For your purpose, I would recommend our product CERAFLOUR® 967 combined with CERAFLOUR® 961 or CERAFLOUR® 990 (for better surface properties). With CERAFLOUR® 967 you can achieve a structure finish powder coating. It is also no problem to use it in different resin systems. If you are looking for some textured effects I would like to recommend CERAFLOUR 965 or CERAFLOUR 969.

We would recommend the following additives to you: our products BYK®-360 P / BYK®-368 P or BYK®-3900 P are well known in the market as anti-crater and leveling additives for a broad range of formulations / dosage on total formulation is app. 1,0%. Beside these two standard additives we also have some special additives for applications like thin thickness powder coatings (BYK®-3902 P), improved crater robustness (BYK®-3931 P), slip properties (BYK®3932 P) or better substrate wetting (BYK®-364 P).

Originally CERAFLOUR® 967 was developed in hybrid powder coating. It also works in polyester / TGIC powder. It is important to do some tests to find the best extrusion conditions and the best dosage of the additive. We have some guideline formulations about hammertone finish (hybrid powder) on request available.

It's no problem to use a water-based primer combined with powder coat (e.g. radiators). If you are looking for additives in water-based primer you have to ask our expert of these products. If you would like to use the powder coat as primer, I would like to recommend BYK®-3933 P. This new additive will improve the wetting of liquid paints on powder primers. With BYK®-3933 P the surface tension will be higher than with a standard additive and due to this special effect you will have a better wetting of the liquid paint on a powder primer.

We recommend to use BYK®-364 P. This additive is well known to improve substrate wetting due to the high polarity of the product (dosage approx. 1-1.5% on total formulation). Also on galvanized steel, I would like to recommend combining BYK®-364 P with our degassing additive CERAFLOUR® 961 or CERAFLOUR® 962. Dosage 1% on total. These products are very efficient to avoid defects caused by escaped gas during the curing of powder coatings. There are also some other products in our product range to improve anti-corrosion properties - but to give the best recommendation we should discuss it more in detail.

As you know, there are several different kinds of pigments possible. Within our product range we have three Processing Additives to improve the acceptance of pigments and fillers in resins. It´s not only an improved dispersing, the whole process will be improved - like throughput in the extruder, optical appearance and outgassing. BYK®-3951 P has strong pigment affinic groups and is the best recommendation for titanium dioxide and fillers. BYK®-3950 P has also pigment affinic groups but this additive works more in general. The third one is BYK®-3955 P which is the best recommendation for carbon black pigments and also for some organic pigments. Typical dosage for all these additives is 1-2% on total formulation. Please note - you have to use these additives in combination with a leveling additive.

BYK®-3900 P works as standard leveling additive in a broad range of formulations and gives an improved tolerance against contaminations. BYK®-3931 P is used as synergist to improve the anti-crater effect of all standard leveling additives. BYK®-3931 P is used in combination (dosage 0,2 - 0,4%) on total formulation. Please contact our technical service team to get the best recommendation regarding compatibility.