Seeking Manufacturer for Soy-Based Resin
Status: Need is Closed
Need was closed on
Jan 11, 2019
Needs Title
Seeking Manufacturer for Soy-Based Resin
Description
The Ohio Soybean Council seeks partners who can manufacture scaled quantities of Soy-PK resin to enable supply of lab-scale and pilot scale quantities.
Background
Soy-PK (CAS# 1973457-12-3) is a proprietary soy-based resin developed to replace Bisphenol-A (BPA) based resins. Soy-PK is reactive with many cross linkers (amino resin, polymeric isocyanates and acrylates) and capable of forming coatings that match the performance of BPA based coatings.
Foam obtained using Soy-PK resin
Features and Benefits
- Bio based resin derived from soybean oil with significantly improved properties compared to alkyds and conventional oleoresins
- Enhanced chemical and corrosion resistance compared to traditional bio based resins
- Forms more stable bonds during crosslinking as opposed to less stable esters or urethane linkages
- Excellent pot life
- Easy to formulate with traditional coating solvents
- Enhanced cure kinetics over traditional bio-based resins
- Drop in replacement for BPA and phenolics in many coating applications
- No detectable level of estrogenic activity and anti-estrogenic activity in BG1Luc assay
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Versatile resin for making coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers, and foams
For more information about the resin, see data package at: https://www.pcimag.com/articles/101988-high-solids-reactive-oligomers-derived-from-soybean-oil
The goal is to enable production of 1-20 kg quantities of liquid resin to be able to offer resin samples for development projects. Ideally, a production partner could also scale up their process to provide larger quantities as demand increases.
Soy-PK is produced by a solvent-free acetoacetylation of soybean oil.
Key success Criteria
Manufacturing partners should have:
- Capabilities to conduct organic/polymer reactions
- Capabilities to handle high-viscosity materials
- The ability to produce 1-kg or 20-kg quantities of liquid resin, preferably with possibility of scaling to 100-kg to 1000-kg quantities as demand increases
- The ability to control manufacturing process to generate a consistent certificate of analysis specifying key physical properties such as viscosity, density, and molecular weight
Possible Approaches
Possible approaches include, but are not limited to, manufacturing partners such as:
- Contract chemistry laboratories—private or academic—who are only able to produce one kg lab scale quantities
- Tolling companies that can produce 10-20 kg quantities
- Chemical processing companies that produce > 100 kg quantities
Preferred Collaboration Types
Items to be submitted
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Attachment
Client Point of Contact
Barry McGraw
Gallery Moderator(s)
Kevin Andrews
Request Number
NG_2018_0091_N_002