Techtextil: Covestro focuses on waterborne and efficient coating systems
Covestro will present new polyurethane (PU) coating systems and films at this year's Techtextil trade fair in Frankfurt (June 21-24) that are more sustainable and environmentally friendly in terms of raw materials, processing and properties.
Covestro will present more sustainable polyurethane coating systems and films, including for artificial leather products, at Techtextil 2022. "For example, we will present new PU dispersions as binders for digital textile printing and a new 2K PU high-solids system from our Insqin technology for textile coating," explains Thomas Michaelis, head of textile coating in the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America (EMLA) region at Covestro. The Covestro booth will also focus on variants of Dureflex TPU films, which are skin-friendly and guaranteed free of harmful substances according to the Oeko-Tex Standard 100.
Covestro is launching Impranil DL 1602, a new anionic, aliphatic-based PU dispersion that can be used to formulate water-based pigment inks for digital inkjet printing. The new Insqin 2K PU system consists of Impranil HS 1062 and Imprafix IO 3330, and is aimed primarily at artificial leather for automotive interiors. The high-solids system does not require blocking agents. Several TPU (thermoplastic polyurethane) films in Covestro's Dureflex product line have now been certified to Standard 100 by Oeko-Tex. Covestro will also showcase its partially bio-based hot-melt film Platilon H2 EC at Techtextil.