HC Plastics News: Bayer MaterialScience (BMS) recently stated at a press conference that it has developed the first bio-based polyurethane cross-linking agent.
(Jiangxi New Materials Co., Ltd.)
Bayer MaterialScience develops the first bio-based cross-linking agent
The company claims that cyclopentane diisocyanate (PDI) is a new isocyanate with a unit carbon content of 70%. Daniel Meyer, head of the Coatings, Adhesives, Specialty Products business and member of the BMS Executive Board, said the company’s recent innovations also include world-leading PDI derivatives as curing agents for coatings and adhesives.
Meyer told reporters and industry experts that the company plans to release the first PDI-based product to the market in April 2015, and start producing it in 2016 with a production capacity of up to 20,000 tons/year (enough to cover 20 million vehicles). For commercial manufacturing. He said that compared with existing two-component polyurethane coatings, the topcoat processing speed of this material is 30% faster. In the medium term, it is likely to be suitable for hybrid plastics, composites and metal base coatings.
This innovation is the result of a joint collaboration between BMS, Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute and German machinery and equipment manufacturer DURR. Cooperation on innovation is in line with BMS’s strategy of developing new products, Meyer claimed: “Our goal is to bring together partners in our value chain and borrow their technology into our R&D work as early as possible to ensure that our market customers be successful. In addition we will offer an increasing number of materials and solutions.”
This innovation will be publicly demonstrated at the European Coatings Show in April.
