Borchers: A Milliken Brand is an industry pioneer in coating additives, offering a wide range of innovative solutions engineered to enhance the performance, durability, and aesthetic appeal of your coatings. Our portfolio includes an array of additives such as rheology modifiers, dispersing agents, wetting agents, and surface modifiers, all meticulously crafted to help deliver top-notch performance.
As a leading coating additive brand, we are trusted by industry professionals worldwide to create products that not only ensure enhanced functionality but also ultimate reliability across various applications. Explore our extensive range of products and solutions that empower you to create better coatings.
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Adhesives & Sealants
Borchers offers a range of additives with specific benefits for wide variety of adhesive and sealant applications in a multitude of industries. Our dispersant technology allows for higher solids content with lower viscosity which leads to easier application. Our additives for adhesives and sealants offer:
- Minimized sagging and settling
- Improved storage stability
- Higher inorganic filler loading
- Reduced costs
Anticorrosive Primers
Borchers offers a range of additives with specific benefits for anticorrosive primers. Our products allow for a higher solids content with lower viscosity, which increases the ease of application and decreases permeation. Our high-performance catalysts improve through cure at the substrate compared to standard cobalt products. This improves wet adhesion and provides outstanding barrier properties, which result in excellent corrosion resistance.
Because of this, our additives for anticorrosive primers enable a wider window of application with changing ambient conditions.
Our additives:
- Provide excellent corrosion resistance
- Minimize sagging and settling
- Improve storage stability
Architectural
Borchers offers a range of additives with specific benefits for architectural applications. Benefits include maximized color acceptance of universal tinting systems and enhanced colorant compatibility with interior and exterior paints, door and trim paints, interior and exterior wood, deck stains, etc. Our architectural coating additives:
- Provide excellent color acceptance
- Eliminate separation
- Allow for cobalt-free and oxime-free drying and anti-skin solutions
- Improve substrate wetting and block resistance
Automotive
Borchers offers a range of additives with specific benefits for automotive coating. Our solutions provide excellent wetting for organic and inorganic pigments, resulting in lower grind times, improved color strength, high jetness, and high transparency. Our additives:
- Provide excellent color development
- Improve slip
- Maintain overcoat ability
General Industrial
We offer solutions for excellent durability, including corrosion resistance and yellowing reduction. Our solutions provide improved wetting for organic and inorganic pigments resulting in lower grind times, enhanced color strength, and improved transparency. Other benefits include excellent flow and leveling, substrate wetting, and deaeration in high-performance coatings.
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Pigment Dispersions
Our solutions provide excellent wetting for organic and inorganic pigments, resulting in lower grind times, enhanced color strength, and improved transparency.
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Polyurethane Foam
Our metal-based catalysts promote more selected reaction rates in solvent based two-component polyurethane systems. For more information on potassium trimerization catalysts for polyisocyanurate insulation, please visit the Milliken website. Milliken also provides Reactint® colorants for polyurethane foams.
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Printing Inks
Our solutions provide excellent wetting for organic and inorganic pigments, resulting in lower grind times, enhanced color strength, and improved transparency. Additionally, our metal-based catalysts promote faster dry times.
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Protective & Marine
Our solutions reduce surface tension, improve dry times, enhance corrosion resistance, and provide excellent wetting for organic and inorganic pigments.
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Tin Replacement
Borchers offers a range of tin replacement additives with specific benefits for various applications. Our metal-based catalysts provide similar cure properties as standard tin products. These solutions promote faster reaction rates in solvent based two-component polyurethane coatings. Our additives:
- Reduce yellowing
- Optimize the control of curing properties
- Increase film hardness
Wood Coatings
Borchers offers a range of additives with specific benefits for industrial and DIY wood applications. Our high-performance catalysts enable faster dry times and increased resistance to adverse conditions. We offer dispersants and rheology modifier additives that provide transparent iron oxide pigmented stains with superior transparency, color, and stability. Our surface active agents enhance substrate wetting and reduce surface defects. Our wood coating additives:
- Enable ultimate transparency and low viscosity dispersions
- Provide cobalt-free solutions
- Enable fast air release and eliminate defects
Floor Coatings
Floors face a number of environmental factors that may compromise their durability and appearance. These include foaming upon production or application, cratering and other surface defects, or separation of the coating in storage.
Adding Borchers additives to floor coating formulations can help overcome these common issues.
Our floor coating additives can provide:
- Enhanced surface quality
- Improved storage stability and separation prevention
- Longer pot life and improved hardness
- Better dry times and durability
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