PARALOID™ DM-55 100%

PARALOID™ DM-55 100% Resin is a very efficient pigment grinding vehicle, with an excellent compatibility with a wide variety of other resins including acrylics, vinyls, epoxies and polyester. PARALOID™ DM-55 100% Resin is soluble in a wide range of solvents having solubility parameters in the 8.5 to 11.5 range. It also possesses good tolerance to aliphatic solvents.

Principal: Dow Coating Materials

Chemical Family: Acrylics & Acrylates

End Uses: Solventborne Paint

Features: Good Pigment Wetting, Low Energy Consumption, Pigment Grinding Efficiency, Shorter Grinding Time, Wide Resin Compatibility

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Identification & Functionality

Blend
No
CASE Ingredients Functions
Chemical Family
Product Code
MITM04041
Single Ingredient
Yes
Technologies
Product Families

Features & Benefits

Applications & Uses

Coating End Applications
Compatible Polymers & Resins
Markets
Applications
Product Applications
  • Production of universal solventborne pigment concentrates which allow the formulator to reduce the number of pigment concentrates in his inventory. These can be used to produce a wide variety of solvent based paints. Table I shows a selection of the resin systems which have proven to be compatible with PARALOID™ DM-55 100% Resin. A much wider range of resins is expected to be fully compatible, but have not been specifically evaluated, yet.
  • Grinding of difficult to disperse pigments such as carbon black, transparent iron oxide and quinacridoces. PARALOID™ DM-55 100% Resin has excellent pigment wetting characteristics reducing grinding times and energy demand during the grinding process.

Properties

Physical Form
Soluble In
Note

*mil of solvent required to cause turbidity in 10 grams of resin solution.

Technical Details & Test Data

Tolerance for Solvents
Added Co-solvent Solubility Parameter Xylene* Solution of 50%Cellosolve* acetate

PARALOID DM- 55 in: n. Butyl* acetate

Varsol No 1 7 37.4 39.1 56
VM&P Naphtha 7.6 39 52.3 55.3
Methyl Isobutyl Ketone 8.4 Inf. Inf. Inf.
n-Butyl acetate 8.6 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Xylene 8.8 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Toluene 8.9 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Butyl Cellosolve 8.9 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Methyl ethyl ketone 9.1 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Ethyl acetate 9.1 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Methyl Cellosolve 10.8 Inf. Inf. Inf.
n-Butanol 11.3 Inf. Inf. Inf.
iso-Propanol 11.5 11.5 Inf. Inf. Inf.
Ethanol (100%) 12.8 98.7 77.9 72.2
2-B Ethanol 13.2 40.1 35.2 45.2
Methanol 14.5 8.7 12 13.8

 

 

Pigment Dispersion Characteristics

Good pigment dispersions are sometimes difficult to obtain with resins used to give important properties to the coatings.

Viscosity of PARALOID™ DM-55 100% Resin
Solvent Viscosity (CPS)
Solids Content 40 50 60
Butyl acetate 20 100 1600
Butyl Cellosolve 100 950 19700
Xylene 20 100 2000
Ethanol/butyl acetate (80/20) 40 275 3700
Typical Ratios of Pigment to PARALOID™ DM-55 for Pigment Dispersion
Pigment Type Pigment (parts by weight) PARALOID™ DM-55 100% Resin (parts by weight)
Titanium Dioxide 70 7
Carbon Black 20 20
Transparent Iron Oxide 30 25
Red Iron Oxide 60 6
Phthalo blue 25 20
Phthalo green 25 20
Quinacridone red 15 20

Packaging & Availability

Packaging Type

Other

Appearance
Pale yellow pellets
Appearance (SDS)
jaune
Autoignition Temperature (SDS)
393.0 °C
Bulk Density
8.9 lb/gal
Group Principal Number
S000005
Insoluble in (SDS)
Water
Item Number
Melting Point (SDS)
70.0 °C
Odor (SDS)
Odeur acrylique
Other Hazards
If small particles are generated during further processing, handling or by other means, may form combustible dust concentrations in air., If converted to small particles during further handling, processing, or by other means, may form combustible dust concentrations in air.
Principal
Relative Density (SDS)
1.07
Solid Content
100.0 %
Volatile Content (SDS)
3.0 %
Physical Properties
ValueUnitsTest Method / Conditions
Bulk Density8.9 lb/gallb/gal
Material Composition
ValueUnitsTest Method / Conditions
Solid Content100.0 %%
SDS Physical and Chemical Properties
ValueUnitsTest Method / Conditions
Autoignition Temperature (SDS)393.0 °C°C
Melting Point (SDS)70.0 °C°Csoftening point
Relative Density (SDS)1.07-
Volatile Content (SDS)3.0 %%