Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Plastics & Elastomers Functions
- Technologies
- Product Families
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Features
- Economical to use and tailored for performance, compatibility, and economy in waterborne latex applications.
- In VAE and PVAc emulsions, optimizes wet tack, open/set times, Tg, and viscosity response of the base emulsion to the plasticizer
- Good hardness and salt fog resistance in metal coatings
- Effective, low-VOC choice for waterborne adhesives, hot melt adhesives, putty, and food packaging adhesive
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Compatible Polymers & Resins
- Adhesive & Sealant End Applications
- Coating End Applications
- Ink & Toner End Applications
Properties
- Typical Properties
Value Units Test Method / Conditions Boiling Point (at 5 mmHg) 180 °C - Boiling Point (750 mmHg, Extrapolated) min. 330 °C - Density (at 25°C) 1.14 g/ml ASTM D1475 Freeze Point 14 °C - Moisture Content 0.02 % - Viscosity (Brookfield RVT, 20 rpm) 72 mPa.s - Kinematic Viscosity (at 25°C) 63 cSt - Volatile Organic Compounds 2.2 % ASTM D2369
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
Safety & Health
- Health and Safety Information
- Appropriate literature has been assembled which provides information concerning the health and safety precautions that must be observed when handling the LANXESS products mentioned in this publication.
- For materials mentioned which are not LANXESS products, appropriate industrial hygiene and other safety precautions recommended by their manufacturers should be followed.
- Before working with any of these products, you must read and become familiar with the available information on their hazards, proper use, and handling.
- This cannot be overemphasized.
Storage & Handling
- Storage and Handling information
- At LANXESS production facility, the K-Flex® 500 plasticizers are stored in type 304 stainless steel storage tanks.
- These storage tanks are nitrogen padded to reduce discoloration of the product.
- Type 304 stainless steel pipe and valves are also used.
- High density polyethylene has been shown to be suitable for product shipment but we have no direct experience in piping systems.
- Since K-FLEX products are excellent plasticizers for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), PVC piping systems should not be used.
- Sliding vane type positive displacement pumps have given us excellent service.
- It is recommended that storage tanks be heated and insulated and that pumps and transfer piping also be heat-treated and insulated.
- Our engineers are always ready to discuss the storage and handling of any of our products.