Paints & Coating
High-quality wall putty can overcome the problem of minor cracks and pores appearing after wall decoration, greatly improve the decoration quality, prolong the service life of the coating, and enhance the sensory effect.
MikaZone™ Cellulose Ether products are widely used in the wall putty powder with the following advantages:
* Improve the water retention of putty powder, increase the workable duration in the open air and improve the workable compatibility.
* Improve the waterproofing and permeability of putty powder.
* Improve the adhesion and mechanical properties of the putty powder.
Diatom ooze is a newly developed functional interior decorative environment-friendly material in recent years. It is made of inorganic cementitious material as the main binding material and diatom material as the main functional filler. It has the functions of eliminating formaldehyde, purifying air, adjusting humidity, releasing negative oxygen ions, preventing fire and flame, self-cleaning walls, sterilizing, and deodorizing, etc. Diatom ooze coating is used to replace wallpaper and latex paint, it is suitable for interior wall decoration of villas, apartments, hotels, homes, hospitals, etc.
Diatom ooze coating is a new environmental protection coating. Diatom ooze has the functions of eliminating formaldehyde and releasing negative oxygen ions, so it is called “environmental functional wall material that can breathe”.
The roles of MikaZone™ Hydroxypropyl Methyl Cellulose (HPMC) in diatom oozes:
* Enhance water retention and improve the phenomenon of poor hardening and cracking caused by too fast drying and insufficient hydration of diatom ooze.
* Increase the plasticity of diatom ooze and improve construction workability and work efficiency.
* Fully enabling it to better bond the substrate and the object it is bonding.
* It has a thickening effect, which prevents diatom ooze and adhered objects from being scratched during construction.
Skim coating, also known as a level-five drywall finish, is a texturing technique that’s used to make a wall smooth or to repair damaged drywall. It’s a quick, long-term solution for repairing minor cracks, filling a joint, or leveling an existing flat surface, to give the wall a plaster-like appearance and in situations when only the smoothest surface will do.
MikaZone™ Methyl Cellulose(MC) products used in the skim coating can be dissolved in cold water to form transparent glue liquid, which has good solubility, water retention, thickening and construction performance, and simultaneously enhancing the adhesion and the workability, to prevent hollowing, cracking, peeling or shedding problems of skim coat.
Latex paint is a kind of organic paint. It is a kind of water-based paint (paint with water as solvent or dispersion medium) prepared by adding pigments, fillers and various additives to synthetic resin emulsion as the base material. At present, latex paint is widely used as environmental protection coatings for housing construction because of its advantages such as rapid film formation, shortening the construction period, saving construction costs, excellent air permeability, environmental protection, no odor, and scrub resistance.
Generally, hydroxyethyl cellulose is used as a thickener and rheological additives in latex paint. MikaZone™ hydroxyethyl Cellulose (HEC) as an additive for latex paint has the following advantages:
* Good thickening effect, providing excellent coating performance and improving the scrub resistance of the coating.
*Good compatibility with polymer emulsions, various additives, pigments, and fillers, etc.
*Excellent workability and improved spattering resistance.
*Good water retention, hiding power and film formation of the coating material is enhanced.
*Good rheological properties, dispersion and solubility.