Abstract: A process for making highly mechanical and chemical resistant ceramic substrates, especially tiles is provided, wherein the process comprises coating said substrates with a base coat layer of a thermosetting or radiation curable powder coating composition, curing the applied powder coating composition, and applying a further layer of a liquid coating composition and curing the composition by exposure to heat. Coated ceramic substrates, in particular tiles are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a paste resin AB which is a mixture of a water-reducible alkyd resins B and a basic acrylic copolymer resin A comprising at least one amino group-containing vinyl type monomer A1, and a method of use thereof formulating both water-borne and solvent-borne tinted paints with a wide variety of pigments.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flame retardant composition comprising at least one radiation curable polymer precursor and at least one halogenated flame retardant which is soluble in the composition and their use to make fire resistant glass laminates.

Abstract: The present invention relates to polyesters that can be prepared from renewable resources and/or recycled materials and the production process thereof. In particular, hydroxyl-functional or carboxyl-functional polyesters containing moieties of terephthalic acid and/or isophthalic acid, ethylene glycol, a dianhydrohexitol, and of one or more linear chain dicarboxylic acids are provided. Further, the polyesters have a number average molecular weight, as measured by gel permeation chromatography, of from 400 to 15000 daltons, more preferably from 550 to 15000 daltons. The polyesters of the invention can basically be prepared from recycled polyethylene terephthalate and from renewable polyacids and/or polyols. The present invention further provides a process to produce such polyesters via glycolysis of a polyethylene terepthalate and/or a polyethylene isophthalate with a dianhydrohexitol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: A water-reducible mixture of (meth)acrylic copolymers having a hydroxyl number of from 40 mg/g to 250 mg/g, an acid number of from 15 mg/g to 80 mg/g, a weight average molar mass Mw from 9 kg/mol to 40 kg/mol and a glass transition temperature Tg from ?40° C. to 80° C., based on polymerised monomers comprising at least one alkyl ester A of an olefinically un-saturated carboxylic acid having from 1 to 8 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, at least one hydroxy functional alkyl ester B of an olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid, at least one aliphatic compound C that has both hydroxy and carboxyl functionalities, or which is a lactone or a cyclic lactone, at least one vinyl monomer D which does not comprise a moiety derived from an olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid, at least one olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acid E, a process for its preparation, and a method of use thereof in the preparation of paints.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation curable composition comprising (a) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated natural oil which is the reaction product of an unsaturated natural oil with an unsaturated anhydride and a hydroxyl functional (meth)acrylate, and (b) from 1 to 99% by weight of a (meth)acrylated oligomer and/or monomer, and optionally an inert resin and/or filler, as well as their use for making inks and coatings.

Abstract: This invention relates to binder mixtures comprising mass fractions of from 70% to 98% of chain-extended epoxy amine adducts A and from 2% to 30% of carboxy functional polyesters B that contain a limited amount of aromatic constituents in mass fractions of up to 15% and have an acid number of from 4 mg/g to 50 mg/g, a method of making these binder mixtures, and a method of use thereof in coatings for metals, wood, cardboard, plaster, and concrete.

Abstract: The present invention relates to composition comprising at least one compound obtained from the reaction of at least one compound (i) having a refractive index nD20 of at least 1.50 comprising at least one isocyanate-reactable functional group —XH, wherein each of X is, independently, O or NR, at least one polyisocyanate (ii), and, optionally, at least one compound (iii) comprising at least one isocyanate-reactable functional group —YH and at least one curable functional group Q, wherein each of Y is, independently, O, NR or S, and its use for making high refractive index coatings and films.

Abstract: Urethane modified water-reducible alkyd resins ABCD, comprising moieties derived from polyhydric alcohols A, modified fatty acids B made h? grafting olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids B2 onto fatty acids B1, ungrafted fatty acids C and polyfunctional isocyanates D, a process for their production, and a method of use thereof in coating binders

Abstract: Radiation curable compositions comprising at least one radiation curable oligomer responding to a structure (C)—(B)-(A)-[(B)(C)]x wherein (A) is the residue of one or more hydroxyl functional polyester having a molecular weight MN higher than 900, a TG and/or Tm of 5 less than 30° C., and which is obtained from an acid constituent comprising at least 75 mole % of saturated aliphatic polyacid and, optionally, 0 to 25 mole % of another polyacid and an alcohol constituent, (B) is the residue of one or more polyisocyanate, (C) is the residue of one or more ethylenically unsaturated hydroxyl compound, and x is from 0.5 to 10.

Abstract: A two-pack coating composition comprising curing agents selected from the group consisting of non-blocked poly-functional isocyanates I, polyaziridines Z, and carbodiimides Y, and an aqueously dispersed polyurethane U wherein the polyurethane U comprises building blocks derived from hydroxyl group containing unsaturated fatty acids B21, a process for the production of the polyurethane U, and a method of use thereof in combination with the said curing agents in preparing coating compositions which are particularly useful for wood.

Abstract: A process for preparing a substrate having thereon sites reactive with the reactive groups of a molecular probe, the process comprising the steps of applying to the substrate surface a material comprising one or more reactive sites having an activated ethylenically unsaturated double bond of the formula I: wherein the substituents are defined in the specification and, in a further step, covalently binding the reactive group of the molecular probe to the activated ethylenically unsaturated double bond of the reactive sites having formula I.

Abstract: A process for making highly mechanical and chemical resistant ceramic substrates, especially tiles is provided, wherein the process comprises coating said substrates with a base coat layer of a thermosetting or radiation curable powder coating composition, curing the applied powder coating composition, and applying a further layer of a liquid coating composition and curing the composition by exposure to heat. Coated ceramic substrates, in particular tiles are also provided.

Abstract: Polymers are described that are prepared from di and mono-functional silicone and silane monomers of Formula 1 in which Y represents a direct bond or a oxy group; R1 represents an optionally substituted organo group with at least one double bond which optionally may be an activated unsaturated moiety such as a (meth)acrylate group: for example 1-n-propoxy(acrylate) or ethenyl; and R2 and R3 each separately, and independently within each optional repeat unit, represent an optionally substituted hydrocarbo, hydrocarbo(oxy), hydrosilico and/or hydrosilico(oxy) groups; or example, methyl; or trimethylsiloxy; R4 independently represents an optionally substituted organo group with at least one double bond (such as R1 above) an optionally substituted hydrocarbo, and/or hydrosilico group for example trimethylsilyl or ethenyl; and n is from about 0 to about 2000; preferably from about 1 to about 100, for example n is 1.

Abstract: The invention relates a mixture of a urethane-aldehyde resin UA prepared by condensation of an aldehyde A1 and an alkyl urethane U, and of a novolak PA, to a process for the preparation of the said mixture, and a method of use thereof as adhesion promoter in rubber goods.

Abstract: Urethane and siloxane modified water-reducible alkyd resins ABCDE, comprising moieties derived from polyhydric alcohols A, modified fatty acids B made by grafting olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids B2 onto fatty acids B1, ungrafted fatty acids C, silanol or alkoxysilyl functional siloxane oligomers or polymers D, and polyfunctional isocyanates E, a process for their production, and a method of use thereof in coating binders.

Abstract: There are disclosed urethane acrylates of Formula 1: where R1a, R1b and R1c each independently represent C2-15hydrocarbylene, preferably linear C3-12alkylene (such as, C4-8alkylene; e.g. hexylene); a isophorone unit and/or a tolyl unit. R2a, R2b and R2c each independently represent: a divalent moiety of (Formula 2) where X and Y independently represent C2-10hydrocarbylene, preferably C2-8alkylene; and k is from 0 to 30; l is from 0 to 30; and ‘k+l’ is from 1 to 30; and/or a divalent moiety of Formula 3 where V and W independently represent C2-10hydrocarbylene, preferably C2-8alkylene; and i is from 0 to 30; j is from 0 to 30; and ‘i+j’ is from 1 to 30; p is from 1 to 10; and r is from 1 to 10; and R3a R3b and R3c each independently represent H or methyl (i.e.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flame retardant composition comprising at least one polymer precursor, at least one flame retardant (A) selected from cyclic phosphonate esters responding to formula (I) and at least one flame retardant (B) selected from phosphorus derivatives different from the cyclic phosphonates of formula (I) and their use to make fire resistant glass laminates.

Abstract: The invention relates to thermosetting powder compositions which give coatings proving remarkable weatherability, excellent mechanical properties and an outstanding flow containing a binder which comprises a mixture of amorphous polyesters (A) containing from 50 to 100 mol % of isophthalic acid and from 70 to 100 mol % of neopentyl glycol, and (B) which comprises from 75 to 100 mol % of at least one straight-chain saturated di-carboxylic aliphatic acid having from 4 to 14 carbon atoms and from 75 to 100 mol % of at least one branched chain aliphatic diol.