Afcona 4046
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Excellent Distinctness of Image (DOI)High Color StrengthHigh GlossHigh Molecular WeightHigh PerformanceLow Viscosity
- Chemical Family
- Polyurethanes (PU)
Afcona 4046 is a liquid dispersant tailored for solventborne coatings compatible with epoxies, polyurethanes, and unsaturated polyesters. Designed for industrial coatings, it facilitates the dispersion of carbon blacks and various pigments, ensuring high color strength, gloss, and distinctness of image (DOI). With its low viscosity and high molecular weight, Afcona 4046 enhances coating performance while maintaining excellent flow properties.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Liquid
Identification
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Dispersant
Product families
Applications
- Industrial Coatings
Product Families
- Dispersing & Wetting Additives
- Other Processing Additives
Other characteristics
- Brand
- Afcona
- Features
Excellent Distinctness of Image (DOI), High Color Strength, High Gloss, High Molecular Weight, High Performance, Low Viscosity
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
Epoxies (EP), Polyurethanes (PU), Unsaturated Polyester (UPE)
- Markets
- Paints & Coatings
- Appearance
- Clear to slightly hazy, yellow liquid
- Shelf LIfe
- 5 years
- Coating Type
- Solventborne Coating
- Technology
- CASE Ingredients
- Industrial Additives & Materials
- Incorporation
AFCONA-4046 should be incorporated in the mill base before adding the pigments.
- Storage Condition
AFCONA-4046 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-4046 is a very effective polymeric dispersant for stabilizing inorganic and organic pigments as well as carbon blacks. It has very good stability performance, through effective steric hindrance, on all type of pigments. This results in: - improved gloss and DOI - reduced flooding problems - higher color strength - lower viscosity AFCONA – 4046 has below special properties and recommended in below systems: 1) AFCONA – 4046 is compatible with almost all solvent-based resins 2) AFCONA – 4046 mainly is used in industrial paints such as baking paints, epoxies, UPE's, polyurethanes and other resin systems that need very good pigment stability. 3) AFCONA – 4046 is also widely used as dispersant in preparation of universal pigment concentrates. For these we recommend the combination with the universal resin, AFCONA – 1102. AFCONA – 1102 gives better pigment wetting and compatibility than any other universal resin available in the market. Note: AFCONA – 4046 will become slightly hazy at temperature 5°C and below, but this will not influent the quality.
- Addition and Dosage
- Calculation method for the required amount of AFCONA-4046 on pigment:
- TiO2
- 2 - 3%
- Other inorganic pigments
- 2 - 4%
- Organic pigments
- 20 - 40%
- Carbon blacks
- 20 - 60%
- Chemical Composition
- Modified polyacrylate polymer.
- Packaging Information
- 25kg and 190 kg non-returnable containers
- Compatible Polymers and Resins
- Epoxies (EP)
- Polyurethanes (PU)
- Unsaturated Polyester (UPE)
- Industrial Additives End Use
- Carbon Blacks
- Inorganic Pigments
- Organic Pigments
- Industrial Additives Features
- High Color Strength
- High Gloss
- High Molecular Weight
- Low Viscosity
- Industrial Additives Functions
- Dispersant
Technical data
Table 1 of 1
5 rows| Characteristic | Value | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Active Ingredient | 39 - 41 | % |
| Denisty (at 20°C) | 0.96 - 0.99 | mg/cm³ |
| Color | max. 6 | Gardner |
| Amine Value | 10 - 25 | mg KOH/g |
| Flash Point | 41.0 | °C |
