Precipitated Silica Products for Coatings, Paints, Inks, Adhesives and Sealants
For more than five decades, manufacturers of coatings, paints, inks, adhesives and sealants have relied on Qemetica’s precipitated silica products to enhance product performance, improve manufacturing efficiencies or make their products more sustainable.
We have developed a broad range of products, many in cooperation with key customers, that are engineered to meet exacting requirements or address specific industry challenges. Typical applications include:
- Flatting agents that reduce the gloss of paints, varnishes, lacquers and other finishes while providing lower viscosity and better stir-in capability. Learn more.
- Thickening agents and thixotropes that modify the rheological properties of a broad range of plastisols, inks, adhesives, caulks, and sealants, providing anti-sag/suspension performance with minimal impact on other system properties. Learn more.
- Anti-corrosion pigments that are designed to replace chrome-based and other toxic anti-corrosion pigments, providing highly efficient alternatives for use in solvent-based and water-borne primers. Learn more.
Market Applications
Our silica products are available in three brand families encompassing nearly two dozen products covering a wide range of physical properties and performance benefits.
Precipitated Silica Products for Coatings, Paints, Inks, Adhesives and Sealants
For more than five decades, manufacturers of coatings, paints, inks, adhesives and sealants have relied on Qemetica’s precipitated silica products to enhance product performance, improve manufacturing efficiencies or make their products more sustainable.
We have developed a broad range of products, many in cooperation with key customers, that are engineered to meet exacting requirements or address specific industry challenges. Typical applications include:
- Flatting agents that reduce the gloss of paints, varnishes, lacquers and other finishes while providing lower viscosity and better stir-in capability. Learn more.
- Thickening agents and thixotropes that modify the rheological properties of a broad range of plastisols, inks, adhesives, caulks, and sealants, providing anti-sag/suspension performance with minimal impact on other system properties. Learn more.
- Anti-corrosion pigments that are designed to replace chrome-based and other toxic anti-corrosion pigments, providing highly efficient alternatives for use in solvent-based and water-borne primers. Learn more.
Market Applications
Our silica products are available in three brand families encompassing nearly two dozen products covering a wide range of physical properties and performance benefits.
Coatings, Paints and Inks
For manufacturers of coatings, paints and inks, the difficulties associated with meeting stricter environmental standards, adapting to new application or print technologies, and fulfilling the rigorous performance demands of end-users never stop.
Adhesives and Sealants
Manufacturers of adhesives, sealants and other engineered materials around the world have relied on our Qemetica HI-SIL® silica thickening agents, rheology modifiers and thixotropes to help address the complex formulation, manufacturing, application and performance challenges they face.
Carrier and Free-Flow
Our precipitated silica products are used as free-flow and carrying agents for food, animal feed and agricultural and industrial applications enabling products and processes to flow better.
Rubber
Qemetica's precipitated silica products have been integral to the rubber industry since the 1930s and have earned the trust of manufacturers and compounders around the world for their reliable performance, consistent quality and dependable supply.
Microporous
Qemetica's precipitated silica products are a key component of battery separators and TESLIN® synthetic paper, providing microporosity that is the basis for a wide range of related performance benefits.