Industrial Coatings

March 1 2019

WonderWet: An Acrylic Solution Polymer Additive

Here at Gellner Industrial, we offer a wide range of products to help you with all your vinyl application and printing ink needs. Additionally, Gellner Industrial, LLC is the premier manufacturer of water based acrylic polymers. One of our most popular lines of products is WonderWet. In this blog post, Gellner Industrial dives into the products WonderWet offers, describing them to you and telling you more about their uses and amazing qualities. Water-Based Acrylic Polymer Manufacturer Ottopol 25 25 is a water-soluble acrylic polymer resin designed to retard the drying rate of any water paint, printing ink or adhesive. WonderWet […]

February 28 2019

Everything to Know About Flexographic Inks

Our water-based acrylic polymers are used for a wide variety of applications that span multiple industries. Gellner Industrial’s water-based acrylic polymers are used in many ink solutions, such as Flexographic and Gravure inks. Flexographic inks are primarily used in the process of flexography to print ink on materials such as plastic bags, newspapers, catalogues, food packaging, corrugated cardboard, cardboard boxes, and other types of packing mediums. In this article we’ll take a brief look at the process of Flexographic printing, the types of Flexographic inks that are most commonly used, and how our water-based acrylic polymers are used to aid […]

January 1 2019

Gellner Industrial: A Brief History

Clients all over the globe have come to find that Gellner Industrial is truly a world leader in the manufacture and production of water-based acrylic polymers. We deliver products that are unique, unmatched, and innovative, which are just a few of the attributes that set our products apart. However, it’s more than just that – our products are indeed cutting-edge, but so is our company. We possess a rare history that is rooted in both scientific ingenuity, as well as family tradition, to bring a culture of advancement and caring to our products and our customers. Our doors officially opened […]

October 3 2018

Polymer Supplier and Adhesive Manufacturer

The world of polymers is wide and varied, with many moving parts. There are hundreds of applications for our water based acrylic polymers in a variety of fields. A polymer, simply put, is a macromolecule comprised of many smaller molecules called monomers. These molecules react among themselves chemically to form long chain or three-dimensional networks. Both natural and synthetic polymers play a very important role in our day-to-day lives. The most commonly available polymer found in nature is cellulose, which is formed from the monomer glucose. Over 75% of most plant bodies are composed of cellulose. As an adhesive supplier and […]

September 16 2018

Acrylic Polymers in the Healthcare Industry

Acrylic polymer, derived from the monomer methyl methacrylate (MMA), was first developed more than 60 years ago. Since then, formulations have extended the material’s performance range, resulting in varying levels of melt flow, impact resistance, colorability, gamma recovery, and other controlled characteristics. General-purpose acrylic grades contain a comonomer, added during the polymerization process, to facilitate flow during injection molding and extrusion. Specialty grades are formulated to perform in applications requiring high impact strength and heat resistance. UV-light-transmitting formulations are also available, and are specified for certain critical diagnostic equipment in which even slight UV absorption or variation in material flow […]

June 15 2018

Advantages To Using Water Based Acrylic Polymers

There are many benefits to using high-performance resins and chemicals developed with water-based acrylic industrial polymers. Some primary benefits include that they are easy to work with, good for the environment and showcase a large variety of industrial applications including industrial coatings, printing inks, and high-gloss varnishes.Other Types of Acrylic PolymersHowever, you may wonder what the alternative to water-based acrylic polymers is. Well, you could use a solvent based product. So what does that mean? Well, fifty years ago, virtually all paint and the polymers behind it were solvent based. Sometimes referred to as “Oil-based” or “Alkyd” paints, solvent-based coatings […]

June 13 2017

VOCs: Volatile Organic Compounds

Volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are organic chemicals that easily turn to vapor at ordinary room temperature due to their high vapor pressure. These chemicals have a low boiling point, which causes a large number of molecules to sublimate or evaporate from their solid or liquid form and begin to enter the surrounding air, a characteristic known as volatility. A good example would be formaldehyde, which easily evaporates from paint due to its boiling point of only -2 degrees Fahrenheit. There are large assortment of various VOCs, and their presence is rather all around us. The list includes both man-made […]

July 20 2016

Focusing On What Matters Most – Customers – Leads To Business Growth And Expansion

They say what you focus on expands. During the past quarter of a century – and especially in the last year or so – we’ve been living proof of this concept here at Gellner Industrial. While times change and businesses and industries evolve, at Gellner, we’ve always been focused on providing the highest quality water-based acrylic polymers – specialty resins for water-based coatings and inks – to our customers, manufacturers from all types of industries. As a result, we’ve seen our business, as well our as our customers’ businesses grow and expand. In manufacturing industries, “growth” is an aspiration and […]

May 15 2016

Prevent Tannin Stains with Eco-Friendly Emulsion

Have you ever finished a wood project and been disappointed when the finish has been marred by mysteriously appearing dark spots? These spots are caused by naturally occurring tannin, an astringent, plant polyphenolic compound that is a binder for proteins in trees. It is a common problem when working with many wood species and can make finishing the wood difficult. Solvent systems that have been used in the past are generally not sustainable today. Water-based, environmentally sustainable products are the best choice and a water-based emulsion that prevents oils from rising to the surface is the ideal product to meet […]

March 15 2016

Benefits of Water-Based Acrylic Industrial Polymers

High performance resins and chemicals developed with water-based acrylic industrial polymers offer many improvements over solvent based products. Water-based acrylic industrial polymers are environmentally friendly and easy to work with. Used to produce premium-quality acrylic resins and chemicals, our polymers are widely used in many industrial applications including industrial coatings, printing inks, and high-gloss varnishes. Gellner’s vast assortment of water-based acrylic polymers provides adhesion and hardness characteristics that allow for bonding to a many different substrates. When these polymers are used in the development of acrylic resins they are extremely resistant to damages like chemicals, exposure to water, and alkaline […]