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In this webinar, we’ll explore how wetting additives help to reduce surface tension and aid the wetting of a variety of different substrates. Different types of wetting agents will be introduced, which each provide a distinct profile. Recently, the elimination of PFAS containing additives has created a lot of additional attention to this topic. We’ll also discuss how to make the right additive choice when recoatability or glueability is essential. Get a look at our latest developments, including TEGO® Wet 288.

In this comprehensive, interactive eLearning you will learn the basics of substrate wetting additives for coating and inks, their working mechanism and the how to select and test the appropriate one. After successfully completing the course, you will receive a personalized certificate. During the course, you can pause and resume at any time.

Quiz on Substrate Wetting Additives

Automotive Refinish Coatings – Part II: Background, chemistry, and product recommendations for automotive refinish coatings in regarding to Filler&Putties.

Automotive Refinish Coatings – Part I: A General Overview Background, chemistry, market requirements, and future of automotive refinish coatings are discussed.

In less than 7 minutes we would like to tell you about our latest investment for Inkjet applications, what it can do for us and what we could do for you.
Belief in the potential that inkjet represents for the printing industry is reflected in our continued efforts to provide our customers with specific recommendations, custom solutions and even specifically developed products. Find out more about the technical capabilities of our drop watcher and print station, and about modes of collaboration we offer that may assist you on your path of developing inkjet inks.

What are the important physico chemical parameters when formulating inks and how to characterize and optimize them. Recording kindly provided by Krüss.

This is a re-recording of the paper given at Inkjet Congress 2019. "Promoting Curing Speed: Ideal Surfactants for LED Curing Inkjet Inks"

Analytical methods to describe the performance of silicone based surface control additives in waterborne wood and furniture coatings. Learn more about current trends in wood coatings, performance profile of surface control additives based on silicone chemistry in waterborne wood coatings, the results based on analytical methods and capability of spherical precipitated silica particles to enhance the mechanical resistance of coating surfaces.

This webcast shows you various factors that lead to blocking defects in printing inks, and more importantly demonstrate 3 different formulating approaches. Lab videos and pictures are illustrated to show you how additives could help you achieve flawless finish.

This course provides some insights on the different types of wood coating technologies. For each technology, we will describe its advantages, disadvantages and key functionalities.

Siloxane-based additives are critical tools in coating applications because their structures can be varied in order to provide a broad range of performance benefits in many types of formulations and chemistries. An attempt is made to clarify the general structure-property relationships that drive the performance attributes of siloxane additives and detail the continuum that exists between wetting, leveling, defoaming and slip within this chemistry class.

Why certain wetting agents spread over certain substrates, and fail at wetting out other? What are the specifics of packaging substrates, and how do these differ from those made of natural polymers used to make porous materials such as paper, corrugated board and textiles? How are surfaces functionalized to improve their wettability? How important is the process dynamics for the selection of wetting agent? Answers to these and many more questions are provided as the topic of substrate wetting gets revisited from the ‘inkjet’ perspective.

This is an interactive video that showcase different service offerings to support printing inks customers thru innovations and efficiency. Come explore to take advantage of our competencies in regulatory guidance, sustainability, technical expertise and trainings.

Recording from June 14, 2022

This webinar shows you how to enhance the beauty of your floor with a range of coating additives from Evonik.

Discover how innovative Evonik silica particles can enhance ink performance in our webinar. We had explored various aspects of particle technology that helps in enhancing properties such as matting and rheology. Join us to learn how cutting-edge materials can boost the quality and efficiency of your applications.

The ability to effectively wet challenging surfaces has emerged as a significant hurdle in the formulation of inks and coatings. With the ongoing advancements in packaging materials, including low-density polyethylene, oriented polypropylene, metallic films, and aluminum foil, formulators face increasing complexities. Furthermore, evolving regulatory standards necessitate that products not only perform optimally during printing but also comply with consumer safety regulations. Additionally, issues related to hydrolytic stability of surfactants have led to variations in ink wetting properties over the product's shelf life.

In this presentation, an expert from Evonik had discussed the relationship between surface tension and substrate wetting, as well as the distinct roles of dynamic and static surface tension in both water-based and energy-cured systems. While a one-size-fits-all solution is not feasible, the diverse range of products offered by Evonik Coating Additives provides effective strategies to tackle these wetting challenges.

Wetting challenging substrates has become a major hurdle in ink and coating development due to the varying wetting and absorption properties of materials used. Regulatory changes demand not only exceptional performance on the printing press but also strict compliance with consumer safety standards. This webinar had highlighted practical solutions from Evonik to optimize ink spreading through innovative particles and surfactants tailored to specific applications.

Recorded Webinar: Siloxane-based additives show unique effects in waterborne, radiation-curing and also solventborne inks and varnishes. This webinar related structural motives to effects in inks and varnishes. It had displayed how to improve ink performance by the use of highly active siloxane-based additives, but also mentioned possible limitations. Can they potentially replace fluorosurfactants?

Recorded Webinar: Evonik coating additive portfolio for high solid, ultra high solid and solvent-free systems.

This webinar had introduced Evonik's innovative coating additives and curing agents, and their combinations in high performance waterborne epoxy formulations for sustainable floor coatings.

Recording from January 17, 2023

This webinar had introduced the know-how related the structure-property relationship of substrate wetting agents and their impact on the quality of the printed image as an integral part in enabling hight throughput digital printing.

Recording from April 27th, 2023

Get a barrier-free access to SML-calculation without bureaucratic hurdles and expand your toolbox for food packaging inks. The COATINO® SML-calculator instantly checks the worst-case migration of your formulation according to the rules of Swiss Ordinance.

Recorded Webinar: Staying compliant with regulations is becoming more crucial than ever when it comes to creating new printing inks. This webinar is designed to offer advanced knowledge and comprehensive insights on key compliance matters.

Recorded Webinar: It is essential to have a basic understanding of regulations when creating a new printing ink. While the term "regulatory" may evoke negative connotations for some, this webinar aimed to provide fundamental knowledge on the topic in a relaxed manner.

Recording from June 8, 2021

Coating defects can cause severe headaches in wood coating applications. We have several options of additives in our portfolio to get rid of these defects or solve challenges like wetting of difficult substrates easily. In this webinar we had provided you with recommendations for water based, solvent based&UV coatings.

Offering vital insights into chemical compliance within the decorative coatings market, this webinar had focused on the growing demand for greener and more sustainable products. It had explored regulatory trends and innovative digital solutions that address the increasing communication needs across the value chain.

Recorded Webinar: UV inkjet inks develop fast in recent years in the application of label, tobacco packaging and PCB etc. In this webinar we had shared our additive solutions for UV inkjet ink application, we had introduced our high performance dispersants for different type of pigments dispersing, surface control additives especially crosslinkable product series which can help to improve substrate wetting, slip property and scratch resistance etc, and our Co-binders which can help to boost the curing speed, improve adhesion and pigment wetting etc.

Recording from December 1st, 2025

This webinar had provided an overview of Evonik's additives solutions to solve typical challenges in UV curable wood coatings, such easy cleaning, scratch resistance, leveling, deaeration and much more. Our experts will discuss performance data that illustrate the benefits of using liquid additives as TEGO® Rad, TEGO® Foamex and Airex, TEGO® Glide , TEGO® Wet but also particles as ACEMATT® matting agents, SPHERILEX® specialty fillers and their combinations.

Recorded Webinar: Inks are often produced from semi-finished to address the application complexity and reduce the final production step to a blending operation. Semi-finished must not only be intermixable and compatible but also stable over the time. In this mini webinar series, challenges and solutions are presented. The first part presented solutions for pigment preparations and particle stabilization, so how to control the color and appearance of an ink. Part 2, will be related to foam, slip, release and substrate wetting - so control of the physical parameters of an ink.

Recorded Webinar: Inks are often produced from semi-finished to address the application complexity and reduce the final production step to a blending operation. Semi-finished must not only be intermixable and compatible but also stable over the time. In this mini webinar series, challenges and solutions were presented. In the first part we have presented solutions for pigment preparations and particle stabilization, so how to control the color and appearance of an ink. Part 2, have been related to foam, slip, release and substrate wetting - so control of the physical parameters of an ink.

Recording from September 16th, 2025

Keeping pace with product compliance in an increasingly complex regulatory environment is a challenge. In this webinar, we had summarized current changes and comprehensive insights on key compliance matters and sustainability topics. Digital tools were shown which help you to get the updated data you need.

Recorded webinar: This recorded webinar presents Evonik’s special silica products and explains the main benefits of each product in waterborne matt coating systems. The webinar covers fumed silica, matting agent and spherical silica products.

Recording from June 7, 2022

This webinar focuses on solutions to eliminate reaction foam in WB 2K PU systems. It also covers the topic of matting of waterbased wood coatings.

Recording from March 15th, 2023

Fluorosurfactants are well established in the wood coatings world, but are facing increased regulatory challenges. This webinar highlighted future proof additive alternatives without compromising technical properties.

The aspect of a coated surface is positively enhanced by the use of additives for surface control. Using the example of automotive coatings the different aspects of leveling, wetting and haptic effects has been shown on three substrates.

This webinar was part of the Surface Weeks.

Recorded Webinar: The Importance of Sustainable Solutions: Defoaming, Anti-Corrosion, and Anti-Fouling effect for Marine&Protective Coatings. During this live webinar we had focused on various sustainable topics for Marine&Protective Coatings.

Substrate wetting agents modify the static surface tension profile of fluids, thus impacting the rate of coverage and the final coverage ratio of the fluid. Process dynamics and the character of the surface being printed on call for quite a specific set of surface active wetting agents. To prevent the formulators from going through a pitfall of testing numerous substrate wetters, the selection had been narrowed down to a handful of additives to address the needs of all ink technologies met in the inkjet space, selected according to the most important criteria in the industry: functionality, health and safety, and compliance to relevant regulatory regulations.

In this module of our webcast series you can learn how cobinders work and should be selected for their use in (packaging) inks. Our star products for this application are presented and compared to each other for best possible selection. More modules on other product groups available here on COATINO® Campus.

You can find supplementary content, such as links or documents ready for download, in the “Resources” tab.

In this module of our webcast series you can learn how substrate wetting additives work and should be selected for their use in (packaging) inks. Our star products for this application are presented and compared to each other for best possible selection. More modules on other product groups available here on COATINO® Campus.

You can find supplementary content, such as links or documents ready for download, in the “Resources” tab.

This learning journey explains the challenges of formulating floor coatings with a perfect surface appearance and provides adequate product recommendations.

This learning journey provides a very complete overview about the basics of wood coatings and will answer any questions you have on wood coatings. Our expert Heike Semmler is taking you through this journey beginning with the history of wood coatings up to the different technologies, application and test methods. The journey also explains the functionalities and characteristics of wood coatings and much more.