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Adhesion Promoters

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Product Overview

Borica manufactures a range of adhesion promoters (TYTAN™ AP) based on titanium and zirconium chelates. These are predominantly used for cross-linking resins to low surface energy polymeric substrates. Some grades are suitable for bonding to other substrates such as glass and metal.

These types of adhesion promoter are very popular in packaging ink formulations as they have favourable food contact approvals, low odour and a high level of transparency. They also improve gloss and aid pigment dispersion. Some grades also act as cross-linking agents to modify the rheology of certain oilfield fluids e.g. guar-thickened fracturing fluids.

Brochures & Technical Literature

TYTAN™ - Adhesion Promoters for Inks

Overview brochure highlighting the key TYTAN™ AP products used as adhesion promoters in packaging inks.

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Product Features
  • Organotitanate and organozirconate chelates
  • Wide range of food contact approvals: Swiss Ordinance 6A and more
  • Cross-links a number of different resin and substrate functional groups
  • Strongly increases adhesion of solvent-based inks to various polymer substrates (amongst others like glass and metal too)
  • Used in flexographic and gravure inks
Product Benefits
  • High transparency, gloss levels and optical clarity - excellent for transparent and high gloss packaging inks
  • Improves adhesion on low surface energy substrates, such as flexible packaging films
  • Aids pigment dispersion
  • Low odour
  • High-temperature stability - can be used to maintain high viscosity of fracturing fluids thickened with guar derivatives at high temperatures (deep well conditions)
Typical Applications
  • Adhesion promotion of solvent-based inks to difficult substrates
  • High gloss flexographic and gravure inks
  • Coatings
  • Adhesives
  • Cross-linking guar additives in the oilfield and fracturing fluids

Featured grades with technical datasheets

A brief overview of the key grades with their Technical Datasheets (TDS) is given below.

If you are looking for a Safety Datasheet (SDS), Product Safety Information (PSI) or an alternate grade, then please get in touch or request a sample.

Key points at a glance:

  • Titanium phosphate complex which promotes adhesion and cross-linking of solvent based inks to a variety of plastics
  • Wide ranging food contact approvals. Excellent for packaging inks
  • High level of transparency, no colour and low odour
download TYTAN™ AP100 Technical Datasheet 227 KB

Key points at a glance:

  • Organotitanate chelate that promotes adhesion and crosslinking
  • Works well on modern polymer substrates, glass and some metals
  • Can only be used in solvent based inks and coatings
download TYTAN™ TAA Technical Datasheet 225 KB
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