International. Altana presented the Altana Innovation Award for the seventh time. This year, the redevelopment of specific additives was held.
As an international team of the BYK division, Byungdu Bae, Dr. Marc Eberhardt, Mark Heekeren and Dr. Guillaume Jaunky developed a new family of hydrophilic additives based on advanced technologies and, above all, brought the flagship BYK-3560 from the laboratory to the market.
The product series is highly innovative due to the fact that it offers completely new solutions for repaintability in multilayer systems.
"With a completely new approach, the winners were able to establish a family of innovative hydrophilic additive products on the market. As a result, BYK's leading position in this segment is further supported," said Dr. Petra Severit of Altana.
Several unresolved problems with relocatability were the drivers and motivation to develop new products with new technical solutions. With BYK-3560, the team took a new and innovative path by drastically increasing the surface energy of the coatings and thus significantly improving the adhesion of the back layers.
The BYK team prevailed against 14 teams from the four altana divisions. The projects submitted were evaluated based on different criteria. The innovative strength of the projects played a role, as well as the economic advantage that the company can gain from the implementation.
