Revista Paint & Pintura - Edição 226

ABRAFATI PREVIEW PAINT&PINTURA | Outubro 2017 | 81 EVONIK As one of the world’s leading chemical suppliers to the paint and coatings industry, Evonik in showcasing new developments and a broad product range that fulfills the requirements of modern, sustainable formulations, according to André Carvalho, Coating Additives businessmanager. “Among our highlights and newdevelopments are surface-modified rheology control silica products, defoamers, surfactants, food-contact additives for food packaging printing inks, surface additives, adhesion-promoting co-resins, methacrylicresins,saturatedpolyesterresins,functionalsilanes,siloxanesandmethacrylatemonomers,amongotherstate-of-the-art rawmaterials designed to keep upwith technological changes andmeet new requirements for paint and coating formulations.” FIBRASA Fibrasa is once again participating inAbrafati 2017with its traditional range of injected polypropylene pails for the paint and coatings industrywithcapacity ranging fromone liter to3.6, 16, 17, 18and20 liters, and the latter hasbeen recently launchedby Fibrasa for this industry,accordingtoregionalsalesmanagerPauloBernardes.“Ourcompanyhassetitselfapartfromthepackasaplasticpailsupplier to the coatings industry, serving suchmajor customers as BASF, AkzoNobel, Sherwin-Williams, PPG, and Universo, among others.” Bernardesremarksthatthecompanyhasagreatindustrialandcommercialstructureandisalwaysfocusedonexcellenceincustomer service.“Withtwoindustrialsites,onelocatedinAbreueLima,Pernambuco,andoneinSerra,EspiritoSanto,aswellasoursalesoffice in São Paulo, Fibrasa has celebrated 45 years of existence in themarketplace. We were the first company in our segment to receive an ISO 9001 certification, and we’re also certified under FSSC 22000. It’s worth pointing out that we’re always innovating. Fibrasa was also the first company to launch pails with IML (in-mold label) decorationwith photographic quality in the Brazilianmarket.” GAP QUÍMICA For the25thanniversaryof its founding, GapQuímica is takingpart inAbrafati 2017 for thefirst timeandshowcasing itsportfolio for the paint and coatings industry, according to sales director PauloLopes. “Weproduceparaffinemulsions for awide variety of applications in products like paints, spackling paste, scraped finish and textured coatings, which deliver multiple effects to the finished product as slipandlevelingadditives,water-repellants,waterproofingcoatings,andcuringagents.Againsttheinconveniencesthatfoamcancause to thoseproducts, we alsoproduce a rangeof anti-foaming andde-foaming agents for bothwaterborne and solvent-borne systems.” Also distributed by Gap to customers in these industries, and on an exclusive basis, are anti-settling agents and yellowish titanium dioxide pigments. Lopes adds, “Gap Química plans to continue developing products tomeet the specific needs and requirements of thesemarkets, which are very important to our business.”