High-boiling, dipolar aprotic solvent TamiSolve™ NxG
TamiSolve™ NxG is a high-boiling, dipolar aprotic solvent. It has good solvency for a wide range of compounds and has high chemical and thermal stability, and is not classified as reprotoxic. and is in contradiction to NEP and NMP not classified as reprotoxic. TamiSolve™ NxG is a high-boiling, dipolar aprotic solvent. It has good solvency for a wide range of compounds, has high chemical and thermal stability, and is not classified as reprotoxic. TamiSolve™ NxG has an established performance as formulation and synthesis solvent in speciality polymer coatings membranes & tribological coatings, micro-electronics manufacturing (photoresist stripper), coatings (PUD) and inks, paint strippers and industrial cleaning.
In many applications, it can be used to replace NMP or NEP (N(m)ethyl pyrrolidone), as well as other solvents like dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) 1,3-Dioxolane and Dipropylene Glycol Dimethyl Ether (DMM).
TamiSolve™ NxG can be used in:
- Coatings
- Printing inks
- Cleaning & stripping
- Polyurethanes
- Resins
- Paint strippers
Restrictions NMP
On 18 April 2018, the European Commission published a restriction (Annex XVII to Reach) for NMP in Regulation (EU) 2018/588.
Under the restriction, NMP users must implement measures to ensure that occupational exposure of workers to NMP remains below:
14.4 mg/m3 by inhalation and 4.8 mg/kg by dermal contact (all values being 8-hour average exposure limits). All users of NMP must be compliant with the regulation as of 9 May 2020. As an exception, the wire coating industry will have to comply as of 9 May 2024.
If you would like more information about TamiSolve, please contact our product managers Bert Broek or Stefan Willems at stefan.willems@will-co.eu or +31 20 659 7501. For the UK, please contact our colleague Nirav Banker, nirav.banker@will-co.eu