KOWA

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KOWA

• Kowa American is the US offices of KOWA Corp in
  Japan
• One of the largest privately held companies in
  Japan
• Kowa produces pharmaceuticals, optical good,
  electroptical instruments, textiles and activated
  carbon

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KOWA

• Kowa is a worldwide trading organization
• Products include chemicals, textiles, floor tile,
  fashion accessories, sporting goods, shoes, and
  foodstuffs
• Offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chile, Germany,
  Italy, China (5), and most Asian countries

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KOWA

• Chemical trading division sells a wide variety of
  chemical products into the United States
  including
• monomers
• VOC exempt solvent PCBTF
• specialty glycols
• additives
• viscosity modifiers
• isocyanates
• specialty intermediates

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p-Chlorobenzotrifluoride (PCBTF)

• Only aromatic solvent that is VOC exempt.
• Excellent solvency diluent properties with
  almost all commercially available coating resins
  and co-solvents. (solubility parameter 8.6)
• PCBTF has low acidity ( lt 3 ppm) and low moisture
  (lt 150 ppm) and very stable structure for use in
  highly urethane and epoxy systems
• Moderate flashpoint (43C) and evaporation rate
  (.9) slightly less than Butyl Acetate (1.0)

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SPECIALTY GLYCOL ETHERS

• OVER 40 SPECIALTY GLYCOL ETHERS
• ETHERS BASED ON MEG, DiEG, TriEG, Poly EG, PG,
  DiPG AND TriPG
• Both mono-alkyl and dialkyl ethers available
• For coatings requiring solvents with unique
  balance of hydrophobic hydrophilic nature for
  superior coalescent,evaporation and coupling
  properties

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HDI Triisocyanurate

• Aliphatic Isocyanate for specialty urethane
  coatings to improve weatherability and durability
• Available in trimer or triisocyanurate (100
  solids) form for handling environmental safety
• New long term source to offset Lyondells recent
  USA market departure

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SPECIALTY (METH)ACRYLATES

• POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATES (n 1 THRU
  23
• POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL DIACRYLATES (n
  4 THRU 14)
• METHOXYPOLYETHYLENE GLYCOL MONOMETHACRYLATES
• (n 2 THRU 23)
• POLYPROPYLENE GLYCOL DI(METH)ACRYLATES
• 
  (n 7
  OR 12)
• PHENOXY POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL ACRYLATES
• 
  (n 2
  THRU 6)
• (METH)ACRYLOYL OXYETHYL SUCCINATE (OR MALEATES)
• POLYMERIZABLE SURFACTANTS SPECIALTY
  CROSSLINKERS

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Polyethylene Glycol Monomethacrylate

• Polymerizable surfactant
• Polyethylene monomethacrylate for increasing
  hydrophilic properties in finished resins
• Further crosslinking of pendant hydroxy group
  possible
• Formed by ethoxylation of methacrylic acid,
  diester content increases with chain length (for
  low diester needs try the methoxy peg
  mono(meth)acrylates)

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Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate Acid Phosphate

• Adhesion promoting monomer for metal and surfaces
• Acid functionality can be used for crosslinking
  reactions
• Under development is a 4-Hydroxybutyl analog for
  better compatibility with more organophilic
  monomers

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Methacrylamide

• A low toxicity replacement for acylamide
• Generally used as low volume co-monomer to
  modify a variety properties of different types of
  polymers including acrylic, acrylonitrile,
  styrene, VCM, VAM and butadiene based resins
• Produces lower viscosity and less water soluble
  resins than acrylamide based resins

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Isocyanatoethyl Methacrylate (MOI)

• UNIQUE DUAL FUNCTIONAL MONOMER
• Can be used to produce a variety of isocyanate
  functional
• Resins or oligomers with a methacrylic backbone
• Can alternately be used to form specialty
  methacrylate functional monomers or oligomers
• Above reactions can be undertaken in relatively
  clean manner with minimal side reactions or
  disruption of the other functional group

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Sulfonate Monomers

• Sodium p-Styrene Sulfonate
• Sold as white powder
• Over 90 purity
• Soluble in water up to 22

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Sodium Methallyl Sulfonate

• Available as white crystaline flakes
• Over 99 purity, Soluble in water,
• Insoluble in organic solvents

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Sodium Allyl Sulfonate

• White powder, 95 min. purity

Sodium Vinyl Sulfonate

• 25 aqueous solution,
• Polymerizable surfactant

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Ethylene Glycol Monoallyl Ether
Polyethylene Glycol Monoallyl Ether

• Polymerizable surfactant and crosslinkable
  monomer for specialty applications
• A VARIETY OF OTHER ALLYL ETHERS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE

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Monoalkyl Glycidyl Ethers

• Wide variety of monoalkyl glycidyl ethers ranging
  in size from butyl (C4) to stearyl (C18)
• Useful as epoxy diluents

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Diglycidyl Ethers

• Ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether
• Hexanediol diglycidyl ether
• Triglycidyl ethers also available
• Crosslinking agent reactive diluents

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Allyl Acrylate

• Specialty monomer for crosslinking applications
• Raw material for synthesis of highly specialized
  functional monomers

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Monovinyl Ethers

• Variety of Alkyl and hydroxy-alkyl
  functionalities
• Primarily used in cationic curing

Divinyl Ethers

• Crosslinking and multifunctional monomers for
  cationic curing