DOWSIL™ 87 Additive

DOWSIL™ 88 Additive

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Agenda

• Description of Water Repellency

Technology
• Technology/Market Background
• New Product Features and
Benefits
• Application Data
• Summary
• Marketing Launch Information

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Definitions

WATER ABSORPTION
The ability of a paint film to resist water penetration while still
maintaining permeability
• Critical for building facades – concrete, EIFS, wood

WATER BEADING
The visual effect of water holding a contact level to the substrate surface
• Not a true indicator of water absorption
• A very good visual for end customers

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Requirements of Decorative Paints

• Low water absorption of the paint

film is critical to protecting the
underlying substrate, particularly in

Substrate
exterior applications

Paint
• It also is important that the paint
film is permeable to any water
vapor coming from the substrate to
prevent cracking and blistering
• Water beading indicates low water
Water Vapor
absorption to the consumer and is
easily seen on the surface of
the paint

DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and DOWSIL™

88 Additive create a hydrophobic
silicone network in the paint to
repel water

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Protecting Substrates From Water

COMPETITIVE METHOD

• Resin emulsion of 50% silicone or through the use of a high-quality

acrylic resin, which can be costly
• An additional additive is typically required to give water beading

DOW METHOD

• Achieve water protection through an additive approach

• The Dow method allows for:
– A more simple formulation approach – adding 2%-5% to an
existing formulation
– A more cost-effective solution – 2% of an additive will only add about
$0.12/lb or $0.26/kg to the formulation

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Standard Industry Tests

Water absorption through the paint film is measured as a

Water absorption (W24) function of time in accordance with DIN 52617

Measured visually using contact angle of the water on the

Water beading paint film

Typically quoted as “Sd” value and is a function of the

Water permeability Water Vapor Transmission Rate (ASTM 7783-1:2000)

Designed to test the non-adhesion of the coating to itself

Blocking test under normal environmental conditions

Mineral pigment applied with a roller to a draw down of

white styrene acrylic paint; the panel is washed and dried,
Dirt pickup test and a brightness measurement is taken based on the L
parameter measured by the Cielab equation

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Water Absorption (W24) Test

SAMPLE PREPARATION

Water absorption is
measured as a function of
time following DIN 52617

Class Water Uptake W24 [kg/m².√24h]

III Low <0.1

II Medium 0.1-0.5

I High >0.5

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Water Beading

CONTACT ANGLE

Water Beading Water Contact

Classification Angle

Very good >130º

Hydrophobic
Hydrophobic Good 100-130º

Slightly wetted 90-110º

Highly wetted 30-90º

Hydrophilic Hydrophilic
Completely wetted <30º

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Water Vapor Transmission Test

Water Vapor Sd is defined as the thickness (in m)

Class Sd, m of an equivalent static air layer having
Transmission
water vapor diffusion resistance
similar to the tested coating
I High <0.14
Sd is a function of the Water Vapor
Transmission Rate measured
following ASTM 7783-1:2000
II Medium 0.14-1.4

III Low >1.4

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Blocking Test

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Why DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and
DOWSIL™ 88 Additive?

• Architectural coatings companies are looking for new ways to enhance

protection of substrates
• Water permeability measurements have been scarcely used in
architectural coatings to show substrate protection
• Silanes and siloxanes have long benefited the protection of concrete
as sealers
• We will demonstrate how recent testing brings these protective qualities
to architectural coatings
• Findings show that silicone technology can provide new and innovative
ways to improve architectural coatings
• We believe these additives are disruptive technologies in the market for
customers to achieve better performance

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 DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and
DOWSIL™ 88 Additive

Test DOWSIL™ 87 Additive DOWSIL™ 88 Additive

Appearance Milky white Clear to hazy

Nonvolatile content 38-44% 85% minimum

pH 4.0-5.5 Not Applicable3

VOC (U.S. VOC regulations,
85/192 g/l 103/106 g/l
Include/Exclude Value)
VOC (Europe VOC regulations) 20 g/l 128.5 g/l
VOC contribution to paint at
3.8 and 9.6 g/l 2.1 and 5.3 g/l
2% and 5% addition level1
VOC contribution to paint at
<0.4 and 1 g/l 2.6 and 6.4 g/l
2% and 5% addition level2
1 Based on U.S. VOC regulations Exclude Value
2 Based on European VOC regulations
3 Non-Aqueous System

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DOWSIL™ 87 Additive

• DOWSIL™ 87 Additive is a silicone resin

emulsion that provides improved water
repellency and excellent water beading
in water-based decorative paints
• Impact on water vapor permeability of
paint is negligible
• Free of solvents and APEO surfactants
• Provides paintable surface when used up
to 5% by weight in the paint formulation

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DOWSIL™ 88 Additive

• DOWSIL™ 88 Additive is a silane/siloxane

blend that improves water repellency in
water-based acrylic decorative paints
containing polar solvents
– Compatibility can differ depending on the
type and amount of polar solvent in the
paint formulation
– Suitable for use in non-aqueous,
solvent-based decorative paints
• Solvent-free but can be diluted in
aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons
and polar solvents
• Impact on water vapor permeability of paint
is negligible
• Provides paintable surface when used up to
5% by weight in the paint formulation

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Water Resistance

• DOWSIL™ 87 Additive
Water Absorption in an Acrylic Emulsion and DOWSIL™ 88
0.8 Additive provide reduced
Water Absorption (W24)

0.7 water absorption at only

0.6 2% addition by weight to
0.5 acrylic-based emulsion
0.4
paints
0.3
• At 5% addition by
0.2
weight, an even more
0.1
significant improvement
0 can be seen with
DOWSIL™ 88 Additive

W24 of an acrylic-based emulsion paint with and without DOWSIL™ 87 Additive

and DOWSIL™ 88 Additive and versus a competitor silicone resin emulsion

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Water Beading Performance

At this low addition

Water Beading Performance level, the impact on
in an Acrylic Emulsion
water beading also is
120
evident with DOWSIL™
Contact Angle, º

100
87 Additive, increasing
80 the contact angle of
60 water on the paint film
40
from 75° to >110°
20

0
Control - No Additive DOWSIL™ 87 Competitor
Additive - 2% Silicone Resin
Emulsion - 5%

Contact angle of water on an acrylic-based emulsion paint with and without

DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and versus a competitor silicone resin emulsion

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Water Vapor Permeability Performance

• Paints with a Sd value of <0.14 are

Water Vapor Permeability
Performance generally considered to have “high”
0.0800 water vapor permeability
0.0600 • DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and
DOWSIL™ 88 Additive have a
0.0400
minimal impact on water
0.0200 permeability of the same acrylic-
based masonry paint, even when
0.0000
Control – DOWSIL™ 87 DOWSIL™ 88 used at high levels
No Additive Additive – Additive –
5% by wt. 5% by wt.

Sd (m)

Sd of an acrylic-based emulsion paint with and without

DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and DOWSIL™ 88 Additive

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Performance in a High-PVC Coating

EXAMPLE FORMULATION
Component Parts, wt%
Solvent Water 17.40
Thickener Natrosol 250 0.07

Milling phase
pH modifier Sodium hydroxide (20% w/w solution) 0.02
Dispersant Dispex GA40 0.38
Antifoam DOWSIL™ 68 Additive 0.55
Pigment TiO2 - TR92 19.72
Filler Kaolin – Optimat 2550 4.08
Filler Mica - Mica Mkt 5.10
Filler Carbital 115 - CaCO3 23.78
Thickener Polyurethane thickener – Rheolate 212 0.99
Let-down

Resin Styrene Acrylic Emulsion 26.59

Coalescing
DOWANOL™ DPnB 1.11
solvent
Biocide Acticide MBS 0.22

Total 100

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Performance in a High-PVC Coating

• Water absorption of
Performance in a High-PVC the paint is improved
Coating with the addition of
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive

Water Absorption (W24)

124 0.25 and DOWSIL™ 88
122 Additive, beyond the
Contact Angle, º

120 0.2
competitor performance
118 at the same addition level
0.15
116
114
0.1 • Water beading (contact
112
angle) also is increased
110 0.05 with the addition of
108
106 0
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive

W 24kg/m2/hr1/2 Contact angle of water

W24 and contact angle of water of a styrene-acrylic-based emulsion paint with

and without DOWSIL™ 87 Additive and DOWSIL™ 88 Additive and versus a
competitor silicone resin emulsion

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Long-Term Performance in a Waterborne
Acrylic Coating

Contact Angle With DOWSIL™ 87 • The long-lasting paint performance

Additive – 1,500 hours QUV: 146º and the impact of weathering need to
be considered when testing any new
additives in a paint formulation
• After application on day one, the
acrylic paint with and without
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive shows some
Contact Angle Without DOWSIL™ 87
hydrophobicity (126º versus 131º
Additive – 1,500 hours QUV: 61º water contact angle)
• After 1,500 hours of QUV testing
(equivalent to ~7 years outdoor
exposure), the acrylic paint without
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive has lost its
hydrophobicity; this is maintained
with the DOWSIL™ 87 Additive

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Dirt Pickup Resistance

ACRYLIC PAINTS

The desire to achieve better hiding power

of paints results in an open film with high
PVC (pigment volume concentration),
which often has limitations with respect Before
to dirt pickup mineral
pigment
exposure
• Paint panels prepared with and without
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive (5% by wt) After
before and after an in-house dirt mineral
pigment
pickup test exposure

Without With 5%
• Visually, the surface of the paint with DOWSIL™ 87 Additive DOWSIL™ 87 Additive
DOWSIL™ 87 Additive shows less dirt
pickup than the control; this is
supported with a brightness (L*) value
of 88.51 for DOWSIL™ 87 Additive
versus 86.78 for the control
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DOWSIL™ 87 Additive Performance

Test Formulation
WATERBORNE WOOD COATINGS

Component Weight %
Weatherability and performance
against water penetration also are Joncryl 8383 Resin 61.45
key to exterior wood coating Water 35.05
applications DOWSIL™ 74 Additive 0.65
Tafigel Pur 40 1.05
DOWSIL™ 67 Additive 0.80
LEVANOX Red 130 LF 0.50
LEVANOX yellow 3910 LF 0.25
LEVANYL black C-LF 0.05
Acticide MBS 0.20
Total 100.00
Wood coatings formulations based on Joncryl 8383 Resin, a
self-crosslinking acrylic emulsion for trim/joinery coatings

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Water Resistance

WOOD COATINGS

Water Absorption in an Acrylic Emulsion Wood Coating Water

0.0135
resistance of
Water Absorption (W24)

0.013
0.0130
wood coatings
0.0125 formulation
0.0120
0.012 based on
0.0115 Joncryl 8383
Resin, a self-
0.0110
0.011
crosslinking
0.0105
acrylic emulsion
0.01
0.0100 for trim/joinery
coatings

• DOWSIL™ 87 Additive also improves the water resistance of wood coatings

• Performance with only 1% actives DOWSIL™ 87 Additive is superior to the
competitive solutions, even at twice the actives levels
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Improved Beading

WOOD COATINGS Water Beading on an Acrylic Emulsion

Wood Coating
• DOWSIL™ 87 Additive also 120
increases water contact
angle on wood coatings
100
• In this same wood coating
formulation based on

Contact Angle, º
80
Joncryl 8383 Resin, the
contact angle of water on
the surface coating was 60
highest when compared to
the control with no additive 40
and two competitor water-
resistance additives 20

Water beading of wood

0
coatings formulation based
on Joncryl 8383 Resin, a
self-crosslinking acrylic
emulsion for joinery coatings

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Anti-Blocking Performance

Surface appearance after anti-blocking test

WATERBORNE WOOD COATINGS for DOWSIL™ 87 Additive versus
competitor additives
• DOWSIL™ 87 Additive also has been found
to give anti-blocking performance in
wood coatings Control
• Performance is demonstrated in a
trim/joinery coating based on a self-
crosslinking acrylic resin emulsion at
20 micron dry film thickness With
DOWSIL™
• Additives were added at 2% actives in the
87 Additive
total formulation
• Without the DOWSIL 87 Additive, the
surface of the coating shows minor to With
severe damage Competitor 1
• Some competitive additives even cause
further blocking damage
• The addition of the DOWSIL 87 Additive
With
allows the surface to remain intact and the
aesthetics to remain good Competitor 2

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Differentiated Performance

DOWSIL™ 87 DOWSIL™ 88
Property Competitor
Additive Additive

Water repellency ●● ●●● ●

Water beading ●●● ● ●

Water vapor ●●● ●●● ●●●

permeability
● = good ●●= better ●●● = best

• A disruptive additive approach to improved water repellency and water beading in

waterborne architectural paints

• Use these additives at low addition levels to improve the quality of low- or medium-
performance paints at an affordable cost

• Improve the performance of leading brands beyond that of the competition

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The Materials

DOWSIL™ 87 ADDITIVE

- 200 kg drum
- 200 kg pail

DOWSIL™ 88 ADDITIVE

- 190 kg drum
- 18 kg pail

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Identify Key Targets

WHERE ARE THESE USED?

• Acrylic paints,
house/building exteriors
• Wood decking, fencing
• EIFS facade coatings
• Acrylic concrete coatings
• Coatings for stucco

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You

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