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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 synthetic […]
What is an Acrylic Polymer Emulsion?
When working with water based acrylic polymers, you will surely come across acrylic polymer emulsions. To better understand what exactly an acrylic polymer emulsion is, we should first look at what emulsions are. What is an Emulsion? The word “emulsion” is derived from the Latin word meaning “to milk”, as milk is technically an emulsion of fat and water. Emulsions are a mixture of two or more liquids that aren’t normally mixable. Within an emulsion, one liquid, known as the dispersed phase, is dispersed within the other, known as the continuous phase. The two liquids can form different types of […]
Getting Acquainted with Acrylic Paints
In 1934 the first usable acrylic resin dispersion was created by the German chemical company BASF, patented by Rohm and Haas. By the 1940s the first synthetic paint was used, combining some of the properties of oil and watercolor paints to create one of the first water based acrylic polymers. Sometime between 1946 and 1949, Leonard Bocour and Sam Golden put their heads together and created a solution acrylic paint under the brand Magna Paint. Acrylic paints were made commercially available in the 1950s. This sprung the development of a water based acrylic polymer paint known as “Aquatec”, created by […]
Top 5 Benefits of our Acrylic Polymers
Gellner Industrial’s acrylic polymers provide many capabilities. They are flexible enough to be used as inks for your vinyl substrates. They can also be used as wall and floor coatings (which differ in many ways). But just what is it that makes these acrylic polymers for vinyl so valuable? What exactly do they provide to the vinyl walls and floors? Well, it is about time that we elaborated a bit more on what these polymers can do. Here are the top 5 benefits of our acrylic polymers for vinyl. Superior Adhesion to Vinyl When you need coatings for your vinyl materials, […]
What is a Polymer Coating?
Depending on what you know about coatings, you may have heard the term “polymer” before. You might be familiar with the term from class in school. However, even if you did get A’s in chemistry class, you might be curious as to our specific type of polymer coatings, and what they can do to benefit you. What is a Polymer Coating? A polymer coating is a paint or coating that is made with polymers. A polymer is a substance that contains a molecular structure that mainly contains a large number of similar units. This includes synthetic organic materials such as […]
What makes our polymers for screen printing inks so special?
There are many products in our daily lives that each requires a specific chemical make-up in order to function properly. Take printing inks for example. Here at Gellner Industrial, we are proud to offer versatile polymers for screen printing inks with unique capabilities. And each ability is a direct result of their chemical make-up. Here are just a few ways in which our chemical process contributes to the overall efficiency of your specific type of printing ink. Screen Printing When it comes to silk screen printing, our acrylic polymers allow for the best possible results. Silk screen printing has always been […]