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Various kinds of liquid additives
KS Chemical provides various liquid additives that can be used in automotive OEM, refinish, electrodeposition, ship/heavy corrosion protection, PCM, plastic, construction, industry, UV, unsaturated resin, artificial leather, ink, etc. We recommend and provide optimal products to meet the needs of different customers.
 

​​ [Solvent Type]

  • ​Leveling Agent

  • Wetting & Dispersing Agent

  • ​​Releasing Agent for Plastic

  • Defoamer

  • Acid Catalyst

  • Rheology Modifier

  • Adhesion Promoter

  • Additive to increase the Conductivity

 

​ [Water Type]

  • Wetting & Dispersing Agent

  • ​Adhesion Promoter

  • Plasticizer for ED Coatings

  • Anti-crater & Dispersing Agent  for ED Coatings

Leveling Agent
​Solvent type

Leveling Agent

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
LP-1050
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-4200
100% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-4500
100% solid, liquid
Acrylic copolymer
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based no baking systems
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Excellent adhesion and flexibility
  • Excellent compatibility with other resins
  • Prevent surface defects such as craters, pinholes, fish-eyes, etc.
  • Good film appearance and recoatability
  • High solid coating and UV-coating
  • Powder coatings
Rheoflow
LP-2000
1% solid, liquid
Combination of high b.p solvents
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Prevent surface defects such as craters, pinholes, blisters, orange peels
  • Prevent boiling marks and improve leveling
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based air drying systems
Rheoflow
LP-2700
75% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-2745
45% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-5400
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-5500
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-5800
50% solid, liquid
​​Acrylic copolymer
  • Leveling agent with defoaming effect
  • Prevent surface defects such as craters, pinholes, fish eyes, etc.
  • Good compatibility with other resins
  • Good film appearance and recoatability
  • Coil coating
  • General industries
  • Improve leveling properties
  • Prevent surface defects such as crater
  • Leveling agent with defoaming effect
  • Does not interfere with intercoat adhesion
     
  • Polyurethane coatings
  • Two-pack epoxy compounds
  • Air-dried alkyd systems
  • Especially suitable for stoving enamel
    based on acrylic, alkyd, polyester resins.
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Good pick-up and recoatability
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based no baking systems
  • Acryl/Urethane, Epoxy.
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Improve gloss
  • Thermally stable
  • Does not interfere with recoatability or intercoat adhesion
  • Automotive OEM coatings
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based no baking systems
  • Solvent free systems
[Solvent Type]
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Prevent surface defects such as craters and pinholes
  • Good pick-up and recoatability
Wetting & Dispersing Agent
​Solvent type

Wetting & Dispersing Agent

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
DS-360
50% solid, liquid
Salt of unsaturated polyamine amides and acidic polyesters
  • Reduce dispersion time
  • Stabilize the pigment dispersion
  • Decrease pigment sedimentation
  • Increase gloss and improve flow
  • Improve storage stability
  • Architectural coatings
  • Industrial coatings
  • Furniture coatings
  • Bentonite pastes
Rheoflow
DS-363
45% solid, liquid
High molecular weight block copolymers with pigment affinity groups
  • Achieve high gloss due to the small particle sizes of the deflocculated pigments
  • Improve color strength
  • Increase transparency
  • Increase hiding power
  • Deflocculate pigments and stabilize them by means of steric hindrance
  • Industrial coatings
  • Automotive OEM & refinish coatings
  • Coil coatings
  • Wood coatings
  • Architectural coatings
  • Pigment concentrates
Rheoflow
DS-376
100% solid, liquid
Alkylammonium salt of a high molecular weight copolymer
  • Wetting and dispersing carbon fibers
  • Suitable for stabilizing organic pigments and acidic/neutral carbon blacks
  • Pigment concentrates
  • Plasticizers
  • Unsaturated polyester
  • PVC plastisols
  • PU flooring and foam.
Rheoflow
DS-425
80% solid, liquid
Modified acrylic copolymer
  • Excellent deaerating power during paint manufacturing and mixing process
  • Excellent wetting and dispersing effect on fillers and pigments
  • Good flow and leveling properties
  • Good film appearance and recoatability
  • Unsaturated polyester and UV-curing coatings
  • Putties, high fillers loading systems, etc.
  • High viscosity coatings
  • UV curing coating systems
Releasing Agent for Plastic
​Solvent type

Releasing Agent for Plastic

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
KMA-125
100% solid, liquid
The complex mixture of fatty amines with copolymers of organic phosphate esters and fatty acids
  • Internal Releaser for Pultrusions of unsaturated polyester, vinyl ester, etc.
  • Universal wetting and dispersing additive for mold applications
  • An internal lubricant for pultrusion, SMC, BMC and RTM of the thermosetting resins rubber and thermoplastic resins etc.
Defoamer
​Solvent type

Defoamer

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
AF-600
1% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-630
<3% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-660
<1% solid, liquid
Modified silicone
  • Excellent deaerating power during paint
    manufacturing and painting
  • Does not interfere with intercoat adhesion and transparency
  • Hardly cause surface defects such as craters, pinholes, orange peel, etc.
  • Good defoaming persistence
  • Enamel
  • Excellent deaerating power during paint manufacturing and mixing process 
  • Excellent defoaming control effect on coatings
  • Does not interfere with recoatability or intercoat adhesion
  • Heavy duty coatings
  •  Excellent deaerating power during paint manufacturing and painting
  • Does not interfere with intercoat adhesion and transparency
  • Hardly cause surface defects such as craters, pinholes, orange peel, etc.
  • Good defoaming persistence
  • Two-pack epoxy and two-pack polyurethane systems
Rheoflow
AF-750
20% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-754
25% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-770
30% solid, liquid
Acrylic copolymer
  • Excellent deaerating power during paint manufacting and mixing process
  • Good flow and leveling properties
  • Prevent surface defects such as craters, pinholes, fish eyes, etc.
  • Good film appearance and recoatability
  • Alkyd/Melamine, Alkyd/Urethane
  •  Acryl/Melamine, Urethane/Melamine,  Polyester/Melamine, etc.
  • High viscosity coatings
  • Epoxy heavy duty paintings and floor coatings based on Urethane or Epoxy
  • Unsaturated polyester film coatings and gel coatings
  • Putties, high fillers loading systems, etc.
  • Artificial marble, unsaturated resins
  • UV coatings
Acid Catalyst
​Solvent type

​Acid Catalyst

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
AC-100
50% solid, liquid
​Amine salts of alkylbenzene sulfonic acids
Hicure
AC-250
32% solid, liquid
Amine salt of p-Toluenesulfonic acid (p-TSA)
  • Fast cure & low curing temperature
  • Excellent hardness, gloss, humidity resistance and corrosion resistance
  • Good mechanical properties
  • Good solubility with resins and solvents         
  • Fast cure & low curing temperature
  • Good cure and viscosity stability
  • Water soluble and high solids coating application
  • Excellent durability
  • All solvent based baking systems               - Melamine, Urea
  • Automotive, coil coatings, general industries, appliances, etc.
Rheology Modifier
​Solvent type

Rheology Modifier

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
SCR430BX-40
40% solid, liquid
Urea-modified acrylic resin
  • Excellent metallic orientation effect
  • Good adhesion and chipping resistance
  • Excellent sagging control
  • Automotive OEM high solids metallic base coats for wet-on-wet application
  • Aluminium orientation
Rheoflow
SCR800KX-50
50% solid, liquid
Urea-modified polyester resin
  • Excellent sagging control
  • Good chemical resistance and weather resistance
  • Good adhesion and flexibility
  • Does not interfere with intercoat adhesion
  • Automotive base & middle coats
  • Rheology control agent
Rheoflow
ASA410DM-50
52% solid, liquid
Urea-modified solution
  • Strong thixotropic behavior
  • Pseudo-plastic and thixotropic rheology prevent settling and sagging
  • Recommended usage is mainly medium polarity systems
  • Good chemical resistance and weather resistance
  • Industrial coatings
  • Traffic coatings
  • PUR-systems
  • Zinc-rich coatings and fillers, heavy duty coatings                                                                                                                                 
Adhesion Promoter
​Solvent type

​Adhesion Promoter

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
ADH-630
56% solid, liquid
Free acid of complex carboxyl phosphate ester
  • Excellent adhesion
  • Improve flexibility
  • Improve corrosion resistance
  • Acrylic melamine, solvent and water based coatings
  • Polyester melamine, solvent and water based coatings
  • Alkyd, solvent and water based coatings
  • Epoxy, solvent and water based coatings
  • Acid-cured primers                                                
Increasing the Conductivity
​Solvent type

Additive to increase the Conductivity

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
EC-180
70% solid, liquid
Solution of an alkylolammonium salt of an unsaturated acidic
carboxylic acid ester
  •  Increase the electrical conductivity
  • Electrostatic spray coatings
  • Automotive interior coatings
  • Automotive bumper coatings
[Water Type]
Wetting & Dispersing Agent
​Water Type

Wetting & Dispersing Agent

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
DW-104
100% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
DW-104BC
50% solid, liquid
Alkoxylate
  • Wetting and foam control agent
  • Strong pigment dispersion
  • Perfect defoaming and appropriate anti-foaming effect
  • Electrodeposition coatings
  • Water based coatings
  • Architectural coatings
  • Printing inks
Adhesion Promoter
​ Water Type

Adhesion Promoter

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
ADH-630
56% solid, liquid
Free acid of complex carboxyl phosphate ester
  • Excellent adhesion
  • Improve flexibility
  • Improve corrosion resistance                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  • Acrylic melamine, solvent and water based coatings
  • Polyester melamine, solvent and water based coatings
  • Alkyd, thermosetting, solvent and water based coatings
  • Epoxy, solvent and water based coatings
  • Acid-cured primers
Plasticizer for ED Coatings
​ Water Type

​Plasticizer for ED Coatings

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
DW-1000
>90% solid, liquid
Ethylene oxide modified 
organic compound
  • Improve film thickness
  • Prevent surface defects
  • VOC abatement
  • ED-paints.
    - Anionic & Cationic coatings
  • Water based inks                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Dispersing Agent for ED Coatings
​ Water Type

​Anti-crater & Dispersing Agent for ED coatings

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
ACW-4040
40% solid, liquid(water)
Modified acrylic copolymer
  • Good flow and leveling properties
  • Good film appearance and recoatability
  • Excellent wetting and dispersing effect on fillers and pigments
  • Excellent anti-cratering effect on the coated film
  • ED-paints
    - Anionic & Cationic coatings
  • Water based coatings
    - Urethane, Acrylic, Epoxy, Polyester, Alkyd, etc.
  • Water based inks
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