OUR PLASTICS BUSINESSIT JUST ADDS UP

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Contents
04 Introduction
05 Our additives: solutions for the challenges to come06 Our brands
08 Answers to the pressing issues of our time
10 Thermoplastics
12 Thermosets
14 PVC/coated fabrics
16 Global regulatory service

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Welcome toBYK plastics additives
With this brochure, we provide an overview ofour innovative plastics business and its underlying
philosophy that is based on our longstanding
expertise in the industry.
As a globally leading additives manufacturer, it isour overriding aim to help our customers to fulfill
their customers’ needs. To achieve that goal,
we offer an extensive portfolio that addresses thediverse plastics markets worldwide. We maintainthe largest global network of application

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laboratories in the industry, and provide technicalservice to our customers, wherever they are located.
This customer proximity is the basis for ourthorough understanding of today’s market
requirements. It helps us to detect new trends earlyand develop tomorrow’s innovations accordingly.
Discover for yourself how our broad range ofplastics additives and services benefits customers
around the globe, and let us know how we can
support your business, too.

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Our additives: solutions for thechallenges to comeAs life without plastics has become inconceivable, additives are playing
an increasingly important role for materials. They ensure quality andfunctionality. We offer innovative high-performance solutions for plastics
converters and compounders, formulators and OEMs worldwide, and wefollow a single mission: to supply additives which create value for ourcustomers, and for their customers, too.

Today, BYK is a global leader in significant segments of
the additives industry. Our products for fiber-reinforced
composites and PVC plastisols are highly regarded within
the sector. Besides their mechanic and esthetic advantages,
they are known for their excellent processing qualities
and ease of application.
We also provide easy-to-process multi-component additive
systems based on our innovative skin-core extrusion andcompacting technologies, tailored to the individual
specifications of our customers. They optimize materialproperties (such as flame retardancy and UV or lightstability), and address a multitude of applications,particularly in the fast-growing thermoplastics business.
Through close collaborations with direct and indirect
customers along the value chain, we build and expand ourexpertise continuously. Our profound understanding of themarkets we serve puts us in a position to anticipate new
trends and create innovative applications for the challenges
of tomorrow.
With our focus on sustainability, we help our customers
meet their specific environmental targets, and have devised
a new group of recycling additives which enable the valueadded upcycling of used plastic materials.

We’re with you. Worldwide.
Innovation is key for us. With R&D centers in Wesel,
St. Louis, and Shanghai, we are able to provide global
solutions. This organizational structure allows us to develop
solutions for applications that address specific local orregional market demands. In total, we invest eight percent
of our yearly sales in research and development, newproducts and applications, which is more than the averagein our industry. A fifth of our employees work in jobs
related to R&D.
Our 17 production sites across the world allow us to bea global player who remains close to customers, wherever
they may be. This is true for sales, distribution, service,
and application.
We offer state-of-the-art testing equipment in our applicationlaboratories in around 30 countries. This service helps us
and our customers to identify the formulation best suitedfor their application, often saving R&D efforts on the partof our customers. Additionally, we provide technical service
in Germany, China, India, Korea, Japan, and the USA.
Our customer seminars provide useful information on thehandling, dosage, and processing of our additives.

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Our brands
High-performanceplus process efficiency
Our customers have a broad portfolioof high-­performance plastics additives
to choose from. There are nine brands,
all of them characterized by their
exceptional performance properties.

BYK
This is a group of extremely efficient and widelyapplicable additives to support the processing andproduct properties of PVC plastisols, thermosets
and thermoplastics.

DISPERBYK/DISPERPLAST
With our know-how regarding the integration of solids into
dispersions, we created DISPERPLAST, a group of wetting anddispersing additives especially for PVC applications.

BYK-MAX
Our BYK-MAX additives improve processing and help compounders
and converters to work more efficiently, improving their throughput.
The product group includes processing aids for PE, PP, PET, andpolyamides, but also for thermoplastic compounds based on PEand PP, and for masterbatches. Our functional BYK-MAX additives
optimize product properties and add value to thermoplastics. They
range from anti-fog to anti-scratch and include flame retardancy,
light and UV stability, nucleation and desiccation as well as solutions
designed to improve the heat stability of nylon-based polymers usedin electric and electronic products.

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RECYCLOBYKOur formulated systems for recycling products are designed to improve
the recyclates’ quality, enabling new high-quality applications for usedplastics rather than downcycling them. These formulations can be
employed to recycle products based on HDPE, PP, PET MFI, PE/nylon,
which include battery cases, bottle caps, bins, or crates.

VISCOBYKThis product familiy serves to reduce viscosity
in PVC plastisols.

SCONA
SCONA is our multifaceted family of thermoplastics modifiers.
The group includes adhesion promoters and coupling agents
designed to improve advanced composites, fiber, glass fiber, orcarbon fiber compounds, optimizing their mechanicalproperties and their impact strength.

GARAMITE
These powdered rheology additives generatea rather pseudoplastic flow behavior.

RHEOBYKRHEOBYK includes a group of liquid organic rheology additives
which generate a thixotropic flow behavior.

CLOISITE
Modified phyllosilicates for use in thermoplastics as flame
retardant synergists and to improve physical properties.

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Answers to the pressing
issues of our time
Climate change, digitization, and energy e­ fficiency are pressing issuesof our time. Simultaneously, the desire for ­lifestyle ­products grows.
Our additives p­ rovide ­promising high-­performance solutions to allthese demands. Most high-tech app­lications b­ enefit from ourportfolio. They include l­ightweight ­construction for the automotive
industry, composite resins used for wind power plants, UV-resistantfilms to ­protect agricultural greenhouses. Our additives also
provide comfort, for example, when they are used tooptimize PVC floorings or to provide effects such as
flame ­retardancy, ­anti-scratch, or odor reduction.

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Thermoplastics
Widening the polymer horizon

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Thanks to their versatility, thermoplastic materials are extremely
popular worldwide and constitute a booming market. App­lications
range from products for the automotive industry to electrical andelectronic products, from film and packaging materials to products
for the construction industry and white goods.

Our diverse portfolio supports different stages of the value
chain, improving material properties, product quality andoptimizing efficiency during production. Our portfolio
consists of single- and multi component, additive mixtures.
The concentrates are based on our innovative skin-coreextrusion and compacting technologies, which make them
particularly easy to handle and allow for highly loaded
additive concentrates.

Our functional additives are used to achieve a multitudeof properties, which are crucial for today’s state-of-the-art
thermoplastic applications in the automobile industry as
well as the electric and electronics sectors. Properties include
UV and thermal stability, flame retardancy, nucleation,and desiccation. Additionally, there is a range of additives
providing anti-fog, anti-scratch, and anti-static effects.

Our products are suited for a wide range of plastic materials,
including polyolefins and engineering plastics. Besides
processing aids, novel coupling agents, and modifiers fromour BYK and SCONA brands, the BYK-MAX and CLOISITE
products play a major role in thermoplastics applications.
Most of them are designed precisely for that purpose.
RECYCLOBYK products are designated to improve therecyclates’ quality.

To best support our customers, our organization differentiates
between industrial applications and transportation
applications. This allows our end use specialist teams to focus
their know-how and expertise in one area of application andcollaborate on projects with direct and indirect customers.
Our laboratories contribute to this collaboration, runningapplication tests of our additives that replicate our customers’
production conditions. We have a number of laboratory
machines at our disposal, including tape casting, injection
molding, and single- and twin-extruders.

Our processing aids improve throughput and process
efficiency. This concerns the dispersion of pigments andfillers, but also the reduction of viscosity, odors, or VOC.
Often, these additives also enhance the mechanicalproperties of the finished parts without affecting theirappearance.

As our latest product innovations show, this internalorganization helps us to support our customers with
innovative solutions, and to capture new market trends
early and efficiently.

Industrial applications include cableformulations and films for greenhouses
or packaging.
Transportation applications consist ofinterior and exterior car components aswell as under-the-hood applications.

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Thermosets
Bringing out the best in thermosets

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Our portfolio for thermosets contains products for a wide range ofapplications including advanced composites. Through this portfolio,
we serve all technologies employed within the plastics sector(including SMC and BMC molding compounds, pultrusion, infusion,and hand lay-up).

Our products are suited to unsaturated polyester, vinylesters, epoxy resins, polyurethanes, and acrylates. Applications
include fiber-reinforced composites, gel coats and casting
compounds, electrical and electronics insulations (e.g. CCLapplications), polymer concrete, as well as engineered andartificial stone.
The wide range of customers we serve within thesemarkets reflects the different stages of the value chain in
the industry. Our customers include resin producers andformulators as well as producers of finished components.
They use our additives to improve material propertiess, butalso to ensure the efficiency of their production processes.
Given the fast market pace with constantly evolving trends
and growing expectations regarding sustainability, ourcustomers rely on us for innovative solutions based on ourlong-standing expertise. Our most recent developments inthis field are proof of that expertise; they include the world’s
first coupling agent for carbon fibers (BYK-C 8013), and an
air release agent based entirely on renewable resources(BYK-A 505).

Our additive portfolio helps optimize different aspects ofthermoset systems. Coupling agents, for example, act asadhesion promoters and contribute significantly to themechanical strength of polymer concretes or fiber-reinforced
systems. Our rheology additives and air release agents
improve the material’s processing qualities, while wetting
and dispersing products affect its storage capability.
To ensure efficient and reliable production processes,
manufacturing, our processing additives often combine
a number of effects, such as mold separation plus surface
enhancing properties.
We support our customers with laboratory services inorder to test our additives in their applications, if needed.
For example, we employ our sheet molding press to identify
suitable products for fiber-reinforced compounds.

To assist our customers who want toreduce their workplace hazards, wecreated a group of styrene emission
suppressants for unsaturated polyester
resins in particular. They comply withcurrent health & safety regulations.

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PVC /coatedfabrics
Optimizing the plastisol production

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PVC plastisols are used in numerous applications, ranging fromfloorings to wall coverings, from printing inks to coated fabrics totarps and other textile applications. Our corresponding additive
portfolio supports the production processes of product manufacturers
and helps processors to optimize material properties.

Customers can choose from four major product groups.
These include wetting and dispersing additives forincorporate fillers and pigments, as well as defoamers andair release agents, which facilitate optimal conditions during
the manufacturing process. We also offer process additives
and viscosity depressants, many of which meet indoor
emission levels thanks to low emissions.

To identify the formulation best suited for the applicationin question, our end use specialists assist customers withstate-of-the-art testing in our laboratories. With our spreadcoating machines, for example, we are able to replicate
industrial conditions used for floorings and artificial leather
under lab conditions. As a result, we obtain precise dataon the performance of our additives.

Based on our longstanding experience in the industry,
we provide intelligent solutions fast to new market trends,
as our most recent DISPERPLAST innovation shows. It
enhances the production efficiency of in-demand luxury
vinyl tiles (LVT).
The new wetting and dispersing
additive DISPERPLAST-1180 is
specifically designed for filled andplasticized PVC dry blends, often
employed in backing layers of luxury
vinyl tiles (LVT). Converters can selectfrom a wide range of BYK additives
for coated fabrics as well as PVC-freenatural leather applications.

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Global regulatory service with us,
it’s easy to follow requirements
Many of our customers produce the same product simultaneously at different
locations worldwide. They need to follow the regulatory requirements withindifferent regions, and expect their suppliers to do this, too, while providing thesame high quality and the same technical specifications worldwide. Our GlobalRegulatory Service allows us to help our customers meet these expectations.

When designing new formulations, we aim to come up withadditive solutions suited to any world region. Dependingon the additive’s application, it conforms to the relevant
regulations of the EU, Switzerland, the USA, Japan, or China.
This applies, for example, to rules regarding food contact
and toy compatibility, as well as other health andsafety issues.
Based on our commitment to product stewardship,
we provide a BRIEF (BYK Regulatory Information ExtensiveForm) for each additive. This data sheet contains all therelevant international regulatory data plus further
information on product safety.

Our Global Regulatory Service Team manages all aspects
relating to product safety, product stewardship, and theregistration of chemical substances. The international teamconsists of highly qualified specialists who also act as directcontacts for our customers, whether for initial inquiries orfor collaboration on specific projects.

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