In this comprehensive eLearning you will learn the basics of pigments, color and hiding power in coatings and inks, as well as the basics of dispersing additives and their working mechanism. You can stop and return at any time. 

The entire eLearning consists of two modules. Part 1 - Theory and Part 2 - Practice.

In this comprehensive eLearning you will learn the basics of pigment grinding, the formulation of the mill-base and the most important test methods for assessing the dispersing quality. You can stop and return at any time. 

Discover how Evonik's wetting and dispersing additives help to improve the performance of waterborne white pastes and white topcoats. We will especially focus on the optimisation of anti-floating properties after tinting, viscosity stability during storage and much more.

This learning journey explains the benefits of using wetting agents, grind aids and co-dispersants to boost the performance of architectural coatings.

Quiz on Dispersion of Pigments

Analytical methods to describe the performance of silicone based surface control additives in waterborne wood and furniture coatings. Learn more about current trends in wood coatings, performance profile of surface control additives based on silicone chemistry in waterborne wood coatings,  the results based on analytical methods and capability of spherical precipitated silica particles to enhance the mechanical resistance of coating surfaces.

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.

This course provides some insights on the different types of wood coating technologies. For each technology, we will describe its advantages, disadvantages and key functionalities.

Siloxane-based additives are critical tools in coating applications because their structures can be varied in order to provide a broad range of performance benefits in many types of formulations and chemistries. An attempt is made to clarify the general structure-property relationships that drive the performance attributes of siloxane additives and detail the continuum that exists between wetting, leveling, defoaming and slip within this chemistry class.

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.

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?

Recorded Webinar: We were delighted to offer a joint webinar with  NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH, the world's leading company in the field of wet grinding, dispersion and homogenization as well as mixing and kneading.

For the production of paints, coatings and inks, a wide variety of raw materials must be processed into complex formulations. This requires various process steps in which the different components must be mixed, homogenized and ground to a defined particle size distribution. In the lecture, various processing options, advantages and disadvantages as well as optimization potentialshad been discussed and complete solutions had been presented.

This webinar was part of the Dispersion Weeks. 

Recorded Webinar: Our experts had explained the different steps of the pigment dispersion process, like pigment wetting, grinding and stabilization and the role of the additives in each of these steps. This session would also show how to evaluate the performance of pigment grinds and pigment concentrates and provide product highlights.

This webinar was part of the Dispersion Weeks. 

Recorded Webinar: In this webinar we had covered requirements, test methods and formulation strategies for resin containing, resin reduced and resin free pigment bases for water born inks. Learn, how you can improve the color strength and support an efficient grinding process.

This webinar was part of the Dispersion Weeks.

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.

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.

Recorded Webinar: Coating defects can cause severe headaches in wood coating applications. We have several options of additives in our portfolio to get rid of these defects or solve challenges like wetting of difficult substrates easily. In this webinar we had provided you with recommendations for water based, solvent based & UV coatings.

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.

Recorded webinar: This recorded webinar presents Evonik’s special silica products and explains the main benefits of each product in waterborne matt coating systems.  The webinar covers fumed silica, matting agent and spherical silica products.

Recorded Webinar: This webinar focuses on solutions to eliminate reaction foam in WB 2K PU systems. It also covers the topic of matting of waterbased wood coatings.

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 or on the right-hand side of this course page, just below the Tags.

In this module of our webcast series  you can learn how pigment wetting and dispersing 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 or on the right-hand side of this course page, just below the Tags.

This learning journey provides a very complete overview about the basics of wood coatings and will answer any questions you have on wood coatings. Our expert Heike Semmler is taking you through this journey beginning with the history of wood coatings up to the different technologies, application and test methods. The journey also explains the functionalities and characteristics of wood coatings and much more.