Abstract: A heat-curable composition comprising

Abstract: A novel thixotropic agent comprising urea crystals which comprises at least one compound containing at least one functional group having at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation; a novel process for preparing a thixotropic agent comprising urea crystals by reacting at least one primary and/or secondary amine and/or water with at least one polyisocyanate in a liquid organic medium consisting of or comprising at least one compound containing at least one functional group having at least one bond which can be activated with actinic radiation; and the use of the thixotropic agents to prepare coating materials, adhesives and sealing compounds curable thermally and with actinic radiation.

Abstract: A process for producing scratch-resistant coatings, especially scratch-resistant multicoat finishes, involving use of coating compositions which after curing have a storage modulus E′ in the rubber-elastic range of at least 107.5 Pa and a loss factor tan &dgr; at 20° C. of at least 0.05, the storage modulus E′ and the loss factor having been measured by dynamic mechanical thermoanalysis on free films having a film thickness of 40±10 &mgr;m, and comprise as binders one or more polyacrylate resins having a hydroxyl number of from 100 to 240, an acid number of from 0 to 35, and a number-average molecular weight of from 1500 to 10,000, and as crosslinkers one or more free or blocked isocyanates and/or triazine-based components which crosslink with the hydroxyl groups of the binder to form ether and/or ester structures.

Abstract: The use of methylpropane-1,3-diol mono(meth)-acrylate to prepare oxidatively and/or thermally curable coating compositions, adhesives, and sealing compounds.

Abstract: Multicomponent coating materials, adhesives and sealing compounds comprising a (meth)acrylate (A) containing, based on (A), up to 90% by weight of hydroxyl-containing monomers in copolymerized form, of which (a1) from 20-90% by weight, based on (A), are 4-hydroxybutyl (meth)acrylate and/or 2-alkylpropane-1,3-diol mono(meth)acrylate, and (a2) from 0-40% by weight based on (A), are other hydroxyl-containing monomers; and (B) an adduct preparable from (b1) a diisocyanate, and (b2) a compound of the general formula I having an isocyanate-reactive group: 1

Abstract: A polyisocyanate of formula (I) OCN—R1—[—NX—CO—O—R2—O—CO—NH—R1—]n—NCO in which the units R1, X and R2 have the meanings: R1 is a unit of the formula (II): —CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—  (II) X is hydrogen or a unit of the formula (III): —CO—NH—R1—NCO  (III), with the proviso that at least one of the units X in the polyisocyanates is a unit of formula (III); and R2 • is a 4-, 5- or 6-membered cycloalkylene group containing radical.

Abstract: Composition curable thermally and with actinic radiation (dual-cure composition) comprising

Abstract: A coating composition comprising A) at least one hydroxyl-containing polyacrylate containing in copolymerized form at least one polysiloxane macromonomer as binder and B) at least one tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine as crosslinking agent, and its use to produce multicoat clearcoats and multicoat topcoats.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing coatings from coating materials, which can be cured thermally and by using actinic radiation, on primed or non-primed substrates by: (1) applying at least one coating material, which can be cured thermally and by using actinic radiation, to a primed or non-primed substrate, whereby producing a layer that is comprised of the coating material, and; (2) curing the layer by using heat and actinic radiation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a colored and/or decorative-effect multi-layered coating on a primed or unprimed substrate.

Abstract: A process for producing scratch-resistant coatings, especially scratch-resistant multicoat finishes, involving use of coating compositions which

Abstract: A process for producing scratch-resistant coatings, especially scratch-resistant multicoat finishes, involving use of coating compositions which, after curing, have a storage modulus E′ in the rubber-elastic range of at least 107.5 Pa and a loss factor tan&dgr; at 20° C. of at least 0.05, the storage modulus E′ and the loss factor having been measured by dynamic mechanical thermoanalysis on free films having a film thickness of 40±10 &mgr;m, and comprise as binders one or more polyacrylate resins having a hydroxyl number of from 100 to 240, an acid number of from 0 to 35, and a number-average molecular weight of from 1500 to 10,000, and as crosslinkers one or more free or blocked isocyanates and/or triazine-based components which crosslink with the hydroxyl groups of the binder to form ether and/or ester structures.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent powder coating dispersion comprising a solid, pulverulent component A and an aqueous component B, component A being a powder coating material comprising a) at least one epoxy-containing binder having a content of from 30 to 45%, preferably from 30 to 35%, by weight of glycidyl-containing monomers, with or without a content of vinylaromatic compounds, preferably styrene, b) tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine and polycarboxylic acids, preferably straight-chain aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and/or carboxy-functional polyesters, as crosslinking agents, component B being an aqueous dispersion comprising a) at least one nonionic thickener.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a transparent powder coating material comprising a) at least one epoxy-containing binder with a content of from 20 to 45% by weight, preferably from 25 to 40% by weight of glycidyl-containing monomers and with or without a content of vinylaromatic compounds, preferably styrene, b) tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine and polycarboxylic acids, preferably straight-chain aliphatic dicarboxylic acids and/or carboxy-functional polyesters, as crosslinking agents, and c) if desired, catalysts, auxiliaries, additives typical for transparent powder coating materials, such as degassing agents, levelling agents, UV absorbers, free-radical scavengers, antioxidants.

Abstract: Polyisocyanates of the formula (I) (polyisocyanate I),

Abstract: The present invention relates to a coating composition featuring increased solids contents, which comprises at least one polyol I obtainable by subjecting at least one oligomer of the general formula I R1R2C═[═CH—R—CH═]n—CR3R4  (I) in which R=—(—CH2—)m—, in which the index m is an integer from 2 to 6, or in which X=—CH2— or an oxygen atom R1,R2,R3 and R4 independently of one another=hydrogen atoms or alkyl; and the index n=an integer from 1 to 15; to hydroformylation and reducing the resultant aldehyde-functional products I to give the polyols I, which, if desired, are subjected to partial or complete hydrogenation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a component system for a multicomponent coating composition comprising a hydroxy-functional binder or a mixture of hydroxy-functional binders, tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine or a mixture of tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazines and free isocyanates or a mixture of free polyisocyanates. It is characterized in that a first component (I) is formed at least from the hydroxy-functional binder or the mixture of hydroxy-functional binders, in that a second component (II) is formed at least from the free isocyanates or the mixture of free polyisocyanates, and in that a third component is formed from the tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine or the mixture of tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazines.

Abstract: An aqueous coating composition which comprises as one binder component an aqueous polymer dispersion comprisingi) an acrylate polymer based on from 30 to 60% by weight of C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl (meth)acrylate monomers, from 30 to 60% by weight of vinylaromatic monomers and from 0.5 to 10% by weight of (meth)acrylic acid,(ii) a nonassociative rheology stabilizer comprising an acrylate copolymer based on C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl (meth)acrylate and (meth)acrylic acid, and(iii) as crosslinker, tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)-triazine or a mixture of tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)-triazines.

Abstract: The invention relates to a component system for a two-component coating composition comprising a hydroxy-functional binder or a mixture of hydroxy-functional binders, tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine or a mixture of tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazines and free isocyanates or a mixture of free polyisocyanates. It is characterized in that a first component (I) is formed at least from the hydroxy-functional binder or the mixture of hydroxy-functional binders and in that a second component (II) is formed at least from the free isocyanates or the mixture of free polyisocyanates, where the tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine or the mixture of tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazines is alternatively a constituent of the first component (I), the second component (II) or both components (I) and (II).

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing a multicoat paint system, in which(1) an optionally pigmented basecoat is applied to a substrate surface,(2) a polymer film is formed from the basecoat film applied in stage (1),(3) one or more further coating films are applied optionally thereto,(4) then a nonaqueous topcoat is applied which comprisesA) a hydroxy-functional polyacrylate resin,B) as crosslinking agent tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine andC) optionally further crosslinking agents, such as blocked isocyanates, which are different from the tris(alkoxycarbonylamino)triazine, and/or amino resins,and subsequently(5) the coating films are baked together, where in that [Sic] the polyacrylate resin comprises secondary OH groups.