Printing and Packaging
BASF is a worldwide market leader in the Printing & Packaging industry. BASF Printing and Packaging business unit produces some forty different solid resins and polymers for the printing industry. The polymers form the basis of water based ink and overprint lacquers for flexographic and gravure printing. The inks produced from these polymers are suitable for printing on paper, corrugated cardboard and flexible packaging. Food packaging is one of BASF most important markets, since JONCRYL® DFC products are approved by the FDA (the America Food and Drug Administration) for direct food contact (DFC). In addition, increasingly, the inks are used for printing newspapers and magazines.
The Printing and Packaging Industry is a 90 billion Euro industry, ranging from raw materials, formulated products, substrates and equipment. BASF current activities within the Printing & Packaging business arena are focussed on the supply of water based resins to the Liquid Ink, Overprint Varnish and Functional Coating markets.
Coatings
BASF is amongst the market leaders in the water based wood coatings market. The most important markets in this segment are furniture and the so-called joinery segment, existing of products for the in house furniture and pre-fab building elements e.g. window frames, doors, floors and stairs.
BASF Coatings business unit is a growing division with innovative differentiated products, mainly focussed on the industrial market, but servicing a variety of applications within the paint industry.
BASF pioneered two non-conventional polymer processing technologies, allowing us to offer truly unique polymer products.
Rheology-Controlled(RC) emulsions
RC emulsions offer many distinct advantages to the formulators.
- Near Newtonian rheology -solution-like viscosity at high and low shear rates.
- Excellent application properties - consistent rheological behavior and excellent flow and leveling.
- High gloss and DOI Manufacturing ease - inherently rugged emulsions allow for ease of manufacture and fewer problem batches.
Solid Grade Oligomer(SGO) resins
Acrylic resins made via the SGO process can be utilized in high and powder coatings as well as waterborne products for inks, overprint varnishes and coatings.
Advantages include:
- Narrow molecular weight distribution
- Lower viscosity/VOC
- Excellent application properties
JONCRYL® U
Polyurethane dispersions and polyurethane acrylic hybrids.
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