Description
Efka – Leveling agent
Efka® Leveling Agents by BASF offer a comprehensive range of solutions meticulously crafted to enhance coating performance across various applications. Engineered to tackle common challenges such as unevenness, cratering, and orange peel, these agents ensure a smooth and flawless finish with every application.
Designed to meet the diverse needs of coatings formulations, Efka® Leveling Agents excel in providing optimal substrate wetting, eliminating foam stabilization, and enhancing flow and dispersion properties. With their ability to prevent air entrapment and optimize wetting of substrates, they contribute to improved surface tension and consistency in coating applications.
Technical Specification
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| Efka® 3522 | Sillicones | Modified polysiloxane emulsion. Promotes the general surface characteristics. Offers improved anti-cratering and substrate wetting properties. Exhibits improved levelling, defoaming, slip and surface smoothness. |
| Efka® 3580 | Sillicones | Efka® 3580 by BASF is a solvent-free modified polysiloxane. Used as leveling and anti-cratering agent for aqueous coatings. Offers good substrate wetting, no intercoat adhesion problems, little or no foam stabilisation, no slip performance. |
| Efka® 3886 | Sillicones | Efka® 3886 by BASF is a polysiloxane modified polyisocyanates. Used in wood finishes and polyurethane lacquers or coatings. Exhibits improved leveling. Reduces tendency for orange-peel or cratering. Offers improved slip and surface smoothness. Provides improved mar-resistance, orientation of the matting agent and the prevention of flooding. |
| Efka® 7381 | Anti-crater Aids | Efka® 7381 by BASF is a silicone-free fluorocarbon-modified polymer. Acts as a flow and leveling agent. Reduces surface tension at substrate interface and at internal interfaces. Used in water-based printing inks and over-print varnishes. |
| Efka® 7411 | Thickeners | Efka® 7411 by BASF is an acrylic copolymer. Acts as a flow and leveling agent. Improves color strength, lowers viscosity and increases gloss. Enhances color development and rheological properties of finished inks. Used in solvent-based and UV-curable printing inks and pigmented bases. |
| Efka® FL 3337 | Solvent Blends | Efka® FL 3337 (Old Name: Efka® 3037) by BASF is solvent-based flow and leveling agent. It is solvent blend of high-boiling aromatics, ketones and esters. It prevents surface defects, cob-webbing, streaking & chilling and shortens setting time. Efka® FL 3337 is recommended for NC, medium oil alkyds, polyacrylate & polyurethane, 2-pack PUR, 2-pack epoxy coatings and baking/stoving enamels. |
| Efka® FL 3740 | Leveling agent | Efka® FL 3740 by BASF is a copolyacrylate. Acts as a leveling agent. Exhibits air release properties and eliminates or reduces cratering, fish eyes & orange peel. Improves the flow, dispersion and floating behavior. Prevents air entrapment and optimizes wetting of the substrate. Modifies the surface tension of the coatings, due to its chemical structure. Used in non-aqueous, liquid coating systems, in powder coatings and binder for powder coatings. Also used in alkyd-, epoxy-, acrylic/melamine-, 2-component acrylic-, PVC-, polyurethane- and chlorinated rubber- coatings & nitrocellulose lacquers. The recommended dosage of Efka® FL 3740 by BASF is between 0.2 and 1.0% depending upon the formulation. |
| Efka® SI 2722 | Sillicones | Efka® SI 2722 (old name: Efka® 2722) by BASF is a silicone containing defoamer and deaerator. It acts as a leveling agent, providing smooth surface to the coating. It allows production of foam- and blister-free self-leveling coatings. It is suitable for solvent-free epoxy and polyurethane compounds. Recommended dosage is 0.5–1.5% on total formulation. It complies with TSCA regulation. Efka® SI 2722 has a shelf life of 4 years. |
| Efka® SI 3239 | Sillicones | Solvent-free modified polysiloxane. Acts as a defoamer, leveling agent and slip/mar resistance agent. Improves levelling and surface smoothness. Increases slip and mar-resistance. Avoids formation of bénard cells (anti-floating effect). Used in coatings such as acid cured or polyurethane wood finishes particularly when applied by curtain coating, stoving enamels based on alkyd-, acrylic- or polyester resins, self-levelling epoxy flooring compounds and UV-cured paper lacquers. The recommended dosage is 0.05-0.5% on total formulation. It complies with TSCA regulation. |
| Efka® SL 3030 | Sillicones | Efka® SL 3030 (Old name: Efka® 3030) by BASF is an organically modified polysiloxane. Acts as a defoamer, anti-block-, slip control-, scratch resistant- and leveling- agent. Exhibits increased scratch and abrasion resistance. Prevents floating and imparts improved anti-blocking characteristics. Used in water- and solvent-based industrial coatings. Recommended dosage level of Efka® SL 3030 is 0.1-0.3%. |
| Efka® SL 3033 | Sillicones | Efka® SL 3033 (old name: Efka® 3033) by BASF is an organically modified polysiloxane. Acts as a slip-control-, anti-cratering-, abrasion resistant-, anti-blocking- and leveling- agent. Offers improved levelling and exhibits increased scratch- & abrasion resistance. Prevents floating and cratering and enhances anti-blocking characteristics. Imparts very good compatibility properties. Used in solvent based coatings. Recommended dosage level of Efka® SL 3033 is 0.1–1.0% and it has a shelf life of 4 years. |
| Efka® SL 3210 | Leveling agent | Organically modified siloxane. Acts as a slip control-, wetting- and leveling- agent. Improves substrate wetting & leveling as well as block- and scuff- resistance. Used in gravure printing, flexographic printing inks and clear over-print varnishes. The recommended dosage is 0.1–0.3% on total formulation. |
| Efka® SL 3257 | Leveling agent | Organo-modified polysiloxane. Acts as a slip control agent and leveling agent. Exhibits very good substrate wetting and reduction of surface tension. Offers improved gloss, scratch resistance and leveling. Shows compatibility with a wide range of resins. Provides slip modified surfaces which are conducive to recoatability. Also provides very efficient reduction of COF (coefficient of friction). Used in printing inks, coatings and paints. The recommended dosage is 0.05-1% on total formulation. |
| Efka® SL 3888 | Sillicones | Polysiloxane modified polyisocyanate. Acts as a slip control- and leveling agent. Improves leveling, reduces tendency for orange-peel or cratering. Also improves slip & surface smoothness, reduces surface tension with little or no foam formation and prevents anti-floating effect. It is compatible with polyurethane. Used in metal coating finishes. The recommended dosage is 1.0–2.0% on polyol component. It complies with TSCA regulation. |
| Efka® SL 3299 | Sillicones | Organically modified polysiloxane. Acts as a leveling-, slip control-, anti-blocking-, abrasion resistance-, anti-cratering- and scratch resistance- agent. Improves leveling, slip, surface smoothness and gloss, prevents floating and cratering and increases scratch and abrasion resistance. Used in solvent-based wood coatings. Recommended for 0.05–0.3% on total formulation. |
PRODUCT SPECIFICATION
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Container Loading: 25 kg
Hazard class: Class 8
Delivery time: up to 30 days
