Rheology Modifiers & Specialties

ADDSiL™ and KOBOND™ Specialty Additives include a range of functional additives designed to improve processing stability, surface appearance, and formulation performance in coatings, inks, adhesives, construction materials, and related industrial systems. The portfolio includes pH adjusters, hammertone additives, rheology modifiers, and other specialty formulation technologies.

Depending on formulation requirements, these products can help optimize viscosity control, thixotropy, anti-settling performance, metallic effect orientation, flow behavior, storage stability, and application properties across waterborne, solvent-based, and high-solid systems.

pH adjusters such as 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP) are widely used in waterborne systems for pH control, neutralization, and dispersion stabilization.

Hammertone additives are specialty effect additives designed to generate characteristic hammer-pattern finishes in industrial coatings through controlled surface tension differences, solvent evaporation behavior, and phase separation during film formation. These additives are commonly used in metallic and decorative coatings to create textured hammer-effect appearances with improved visual depth and surface uniformity. Depending on formulation design, hammertone additives can influence pattern size, texture consistency, metallic pigment orientation, and overall coating appearance. Proper selection and dosage control are important for balancing hammer-effect development, flow behavior, gloss uniformity, and film stability.

Rheology modifiers are used to control viscosity profile, thixotropy, sag resistance, anti-settling performance, and application behavior in demanding industrial formulations. Depending on product structure and formulation design, rheology modifiers can provide shear-thinning behavior, improved storage stability, optimized flow and leveling balance, better film build properties, and improved pigment or filler suspension in waterborne, solvent-based, and high-solid systems.