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Providing complete quality of paint and coating
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-1100
100% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-2700
75% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-2745
45% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-4200
100% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-4500
100% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-5400
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-5500
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
LP-5800
50% solid, liquid
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Prevent surface defects such as craters and pinholes
  • Good pick-up and recoatability
  • Excellent flowability and leveling properties
  • Improved substrate wetting
  • Eliminate surface defects such as craters and pinholes
  • Eliminate overspray cratering
  • 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
  • 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
  • Improve leveling properties
  • Prevent surface defects such as crater
  • Leveling agent with defoaming effect
  • Does not interfere with intercoat adhesion
     
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Good pick-up and recoatability
  • Excellent flow and leveling properties
  • Improve gloss
  • Thermally stable
  • No interfere with recoatability or intercoat adhesion
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based no baking systems
  • Coil coating
  • General industries
  • High solid coating and UV-coating
  • Powder coatings
  • Automotive OEM coatings
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based no baking systems
  • Solvent free systems
  • Polyurethane coatings
  • Two-pack epoxy compounds
  • Air-dried alkyd systems
  • Especially suitable for stoving enamel
    based on acrylic, alkyd, polyester resins.
  • All solvent based baking systems
  • All solvent based no baking systems
  • Acryl/Urethane, Epoxy.
Acrylic copolymer
[Solvent Type]
Wetting & Dispersing Agent
​Solvent type

Wetting & Dispersing Agent

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
DSF-100
100% solids, liquid
Rheoflow
DS-104
50% solids, liquid
Rheoflow
DS-310
30% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
DS-360
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
DS-363
45% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
DS-363
45% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
DS-425
80% solid, liquid
Salt of unsaturated polyamine amide and low molecular acid polyesters
Unsaturated polycarboxylic acid polymer
Alkyl ether phosphate
Salt of unsaturated polyamine amides and acidic polyesters
High molecular weight block copolymers with pigment affinity groups
Modified acrylic copolymer
  • Solvent free material
  • Stabilize the pigment dispersion, Anti-settling
  • Controlled flocculation or deflocculation
  • Improve storage stability
  • Excellent in preventing the flooding of titanium dioxide in combination with other color pigments
  • Using in anti-corrosion primers and coating systems, in many cases the protective properties are enhanced
  • Reduce dispersion time
  • Stabilize the pigment dispersion
  • Decrease pigment sedimentation
  • Increase gloss and improve flow
  • Improve storage stability
  • Stabilize the pigment dispersion, anti-settling
  • Controlled flocculation or deflocculation
  • Improve storage stability
  • 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
  • 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
  • Architectural coatings
  • Industrial coatings
  • Furniture coatings
  • Bentonite pastes
  • Solvent based systems
    -Vinyl, Acrylic, Epoxy, Urethane, Alkyd
  • Epoxy heavy duty coatings
  • Floor coatings based on Urethane or Epoxy
  • Industrial and architectural coatings
  • Anti-corrosion systems and coil coatings
  • Acrylic systems
  • Alkyd-modified systems
  • Epoxy systems
  • Two-pack polyurethane systems
  • Architectural coatings
  • Industrial coatings
  • Furniture coatings
  • Bentonite pastes
  • Industrial coatings
  • Automotive OEM & refinish coatings
  • Coil coatings
  • Wood coatings
  • Architectural coatings
  • Pigment concentrates
  • 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-560
30% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-600
1% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-660
<1% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-630
<3% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-680
Solids <3%, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-750
20% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-754
25% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
AF-770
30% solid, liquid
polyolefin copolymer
Modified silicone
Modified silicone
Acrylic copolymer
  • Does not cause gloss reduction during defoaming or deaerating
  • ​Does not intefere with intercoat adhesion as a polymer type
  • Excellent deaerating performance during spray, roller and brush application
  • Good film appearance and recoatability
  • 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
  • Excellent deaerating power during paint manufacturing and mixing process 
  • Excellent defoaming control effect on coatings
  • Does not interfere with recoatability or intercoat adhesion
  • 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
  • All solvent based coatings
    - Alkyd, lacquer, fast air drying enamel system
  • Acryl/Melamine, Urethane/Melamine
  • Two-pack Epoxy, Urethane systems
  • Unsaturated polyester film coatings and gel coatings
  • PVC plastisol coatings
  • Enamel
  • Two-pack polyurethane systems
  • Two-pack epoxy systems
  • Heavy duty coatings
  • Two-pack epoxy systems
  • Two-pack polyurethane systems
  • 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
Hicure
AC-250
32% solid, liquid
​Amine salts of alkylbenzene sulfonic acids
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
Rheoflow
SCR800KX-50
50% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
ASA410DM-50
52% solid, liquid
Rheoflow
ASA411DM-50
52% solid, liquid
Urea-modified acrylic resin
Urea-modified polyester resin
Urea-modified solution
  • Excellent metallic orientation effect
  • Good adhesion and chipping resistance
  • Excellent sagging control
  • Excellent sagging control
  • Good chemical resistance and weather resistance
  • Good adhesion and flexibility
  • Does not interfere with intercoat adhesion
  • 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
  • Strong thixotropic behavior
  • Pseudo-plastic and thixotropic rheology prevent settling and sagging
  • Recommended usage is mainly low polarity systems
  • Good chemical resistance and weather resistance
  • Automotive OEM high solids metallic base coats for wet-on-wet application
  • Aluminium orientation
  • Automotive base & middle coats
  • Rheology control agent
  • Industrial coatings
  • Traffic coatings
  • PUR-systems
  • Zinc-rich coatings and fillers, heavy duty coatings                                                                                                                                 
  • Industrial coatings
  • Traffic coatings
  • Polyurethane systems
  • Alkyd systems
  • Zinc-rich coatings and fillers, heavy duty coatings                                                                                                                                 
Adhesion Promoter
​Solvent type

​Adhesion Promoter

​Product
Chemical Types
Features
Application
Rheoflow
ADH-610
65% solids, liquid
Free acid of complex alkyyl phosphate ester
  • Improved metal coating adhesion
  • Enhanced corrosion resistance
  • Reduce flash rust
  • No adverse impact on storage
  • Improve flexibility
  • Acrylic melamine type utility paint
  • Polyester melamine type utility paint
  • Alkyd, thermosetting type utility-grade paint
  • Acid-curing primer

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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Address: 12 Hwasan 3-gil, Onsan-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan (45009)

Phone: 052-239-2271

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