BYK - floating, leveling, and air draft sensitivity

Floating, leveling problems, and air draft sensitivity Solvents evaporating from a coating film cause vortex flows in the respective film. These arise because…

BYK history - 1976

laboratory Exterior view of the building Wesel Signposts In 1976, BYK inaugurates a new research and development center. The team is still small by today's…

BYK history - 2012-2019

Parallel to global growth, BYK invests in its main site – and develops Wesel into a campus. In 2012, the modern A6 laboratory building was built for around 18…

BYK history - 2012

motto "Share the Spirit" 2012 50 years of the Wesel site: Share the Spirit! What a celebration! Bavarian lederhosen, Japanese kimonos and Korean hanboks, a…

New-style non-dusting associative thickeners from BYK

thickeners are typically offered as aqueous solutions and require the addition of a number of raw materials, including biocides that prevent microbial…

Additives for plastics industry: thermosets

best in thermosets Our additive portfolio for thermosets contains products for a wide range of applications including advanced composites. Through this…

Regulatory Affairs - MIT classification-free additives

additives from BYK On October 4, 2018, the European Union (EU) agreed a re-classification of methylisothiazolinone (MIT), a common preservative for [...]…

Supplier of additives

customers with faster, more flexible, and customized additive solutions. It is a key strategic component of the company’s global production network. more News…

BYK history - 1992

1992 Innovation for sustainability: BYK-346 It is one of the first additives for a new generation of more environmentally friendly paints: BYK-346 for…

BYK history - 2007

Environmental protection and the responsible use of resources have long played a central role for ALTANA and BYK - in a comprehensive sense with regard to raw …

BYK history - 2002

Chinese market more quickly, BYK decides at the beginning of the 2000s to build a production facility on-site. Because the sister company ELANTAS has been…

Stable and durable wind turbines thanks to BYK-C 80xx family

is to give products a significantly longer service life. How would it be, for example, if in the course [...] and development in our end-use thermosets . The…