Lactides
Using Vercet lactides as a component in your resins enables unique properties including a new way of creating low VOC solvent-borne coatings for substrates such as wood & metal.
Performance in Coatings
- Low viscosity alkyds for lower VOC's
- Improved flexibility
- Excellent substrate adhesion
- Superior abrasion resistance
- Improved ethanol spot resistance
- Pigmentable
- Renewably-sourced building block
Markets & Substrates
Markets
- Furniture
- Flooring
- Architecture
- Decorative
- Wood
- Metal
- Anti-corrosion layers
- Primers
Grades
While most solutions using Vercet chemistries are custom products, we do have a few standard grades available. These Vercet lactides are high-purity di-lactones useful for the synthesis of polymers, copolymers, and grafted substrates. They are also useful as reactive chemical intermediates for other synthesis and manufacturing purposes.
- L50 - Polymer grade lactide with extra low D-Lactyl.
- L100 - Polymer grade lactide with low D-Lactyl.
- M700 - Polymer grade meso-lactide with typically >45% D-HLa.
- M3002 - Reagent grade lactide with typically >35% D-HLa.
Relevant Technical Documents
Vercet Lactide Building Blocks on the Performance of Alkyd Coatings
Watch Bill Coggio, Applications & Technology Development Manager – NatureWorks, present on the performance properties Vercet lactides offer when used in alkyd coatings at the Coatings, Trends, and Technologies Conference (2017).