PLANT-BASED AND FOOD-GRADE
PLANT-BASED AND FOOD-GRADE
Coating additives for expandable polystyrene (EPS)
Palsgaard’s Einar® series includes everything you’ll need to create successful EPS products: Plant-based and food-grade anti-static additives and cooling time enhancers and blends of these.
EPS coating additives made simple
KEY FEATURES
- Highly effective plant-based anti-static additives and cooling time enhancers for the EPS process
- High-quality fine-powdered glyceride esters of fatty acid esters from vegetable oils
- Custom-designed for EPS applications
- Worldwide regulatory approval for food-contact applications
KEY BENEFITS
- Excellent anti-static protection via coating
- Ready-to-use coating blends
- Fine powders with high coating efficiency
- Can be used for various EPS bead sizes by adjusting the concentration
- Suitable for both EPS and XPS beads
- Consultancy and technical support available from our applications team
Einar® coating additives
With fine-powdered additives Einar® 501 and Einar® 511, Palsgaard offers the standard GMS and GTS commonly used in the industry for processing control. This enables manufacturers to create their own tailored blends to match their specific production set-ups.
Einar® anti-static EPS coating additives
Einar® 501 is an efficient vegetable-based GMS anti-stat that will help improve the flow properties of EPS beads during storage, transportation and through the pre-expansion step as well as during screening and moulding by reduction of agglomerates and attraction to processing equipment.
Einar® 501 is a fine powder with excellent coating properties and the recommended use level is 0.1 - 0.6% depending on EPS bead size. Smaller beads require higher concentrations due to a higher specific surface area.
Einar® EPS cooling time enhancers
Einar® 511 is a plant-based GTS cooling time enhancer which will help reduce cycle times by facilitating a faster exchange of foaming agent and air in the moulding process.
Einar® 511 is a very fine powder and has high coating efficiency and should be used at loading levels of 0.1 - 0.4% to obtain the best performance on cooling time.
Einar® coating additive blends
Blends offer a very convenient way to apply EPS coatings. It is an all-in-one solution where there is no need to handle several different individual products. The complete coating formulation is a ready-to-use pre-blended formulation offering easy dosing and accuracy, better and faster handling and options for additive inventory optimization.
EPS full blends of GMS/GTS/Zinc Stearate
Einar® 543 and Einar® 544 are the perfect solutions for EPS producers looking to optimise their production processes and add a more sustainable profile to their products in one go. These all-in-one solutions complete with zinc stearate eliminate the need to handle several different individual products.
The complete coating formulations are ready-to-use pre-blended formulations offering easy dosing and accuracy, better and faster handling and options for additive inventory optimization.
Einar® 543 and Einar® 544 are blends with GMS, GTS and varying zinc stearate content. It is often a matter of the producer's specific processing and handling whether more lubrication in the form of a higher zinc stearate content is needed.
