Additive

TEGO® Twin 4000

TEGO® Twin 4000 is a siloxane-based gemini surfactant. It combines substrate wetting with good defoaming. It is very effective and suitable for a broad range of coatings.

Product information

Type

Additive

Sub type

Substrate wetting

Sustainability

Production efficiency

VOC reduction

Next generation solution

Markets

Technologies

High solids (solventborne)
Radiation curing systems
Solventborne
Waterborne

Manufacturer

TEGO Twin Logo

Availability

Coatino Campus

Boosting Ink Performance through Innovative Evonik Silica Particles

Discover how innovative Evonik silica particles can enhance ink performance in our webinar. We will explore various aspects of particle technology that helps in enhancing properties such as matting and rheology. Join us to learn how cutting-edge materials can boost the quality and efficiency of your applications.

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Substrate Wetting Basics

In this comprehensive interactive eLearning you can learn the basics of surfactants, surface tension and substrate wetting, how substrate wetting agents work and how to select and test substrate wetting agents.  You can stop and return any time. 

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How to prevent blocking in Printing Inks

This webcast shows you various factors that lead to blocking defects in printing inks, and more importantly demonstrate 3 different formulating approaches. Lab videos and pictures are illustrated to show you how additives could help you achieve flawless finish.

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Printing Inks Service Offerings - Interactive video

This is an interactive video that showcase different service offerings to support printing inks customers thru innovations and efficiency. Come explore to take advantage of our competencies in regulatory guidance, sustainability, technical expertise and trainings.

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Navigating the Complexities of Wetting in Ink and Coating Formulations

The ability to effectively wet challenging surfaces has emerged as a significant hurdle in the formulation of inks and coatings. With the ongoing advancements in packaging materials, including low-density polyethylene, oriented polypropylene, metallic films, and aluminum foil, formulators face increasing complexities. Furthermore, evolving regulatory standards necessitate that products not only perform optimally during printing but also comply with consumer safety regulations. Additionally, issues related to hydrolytic stability of surfactants have led to variations in ink wetting properties over the product's shelf life.

In this presentation, an expert from Evonik had discussed the relationship between surface tension and substrate wetting, as well as the distinct roles of dynamic and static surface tension in both water-based and energy-cured systems. While a one-size-fits-all solution is not feasible, the diverse range of products offered by Evonik Coating Additives provides effective strategies to tackle these wetting challenges.

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Siloxane-based additives for inks and varnishes, composition, performance and limitations

Recorded Webinar: Siloxane-based additives show unique effects in waterborne, radiation-curing and also solventborne inks and varnishes. This webinar related structural motives to effects in inks and varnishes. It had displayed how to improve ink performance by the use of highly active siloxane-based additives, but also mentioned possible limitations. Can they potentially replace fluorosurfactants?

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Entering the World of Regulatory for Printing Inks / Basic

Recorded Webinar: It is essential to have a basic understanding of regulations when creating a new printing ink. While the term "regulatory" may evoke negative connotations for some, this webinar aimed to provide fundamental knowledge on the topic in a relaxed manner.

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High performance ink additives with broad regulatory compliance and food contact status.

Recorded Webinar: Printing processes are getting faster and faster, substrates more and more diverse and global regulatory requirements more and more stringent. In this webinar, you will learn how Coating Additives copes with these requirements and proactively builds a portfolio of suitable high performance additives. Trends, star products and latest developments has been discussed along with practical examples and recommendations.

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Outperformulate your waterborne inks - Part II

Recorded Webinar: Inks are often produced from semi-finished to address the application complexity and reduce the final production step to a blending operation. Semi-finished must not only be intermixable and compatible but also stable over the time. In this mini webinar series, challenges and solutions were presented. In the first part we have presented solutions for pigment preparations and particle stabilization, so how to control the color and appearance of an ink. Part 2, have been related to foam, slip, release and substrate wetting - so control of the physical parameters of an ink.

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Surface Week 4: Improving efficiency by surface control additives

The aspect of a coated surface is positively enhanced by the use of additives for surface control. Using the example of automotive coatings the different aspects of leveling, wetting and haptic effects has been shown on three substrates.

This webinar was part of the Surface Weeks.

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Star products and more - Plastic Coatings

Technical insight of important coating properties for plastic coatings and product recommendations.

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Star products for packaging inks - Cobinders

In this module of our webcast series  you can learn how cobinders work and should be selected for their use in (packaging) inks. Our star products for this application are presented and compared to each other for best possible selection. More modules on other product groups available here on COATINO® Campus.

You can find supplementary content, such as links or documents ready for download, in the “Resources” tab.

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Star products for packaging inks - Substrate wetting additives

In this module of our webcast series  you can learn how substrate wetting additives work and should be selected for their use in (packaging) inks. Our star products for this application are presented and compared to each other for best possible selection. More modules on other product groups available here on COATINO® Campus.

You can find supplementary content, such as links or documents ready for download, in the “Resources” tab.