Addressing the Challenges of Water-Based Coatings
Are you facing coating issues like pigment settling, excessive foam or weak film formation? These problems not only affect your coating appearance and service life, but also increase your formulation complexity and production costs.
Celotech Ruico provides an extensive portfolio of additives and emulsions to help you improve processing stability, surface quality and coating durability. By partnering with us, you can also gain assistance with technical expertise to simplify formulation development.
Complete Additive Solutions for Water-Based Coatings
Celotech Ruico has designed a complete range of additives and binders for water-based coating systems. With the right combination and formulation optimization, we can help you address common coating issues and achieve consistent performance.
| Common Issue | Solution | Key Benefit |
| Poor Pigment Dispersion | Water-Based Dispersant | Improves pigment stability and color development |
| Poor Substrate Wetting | Wetting Agent | Enhances substrate coverage and coating uniformity |
| Excessive Foam | Mineral Oil Defoamer | Reduces bubbles and surface defects |
| Poor Flow and Leveling | Acrylic Leveling Agent | Improves flow and surface smoothness |
| Insufficient Adhesion and Flexibility | SBR Latex | Enhances adhesion, flexibility, and film durability |
Recommended Additives for Water-Based Coatings
The following products are among our recommended solutions for water-based coatings. We also offer additional emulsions and thickeners to meet your formulation requirements.
Improves adhesion, flexibility, water resistance, and film formation in water-based coating systems.
Provides effective foam control during production, filling, and coating application.
Promotes efficient pigment dispersion, color development, and long-term formulation stability.
Enhances substrate wetting, coating coverage, and application performance.
Improves flow, leveling, and surface appearance for smoother coating films.
Advanced Dispersion Solutions for Waterborne Coating Formulations
Pigment dispersion affects water-based coatings’ color development, gloss, viscosity stability, and storage performance. A suitable paint dispersant can help pigments and fillers distribute more evenly, reducing agglomeration during production. For demanding applications, you can select polyacrylate dispersant technologies to improve grinding efficiency and stabilization. We also provide anionic dispersants with strong electrostatic repulsion for inorganic pigments. For stabilizing storage performance, we offer ammonium polyacrylate dispersant solutions as well.
Wetting Technologies for Improved Surface Coverage
Proper wetting is helpful for uniform coverage and reduces coating defects. Celotech Ruico chemical wetting agents help lower surface tension and improve coating spreadability. In formulations requiring broad compatibility, our non-ionic wetting agent with stable performance under different conditions can be your primary choice. For porous surfaces such as cement-based materials or highly absorbent substrates, we provide penetrant wetting agent solutions to improve liquid penetration and coating uniformity. We will work out the appropriate wetting technology to help you improve surface finishes.
Application Expertise Beyond Additive Selection
To improve water-based coating performance, a simple combination of these additives is not workable. You should balance dispersion, wetting, foam control, leveling, adhesion and film durability with the entire formulation. Additionally, you also need to evaluate the actual application conditions and environmental variations. Celotech Ruico is an application-oriented additive supplier with on-site technical support. Whether for architectural paints, industrial coatings, decorative finishes, wood coatings, or protective coatings, you can find satisfactory coating solutions from us.
FAQ
You can evaluate the pigment selection, PVC, dispersion quality and film thickness.
If there is no contamination, you can consider whether the wetting is sufficient, air is trapped, or any components are incompatible.
You can use appropriate wetting technologies and optimize surface tension to improve waterborne coating coverage on low-energy or porous substrates.
Select suitable binders, optimize additives, and control rheology with proper thickeners.
The causes are probably differences in pigment particle size, density, surface chemistry, or inadequate dispersion stability.
