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Rhodoline® Specialty Coatings Additives

Rhodoline® DF Series

Enhance the performance of your waterborne coatings with our extensive portfolio of high performance additives

Defoamer additives for preventing foam formation

Rhodoline® DF Series of specialty additives is a broad range of defoamers for coatings applications. Rhodoline® DF defoamers offer an eco-friendly solution for formulating low-to-zero VOC coatings.
Rhodoline® DF Series additives are suitable for waterborne architectural coatings, latex systems, inks, adhesives and pigment dispersions.

 

What is foam?

  • Foam is a substance formed by trapped pockets of gas in liquid, separated from each other by thin films called lamella.
  • Foam is generated throungh piping/drumming, grinding/letdown and mixing
     

What are some consequences of foam?

  • Foaming causes surface defects on coatings
  • Foaming affects the paint's aesthetic appeal
  • Air bubbles cause defects that make the paint more susceptible to cracking and peeling

 

Rhodoline® DF Series applications

  1. Low-to high-PVC architectural coatings
  2. Waterborne latex processing
  3. Elastic texture coatings
  4. Water based inks
  5. Adhesives

 

Rhodoline® DF Series features

  • High-defoaming efficiency
  • Good anti-foam persistency
  •  Quick foam knock-down
  • Great compatibility in different paint/latex system
  • Low viscosity
  • Zero-VOC
  • APE-free
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