Afcona 4474
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Excellent WhitenessImproves Coating Hiding PowerReduces Viscosity
- Chemical Family
- Acrylics & Acrylates
Afcona 4474 is a versatile liquid additive designed for coil coatings, industrial coatings, and can coatings. Compatible with polyesters and unsaturated polyester (UPE), it facilitates radiation cure processes. This dispersant, belonging to the acrylics and acrylates chemical family, enhances coating properties by effectively dispersing inorganic and iron oxide pigments. Its features include excellent whiteness, improved coating hiding power, reduced viscosity, ensuring ease of application, and superior coating quality.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Liquid
Identification
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Dispersant
Product families
Applications
- Coil Coatings
- Industrial Coatings
- Can Coatings
Product Families
- Dispersing & Wetting Additives
- Other Processing Additives
Other characteristics
- Brand
- Afcona
- Features
Excellent Whiteness, Improves Coating Hiding Power , Reduces Viscosity
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
- Polyesters, Unsaturated Polyester (UPE)
- Markets
- Paints & Coatings
- Appearance
- Clear to slightly haze. brownish liquid
- Shelf LIfe
- 5 years
- Cure
- Radiation Cure
- Coating Type
- Can Coating
- Coil Coating
- Radiation Curable Coating
- Technology
- CASE Ingredients
- Industrial Additives & Materials
- Incorporation
AFCONA-4474 should be incorporated in the mill base before adding the pigments.
- Storage Condition
AFCONA-4474 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.
- Product Properties
AFCONA – 4474 is a very strong dispersant especially for TiO2 dispersion in oil free polyester/melamine systems. This combination is commonly used in coil and can coating as well as in industrial baking paints. AFCONA - 4474 is particularly suitable for the following applications: 1) In coil and can coating applications the use of AFCONA – 4474 in TiO2 dispersions will increase the whiteness as well as the hiding power of the coating. It will also reduce the viscosity of the system. Therefore higher pigment loading could be achieved 2) Due to the pigment affinity group it is also a good dispersant for transparent iron oxide and other inorganic pigments 3) It also can be used as an effective dispersant for other acid curing systems where dispersants contain amine values always affect the flocculation stability and curing time 4) Baking paints based on polyester systems 5) Afcona 4474 is also very suitable for UPE & Epoxy systems due to the acid functional pigment affinity group. Common dispersant mostly contain amine values which always affect the self- and pot-life
- Addition and Dosage
- Calculation method for the required amount of active ingredient on pigment:
- TiO2
- 2 - 3%
- Other inorganic pigments
- 2 - 4%
- Organic pigments
- 20 - 40%
- Carbon blacks
- 20 - 60
- Chemical Composition
- Acrylate based Polymeric Dispersant.
- Packaging Information
- 25kg and 190 kg non-returnable containers
- Compatible Polymers and Resins
- Polyesters
- Unsaturated Polyester (UPE)
- Industrial Additives End Use
- Inorganic Pigments
- Iron Oxides Pigments
- Industrial Additives Functions
- Dispersant
Technical data
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5 rows| Characteristic | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Active Ingredient | 50 - 54 | % |
| Denisty (at 20°C) | 1.005 - 1.035 | g/cm³ |
| Color | max. 18 | — |
| Amine Value | 7 - 14 | mg KOH/g |
| Flash Point | 45.0 | °C |
