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Laminates

Customised range of products to suit your special needs

Release Agent

Key Features & Benefits

  • Designed for water-based melamine, phenolic, and urea resin systems

  • Provides reliable mould release and lubrication in both low- and high-pressure processes

  • Formulated with advanced blends of synthetic resins, surfactants, and specialised emulsifiers

  • Excellent compatibility with a wide range of resin formulations

  • Long-term stability with low foaming characteristics

  • High performance at low dosage levels

  • Fully biodegradable and process-friendly

  • Customisable to specific customer and application requirements through technical collaboration

  • Contact us to learn more about customised internal release agent solutions

Wetting Agent

Key Features & Benefits

  • Designed for melamine-formaldehyde and urea-formaldehyde resin systems

  • Ideal for impregnation of difficult-to-process décor papers

  • Reduces resin surface tension to improve penetration, flow, and leveling

  • Produces smooth, uniform coatings free from fish-eyes, streaks, and air blisters

  • Helps prevent pigment loss (dusting) and bleeding in resin baths

  • Enhances hardener efficiency in melamine resins while maintaining stable resin pot life

  • Improved flow efficiency can reduce overall resin consumption

  • Effective at low dosage levels and compatible with other additives for flexible formulation solutions

  • Contact us to learn more about customized solutions

Antiblock

Key Features & Benefits

  • Universal Performance: Anti-blocking solution engineered for use with amino plastic resin systems
  • Substrate Compatibility: Ideal for decorative coating of flat carrier materials, including particleboard, fiberboard, and phenolic-based sheets
  • Process Versatility: Suitable for impregnated decorative papers used in short-cycle presses, continuous high-pressure laminate (HPL) production, and post-forming processes
  • Efficiency at Low Dosage: Delivers effective anti-blocking performance at low addition levels, supporting improved processing efficiency and laminate handling
  • Blocking Prevention: Prevents sticking and blocking of palletized laminates, even under high-humidity storage and transport conditions
  • Internal Release Function: Acts as an effective internal release agent in aqueous resin systems
  • Resin Integrity: Maintains the chemical and physical properties of melamine resins, ensuring consistent laminate quality and end-use performance

Hardener

Key Features & Benefits

  • Product Type: Latent hardeners developed for urea-formaldehyde (UF) and melamine-formaldehyde (MF) impregnation resin systems

  • Curing Performance: High curing activity enabling very short press cycles, with curing times as low as ~20 seconds at 170 °C

  • Thermal Reactivity: Accelerates resin condensation in drying ovens while maintaining controlled reactivity during storage and application

  • Pot-Life Stability: Provides long resin pot-life of up to 24 hours at room temperature, supporting flexible processing and reduced waste

  • Process Control: Maintains resin rheology with no sagging during impregnation, coating, or pressing operations

  • Surface Quality: Exhibits low tendency toward blistering and does not disturb resin flow in the press, allowing the resin to remain uniformly on the paper surface and producing smooth, defect-free pressed panels

  • Mode of Action: Latent curing mechanism with minimal pH shift, ensuring extended working time while activating rapidly under heat

  • Chemical Characteristics: Chloride-ion-free formulation, meeting key technical requirements for UF and MF resin curing agents

  • Application Scope: Suitable for impregnation and coating of support materials such as particleboard, fiberboard, and laminated plastic sheets in decorative paper and panel production

Modifier/Plasticiser

Key Features & Benefits

  • Functionality: Specialised additive developed to enhance the plasticity of melamine resins, resulting in a more flexible, less brittle final polymer
  • Resin Performance: Increases resin flexibility, processability, and stretchability while preserving the core chemical characteristics of the melamine system
  • Rheological Control: Effectively reduces melt viscosity, glass transition temperature (Tg), and modulus of elasticity, improving flow and handling during processing
  • Mechanism of Action: During polymerization, the additive positions itself between polymer chains, increasing free volume and reducing intermolecular interactions, thereby attenuating Van der Waals forces and enhancing chain mobility
  • Application Areas: Recommended for melamine resin manufacturing, particularly for decor paper impregnation, where high flexibility of the resin–paper composite is critical for efficient and defect-free lamination

Gloss Enhancer

Key Features & Benefits

  • Product Function: Combined modifier and gloss-enhancing additive for aminoplastic resin systems

  • Formulation: Transparent, aqueous system based on acrylic polymers with hydrocarbon auxiliary components

  • Polymer Characteristics: Self-binding polymer with high coalescence and compatibility with melamine resin matrices

  • Surface Enhancement: Improves surface closeness, smoothness, gloss level, and tactile (haptic) properties of laminated surfaces

  • Processing Benefit: Provides an emollient effect that enhances film formation and surface uniformity

  • Application Stage: Designed for use during the paper impregnation process in the manufacture of short-cycle foils, finish foils, and edgebanding materials

  • Process Flexibility: Can also be incorporated during aminoplastic resin condensation for early-stage performance optimisation

Anti-fingerprint

Key Features & Benefits

  • Product Function: Functional surface-modifying additive for water-based melamine resin formulations

  • Process Compatibility: Suitable for both low-pressure and high-pressure impregnation and lamination processes

  • Application Method: Added directly to the melamine resin bath for seamless integration into existing impregnation lines.=

  • Surface Protection: Engineered to reduce fingerprint visibility on impregnated paper surfaces, improving finished surface appearance

  • Dosage Efficiency: Typically effective at low addition levels (around 4% in the melamine bath)

  • Surface Modification: Alters surface structure to reduce adhesion of fingerprints and contaminants

  • Resistance Enhancement: Improves resistance of paper surfaces to grease, dirt, and moisture

  • Cleanability: Treated surfaces exhibit improved cleaning properties due to reduced contaminant pickup

  • System Compatibility: Compatible with melamine resins and commonly used impregnating agents

  • Process Stability: Low foaming tendency ensures no adverse impact on bath stability or line operation

Anti-dust

Key Features & Benefits

  • Product Function: Universal anti-dust additive designed for amino plastic resin systems

  • Application Scope: Suitable for decorative coating of flat carrier materials such as particleboard, fiberboard, and sheets based on phenolic and melamine resins

  • Process Compatibility: Impregnated decorative papers are suitable for short-cycle pressing, continuous high-pressure laminate (HPL) production, and post-forming systems

  • Dosage Efficiency: Delivers effective performance at very low addition levels.=

  • Process Improvement: Prevents dust generation during impregnation, improving workplace cleanliness and process stability

  • Resin Integrity: Does not alter the chemical or physical properties of the resin, ensuring consistent laminate performance and quality

Flow Promoter

Key Features & Benefits

  • Product Function: Multifunctional additive combining flow promotion and wetting action for amino plastic resin systems

  • Resin Compatibility: Suitable for melamine-formaldehyde (MF) and urea-formaldehyde (UF) resins, particularly for impregnation of decor papers that are difficult to process

  • Surface Tension Control: Effectively reduces resin surface tension, enabling improved wetting and deeper penetration into paper substrates

  • Coating Quality: Enhances levelling behavior to produce uniform coatings free from fish-eyes, streaks, and air blisters

  • Process Stability: Prevents pigment loss and dusting during impregnation and coating operations

  • Synergistic Performance: Enhances the effectiveness of curing agents in MF and UF resins without adversely affecting resin pot life

  • Material Efficiency: Improved flow and wetting efficiency can reduce overall resin consumption during coating

  • Dosage Optimisation: Recommended to begin trials at the lowest effective dosage and adjust upward as required to achieve optimal performance

  • Formulation Flexibility: Can be used in combination with other additives to address a wide range of product and process challenges

Cleaning Agent

Key Features & Benefits

  • Formulation Options: High-performance cleaning agents available in both water-based and solvent-based systems

  • Cleaning Efficiency: Engineered for strong and consistent cleaning performance across demanding industrial applications

  • Contaminant Removal: Effectively removes waxes, release agents, adhesive residues, and polyurethane foam

  • Surface Protection: Delivers thorough cleaning without compromising mold surface integrity or finish

  • Substrate Compatibility: Suitable for use on epoxy, steel, and aluminum moulds

  • Process Reliability: Enables fast, reliable, and repeatable cleaning results to support production uptime

  • Safety & Sustainability: Supports safer handling conditions and environmentally responsible manufacturing practices

  • Technical Support: Application-specific guidance and technical support available upon request

Edge Banding Release Agent

Key Features & Benefits

  • Product Function: Specialised release agent developed for edge banding and protective foil applications

  • Material Compatibility: Effective for releasing a wide range of polyolefin-based materials

  • Process Integration: Applied to panel edges prior to the pre-milling stage to prevent excess adhesive from adhering to the panel surface

  • Equipment Compatibility: Suitable for use on pressure roller slide shoes, duo scrapers, and associated tooling

  • Application Methods: Can be applied using roller or spray equipment for flexible integration into existing production lines

  • Surface Cleanliness: Provides effective release performance without leaving residues on the panel surface

  • Operational Benefit: Supports clean edge processing, improved adhesive control, and consistent edge banding quality

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