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MOSCOW (MRC) -- Nouryon has launched a
new version of its Expancel expandable microspheres targeted at speciality thin
coatings applications. Expandable microspheres work as a filler and blowing
agent to make products lighter and reduce overall costs, according to GV.
According to the company,
the new Expancel Extra Small Microsphere (XSMS) line brings additional benefits
to speciality thin coatings applications, such as improving the printability of
thermal paper labels, tickets and receipts, as well as filling and upgrading
genuine or artificial leather without sacrificing volume.
“Expancel XSMS
will bring significant cost-saving and performance benefits to customers in the
speciality coatings industry,” said Sylvia Winkel Pettersson, Vice President
Expancel at Nouryon. “It can replace more costly raw materials while providing
improved properties in the finished coatings. Furthermore, our on-site expansion
solution offers notable sustainability benefits for customers. By reducing the
need for transportation, they can lower their carbon dioxide emissions and,
ultimately, lower their overall environmental impact.”
Expancel is
already used in several traditional coatings applications, including cool roof
coatings, where the high solar reflectance of the microspheres helps to decrease
roof temperatures, reducing the need for air conditioning.
“The history
of Expancel dates back 40 years when we started our first production unit at
Sundsvall, Sweden,” said Johan Landfors, President of Technology Solutions at
Nouryon. “We deliver total solutions, including product development support and
on-site expansion systems for our customers worldwide. We are now expanding our
position in the coatings industry with Expancel XSMS as the newest innovation in
our portfolio of microspheres, which will provide additional important
sustainability benefits to our customers.”
Nouryon completed an expansion
of the unit in Sundsvall in 2019, and recently announced that it would build a
facility in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in the USA. It also produces Expancel in
Brazil and China.
As MRC wrote
previously, in February 2019, Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals)
announced that it would license its innovative continuous initiator dosing
(CiD) technology to Karpatnaftochim, Ukraine’s largest polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
producer. Nouryon’s patented CiD technology allows PVC producers to increase
reactor output by up to 40 percent, improve product quality, and make the
production process intrinsically safer - all with minimum capital
expenditure.
According to ICIS-MRC Price
report, lKarpatneftekhim plans to resume its PVC production by the middle
of this week, after a scheduled shutdown for maintenance. Buyers siad
November prices will be negotiated starting from this week. The
Ukrainian producer is most likely to raise its PVC
prices for the domestic market in line with prices in global markets.
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