Masterbatches: a cost effective delivery system for latex compounding raw materials
James Finn, Akron Dispersions, USA
Latex formulations are typically designed using a wide variety of chemical ingredients, i.e. accelerators, activators, antioxidants and modifiers. These materials are added to the latex, during compounding, as separate waterbased dispersions. Masterbatches or a dispersion representing the combination of all the individual chemical dispersions, in the correct proportions, offers some significant advantages to the latex compounder. These advantages, namely, reduced stock keeping units (SKU