ROPAQUE ULTRA

OPAQUE POLYMER FOR DRY HIDING
  • Product Type: Opaque Polymer
  • Master Product Number: MITM11255
  • Product SKUs: ITM18035, ITM19290, ITM19329

Product Details

ROPAQUE Ultra Opaque Polymer expands the boundaries of light scattering technology, providing the most efficient dry hiding in interior and exterior coatings. Additionally, this non-film-forming synthetic pigment is specially engineered to improve the economics of waterborne coatings while maintaining coating performance.

Like its predecessors, ROPAQUE Ultra Opaque Polymer is a hollow-sphere polymeric pigment that allows paint manufacturers to reduce the raw material cost of their formulations with no performance penalties. ROPAQUE Ultra and ROPAQUE™ Ultra E are the most efficient products in the ROPAQUE Opaque Polymer product family. The only difference between ROPAQUE Ultra and ROPAQUE Ultra E is the neutralizer. ROPAQUE™ Ultra is neutralized with ammonia, and ROPAQUE Ultra E is neutralized with sodium hydroxide.

In addition to providing the most efficient dry-hiding properties, ROPAQUE Ultra Opaque Polymer offers wide range benefits in interior and exterior paint formulations.

Typical Applications

  • Significantly increased light scattering efficiency while maintaining paint performance
  • Greater cost savings while providing equal hiding

Typical Physical Properties

These properties are typical but should not be considered specifications

Percent Solids

Wet

Volume

 

30.0

52.1
pH 8-8.7

Density, lbs/gal

Wet

Dry

 

8.56

4.93

Bulking Value, gal/lb

Wet

Dry

 

0.117

0.203
Viscosity, cP (60 s–1; #2 Spindle) <500
Average Particle Size, Microns 0.40

About Dow Coating Materials

Dow Coating Materials leads innovation in technologies that help advance the performance of paints and coatings. Its water-based acrylic emulsion technology revolutionized the global paint industry, and was named a historic chemical landmark by the American Chemistry Association. Dow Coating Materials offers a broad portfolio of binders, dispersants, rheology modifiers and surfactants for a wide variety of end markets.

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