EPIKURE Curing Agent P-101 is a versatile, chemically stable, low bake or ultra-rapid curing epoxy powder coating converter. This product is a free flowing pulverized amine adduct especially designed to cure epoxy resin powder coatings at temperatures down to 250 °F (121 °C). This allows the use of energy saving baking schedules and application to temperature sensitive substrates. EPIKURE Curing Agent P-101 is compatible with epoxy resins when extruded or hot melt mixed in the normal fashion. This results in a truly homogeneousblend of epoxy resin and Curing Agent that provides a cured film with superior appearance and performance. Because of these features, EPIKURE Curing Agent P-101 is a marked improvement over accelerated dicyandiamide type curing agents which are widely used in thin film decorative or functional epoxy powder coatings.
EPIKURE Curing Agent P-101 either can be incorporated as a curing agent with EPON™ resins 2002, 2004, or 2024 at levels of 2-4 phr1 or it can be blended with dicyandiamide to function as an accelerator. This provides the powder coating chemist with significant latitude in meeting specific formulating requirements.
Property | Standard | Value | Unit | Test Method |
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Amine Value | 110 - 130 | mg/g | ASTM D2896 |
Property | Standard | Value | Unit | Test Method |
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Alkalinity | 3.5 - 3.8 | meg/gm | ||
Appearance | Free Flowing Tan Powder | |||
Melt Viscosity 1 at 150°C | 10 - 30 | poise | ||
Specific Gravity 2 at 25°C ¹ | 1.16 |
1ICI Cone and Plate Viscometer.
2Powder Coating Institute-Recommended Procedure #4.