Pripol
Pripol is a range of dimer diacid and diols used in adhesives, coatings and engineering plastics, to impart flexibility, hydrophobicity and adhesion to difficult substrates.
This Pripol range also includes many grades that are widely approved for food contact applications such as Pripol 1025F.
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Explore our Pripol rangeSustainable flexibility, hydrophobicity and adhesion
Pripol dimer acids have unique high-performance characteristics to enhance chemical properties in polymer resins such as polyesters, polyamides, and epoxies. The branched structure offers flexibility to the resin when included in the synthesis. The hydrocarbon character imparts water repellency: when incorporated into a resin, brings excellent hydrophobicity, and hydrolytic resistance. Its branched structure reduces the tendency to absorb moisture. Dimer modification of the different resins provides improved adhesion to various substrates, including low-polarity substrates such as PP.
By modifying resins with Pripol dimers it brings:
- 100% renewable carbon content
- Flexibility (also at low temperatures)
- Adhesion to a wide range of substrates, including low-polarity plastics
- Low melt viscosity, improved melt flow and substrate wetting
- Excellent hydrolytic stability and chemical resistance
- Enhanced hydrophobicity
- Reduces water absorption
- Low moisture absorption
Dicarboxylic functionality
The dicarboxylic functionality of Pripol dimer diacid allows it to be built-in into polyesters, polyamides and epoxies. Those polymers are typically used in applications such as adhesive, coating and engineering plastics.
The technology is also available in the diol form, which extend the possibility e.g. in polyesters to replace (in full or partially) existing standard diols from the market. The dimer acid-based polyesters, known with the name of Priplast, can then further used in PU and PUD formulations or COPA/COPE.
Pripol C36 dimer
Products
Pripol™ 1006
Diacid and Triacid
A distilled & hydrogenated dimer acid, providing good colour and colour stability in addition to water repellency, flexibility and thermo-oxidative stability
Pripol™ 1009
Diacid and Triacid
A very high purity and versatile hydrogenated, distilled dimer. It provides improved properties such as flexibility, hydrolysis and chemical resistance.
Pripol™ 1010
Diacid and Triacid
A low viscosity, distilled and hydrogenated dimer acid with a high di-functionality and therefore great thermo-oxidative stability. It provides excellent flexibility and water repellency in a variety of applications.
Pripol™ 1012
Diacid and Triacid
A distilled dimer acid building block with high difunctionality, bringing high toughness to epoxy, polyester and polyamide materials. Also provides good flexibility, excellent hydrolytically stability and chemical resistance.
Pripol™ 1013
Diacid and Triacid
A distilled dimer acid with high difunctionality, offering water repellency, flexibility and excellent hydrolysis and chemical resistance
Pripol™ 1017
Diacid and Triacid
A dimer acid that brings flexibility, adhesion, pigment wetting and compatibility.
Pripol™ 1022
Diacid and Triacid
A lower viscosity dimer acid which provides water repellency, flexibility, excellent hydrolysis and chemical resistance
Pripol™ 1025 F
Diacid and Triacid
A low colour hydrogenated dimer acid building block with improved thermo-oxidative stability and colour stability, bringing flexibility, hydrophobicity, and hydrolytic and chemical resistance to a range of polymers.
Pripol™ 1027
Diacid and Triacid
A low colour dimer acid building block that provides water repellency, flexibility and excellent hydrolysis / chemical resistance.
Pripol™ 2030
Polyol
A 100% bio-based dimer diol with exceptional UV and thermo-oxidative stability. Allows the production of high Mw polymers with superior mechanical properties, and offers flexibility even at low temperatures.
Pripol™ 2033
Polyol
A low viscous, 100% bio-based dimer diol offering enhanced flexibility and good moisture barrier protection for polyurethane and polyester applications.
Pripol™ 2043
Polyol
100% bio-based modifier to enhance ink resin performance, such as blocking resistance and tensile strength.
Pripol™ 1040
Diacid and Triacid
A trimer acid rich building block that offers excellent hydrophobicity and has excellent compatability with other low-polarity materials. Also provides flexibility to coatings at low temperatures.
Priplast
Bio-based polyester polyolsOffering enhanced flexibililty to polyurethane adhesives & coatings
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