Air Products to Launch New Oil-Based Defoamers at Eastern Coatings Show 2015

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May 27, 2015, 01:30 ET

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa., May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Air Products (NYSE: APD) will introduce the latest additions to its innovative portfolio of defoamers—Airase^® 4750V and 4800 defoamers—at the Eastern Coatings Show in Atlantic City, N.J., from June 1-4.

Air Products' Airase 4750V and 4800 oil-based defoamers are effective foam control additives for use in a wide variety of applications, including architectural and industrial coatings, inks, and adhesives. Airase 4750V is a proprietary vegetable oil-based defoamer, whereas Airase 4800 is a 100% active, mineral oil-based defoamer. Both defoamers are designed for excellent film compatibility with sustained, long-term defoaming performance and are currently available in North America.

"With the launch of these new Airase defoamers, we continue to expand our defoamer offering so that we are able to offer formulators a wide variety of options to address their foam control needs," said Chris Henkee, global marketing manager, Additives, for Air Products. "With defoamers based on mineral oils, organic oils, siloxanes, and Air Products' own unique Gemini molecules, we are able to offer the formulator a means to quickly optimize formulation performance, minimize reformulation time and effort, keep formulation costs under control, or simply use products with specific qualities that can limit certain environmental effects."

Air Products will also highlight its portfolio of Dynol™ superwetting surfactants, which provide both low equilibrium and dynamic wetting and are engineered for system compatibility as well as contributing little or no foam. Uniquely, Air Products is proud to offer four different classes of superwetters, each class with different attributes based on the nature of the superwetting surfactant molecules employed. The Dynol superwetting surfactants are particularly useful in formulations designed to be used in high speed applications or to wet difficult-to-wet surfaces such as plastics, wood, or even oil-contaminated metals.

Air Products also offers a complete line of high performance ZetaSperse^® dispersants for resin-free and resin-containing systems as well as a variety of performance enhancing additives for dispersion formulation. To better enable formulators in choosing the right dispersant, Air Products has developed the Formulators Assistant ZetaSperse Tool (FAZT), which sets forth product recommendations and dispersion starting point formulations. Visit www.FAZT.com today to access this tool online or from your mobile platform.

For more information on these and other surfactant products, please visit Air Products' booth 308 at the Eastern Coatings Show or visit www.airproducts.com/coatings.

About Air Products
Air Products (NYSE: APD) is a leading industrial gases company. For nearly 75 years, the company has provided atmospheric, process and specialty gases, and related equipment to manufacturing markets including metals, food and beverage, refining and petrochemical, and natural gas liquefaction. Air Products' materials technologies segment serves the semiconductor, polyurethanes, cleaning and coatings, and adhesives industries. Over 20,000 employees in 50 countries are working to make Air Products the world's safest and best performing industrial gases company, providing sustainable offerings and excellent service to all customers. In fiscal 2014, Air Products had sales of $10.4 billion and was ranked number 276 on the Fortune 500 annual list of public companies. For more information, visit www.airproducts.com.

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