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Power Up with Dow Corning Coatings

Give your coatings a shock of high-value functionality. With Dow Corning’s slip and mar-resistance technology platform, you can add valuable performance attributes to your products. Improving slip and mar performance will enable you to differentiate your product offering.

Consider Sampling a Great Performer
Dow Corning carries a complete line of additives that can add improved slip and mar-resistance performance to virtually any coating formulation. A good place to start when considering possible additives is with three of Dow Corning’s most versatile products from its slip and mar-resistance enabling technology platform.

Dow Corning® 51 Additive   and 52 Additive

  • Ultra-high-molecular-weight polydimethysiloxane dispersion in aqueous dispersions
  • Dow Corning 51 Additive is formulated at high (90% actives) solids, while the lower viscosity of Dow Corning 52 Additive (64% actives) allows for easier incorporation into coating formulations
  • Improve mar resistance and slip in water-borne systems or solvent-borne systems containing polar solvents; provide water resistance in water-borne systems; also impart leveling, wetting, and gloss

Dow Corning® 57 Additive

  • Nonreactive silicone glycol copolymer surfactant
  • Excellent organic compatibility
  • Supplied at 100 percent active concentration
  • Provides slip, gloss, pigment treatment, leveling, wetting, and mar-resistance

Download our Power Up Slip and Mar Performance Information Sheet (PDF size = 306 KB)

Solutions for Your Success
Read how Dow Corning helped overcome a silicone-related formulating and manufacturing obstacle through a pilot scale-up and contract manufacturing solution. (PDF size = 132 KB)


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