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WACKER Cooperates with Dynaplak on Producing Sustainable Binders © WACKER
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ACKER is to collaborate with Dynaplak, the
Dutch manufacturer of biobased raw materials for agricultural and industrial applications. Together, the two companies want to develop hybrid binders based on starch and polymers. The first products for interior wall paints are scheduled for market launch in the first quarter of 2019. WACKER is thereby responding to the growing demand for sustainable binders in the paint and coatings industry. “Our partnership with Dynaplak lays the foundations for increasing our
Koos Slor, managing director of
customers outstanding product quality,”
contribution to more sustainability in the
Dynaplak, says: “In our production
explains Nely. The new binders will be
binders market. We will be one of the
process, we utilize starch that would
manufactured at the Dynaplak site in
first chemical companies to expand our
otherwise be lost. Our innovative
Veendam in the Netherlands and are
portfolio with products based partially
technology increases the functionality
part of WACKER’s new VINNECO® line.
on renewable raw materials,” explains
of conventional starch, enhancing
It will present the first products from
Dominique Nely, who manages WACKER’s
its performance.” In an emulsified
this line at the European Coatings Show
binders for consumer goods and
form, starch reveals its properties
2019.
industrial applications in western Europe.
and helps to tie together components
“In the first phase, we will focus on interior
of a paint, such as pigments and
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paints - where demand for ecological
fillers. “By partnering with WACKER,
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alternatives to petroleum-based binders
our sustainable products will also be
is growing strongly.”
available to customers from the paints
Dynaplak’s biobased technology together
and coatings industry,” Slor continues.
with WACKER’s decades of experience in
In technical terms, hybrid binders
manufacturing polymer-based binders will
meet the high-quality standards
result in hybrid starch and polymer-based
for WACKER products. “We want to
binders. The starch is a side-stream
act in an ecologically responsible
product from potato processing.
way, while continuing to offer our
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