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Dilip Shah
Group Leader
Civil Engineering Applications
Epoxy Additives
     
  How can I produce a high-performance industrial flooring system with high permeability?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moisture vapor transmission is currently a significant challenge in the development of high-performance industrial floor coatings. In response to this market need, Air Products has developed Anquamine® 701 curing agent, based on a polymeric emulsion for use primarily with liquid epoxy resins. This proprietary epoxy curing agent offers formulators of industrial flooring systems the ability to create microporous, permeable floor coatings without sacrificing performance.

Research has shown that civil engineering coatings formulated with Anquamine 701 curing agent have exceptionally high permeability—100 times greater than typical cycloaliphatic-based systems. In addition, it can be formulated with high-film thickness, zero VOC, and without emulsifiers.

Anquamine 701 curing agent also provides very fast film drying, excellent adhesion to a wide range of substrates, low viscosity, very low free-amine content, very good early water resistance, good low-temperature cure, and the ability to formulate low-cost systems based on high filler levels.