Back to Basics: A Silane Primer

This brief review of alkoxy silanes includes three areas of product development that have benefited from the use of silanes: surface treatment, additive and reactive intermediate. The paper, by Gerald L. Witucki of Dow Corning Corporation, also includes recommendations for specific organic/silane combinations. Read the paper.



Dow Corning Launches Silanes Website

A new website from Dow Corning provides product, application and solution information on a full range of silanes, which can be used as adhesion promoters, coupling agents, crosslinking agents, hydrophobers and surface modifiers. At www.dowcorning.com/silanes customers can explore the chemistry of silanes and learn which product best serves their application. To learn about silanes for the coating industry, visit our special silane section on paints, inks and coatings.



New Technical Information Center Serves Europe and Asia

With the launch of its Technical Information Center (TIC) in Shanghai, China, earlier this year, Dow Corning became the first company in the chemical industry to deliver multi-lingual, around-the-clock technical service to customers around the globe. The first Dow Corning TIC was launched at the company headquarters in Midland, Michigan, in 2001. You may contact the TICs by posting questions on the Dow Corning website (www.dowcorning.com) or by calling their technical support hotlines: 008621-3774-7110 (Shanghai) or +1-989-496-7881 (Midland).



Q&A: Silanes In Water-Based Coatings

If alkoxy silane adhesion promoters react with water, what utility do they have in water-based coatings formulations? Read the answer.



Technology on Tour


Dow Corning to exhibit at EUROPEAN COATINGS SHOW 2005 – Dow Corning will exhibit at the EUROPEAN COATINGS SHOW taking place April 26-28, 2005, in Nürnberg, Germany. The show, held every two years, is the leading exhibition for the international coating and paint industry. At the last event in 2003, over 16,000 trade visitors from 85 countries sourced information on the production of coatings, paints, sealants, construction chemicals and adhesives from 646 exhibitors.


Dow Corning presents paper at Paint and Coatings Expo (PACE) 2005 – Lisa A. Honaman of Dow Corning will present a paper entitled "Improved Flexibility of Bis-Phenol A Epoxy Paint by Crosslinking with Amino-Functional Siloxane Resin" at PACE 2005 on January 26 from 11-11:30 a.m. in the Coatings Session, Track 4. The paper was co-authored by Honaman, Coatings Application Engineering/Technical Service, and Gerald L. Witucki, Dow Corning industry specialist. PACE will be held January 23-26, 2005, at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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