PTFE-Containing and PTFE-Free Wax Additives for Coatings & Inks

Are you challenged with finding compliant PTFE wax additives or viable PTFE alternatives that allow you to maintain current performance standards? If so, you are like many in the coating and inks industries. Lubrizol Performance Coatings is addressing this challenge and has a comprehensive line of both compliant PTFE-containing wax additives as well as PTFE-free wax additives to address critical surface protection and modification requirements.

Lubrizol formulations using grades of PTFE are compliant with the EU legislation and enable inks and coatings with the same protection and aesthetic properties previously attained. And PTFE-free formulations are capable of delivering similar properties to PTFE-containing formulations.

These wax additive technologies have designed to solve unique challenges in wood coatings, powder coatings, general industrial metal coatings, coil coatings, can coatings, and a diverse range of conventional and digital printing inks.

Both compliant PTFE-containing and PTFE-free technologies are available in micronized and dispersed forms of surface modifying additives under the Lanco™ Surface Modifiers brand. The product charts below identify technologies currently available for consideration.

PTFE-Containing Wax Additives

 Product Name  Polymer Type  Particle Size
(Dv50 µm)
Melting
Point

(°C)
System
 Water-Borne Solvent-Borne Powder Radiation-Cured
 Lanco™ TF 1720 C PTFE-Modified PE Wax  ≤8  125
 Lanco™ TF 1725 PTFE Modified PE Wax  ≤6  125
 Lanco™ TF 1778 C  PTFE Modified PE Wax  ≤6 102
 Lanco™ TF 1780 C  PTFE Modified PE Wax ≤6  102
 Lanco™ TF 1780 EFC PTFE Modified PE Wax   ≤5 102
 Lanco™ 1793 Poly-tetrafluoroethylene   ≤6 331
 Lanco™ 1794  Poly-tetrafluoroethylene  ≤8 331
 Lanco™ SM 2001 C PTFE-Modified Polyolefin Wax  ≤9 105
 Lanco™ TF 1830 N  PTFE Modified PE Wax  ≤9 125
 PowderAdd™ 9082  PTFE  ≤600 340
 PowderAdd™ 9083  PTFE Modified PE Wax  ≤100 110
 PowderAdd™ 9084  PTFE Modified PE Wax  ≤15 125
 PowderAdd™ 9680  PTFE  ≤15 340

 

Micronized PTFE-Free Wax Additives

 Product Name  Polymer Type  Particle Size
(Dv50 µm)
Melting
Point

(°C)
System
Water-Borne Solvent-Borne Powder Radiation-Cured
Lanco™ 1510 EF Modified Polyolefin Wax ≤5 106
Lanco™ 2510 SF Inorganically Modified Wax Compound ≤6 105
Lanco™ 2520 SF Inorganically Modified Wax Compound ≤6 105
Lanco™ 2520 EF Inorganically Modified Wax Compound ≤5 105
Lanco™ 2530 EF Organically Modified Wax Compound ≤6 116
Lanco™ 2540 SF Organically Modified Wax Compound ≤6 128
Lanco™ 2540 EF Organically Modified Wax Compound ≤5.2 128
Lanco™ 2541 SF Organically Modified Wax Compound ≤6 144

 

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