DSM AND RHODIA CREATE WATER-BORNE BINDER FOR DECORATIVE PAINTS

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DSM AND RHODIA CREATE WATER-BORNE BINDER FOR DECORATIVE PAINTS
10 October 2002 - DSM Coating Resins

DSM Coating Resins and Rhodia PPMC have created a new water-borne binder for decorative paints.

This new binder meets the demands of the various European countries and combines optimal environmental protection with technical performance.

The Urabrid range is a new generation of water-borne products, bringing together the advantages of an alkyd emulsion and a polymer dispersion - such as drying, yellowing resistance and water-vapour permeability - in one product. The Urabrid range therefore provides ‘the best of two worlds’.

The goal was to develop a water-borne binder with high technical performance and a low volatile organic content (VOC), compliant with the new EC directives. To achieve the high technical performance, Rhodia PPMC and DSM Coating Resins initiated a joint R&D project to develop a new DSM product called Urabrid. This eco-efficient water-borne binder heralds the beginning of a new DSM product line.

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About: DSM Coating Resins
DSM Coating Resins is one of the business groups making up DSM’s Performance Materials cluster. It specializes in the development, manufacture and sale of resins for coating systems. It is a global supplier of polyester resins for powder coatings, can coatings and coil coatings. The company also plays an important role as a resins supplier to the decorative coatings market, protective and maintenance coatings market, and industrial coatings markets. DSM Coating Resins has production sites in many countries in Europe, North America and Asia.

DSM's activities are grouped into three clusters: Life Science Products, Performance Materials and Industrial Chemicals. DSM Nutritional Products will remain a seperate entity for the time being. The group has annual sales (pro forma, including the recent acquisition - renamed DSM Nutritional Products) of approximately EUR 8 billion and employs in the region of 25 000 people around the world. Its headquarters are based in The Netherlands.

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