Abstract: The present description provides esterified fatty acid and/or tall oil compositions and their use as alternative plasticizers in adhesives formulations. These esters demonstrate similar or improved performance over adhesives industry standard plasticizers. The description also provides methods of manufacturing and using the same, for example, to improve or modify the performance of adhesive materials, such as, hot melt pressure sensitive adhesives and hygienic adhesives.

Abstract: The present description provides esterified fatty acid and/or tall oil compositions and their use as alternative plasticizers in adhesives formulations. These esters demonstrate similar or improved performance over adhesives industry standard plasticizers. The description also provides methods of manufacturing and using the same, for example, to improve or modify the performance of adhesive materials, such as, hot melt pressure sensitive adhesives and hygienic adhesives.

Abstract: A bio-based or biodegradable binder is provided that may be made by: (a) mixing tall oil pitch with (i) rosin or fatty acid material, (ii) rosin and a fatty acid material, (iii) a tall oil bio fraction and rosin or fatty acid material, or (iv) rosin, fatty acid material, and tall oil bio fraction, wherein pitch, rosin, fatty acid material, and/or tall oil bio fraction is a salt thereof; or (b) mixing at least one of acrylic acid, maleic acid, maleic anhydride, fumaric acid, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or a combination thereof, to a mixture of: (i) tall oil pitch, and rosin or fatty acid material; (ii) rosin, tall oil pitch, and fatty acid material; (iii) tall oil pitch, tall oil bio fraction, and rosin or fatty acid material; or (iv) rosin, tall oil pitch, fatty acid material, and tall oil bio fraction.

Abstract: Aliphatically modified rosin resins are prepared by reacting rosin esters with aliphatic monomers. These aliphatically modified rosin resins are compatible with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins and other aliphatic base polymers and are used as tackifiers in combination with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins and other aliphatic base polymers to form adhesive compositions for hot melt and pressure sensitive applications.

Abstract: Aliphatically modified rosin resins are prepared by reacting rosin esters with aliphatic monomers. These aliphatically modified rosin resins are compatible with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins and other aliphatic base polymers and are used as tackifiers in combination with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins and other aliphatic base polymers to form adhesive compositions for hot melt and pressure sensitive applications.

Abstract: Oxidized and maleated compositions, such as oxidized and maleated tall oil compositions, can be prepared and used in a variety of industrial applications, including as emulsifiers and corrosion inhibitors.

Abstract: Oxidized and maleated derivative compositions, such as chemically modified oxidized and maleated tall oil fatty acid compositions, can be prepared and used in a variety of industrial applications, including as emulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, concrete admixtures, and in reverse flotation mining applications.

Abstract: An oxidized and maleated fatty acid composition, especially an oxidized and maleated tall oil fatty acid-containing product useful in formulating corrosion inhibitors and for use as an emulsifier, especially for petroleum-related applications.

Abstract: Oxidized and maleated derivative compositions, such as chemically modified oxidized and maleated tall oil fatty acid compositions, can be prepared and used in a variety of industrial applications, including as emulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, concrete admixtures, and in reverse flotation mining applications.

Abstract: A non-aqueous coating composition of very low volatility (i.e., low-VOC) that can be cured in a short period of time under an ambient temperature condition without the use of solvents consisting essentially of a mixture or blend of three components: (1) a complex ester made by reacting a monomeric monobasic fatty acid, a mixture of diacids and a polyol;(2) a drying oil (i.e., primarily an unsaturated fatty acid triglyceride); and (3) an unsaturated monomer of low volatility and its use for producing a coated substrate and especially a wood composite material substrate having a cured seal coat.

Abstract: Oxidized and maleated compositions, such as oxidized and maleated tall oil compositions, can be prepared and used in a variety of industrial applications, including as emulsifiers and corrosion inhibitors.

Abstract: An oxidized and maleated fatty acid composition, especially an oxidized and maleated tall oil fatty acid-containing product useful in formulating corrosion inhibitors and for use as an emulsifier, especially for petroleum-related applications.

Abstract: Rosin esters that are both light-colored and color stable may be produced by reacting rosin with an organic compound containing two or more hydroxyl groups each separated from each other by at least four carbon atoms. With appropriate choices for the esterification catalyst and antioxidant(s), the rosin ester may be useful as a tackifier, and can be formulated into an adhesive composition. The adhesive compositions will further comprise an appropriate adhesive polymer.

Abstract: Light-colored phenolic-modified rosin esters, suitable for use as, for example, tackifiers in adhesive compositions, are prepared by reacting together rosin, a phenolic compound, formaldehyde or a reactive equivalent thereof, and a non-phenolic hydroxyl-containing organic compound in the presence of at least one lightening agent selected from phenol sulfide compounds, phosphorous acid, esters of phosphorous acid, and hypophosphite salts. The formaldehyde or reactive equivalent is present in an amount ranging from about 1.1 to about 3.5 equivalents of --CHO moieties per 1 equivalent of Ar--OH moiety of the phenolic compound, in order to obtain rosin esters having desirably low color, and adequately low molecular weight to effectively function as tackifiers.