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Solution Grade
Estane® Engineered Polymers are available in a broad range of aromatic and aliphatic grades for solution coating applications. Solution coating grades typically offer lighter weight options (as low as 5-10 g/m2) compared to calendering products (no lower than 100 g/m2). The largest markets for these materials are protective coatings and synthetic leathers. Engineered polymers are specifically formulated for the solution process and are soluble in a variety of solvents including high-hydrogen bonding solvents, such as THF and DMF, and in blends of these solvents with ketones such as MEK or acetone and other diluents. Some are soluble in ketones (MEK, acetone) alone. Solution coating materials are applied by different methods such as spray coating, dip coating, direct coating, transfer coating, and coagulation coating. Key end-use markets include:
Estane® Engineered Polymers are available in a broad range of aromatic and aliphatic grades for solution coating applications. Solution coating grades typically offer lighter weight options (as low as 5-10 g/m2) compared to calendering products (no lower than 100 g/m2). The largest markets for these materials are protective coatings and synthetic leathers.
Engineered polymers are specifically formulated for the solution process and are soluble in a variety of solvents including high-hydrogen bonding solvents, such as THF and DMF, and in blends of these solvents with ketones such as MEK or acetone and other diluents. Some are soluble in ketones (MEK, acetone) alone.
Solution coating materials are applied by different methods such as spray coating, dip coating, direct coating, transfer coating, and coagulation coating.
Key end-use markets include:
Estane's technology in engineered polymers is unique because in film or coated form, it becomes a monolithic barrier to keep water out but still allows moisture vapor to move freely through activated diffusion.
Estane Engineered Polymers include a broad range of resins with features that make them ideal for use across the entire range of solvent-based and hot melt adhesive.
Textiles coated with engineered polymers from Estane are being used as high-quality material in a vary wide range of applications.
Our resins offer unique opportunities for fabric coating products. Topcoats prepared from Estane's solution resins and/or compounds exhibit excellent properties that can be obtained by either direct or transfer coating.
Estane Engineered Polymers provides an extensive line of thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPU) for the consumer goods market that provides soft touch, barriers to moisture, adhesion, colorability, and transparency for fabrics and other end uses.
Estane's engineered polymers technology is unique because in film or coated form, it becomes a monolithic barrier to keep water out but still allows moisture vapor to move freely through activated diffusion.
Selection Guide (Asia Pacific)
EstaGrip thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) are a patented technology developed specifically for the most demanding overmolding applications. Providing unprecedented adhesion capability to a variety of substrates, EstaGrip TPE affords the most comfortable "soft touch" in the industry and unparalleled durability.