Coatings Applications
Cargill's bio-based specialty ingredients enable the coatings industry to meet trends, legislation and to achieve goals with premium coating performance.
Cargill also empowers sustainable innovation by offering high-performance solutions for epoxy, polyurethane, alkyd, acrylic, polyester and polyamide coatings. A few of the solutions that we offer to help your company run more smoothly include:
Interior and exterior paints
Cargill provides solutions in both water-based and oil-based paints. Our products can help emulsify ingredients, enhance colors and many other applications.
Stains and varnishes
Cargill's stains and varnish products provide protection and performance characteristics to final products. Explore how these products can help below.
Industrial, marine and protective coatings
Our extensive range of bio-based dimers are available in a range of functionalities such as Pripol™ acid and alcohol, and Priamine™ amine, that offer many performance properties to coating systems. Some of these include moisture barrier protection, chemical resistance, hydrolytic stability, and good thermo-oxidative stability.
Automotive
Our range of high-performance ingredients provides light-weight design opportunities and improved adhesion to a wide variety of substrates such as plastcics, aluminum and composites used in automotive and transport applications. This allows manufacturers to replace welding or mechanical fastening with adhesives that offer additional benefits.
Flooring
Through understanding the complexity and diversity of flooring applications, we can deliver cost effective and innovative solutions combining renewable resources and technical expertise.
Paper, board and packaging
Given the heightened environmental concerns around climate change and waste, the approach is shifting to a more circular economy. Meaning, there is not only greater connectivity between steps but requires organizations to think through how to address or incorporate the "waste" or product's intended end of life state before they even manufacture the product.