Give your formulation an extra edge - Curalite™Ox

The demands for faster, more efficient production are always increasing and although Cationic UV Curing as technology already is a good option sometimes it needs an extra boost. The answer to this challenge is Curalite™Ox. Using Curalite™Ox as an additive in your formulation you can increase the reactivity of up to a factor of 7.

• Increasing the reactivity up to 7 times
• Best performance for flexibility
• Suitable in formulation in the range of 5 to 20%
• Increased dark cure gives increased through cure

Curalite™Ox also enables you to lower the cost of your formulation making you more competitive. Due to the increase in reactivity given by Curalite™Ox you can use less amount of expensive photoinitiator and hence reduce the total cost of your formulation. Curalite™Ox is clear, color-less, non skin-irritating and with very low odor. So Curalite™Ox exceeds in performance also when it comes to handling and safety.

The unique properties of Curalite™Ox makes it the given choice in formulation for applications with high demands like:

• Food packaging with high demands on safety, low migration, low odor and scratch resistance
• Shrink sleeves with high demand on flexibility
• Coatings for beverage can-base for long term resistance, fast process and customized slip and resistance
• Curalite™OxPlus – Up to 15x faster reactivity

For the applications where you need even better performance we can now also offer Curalite™ OxPlus. Curalite™OxPlus behaves very similar as Curalite™Ox but performs even better when it comes to reactivity, through cure and hardness.

• A di-functional Oxetane crosslinker
• Improved chemical resistance and hardness
• Increasing the reactivity up to 15 times
• Suitable in formulation in the range of 10 to 40%
• Use less amounts of expensive photoinitiator
• Perfect for environments with high humidity

So for printing in environments with very high moisture content Curalite™OxPlus is sometimes the only option to speed up the printing line. Curalite™OxPlus is also advantageously used in combination with Curalite™Ox to fine tune your formulation to meet your customers specific demands. For example a formulation of 20% Curalite™Ox and 15% Curalite™OxPlus gives excellent flexibility and through cure. Both Curalite OX and OXPlus gives very good reduction in viscosity.

Perstorp is fully committed to a sustainable future moving towards the goal of being completely finite material neutral. Becoming Finite Material Neutral would mean switching to alternative resources that are abundant and/or renewable, or to close the loops in order to recycle or reuse those that are finite.  One step in this is to launch Pro-Environment Polyols. Versions of our well known high performing polyols in partly or fully bio-based form. Perstorp is using a concept based on a mass balance concept, supporting sustainable sourcing. Everything is controlled through a strict and well recognized certification system called ISCC.