Wetting Agents - Reduce surface tension.

With added performance reassurance.

Wetting agents – known in technical terms as surfactants – are needed to reduce surface tension. This is crucial if you want coatings to spread more easily. As a result, they’re used in a whole host of applications, such as coatings applied to substrates, cleaning fluids, floor polishes, and waxes.

Achieving the perfect surface can be a tricky balancing act. Fluorosurfactants are important if you want to reduce coating defects… but are they safe? When it comes to our products, the answer is yes.
We have created a range of surfactants that deliver all-round reassurance. In fact, all of our fluorosurfactants are non-toxic and non-bioaccumulative. Coatings with fluorosurfactants make it easy to achieve perfect surfaces.

Read on to explore more about Tivida® FL additives, our range of highly effective fluorosurfactants.

Our Tivida® FL range comprises three high-speed ultrashort-chain anionic C2 or C3 fluorosurfactants, which have an exceptional ability to lower surface tension quickly. The benefits of this are immediate:

• Static surface tension reductions of up to 18 mN/m
• Significantly improved spreading, wetting, and leveling
• Enhanced surface gloss
• Minimal cratering
• Outstanding pore penetration
• Ultra-low foam development during application
• Not affected by the EU REACH PFOA restriction

Our Tivida® FL wetting agents can be used in a variety of applications:

• Water- and solvent-based coatings
• Water- and solvent-based floor cleaning solutions and industrial polishes
• Water- and solvent-based printing inks
• Industrial cleaning agents, polishes, and electronic cleaning agents