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CARBOSET® 515
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Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. - Polymeric plasticizer. Adhesion promoter. Recommended applications include latex paints, adhesives, coatings and cosmetics.

CARBOSET® GA-2182
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Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. - Vehicle with good chemical and block resistance properties. It has good adhesion to difficult substrates, such as PVC films.

CARBOSET® XPD-2833
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Lubrizol Advanced Materials, Inc. - A urethane-acrylic hybrid suitable for use on paper, foil and certain films. This product exhibits excellent alkali resistance, excellent resistance to many common household cleaners, and resistance to certain solvents.

CIBA® GLASCOL® C44 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A specialty resin for soft water-borne coatings. The key benefits are excellent clarity, good locking resistance, excellent adhesion to plastic substrates, very good resistance to organic and water-based materials, excellent abrasion resistance, and excellent sealing.

CIBA® GLASCOL® LE15 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A resin developed for waterborne inks. The key benefits are good pigment wetting properties, excellent machine stability (e.g. rapid resolubility), hydrophilic nature of polymer, excellent viscosity/pH stability, and near linear viscosity/dilution curve.

CIBA® GLASCOL® LE17 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A resin developed for water-borne inks. The key benefits of GLASCOL LE17 are very hard resin, very high gloss, and very high softening point allowing stable print images on hot surfaces.

CIBA® GLASCOL® LS 16 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A low average molecular weight polymer with highly hydrophilic properties. It is developed to function as a pigment grinding resin for water-borne inks.

CIBA® GLASCOL® LS20 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A resin developed for waterborne inks. The key benefits are very good clarity, good blocking resistance, very good resistance to organic and water-based materials, good pigment wetting properties, excellent viscosity/pH stability, and near linear viscosity/dilution curve.

CIBA® GLASCOL® LS24 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A resin developed for waterborne inks. The key benefits are very good clarity, excellent blocking resistance, very good resistance to organic and water-based materials, good pigment wetting properties, and near linear viscosity/dilution curve.

CIBA® GLASCOL® LS26 SPECIALTY RESIN
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Ciba Inc. - Additives - A resin developed for waterborne inks and overprint varnishes. The key benefits are: allows formulation of high gloss systems, very good clarity, excellent blocking resistance, very good resistance to organic and water-based materials and good pigment wetting properties.

CN2278
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Sartomer Company - Polyester acrylate blend designed for pigment dispersion in liquid UV/EB inks and coatings.

CN293
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Sartomer Company - Hexafunctional acrylated polyester oligomer that has good pigment wetting and fast cure. For use in lithographic and flexographic ink formulations, as well as abrasion resistant coatintgs.

DIANAL BR-106
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Dianal America, Inc. - The workhorse resin of the BR series. It is an excellent general purpose resin with very fast solvent release.

DIANAL BR-121DA
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Dianal America, Inc. - An acrylic resin that is specifically designed to provide excellent adhesion in paints and inks on metal substrates. Provides excellent pigment dispersibility and weatherability.

DIANAL BR-220
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Dianal America, Inc. - Offers good mixture of properties used in flexographic inks and a clear coating over bright metals. Where sacrifice in light resistance/gloss retention can be tolerated, combined with nitrocellulose reduces cost and fast solvent release for quick drying.

DIANAL BR-57
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Dianal America, Inc. - Styrene/acrylic copolymer designed for the concrete marketplace with similar properties to Dianal BR-53. One major difference is in the molecular weight, with BR-57 being lower than BR-53.

DIANAL MB-2519
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Dianal America, Inc. - An acrylic polymer designed for use as a low profile modifier in the production of SMC and BMC plastics.

DIANAL MB-2543
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Dianal America, Inc. - The workhorse resin of the MB series. It is an excellent general-purpose resin with very fast solvent release.

DIANAL MB-2594
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Dianal America, Inc. - Designed to provide good pigment dispersibility and compatibility with long oil alkyds. Can be dissolved in Cellosolve Actate and Xylene for clear coat application. Can be mixed in a 1:3 ratio with MB-2595 for use in carbon black.

DIANAL MB-2595
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Dianal America, Inc. - Designed to provide good pigment dispersibility and compatibility with long oil alkyds. Can be mixed in a 3:1 ratio with MB-2594 for use in carbon black.