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Mallard Creek Polymer ROVENE® products are recommended for use in paper and paperboard coatings where a high degree of grease, oil and water resistance is needed. Many of these products can also be used in applications where excellent water vapor transmission resistance is needed, such as interior primer sealers, paper and paperboard coatings. Our products may also be formulated into adhesives for paper-to-paper, paper-to-film, and foil-to-paper.

Our ROVENE® carboxylated styrene-butadiene emulsions deliver a firm hand with excellent strength properties. These binders have a low VOC that have the ability to be cross-linked with external cross-linking agents. Our products can be compounded to high solids using calcium carbonate, clays, and alumina trihydrate as fillers; sodium polyacrylate thickeners are commonly used to obtain the required application viscosity. They impart a good wet/dry tensile strength and have good adhesion to a wide variety of surfaces. This adhesion contributes to the good tuft binds and excellent de-lamination in carpet applications.

Our line of PolySāf™ Advanced Polymers offer you new options for formulating a wide range of personal care products, including shampoos, body washes, deodorants and skin conditioners.

Our newest product, PolySāf 5600 is a cationic polymer that offers superior benefits, including:

• Excellent deodorancy
• Non-irritating properties
• Exceptional rinsability and clean feel
• Enhanced luster and shine in shampoos

ROVENE® styrene butadiene emulsions consist of a family of low viscosity products, systematically modified either by styrene/butadiene ratio, molecular weight or carboxylation. The styrene/butadiene ratio allows the formulator to choose a degree of softness of the polymer. Molecular weight allows greater latitude for use of other ingredients in the formulation and to obtain tack and shear.

The use of carboxylation gives the opportunity to crosslink, improves mechanical stability of the wet adhesive and increased adhesion build on polar surfaces. These polymers are base emulsions which are compoundable into proprietary formulations by choice of tackifier dispersions, fillers, pigments, etc. These formulations successfully compete with natural and synthetic rubber solution PSAs in many label and tape applications.

Mallard Creek Polymers offers a variety of binders which can be easily applied by conventional methods such as froth, spray or saturation. These binders have been designed for a wide range of nonwovens markets including disposable, durable, highloft and industrial nonwovens. These binders produce effects ranging from a soft feel to a very stiff feel, provide strength, toughness, resistance properties, hydrophobicity or hydrophilicity and heat seal-ability. Our technical service personnel will help you in choosing the proper binder for each of your applications.

Our ROVENE® carboxylated styrene-butadiene emulsions have been designed for use in formulating high performance architectural coatings including flat wall paints and primer-sealers. When properly formulated, these coatings exhibit tight, continuous films providing the following performance advantages: moisture vapor barrier properties, enamel holdout at higher PVC's than conventional latexes, superior cold temperature coalescence, stability to alkaline substrates and ASTM E-96 perm ratings of < 1.0.

Our polymers currently find use in many Construction applications including:

• Waterproofing and moisture vapor barrier coatings
• Admixtures for hydraulic cement based products
• Wood and parquet flooring adhesives
• Ceramic tile mastics
• Vinyl tile adhesives
• Coatings and sealants for HVAC systems
• Primers for cement and other substrates
• Modifiers for Asphalt emulsions
• Roof coatings