BYK Additives

🌞 Day 2 of the BYK Purchaser Seminar: A beautiful day greets us outside as a world of knowledge unfolds inside. BYK experts lead through a journey of purchasing insights, supply chain mastery, customer service excellence, R&D innovations, regulatory frameworks and a technical deep dive into the technical skills of additives. Today's sessions were packed with topics that are as diverse as they are engaging. And what's a day of learning without a celebration 🎉? Join us in wishing our very own Thorsten Gaertner a very happy 60th birthday! The seminar room echoed with the melody of the classic "Happy Birthday" song, which was sung by all participants. Thanks for such a nice second day 🎂! #happybirthday #purchasing #seminar #additives #celebration

🧑🎤A good and classic start to intensive seminar days together is a dinner in a relaxed atmosphere to get to know each other. But BYK always knows how to surprise in a positive way and often offers its customers that little bit extra 🙃. So this evening also had its special BYK moments. And that has to be the case, because our BYK seminars have been known and appreciated throughout the industry for decades, some even say they are legendary 😎. What do you think? Have you ever been there? #seminar #fun #cometogether #dinner #customercentricity

Create new high-grade applications from improved recycled materials. Everyday products can be made from old battery cases, PET bottles, pails, and beverage crates and can later be reintroduced into the recycling economy themselves. Want to know more about innovative solutions for raw material recovery? ➡️https://lnkd.in/eEs5v2Y3 #upcycling #recycle #sustainability #thermoplastics #additives #byk

𝗕𝗬𝗞 𝗔𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗬𝗞 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀: 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘀𝘆𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Thanks 🙏 to all involved for the great seminar we had in Terrassa (Barcelona) a few days ago! We teamed up with BYK-Gardner Instruments to show our customers how additives and instruments can work together to make a great final result. We were delighted to have a full house of attendees from different coatings sectors such as automotive, construction, architectural, industrial and wood coatings. It was important for us to share our expertise on color systems, wetting and dispersing additives, appearance characterization and additives to achieve perfect appearance and rheology with our customers to make their products even more competitive. We hope that this seminar was very useful for your daily work! We are very pleased with the feedback we received and can't wait to do it again in 2024. Thanks to everyone who came and a special shout out to Eva López from BYK Instruments for organizing everything 💛. #teamworkmakesthedreamwork #additives #instruments #seminar #customercentricity #spain

The time has come ⏱️: The event we are all looking forward 😊 to is just around the corner. Everything is well prepared by our organization team Kirsten Siebenmark, Nadezhda Guseva and Kai Steenweg, because we are expecting the most important buyers of our valued customers from Asia, America, Europe and the Middle East in Wesel. We are particularly excited about the interesting exchange and discussions about our additives with them. We will kick things off this evening with a dinner together at the beautiful Hotel Tannenhäuschen 🌲🏡. #customercentricity #additives #buyers #seminar #wesel

⚽ Everyone in Europe is talking about football right now. Not everyone, of course, but many conversations revolve around the result of the last game, the special characteristics of the fans who traveled with them to make the European Championship cities colorful and cheerful, or the saxophone 🎷 man who makes the fan zones dance 🕺 💃. Some really amazing things come to light 💡. Did you know, for example, that you can find BYK additives in the seats of many stadiums? 💡 More facts like that: https://lnkd.in/eFrar6TP #additives #football #soccer #innovation #EURO2024

𝗕𝗬𝗞 𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗺𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗸 🚶 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗴𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 Colleagues will complete a section of the Wales Coast Walk to support the fight against blood cancer and to help a special theater project A privately organized German BYK team wants to do something for the community beyond their normal work and is taking on a new challenge! Frank Abschlag, Marcel Wiesner, David Samol and Britta Grunden are following in the footsteps of our colleagues from our location in Widnes, UK, and have planned something very specific for a good cause: From July 11 to 13, they will complete a section of the Wales Coast Walk together - 82 miles, (the equivalent of 132 kilometers) over three days. The motivation is great, because they are walking for a potentially life-saving cause: all the money will go to support the DKMS Group (German Bone Marrow Donor Center). Every step our colleagues take on this route contributes to funding life-saving stem cell typing, which is crucial in the fight against blood cancer. If you wish, you can support this private initiative by making a contribution for every kilometer or mile they walk or by making a one-off donation by August 15. We also don't want to forget our colleagues from our location in Widnes, who will also be out and about again for a good cause. They will be walking 🚶♀️ for the H.E.A.R.T.S. ❤️ theater project, which is deliberately aimed at children and young adults with disabilities and special needs. You are also cordially invited to make a contribution to this private project, too. You can find more information and the links to the donation pages here: 👉 Donation campaign by Britta Grunden for DKMS: https://lnkd.in/eNavzHCA 👉 Donation campaign by Neil Grant for H.E.A.R.T.S.: https://lnkd.in/ezJg7S7g Dr Neil Grant Dan Newton Chris Potter Natalie Parks PAUL M. #dkms #fightagainstcancer #charity #charitywalk #widnes

This year, BYK celebrates the 60th anniversary of LAPONITE, an additive that provides solutions for a broad range of rheology challenges in the wood coating industry including: 💡 Stabilizing highly filled pigmented systems without impacting spray viscosity 💡 Enhancing pigment vibrancy with post application pigment stabilization with LAPONITE’s unique combination of anti-sagging and rapid viscosity recovery 💡 Improving anti-burnishing properties of wax additives Plus 💡: the exceptional clarity of LAPONITE dispersions ensures it always finds value as a rheology additive in clear dip and spray coatings. Interested in more details? Contact us or download our rheology eBook: byk.com/rheology #BYK #LAPONITE #rheology #additives #woodcoating

BYK appoints Comindex as Iberian distributor As of July 1, 2024, Comindex, S.A., our long-standing distributor, will expand its distribution network for our additives business in paints, plastics and industrial applications to Portugal. This expansion will contribute to an even faster and more comprehensive response to our Iberian customers. Comindex, a key strategic partner in Europe, has exclusively and successfully represented BYK's additives business in the Spanish market for the past 67 years. We firmly believe that the expanded cooperation in the Iberian market will be of great benefit to our customers in terms of service, technical support and logistics. #additives #portugal #spain #paints #plastics #industrial #distributor

😊 Simple but great 😊 Surface slip is evaluated by placing a weight on a coated panel and tilting the panel until the weight starts to slide. The coating at the front contains a polysiloxane which improves surface slip; the one in the middle has no surface additive (= control); the panel at the back contains a wax additive which gives anti-slip properties. A weight is then placed on the end of the panel and this side of the panel is slowly lifted until the weight begins to slide down. The difference in surface slip is clearly visible, isn't it? More of this? 👉 Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://lnkd.in/eshJUiid 👉 Learn more about our surface additives: https://lnkd.in/ekiCAr2i #additives #coatings #testmethod #chemistry