Stains, Varnishes and Wood Coatings
Cargill is a leader in creating renewable ingredients for the coatings industry. Cargill provides a wide range of solutions made of renewable resources optimized for stain, varnish and wood coating applications across the world by utilizing global expertise in agriculture-based chemistries, application knowledge, and quality production.
Cargill's wide range of biobased ingredients include vegetable oils, fatty acids, polymerized oils, additives and bio-solvents which are optimized for staining and wood coating applications.
Binder components
Cargill offers a broad range of renewable ingredients for binders and film formers, providing many advantages over mineral oils including low volatile organic compound (VOC) content, increased bio-renewable content and low toxicity.
Cargill's portfolio includes drying, semi-drying, and non-drying vegetable oils such as linseed oil, soybean oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, as well as reactive modified vegetable oils and distilled fatty acids. These oils perform numerous functions, from film formation to modification of various resin properties.
Industrial vegetable oils
A wide variety of vegetable oils are available within the Cargill portfolio, including linseed, soybean, canola, coconut and sunflower. Cargill's reliability and quality have been demonstrated over decades of use in the coatings industry, across the globe.
Glycerin
Cargill's glycerin is a versatile ingredient serving a variety of purposes in coatings formulations to achieve desired performance and application properties.
Reactive modified vegetable oils
Cargill's extensive polymerized vegetable oils portfolio provides an expanded use of renewable resources, and important functional benefits as binders and modifiers for a variety of coating applications. Polymerized oils can help improve substrate adhesion, durability, and UV stability of formulated coatings.
Fatty acids
Cargill's fatty acids are integral ingredients in coatings, providing formulation versatility to help formulators achieve performance targets.
Additives
Cargill's portfolio of bio-based additives can help coatings manufacturers increase renewable content while optimizing performance.
Cargill's broad portfolio of coatings chemistries include various additives to enhance reactive diluent application properties. Our products include lecithin emulsifiers, plasticizers and more.
Bio-solvents
Solvents are widely used in industrial and consumer applications. Unfortunately, many of the useful features of solvents are served by chemicals that are hazardous to human health, environmentally damaging or pose serious safety hazards.
In response to these general concerns as well as industry legislation, there is steady growth in the use of bio-solvents. Bio-solvents are derived from natural, renewable feedstocks. Cargill bio-solvents have a higher flash and fire point, compared to petroleum-based products, helping facilitate safer handling and storage of the product. Bio-solvents represent a small but growing contribution to solvent use.
Cargill's bio-based solvents offer alternatives to traditional petroleum-based solvents. For example, Cargill™ Agri-Pure™ bio-solvents are a viable alternative to white spirits, kerosene, liquid paraffin, and other low-to-medium hydrocarbon oils. They are compatible with most metals, plastics and rubbers.
Cargill's bio-based solvents offer alternatives to traditional petroleum-based solvents. For example, Agri-PureTM bio-solvents are a viable alternative to white spirits, kerosene, liquid paraffin, and other low-to-medium hydrocarbon oils. They are compatible with most metals, plastics and rubbers.