King Industries Coatings Additives Division
Technology Overview.

Since 1932, King Industries has been supplying specialty chemical products to a variety of industries that are performance driven with ever changing requirements. This is especially true for the coatings, inks, adhesives and sealant markets. While ensuing pages cover our standard products, this overview has been designed to give you a summary of our areas of technical expertise and to urge you to contact us if you feel we may be of assistance for your specific product needs. Links to specific product lines are underlined and in color. An additional navigation bar by product line can be found at the bottom of the page as well as a downloadable Coatings Additives Product Guide.

CATALYSTS

With over four decades of experience in catalysts, King offers the industry’s
broadest spectrum of catalysts including:

• NACURE® & K-CURE® Acid and blocked acid (latent) catalysts for amino thermoset systems
  
• K-KAT® Non-tin, mercury-free catalysts for urethanes, foams and cast elastomers
  
• NACURE® SUPER Latent and super acid catalysts for the cationic cure of epoxies
  
• Hydrophobic catalysts for the moisture cure of siloxane functional polymers
  
• Powder catalysts for uretdione crosslinked powder coatings and caprolactam blocked isocyanate powder systems CORROSION INHIBITION - NACORR® Rust & Corrosion Inhibitors

CORROSION INHIBITION

NACORR® Rust & Corrosion Inhibitors

King offers ferrous and non-ferrous protection for a wide variety of metals and
systems based on three unique platforms:

• Sulfonate based rust and corrosion inhibitors
  
• Modified trialzole compounds
  
• Amino acid derivatives

DISPERSANT TECHNOLOGY

K-SPERSE® Dispersants

Whether organic or inorganic pigment/fillers are used, King offers a variety of
dispersant technologies including:

• Solvent free polymeric wetting and dispersing agents for solventless and epoxy systems
• Sulfonate based dispersants for non-aqueous, solvent-free and powder systems
• Organic wetting/dispersing agents for highly viscous systems such as ceramics, metal pastes and sand-filled epoxies.

RESIN MODIFIERS/REACTIVE DILUENTS

K-FLEX® Resin Modifiers & Reactive Diluents

• Unique polyester polyols based upon low molecular weight, linear, saturated aliphatic structures with pendent hydroxyl groups
• Novel, low molecular weight diols with an all urethane backbone
• Acetoacetate functional reactive diluents
  

RHEOLOGY MODIFIERS

• K-STAY® Modifiers - Unique sulfonate based modifiers for non-aqueous systems
• K-STAY® Modifiers - Hydrophobically modified ethoxylated urethane thickeners for waterborne systems
• DISPARLON®- Polyamide based thixotrope

DISPARLON® SURFACE CONTROL ADDITIVES
In addition to King’s internally developed products, the Disparlon® product line
represents over 25 years of a technology alliance with Kusumoto Chemical Ltd.
of Japan. The Disparlon line offers a broad range of leveling, defoaming, antipopping
and anti-cratering additives for aqueous, solvent, solventless, UV and
powder systems.

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