Sustainable additives to legacy PFAS and microplastic containing additives

Synopsis

Sustainable additives play a crucial role in helping coatings and paint manufacturers achieve their environmental and regulatory goals. MÜNZING offers a comprehensive portfolio of green products—including thickeners, dispersing agents, wetting agents, defoamers, and waxes—designed to support eco-friendly formulations.

MÜNZING’s product development is driven by three key sustainability principals:

1. High Renewable Content & Low Product Carbon Footprint, determined by ASTM D 6866, which reduces reliance on fossil resources and lowers the carbon footprint.
2. Microplastic free, addressing environmental concerns such as microplastic pollution.
3. PFAS free Solutions & Food Contact Compliance, designed to eliminate the use of PFAS while meeting strict safety requirements for applications involving potential food contact.

A central objective of this sustainability strategy is to ensure that environmentally friendly additives deliver performance equal to—or better than—traditional, fossil-based alternatives.

This presentation highlights MÜNZING’s innovation pathways toward next generation sustainable additive technologies and provides performance data demonstrating how these products meet or exceed industry expectations in coatings and paint applications.