Lubricants and Mold Release

rheology additives. By using BYK additives, the performance of industrial lubricants can be improved. In the field of mold release agents, BYK offers both…

DISPERBYK-2080 and DISPERBYK-2081 win “Ringier Technology Innovation Award”

The prize was handed over in person in Shanghai to Yuchao Jiao representing BYK. BYK is one of the world’s leading suppliers in the field of additives and…

I have been using mineral oil defoamers for a long time. Nowerdays my customers are more critical and are complaining…

BYK-014 shows an excellent defoaming performance in various dispersions such as acrylates or VAE´s (vinyl acetate ethylene). BYK-014 is emission-free and…

My paint shows in can pigment flotation. Can you provide a trouble shooting additive?

A temporary way to solve this problem is to add BYK-P 104 to the paint. BYK-P 104 is a controlled flocculating wetting & dispersing additive. It is interacting…

Cyclic and linear siloxanes in silicone-based surface additives

As a consequence of its findings, BYK has updated the EU safety data sheets for BYK-345, BYK-348, BYK-349, BYK-3455, BYK-3456, BYK-L 9520, and further LP…

What is your recommendation of anti-crater and flow & leveling additives in powder coatings?

Our products BYK-360 P / BYK-368 P and BYK-3900 P are well known in the market as anti-crater and flow & leveling additives for all resin systems and all…

What flame retardant additives can you recommend for my intumescent coating?

recommend BYK-015 and BYK-1780 . For solvent borne intumescent coatings we recommend ANTI-TERRA-U 100 or BYK-P 104 for wetting and dispersing and BYK-081 or BYK…

We develop a 2K refinish clear coat based on polyaspatic resins and struggle with the leveling of this sytem. Which…

substrate wetting and anti crater properties would be BYK-306 . From the less active silicone BYK-326 and BYK-327 usually the most suitable one.

We have a transparent waterbased system which we apply by spray gun (airless or airmix method) in particular with high…

and clear coats. BYK-1780 and BYK-1781 are 100% products based on polyether-modified polydimethylsiloxane with hydrophobic solids. BYK-1785 and BYK-1786, are…

For good togetherness

BYK attaches great importance to maintaining a close dialogue in its living and working relationship with its neighbors. For this reason, BYK set up a digital i…

We make cement grinding aids. The system consists of various inorganic sands, glycols, water and limestone. We need…

For such system we recommend a polymeric defoamer like BYK-014 or BYK-1710 .

While formulating a new solvent-free radiation-curing clear top coat we were facing foam issue during manufacturing and…

BYK-1788 , BYK-1790 , and BYK-088 are defoamers which are perfectly suited to the needs of solvent-free radiation-curing high gloss clear coat systems. They…