Ecomer®

Sugar based acrylic monomer. It is environmentally sustainable. The sugar used to produce EcoMer is derived from annually renewable resources, such as glucose or dextrose from cornstarch. As a bio-monomer, it can partially replace a wide variety of petrochemicals such as acrylate and vinyl monomers. Can impart new properties and improved performance capabilities to the end-product over traditional petrochemical monomers. It can be produced at various viscosity levels, ranging from a resinous solid to a low viscosity liquid. It is available today as a 40% solution in butyl acrylate co-monomer (low viscosity) and in pure form (a solid with a softening point of about 53 °C). Both of these products are close to 100% active in monomer content. Used as a bio-based building block for creating new resins. Sugar macromers contain no VOCs, which make them much safer to use than traditional petrochemical monomers.