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    Cardolite offers high performance products for various industrial applications

INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS FOR CHEMICAL MARKETS

Cardolite offers innovative and sustainable materials for many industrial applications around the world. Our products are used in the coating, adhesive, composite, polyurethane foam and friction materials markets to deliver high performance and bring unique properties to customer’s formulations.

Cardolite offers low VOC, anticorrosion materials for marine and protective epoxy coatings

MARINE AND
PROTECTIVE

– Outstanding corrosion protection
– Very fast cure even at low temperatures
– Adhesion to wet, dirty and contaminated surfaces
– Low and zero V.O.C.

Cardolite offers high performance products for industrial and transportation coatings

INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION

– Adhesion to various substrates
– Thin film corrosion protection
– Color and gloss retention
– Wet-on-wet cure
– Fast cure and sandability
– Low and zero V.O.C.

Cardolite offers high performance products for flooring applications

CONCRETE FLOOR COATINGS

– Quick return-to-service
– Low temperature hardness development
– Beautiful film even at high humidities
– Excellent color and gloss retention
– Low and zero V.O.C

Cardolite offers high performance products for specialty coatings

SPECIAL COATINGS APPLICATIONS

– Potable water
– Food contact
– Tank and pipe linings
– Chemical immersion applications
– Under water cure
– Low and zero V.O.C.

Cardolite offers high performance products for industrial and transportation applications

INDUSTRIAL AND TRANSPORTATION

– Excellent adhesion to metals, composites, glass, plastics
– Water and thermal shock resistance
– Increased flexibility
– Good mechanical properties
– Surface tolerant (oil contaminated surfaces)

Cardolite offers high performance products for building and construction applications

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION

– Excellent aging resistance
– Excellent adhesion to construction materials (concrete, metals)
– Fast bond strength at low temperature and under water
– Surface tolerant (moisture, oil, water)
– Non-critical mix ratio

Cardolite offers high performance products for electronics applications

ELECTRONICS
POTTING

– Thermal shock and mechanical resistance
– Moisture resistance
– Lower exotherm options
– Low total chlorine and  halogen free
– Flexibility

Cardolite offers high performance products for composite applications

2K APPLICATIONS

– Bio-renewable
– High mechanical strength
– Excellent chemical and water resistance
– Excellent fiber and filler wetting properties
– Formulation latitude

Cardolite offers high performance products for composite applications

1K APPLICATIONS

– High bio-content phenolic resins as epoxy crosslinkers
– Good miscibility with epoxy resins
– Excellent water and chemical resistance
– Improved interlaminar adhesion and vibration damping

Cardolite offers high performance products for polyurethane foam applications

RIGID POLYURETHANE FOAMS

– High reactivity with better labeling
– Bio-renewable with surfactant-like properties
– Excellent fire protection
– High compression strength
– Good compatibility
– Excellent water resistance

Cardolite offers friction materials for high performance brake pads, train blocks, drum linings

AUTOMOTIVE

– OEM and aftermarket
– Semi-metalic, ceramic, asbestos, and non-asbestos organic brake pads
– Improve wear and fade
– Increase flexibility
– Reduce noise
– Provide thermal stability

Cardolite offers friction materials for high performance brake pads, train blocks, drum linings

RAIL

– Liquid binder resins for train blocks
– Thermosetting resin based on CNSL
– Improve flexibility
– Reduce dust
– Good heat resistance
– High friction coefficient
– High hardness

CNSL Resins can replace phenolic resins as modifiers for rubber tires

RUBBER

– High biocontent CNSL Resins
– Alternatives to petroleum-based phenols
– Plasticizer, increase elongation
– Reduce compound viscosity
– Good heat aging resistance
– Antioxidant properties
– Adhesion promoter

INNOVATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS FOR THE AUTOMOTIVE MARKET

Cardolite offers many solutions for the automotive market. From epoxy modifiers, to curing agents, from polyols to friction particles, Cardolite’s diversified CNSL-based technology delivers unique performance to automotive coatings, adhesives, composites and brake pads.

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Cardolite offers high performance products for automotive applications
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Epoxy curing agents and resins for composite parts

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Polyols for polyurethane foams

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Polyols and modifiers for metal, plastic and composite adhesives and sealants

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Phenolic resins for rubber tires

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Epoxy resins and curing agents for electrical potting and under hood parts

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Friction particles for brake pads and drum linings

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Epoxy curing agents and resins for primers and sound dampening materials