Degussa Coatings & Colorants.

Company Description

Degussa is a multinational corporation consistently aligned to high-yield specialty chemistry. Our particular strengths are ability to innovate, reliability, excellence and intelligent linking. All this is expressed in the claim "creating essentials": With our products and system solutions we are creating something valuable and indispensable for the success of our customers.

Degussa is characterized by speed, flexibility, flat hierarchies and greatest possible proximity to customers and markets. The company fosters the development of intelligent products and promising business fields by means of cross-group knowledge linking. For the graphic and ink industry, the Smart Formulating concept combines the technology and application know-how of the Business Lines Crosslinkers, Colorants, Tego Coating Additives & Specialty Resins, Matting Agents, Pigments, and Building Blocks.

For more details, visit the web site www.degussa4coatings.com.

Major Products

Major products of the Business Unit Coatings & Colorants are Synthetic Resins as co-binders or grinding vehicle in printing ink formulations (flexographic, gravure, screen printing), and VESTOWAX micronized waxes for gravure inks, offset inks and flexo inks or incorporated to water-based systems as dispersion/emulsion as well as wax pastes (wax compounds). FLEXOBRITE AD is a range of aqueous styrene acrylic resin-based pigment dispersions for water-based printing inks. The Tego brand covers a broad range of additives for ink formulations.

R&D Capabilities

Development of solvent-, water-borne and UV binders, pigment dispersions, solutions tailored for non-impact printing applications as well as black and color pigment preparations for Ink Jet Inks.

Quality

State-of-the-art quality management systems insure a high standard and consistency in quality.

Conclusion

By putting Smart Formulating into action, Degussa offers the advantage of synergies to provide innovative solutions to the graphic art and ink industries.

Degussa Corporation Coatings & Colorants

379 Interpace Parkway,

PO Box 677

Parsippany, NJ

07054-0677

Phone: [phone]

Fax: [phone]

E-mail: [e-mail]

Internet:

www.coatings-colorants.com

www.degussa4coatings.com

Key Contacts: Regional/local contact names and addresses can be taken from the Internet (www.coatings-colorants.com). Global eMail address is [e-mail]

Production Facilities:

* Lockland, OH

* Brampton, Ontario

* Mobile, AL

* Marl, Germany

* Herne, Germany

* Witten, Germany

* Maastricht, The Netherlands

* Antwerp, Belgium

* Dandenong, Australia.