Recently, BASF and the renowned specialty chemicals manufacturer Sika joined forces to jointly develop a novel amine-based building block for epoxy resin curing, successfully launching it on the market under BASF's Baxxodur® EC 151 brand.

Baxxodur® EC 151 curing agent is a "star product" specially designed for flooring applications. It can demonstrate outstanding performance in production workshops, warehouses, assembly workshops, and parking lots.

This curing agent imparts low viscosity and excellent flow properties to the epoxy resin flooring solution, making the coating application easy and simple, with even distribution after application. In terms of environmental protection, it significantly reduces the amount of diluent required, and the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is reduced by up to 90%.

In terms of performance, epoxy resin coatings formulated with Baxxodur® EC 151 can cure quickly and thoroughly across a wide temperature range. Compared to traditional curing agents, this solution reduces curing time by approximately two-thirds, allowing the floor to be put into use shortly after construction and significantly shortening the project cycle.

Epoxy resin itself has poor physical properties. After adding a curing agent, it undergoes a cross-linking reaction under certain conditions, forming a three-dimensional network structure of polymers, which then exhibits excellent performance.

According to the structure of the curing agent, it can be divided into amine addition products, polysulfide compounds, polyamides, anhydride types, amine types, isocyanate compounds, imidazoles, and resin-type curing agents, etc. Among these, the most widely used and having the broadest application range is polyamines, which account for more than 70% of the total amount of curing agents. The use of polyamines is mostly in the form of modified polyamine derivatives.

Amine curing agents have already demonstrated excellent performance in the flooring field, but their potential extends far beyond this. In areas such as adhesives, amine curing agents also hold promising application value.

In order to break the poor linkage between the upstream and downstream of the domestic chemical industry and promote innovative development in the field of organic amines, we are particularly hosting the "2025 (13th) Epoxy Resin High-End Application Technology Exchange Conference and Organic Amines and Modified Amines Industry Forum." This forum brings together numerous industry experts, corporate representatives, and research institutions, and will showcase a series of new products and technologies.

The forum includes advanced hydrogenation technologies for high-value organic amines, the development pattern of the ethylene amine industry, the development of N,N-dimethyl-1,3-propanediamine, the prospects for methyltetrahydrophthalic anhydride, the design of multifunctional amine fast curing agents, introductions to green catalytic technologies for special amine derivatives, and the applications of aromatic amine derivatives in epoxy resins.