OCCA Weekly Webinar - "Biobased dispersing agents for sustainable coatings"
Venue: Webinar
Date: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Time: 14:30 – 15:30
Our Series 10 of OCCA Weekly Webinars continues with "Biobased dispersing agents for sustainable coatings" presented by Sean Hodgkinson of Lankem. The webinar will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 19 July at 2:30pm.
Abstract:
Sean Hodgkinson will present Lankem’s new range of Bio-based surfactants that are produced from sustainable raw materials. The Bio-Loop product range contain products suitable for producing aqueous, UV and other non-aqueous systems such as plasticiser and epoxy dispersions. These products work with all pigment types and have shown to have excellent compatibility, rheology and flow. They’re also found to be good dispersants for a range of inorganic powers, such as metal stearates, sulphur, Kaolin and calcium carbonates. These products are unique to Lankem.
Speaker Profile - Sean Hodgkinson, Managing Director - Lankem Ltd
Sean Hodgkinson, founder of Lankem Ltd, has many years’ experience in the surfactant industry starting his career as a young chemist at Lankro Ltd (latterly Akcros), after 12 years’ of service in various technical and commercial roles. In 1999 the company was formed and has since been heavily involved in both commercial and technical development.
Lankem is a rapidly expanding business supplying surfactant products to mainly industrial markets such as coatings, emulsion polymerisation, agrochemicals, textiles, oils and lubricants and industrial cleaning. Their primary business focus is surfactant technology in which they provide true expertise and advice to the formulator. With an onsite laboratory facility and production lines they can offer both conventional and unique surfactant products. They pride themselves on being able to provide true expertise and assistance to help the formulator develop new products and technologies. They have a dedicated laboratory facility aimed at analysing and matching products, and also provide technical support to assist customer queries. They see technical support as key to the growth of the business, and as a company they continually develop new products to meet changing customer demands.
