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…

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…

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 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 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 .

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…

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…

Which defoamer can you recommend for a 2K water proofing slurry?

As a defoamer we would recommend BYK-014 for your liquid part or BYK-1691 SD for the solid part.

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