STYRONAL® APEX
STYRONAL APEX is a styrene butadiene binder designed to allow manufacturers of coated paper and paperboard to optimize their formulations for cost-in-use savings. STYRONAL is part of the APEX high strength binder platform, which now encompasses styrene acrylic, styrene butadiene and vinyl acrylic emulsions. Our STYRONAL APEX line enables performance characteristics such as improved binding power, better water retention and less tendency to pick during offset printing.
ACRONAL® APEX
ACRONAL APEX is a styrene acrylic binder designed to allow manufacturers of coated paper and paperboard to optimize their formulations for cost-in-use savings. ACRONAL is part of the APEX high strength binder platform, which now encompasses styrene acrylic, styrene butadiene and vinylo acrylic emulsions. Our ACRONAL APEX line enables performance characteristics such as improved binding power and the right balance of stiffness and flexibility to minimize crack at fold concerns during converting.
ACRONAL grades are aqueous dispersions based on copolymers, consisting of acrylic esters and styrene with a solid content of approximately 50%. Advantages of these dispersions are excellent print evenness in offset and rotogravure and a very low level of thermo- and UV-yellowing and odor. Our Acronal products enable performance characteristics like binding power, good printability for all common printing processes and excellent runability even at high machine speed.
STYRONAL grades are aqueous dispersions of copolymers of styrene-butadiene with a solid content of approximately 50%. Just like our ACRONAL product range, our STYRONAL products are designed to achieve excellent performance characteristics in regards to binding power, printability, and runability.
CEB®
Due to a continuous upward spiral in the costs of raw materials, costs for coating binders have increased dramatically in the past years. At BASF, we have consequently put our R&D-emphasis on the reduction of costs for raw material. With our cost-efficient binders (CEBs) we have succeeded to do so by optimizing the stabilization and additive system. Being the frontrunner for innovations, we will continue to strive for constant enhancement of our CEB technology.
BASONAL is a customizable binder that can be tailored to provide customers with specific performance requirements. This binder can optimize the binding power, blister resistance, printing properties or other technical requirements of your coated paper using our monomer matrix concept.
