AFCONA 2022 and AFCONA 2045 should be used to eliminate the extra foam generated. However, for normal conventional spray systems, these extra defoamers are not needed. A better solution, for those foam sensitive systems like high build epoxy, polyurethane and those systems apply by curtain coating and airless spray, slip and leveling agent with defoaming property is more recommended, such as AFCONA – 3236, AFCONA – 3238 and AFCONA – 3239. AFCONA-3033 is recommended for below systems: 1) All wood coating system, NC, Acid Curing and Polyurethane. It also can be used in UV coating where transparency of the coating is needed. 2) Suitable for resins with a thermoplastic character like Thermoplastic Acrylic and NC. It has very good slip and leveling properties for these systems
- Chemical Composition
- Organic modified polyether polysiloxane.
- Packaging Information
- 25kg and 180kg non-returnable containers
Technical data
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4 rows| Characteristic | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Active Ingredient | 14 - 16 | % |
| Denisty (at 20°C) | 0.89 - 0.91 | g/cm³ |
| Refractive Index | 1.396 - 1.406 | — |
| Flash Point | 43.0 | °C |
