Evonik has a production site in Darmstadt, Germany. The company plans to use VISIOMER® HEMA-P 70M as the product name to sell 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate as a preservative and flame retardant . Typical product applications for this methacrylate monomer include adhesives and plastics, paints and coatings, fibers, composite resins, and gel coatings.
Customers primarily use VISIOMER® HEMA-P 70M as an adhesion promoter, but recent research has also shown that it is an effective halogen-free reactive flame retardant or preservative. Since the substance is used as a reactive diluent or comonomer bonded in the polymer backbone, it does not migrate like conventional flame retardants. VISIOMER®HEMA-P 70M is combined with a non-polymerizable flame retardant to further enhance flame retardancy.
Martin Trocha, Head of Evonik's Applied Monomer Product Line, said: "VISIOMER®HEMA-P 70M provides new options for customers with special requirements on flame retardancy and corrosion resistance. This monomer adds to Evonik's product portfolio Meth acrylate products with special properties, and once again highlight our role to provide customers with innovative solutions. "
VISIOMER® HEMA-P 70M is a monomer with a variety of properties. It contains 30% methyl methacrylate and is particularly easy to process due to its low viscosity. Due to its low color index, this specialty monomer is particularly suitable for optical applications in acrylate and methacrylate systems. This makes it useful in applications where transparency and surface quality are critical, such as surface coatings, plastics or adhesives.
In addition, the monomer is also antistatic and has an emulsification stabilizing effect.