Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) launched a new version of Butanox M-50 Vanishing Red peroxide at JEC World, the leading trade event for the composites market.The new formulation contains a less hazardous dye solvent, enabling customers to handle the product more safely and reduce its environmental impact, while maintaining its industry-leading performance.
Butanox M-50 VRN
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Vanishing Red is widely used by customers in the composites market as part of the unsaturated resin curing process. As the resin cures, its red color gradually fades, allowing customers to better monitor the progress of dosing, mixing, and curing. Vanishing Red is particularly useful in automated processes used to manufacture products such as wind turbine blades and boats.
“If the peroxide does not flow properly through the dosing line, leading to under-cured or uncured end products, customers using automated dosing equipment may encounter problems,” said Raymond ten Broeke, Customer Support Engineer for Polymer Chemistry at Nouryon.“If the mold needs to be cleaned, this can be very costly for manufacturers. Using Vanishing Red peroxide helps prevent such failures without leaving any traces of the indicator.”
Johan Landfors, Managing Director of Nouryon Polymer Chemistry, added: “We are proud that Vanishing Red offers customers in the composites market a safer and more sustainable curing solution for unsaturated polyester resins. This is the latest in a series of products we have launched to better serve customers in this important market and grow alongside them.”
Nouryon recently expanded its peroxide product line in North America by introducing the Butanox brand of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) products and launching emulsion-based organic peroxides. The company has also expanded its production capacity in Mexico and the United States.Another expansion project in Mexico is scheduled for completion this year, and additional production capacity is planned to come online in Brazil, China, and India.