BYK-3568 brings greater individuality to the automotive industry
Visually appealing, well-protected, and pleasant to the touch are all requirements for automotive OEM coatings. However, in recent years, this performance profile has become increasingly personalized, as evidenced by two-colored applications, for example. The days of choosing between silver, black, or white when purchasing a vehicle are long gone; now, individuality reigns supreme.
However, other industries are looking for ways to improve not only recoatability, but also the adhesion of stickers, printing inks, or adhesives to the coating layer, particularly where optimum surface slip is required.
It is here that BYK has the ideal additive solution in the shape of its new silicone and polyether-modified acrylate BYK-3568. The advantages are particularly evident in clearcoats and topcoats, for which good recoatability or adhesion of the next coating layer is necessary. And it improves the substrate wetting as a moderately active silicone does, while at the same time increasing not only the coating’s surface energy but also its surface slip in a single step.
For formulators of clearcoats and topcoats who, for decades, have been using silicone-based additives, the technology behind BYK-3568 opens up entirely new opportunities in the fields of recoatability and adhesion, since it offers several effects with only a single additive.
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