PLANT-BASED AND FOOD-GRADE
PLANT-BASED AND FOOD-GRADE
Coating additives for expandable polystyrene (EPS)
Palsgaard’s Einar® series includes everything you’ll need to create successful EPS products: Plant-based and food-grade anti-static additives and cooling time enhancers and blends of these.
EPS coating additives made simple
KEY FEATURES
- Highly effective plant-based anti-static additives and cooling time enhancers for the EPS process
- High-quality fine-powdered glyceride esters of fatty acid esters from vegetable oils
- Custom-designed for EPS applications
- Worldwide regulatory approval for food-contact applications
KEY BENEFITS
- Excellent anti-static protection via coating
- Ready-to-use coating blends
- Fine powders with high coating efficiency
- Can be used for various EPS bead sizes by adjusting the concentration
- Suitable for both EPS and XPS beads
- Consultancy and technical support available from our applications team
Einar® coating additives
With fine-powdered additives Einar® 501 and Einar® 511, Palsgaard offers the standard GMS and GTS commonly used in the industry for processing control. This enables manufacturers to create their own tailored blends to match their specific production set-ups.
Einar® anti-static EPS coating additives
Einar® 501 is an efficient vegetable-based GMS anti-stat that will help improve the flow properties of EPS beads during storage, transportation and through the pre-expansion step as well as during screening and moulding by reduction of agglomerates and attraction to processing equipment.
Einar® 501 is a fine powder with excellent coating properties and the recommended use level is 0.1 - 0.6% depending on EPS bead size. Smaller beads require higher concentrations due to a higher specific surface area.
Einar® EPS cooling time enhancers
Einar® 511 is a plant-based GTS cooling time enhancer which will help reduce cycle times by facilitating a faster exchange of foaming agent and air in the moulding process.
Einar® 511 is a very fine powder and has high coating efficiency and should be used at loading levels of 0.1 - 0.4% to obtain the best performance on cooling time.
Einar® coating additive blends
Blends offer a very convenient way to apply EPS coatings. It is an all-in-one solution where there is no need to handle several different individual products. The complete coating formulation is a ready-to-use pre-blended formulation offering easy dosing and accuracy, better and faster handling and options for additive inventory optimization.
EPS full blends of GMS/GTS/Zinc Stearate
Einar® 543 and Einar® 544 are designed to help EPS producers streamline production by combining multiple additives into one blend. This can reduce handling steps and packaging compared to using separate products. By simplifying the process, these solutions may contribute to resource efficiency.
The complete coating formulations are ready-to-use pre-blended formulations offering easy dosing and accuracy, better and faster handling and options for additive inventory optimization.
Einar® 543 and Einar® 544 are blends with GMS, GTS and varying zinc stearate content. It is often a matter of the producer's specific processing and handling whether more lubrication in the form of a higher zinc stearate content is needed.
