3M Offers Science-Based Solutions for the Construction Sector
3M, which has made innovation a cornerstone of its business and makes life easier for millions of people around the world, helps you differentiate your products and develop value-added products with its specialized solutions for the construction industry.
Scientific Solutions from 3M for the Construction Sector
3M, which has made innovation its cornerstone and improved the lives of millions of people worldwide, offers specialized solutions for the construction sector that help differentiate your products and support the development of value-added offerings.
Among 3M's products designed specifically for the construction sector are 3M™ Glass Microspheres, which provide thermal insulation in roof coatings and prevent condensation, 3M Ceramic Microspheres, which increase the wear, compression and scratch resistance of interior paints, and 3M Novec Fluorosurfactants, which provide low surface tension and offer easy-clean and soil-resistant properties in various paint and coating systems.
For Easy-Clean and Soil-Resistant Properties "3M™ Novec™ Fluorosurfactants":
3M™ Novec™ Fluorosurfactants provide low surface tension in organic or water-based coating systems and belong to the coating additives class.
3M Novec Fluorosurfactants, which serve as excellent wetting, leveling and flow control agents for various water-based, solvent-based and high solids coating systems, are soluble, compatible with most polymers and remain active throughout the drying or curing process.
When used with water-based polymer systems, they reduce surface tension. Thanks to their low surface tension, they provide easy-clean and soil-resistant properties when used in various paints and coatings. Test results with different paints have shown that 3M Novec Fluorosurfactants provide significantly lower surface tension compared to other surfactants. The addition of 3M Novec Fluorosurfactants in small amounts to formulations also contributes to the production of paints with lower VOC content. 3M Novec Fluorosurfactants can be used not only in decorative paints but also in industrial paints, furniture and metal paints, paints used in the automotive and aerospace sectors, and adhesives.
For Thermal Insulation and Condensation Prevention "3M Glass Microspheres":
3M™ Glass Microspheres, with low viscosity for lightweight, high-strength elastomeric roof coatings and condensation-preventive paints, are chemically stable hollow microspheres made of soda-lime-borosilicate glass. Due to their low thermal conductivity coefficient, they aid in reflecting solar radiation and increase the heat insulation properties of the paint. When compared with standard exterior facade paints in various tests, they have been shown to provide over 10% heat insulation.
Tests have shown that different types of 3M™ Glass Microspheres provide different insulation effects and deliver significantly better results compared to ceramics and CaCO3.
As the particle size of glass microspheres decreases, they have been observed to provide better heat insulation in the paint into which they are added. In addition to heat insulation, 3M™ Glass Microspheres, developed for kitchens and bathrooms with high humidity levels and usable in condensation-preventive paints, can be used not only in exterior facade paints but also in production facilities where temperature must be maintained below certain levels, cold storage facilities, and gasoline and gas storage areas. As an additive material in paints and coatings, 3M™ Glass Microspheres provide manufacturers with advantages in insulation, scratch resistance and cost reduction per liter, and with their superior properties compared to paints without insulation additives and other insulation additives, they will continue to be a preferred product in next-generation paints of the future.
For Wear-Compression-Scratch Resistance "3M Ceramic Microspheres":
Semi-transparent fine-particle 3M™ Ceramic Microspheres are unique, semi-transparent fine-particle-sized, high-strength ceramic microspheres. 3M microspheres are specially designed to help you reduce costs, increase the solids content in your paint, improve its properties and increase its workability. 3M Ceramic Microspheres are an ideal product particularly for use in interior wall paints to increase hardness, provide gloss control, reduce VOC, increase filler loadings, and increase the hardness, gloss, friction resistance and wear resistance of various coating formulations.
Interior Wall Paints:
The most important criterion in the selection of interior wall paints is their resistance to physical impacts. With its smooth microsphere structure, 3M Ceramic Microspheres impart high hardness properties to the product without compromising surface quality, increasing paints' resistance to wear, compression and scratching and extending the paint's lifespan. At the same time, tests have shown that in paints with ceramic microspheres added, the resistance to polishing by fabric rubbing is very high, and as the amount of ceramic microspheres in the paint increases, there is even less gloss variation. This year, as 3M celebrates its 100,000th patent and offers different and innovative products to every sector, it will continue to be your solution partner for the new products you develop.
Zeynep Nihan Bilgen - Marketing Manager, Advanced Chemicals - Industrial Business Group - 3M Turkey
