2024 Review: The Advancements of Waterborne Epoxy Resin

In 2024, the field of waterborne epoxy resin witnessed remarkable advancements. Waterborne epoxy resin has become a crucial material in diverse industries.

One of the prominent products in this regard is LINTEC MEH-520. It is a novel type of low VOC waterborne organic silicone acrylate hybrid epoxy resin. This resin can reach the performance of solvent-based epoxy resins and possess a lengthy construction period when combined with curing agents. Specifically designed for applications in metals, woods, and buildings.

The LINTEC MEH-520 showcases several features. It has low viscosity, facilitating easy operation and ensuring excellent storage stability. It also has a nanoscale particle size, which leads to good film-forming capabilities and permeability. Moreover, the resin demonstrates superior early water resistance, outstanding salt spray and anti-corrosion performance, and successfully overcomes the issue of traditional epoxy resins being not resistant to aging. Due to its exceptional properties, it is particularly well-suited for the bottom-top one system.

For example, in the waterborne weather-resistant epoxy flooring system, it can be used as the primer, middle coating, and surface coating. The system is applicable in various scenarios such as food factories, electronics factories, and other places that require a high level of cleanliness, as well as in schools, squares, and other areas with high hardness and wear resistance demands. It has advantages like being acrylic polymer modified epoxy for good initial performance, nanoscale emulsion particle size for good permeability, using water as the solvent for safe storage and use, low odor for a good construction environment, and being applicable for wet-on-wet construction to reduce process requirements.

The construction process of the waterborne weather-resistant epoxy flooring system includes surface treatment of the base, primer coating (divided into penetration primer and sealing primer), mortar layer application, putty layer coating, surface coating