BMS eUpdate - Feb. 2007

Volume 3, Issue 3 - Wednesday, February 14, 2007

How Can Polyurethane Dispersions Help Your Coatings?
By BMS eBusiness Team

It's a tough balancing act today for coatings formulators and end users. Increasingly stringent environmental regulations call for low-VOC coatings, but you still need to meet the technical requirements for the coating.

Polyurethane dispersions are an alternative approach to producing polyurethane coatings that are low in VOCs, but awareness of this coating technology is limited.

Introducing the new Bayer MaterialSciencePolyurethane Dispersions Center at the SpecialChem Coatings and Inks industry technical portal. Our Polyurethane Dispersions Center can to help you learn how this technology can help you reduce or eliminate solvents from your coatings, while still benefiting from a high-performance formulation. As the inventor of polyurethane chemistry, you can trust Bayer's expertise in this innovative technology.

What makes polyurethane dispersions so unique?

low solvent content (or in many cases solvent-free)
low odor
low viscosity at high molecular weights
many options for one component (1K) application
low temperature drying
excellent polyurethane performance

Polyurethane dispersions provide superior coating and adhesive properties for use on wood, concrete, metal, plastics, paper, textiles and rubber, as well as other high performance substrates.

To begin learning more about polyurethane dispersion technology from Bayer, visit our Polyurethane Dispersions Center today.

Guide to Bayhydrol® 1K Polyurethane Dispersion Coatings from Bayer

Speaking of learning more about polyurethane dispersion technology, Bayer MaterialScience just published a handy guide to all of its commercially available one-component Bayhydrol® polyurethane dispersion coatings: One-Component Waterborne Polyurethane Coatings - Bayhydrol® Dispersions. You can view and download the four-page publication in PDF format from our BMS NAFTA website (registration is required).

The brochure provides an overview table of the Bayhydrol polyurethane dispersions with their key technical data and applications for their use.

If the links above don't work, you can find the brochure at http://www.bayermaterialsciencenafta.com/index.html. Select the RESOURCES link on the top of the page. Then select the Product Literature folder, and finally the Coating, Adhesive and Sealant Raw Materials folder. The brochure is the first in the list.

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