AFCONA Products for floor coating

Version : Jan 2010

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Systems introduction

1) Solvent free 2 pack epoxy

2) Solvent free Polyurethane
3) PMMA acrylic system

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Main properties requirement

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Foaming
avoid foam stabilizing additives especially a levelling agent
that stabilized foam
foam.
Color evenness
select a suitable dispersant
Good substrate wetting
use a fluorocarbon modified polyacrylic as levelling agent
G
Good
leveling
use a good combination of silicone and non-silicone
levelling
g agent
g
No viscosity pick up
Avoid using high amine value materials, mainly coming
f
from
the
th dispersants
di
t

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Foaming
General rules :
Low surface tension + Compatibility = Foam stabilizing
- the lowest the surface tension, more foam will be
created, thus avoid.
Low surface tension + incompatible = not a foam
stabilizer
- possible a good defoamer but at least it will not
stabilized foam
foam.

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Additives and foam stabilizing

Defoamer
Based on incompatible, give defoaming property.
Leveling agent
Most leveling agents are foam stabilizer as they reduce surface tension
and gives compatibility. However special modified leveling that crater for
foam sensitive system are available from AFCONA where it can perform
leveling, slip, anti-crater as well as defoaming.
Dispersing agent
Dispersing agent must be compatible in order it can function as
dispersing agent. Thus we can not avoid foam stabilizing contribution of
dispersing agent to the system. However as dispersing agent does not
reduce
d
surface
f
tension
i too llow as silicone,
ili
thus
h the
h ffoam stabilizing
bili i
effect is possible to solve by a suitable defoamer.

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AFCONA Defoamers
Transparent
clearcoat
l
t

Solventless Epoxy

Solventless
P l
Polyurethane
th

PMMA system

Dosage

Coloured /pigmented

0.3
0
3 0.5%
0 5%
on total
formulation

AFCONA 2722
or
AFCONA 2725
or
AFCONA 2726
or
AFCONA 2727

AFCONA 2038
or
AFCONA 2045

0.3 0.5%
on total
formulation

AFCONA 2020
or
AFCONA 2722
or
AFCONA 2725

1.0 1.5%
on total
formulation

AFCONA - 2040

0.3 0.5%
on total
formulation

AFCONA 2725

1.0 1.5%
on total
formulation

AFCONA 2720
or
AFCONA 2723
or
AFCONA 2038

Dosage

1.0 1.5%
on total
formulation

Remark : The choice of defoamers for epoxy are more due to different hardener availability in the market.
For better performance
performance, combination of AFCONA 2040 or AFCONA 2038 at 0
0.3
3 0.6%
0 6% will increase
the defoaming performance.
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AFCONA Defoamers
Resin
System

:2p
pack solventless epoxy
p y
: Transparent Clearcoat

AFCONA 2720 Polyhydrocarbon based defoamer

defoamer. Gives
good transparency.
AFCONA 2723 Better transparency than AFCONA 2720.
Silicone based.
AFCONA 2038 Very good transparency but also strong in
defoaming Silicone based
defoaming.
based. Highly
recommended. If deforming is not enough,
combine with small portion of AFCONA 2720.
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AFCONA Defoamers
Resin
System

:2p
pack solventless epoxy
p y
: Coloured / pigmented

AFCONA 2722 Combination of Polysiloxane and low polar

polymers defoamer. Strong defoamer.
AFCONA 2725 A non silicone based defoamer with 100% active
ingredient as defoamer
defoamer. A strong defoamer
defoamer.
AFCONA 2722 and AFCONA 2725 perform
differently in different hardener.
AFCONA 2726 Very high concentration of Polysiloxane and
polyhydrocarbon based defoamer. Very effective
and also p
provide g
good leveling.
g
AFCONA 2727 - New defoamer based on polyether alkyl
modification. Very strong defoaming property with
leveling performance
performance.
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AFCONA Defoamers
Resin
System

:2p
pack solventless p
polyurethane
y
: Transparent Clearcoat

AFCONA 2045 Silicone based defoamer. Gives good

transparency.
AFCONA 2038 Silicone defoamer, give very transparent but
not so strong in defoaming as AFCONA 2045, high dosage needed.

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AFCONA Defoamers
Resin
System

:2p
pack solventless Polyurethane
y
: Coloured / pigmented

AFCONA 2722 Combination of Polysiloxane and low polar

polymers defoamer. Strong defoamer.
AFCONA 2725 A non silicone based defoamer with 100% active
ingredient as defoamer. A strong defoamer.
AFCONA 2020 Cheap and efficient defoamer. More sensitive to
give craters.
.

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AFCONA Defoamers
Resin
System

: PMMA system
y
: Transparent Clearcoat

AFCONA 2040 A fluorocarbon silicone defoamer

defoamer, very compatible
yet effective as defoamer in high polar system such
as PMMA.
.

Resin
System

: PMMA system
: Coloured / pigmented

AFCONA 2725 A very strong defoamer for PMMA system. Based

on a very low polar polymer.
.
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AFCONA leveling agents silicone based

2p
pack solventless epoxy/Polyurethane/PMMA
p y
y
systems
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Silicone based
P d t
Products

D f
Defoaming
i

A ti
Anti-crater
t

AFCONA
3236

average

Very good

Excellent

good

0.1 0.3%

AFCONA
3238

Excellent

Good

Good

good

0.1 - 0.3%

AFCONA 3239

Very good

Good

Excellent

Average

0.1 0.3%

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AFCONA leveling agents silicone based

Ch i l structure
Chemical
t
t
off recommended
d d AFCONA polysiloxane
l il

CH 3
(H 3 C) 3 Si O

Si

CH 3
O

Si

Si(CH 3 ) 3

CH 3

m
n

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AFCONA
leveling agents
non
non-silicone
silicone based
AFCONA
leveling
agents
2p
pack solventless epoxy/Polyurethane/PMMA
p y
y
systems
y
Non-silicone based
Products

Defoaming

Anti-crater

AFCONA
3700

Foam
stabilizing
g

excellent

Excellent

excellent

0.1 0.3%

AFCONA
3770

Very good

Very good

Excellent

Very good

0.5 1.0%

AFCONA
3775

Excellent

Average

Excellent

Average

0.5 1.0%

AFCONA 3777

Good

Very good

Excellent

Very good

0.5 1.0%

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Combination used of AFCONA leveling agents

Combination of silicone and non-silicone leveling agent
Me

Me

Me

Si

Me

Me
Si

Me

Me

Si

Me

Me

Me

Si
O

Si
O

Wet paint film

CH

CH

CH
O
CF2
CF2
CF2
CF3

H
H
m

2 CH
C
O
CH
2C
CH
3C

CH
O
2

2 CH
C
O
CH
2C
CH

O
2
3
p

Silicone and non silicone leveling agent orientated themselves on different

interface as show above. This will improve system performance of anti-crater,
levelling and substrate wetting properties. Thus we recommended to formulate
with a combination of AFCONA silicone and AFCONA non silicone leveling agents.
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AFCONA AdditiveDispersing
p
g agent
g
Manufacturing of colored paint involved grinding of pigments. This
is the major task for the whole manufacturing process. In floor
coating, current grinding methods are :
- Separate
S
t grinding
i di
This grinding method involved separately preparation
of individually
yp
pigment
g
paste
p
which is grinded
g
separately.
p
y Final
colors are made from mixing again these pigment pastes in
different ratio.
-

Co-grinding
This is a more common method in this paint system.
This method are referring to grinding all the pigments in the
formulation at once. All pigment are mix together with other
mill based formulation ingredients and grind together.

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AFCONA AdditiveDispersing
p
g agent
g

Co grinding Method (Epoxy and Polyurethane)

Co-grinding
AFCONA 5066

Low foam stabilizing conventional wetting and

di
dispersing
i agent.
t B
Based
d on polyacidic
l
idi functional
f
ti
l
group as anchoring agent.
Dosage
g : 0.5 1.0% based on total formulation

AFCONA 4017

Polyurethane based polymeric dispersant

specially
i ll ffor co-grinding.
i di
Contain
C t i amines
i
and
d
acids anchoring groups where amines are have
more affinity to organic pigments and acid s are
more for inorganic pigments.
Dosage : 1.0% based on total formulation

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AFCONA AdditiveDispersing
p
g agent
g

Test r result with AFCONA 4017

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AdditiveDispersing
p agents
g agent
g
AFCONA
dispersing
Single grinding Method (Epoxy)
Through concentrate :
AFCONA 4080 Very
V
good
d iin pigment
i
t stability.
t bilit L
Low A
Amine
i
value where it can give better viscosity
stability upon storage
storage.
AFCONA 4010 For all inorganic pigments / fillers
Full let down :
AFCONA 4048
AFCONA 4050
AFCONA 4010
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The best performance

For economy reason
For all inorganic pigments / fillers
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AFCONA
AdditiveDispersing
p agents
g agent
g
AFCONA
dispersing

Single grinding Method (Polyurethane)

AFCONA 4047

The best performance with good

viscosityy reduction.

AFCONA 4201

This p
product is an excellent choice if
formulator want to keep it totally
solvent free. 100% active ingredient.

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AFCONA
AdditiveDispersing
p agents
g agent
g
AFCONA
dispersing

Recommended dosage:
Inorganic pigments

10% of Oil Absorption value

Or, 22--4% on pigment

Organic pigments:

blue, green,
blue
green violet:
25% of BET value
Or, 20
20--30% on Pigment
yellow, orange, Red:
50% of BET value
Or, 20
20--30 on pigment

Carbon black p
pigments:
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20% of DBP Oil Absorption value

Or 20Or,
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