OCCA Weekly Webinar - Coasol® - non VOC solvents
Venue: Webinar
Date: Wednesday 21st June 2023
Time: 14:30 – 15:30
Our Series 10 of OCCA Weekly Webinars continues with "Coasol® - non VOC solvents" presented by Steve Hancill of Seqens Custom Specialities. The webinar will take place via Zoom on Wednesday 21 June at 2:30pm.
Abstract:
Seqens Custom Specialties is located in North East England across two manufacturing sites and produce c. 70KT/year of speciality chemicals, many of which are sold in the coatings and related industries globally. Specialising in reactive distillation, products are predominantly ester and alcohol-based chemistries and we have an ever-increasing focus towards producing more environmentally benign products. We are a proud holder of the EcoVadis gold medal. This recognizes how the company is implementing actions and policies aligned with its sustainability ambitions.
The first and second generation from Seqens Custom Specialties was Coasol. A low VOC solvent for use to replace traditional coalescent solvents with lower VOC profile, it is also able to be used to reduce VOC content in solvent based systems, therefore reducing VOC element of coatings systems. The second generation is Coasol 290+, a non VOC product. Coasol 290+ is Clean Air accredited to give coatings companies an advantage particularly for DECO coatings. Coasol 290+ can also be used to reduce the VOC content of formulations when using traditional solvents in your formulation.
Having successfully produced our non-VOC, biodegradable, Coasol® Technology for more than 10 years we are pleased to introduce our next generation solvents with a bio-renewable content ranging from 60-100%. The bio-renewable solvents answer the growing need from the coatings industry to leave less impact on the world in manufacturing coatings products and demand from the consumer for this type of RM feedstocks.
Speaker Profile - Steve Hancill - Commercial Manager for CASE Industries - Seqens Custom Specialties
Steve Hancill B Sc. is a Commercial Manager at Seqens Custom Specialties. He has held multiple roles in technical, marketing and commercial positions in the coatings industry over a career spanning circa. 30 years. Early career years were spent at International Paint supporting and developing speciality decorative, marine and protective coating formulations, before then moving into product management within the yacht coatings sector. More recently Steve is commercially responsible for the range of solvents manufactured by Seqens Custom Specialties in the UK, that are sold into the coatings and related industries globally.
