Bayer MaterialScience LLC

Reference Guide: “Your Building Blocks for Success”
A newly updated reference guide, “Your Building Blocks for Success,” provides an overview of food-grade and NSF-certified chlor-alkali products — caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorate and spent sulfuric acid. It addresses the applications, production, distribution and transportation of these products. It also describes BayCare, a multiphase, comprehensive product stewardship program designed to reduce environmental impact, improve process safety and foster positive relationships with neighbors in plant communities.

“The Chemistry of Polyurethane Coatings”
 “The Chemistry of Polyurethane Coatings” provides background information on the chemistry of various polyurethane coating systems. Specific chemistries include powder coatings, waterborne polyurethane coatings, radiation-curable coating technologies, two-component coating systems, and moisture-curing one-component coatings. It also highlights common nomenclature of the Desmophen, Desmodur and Bayhydur raw materials used to formulate the coatings, and formulating aids, such as modifiers, solvents, pigments, extenders and flattening agents. Safe handling and storage procedures are also discussed.