ASCOTRUST® X3

Aqueous solution of metal chelating agents. Tannic acid-free.

• Liquid additive for waterborne coatings. Reacts with metal cations to form stable organic complexes chemically bonded on the metal substrates, providing a stable and effective chemical passivation.
• Ready-to-use and easy to incorporate liquid
• Compatible with most waterbased binders
• Eco-friendly additive (Complies with main environmental-friendly labels)
• Synergic action with antiflash-rust additives
• Doesn’t change color of coatings

• ASCOTRUST® X3 is added to waterborne coatings directly applied on rusted or poor-prepared ferrous substrates. It ensures an effective blocking effect on residual rust, and avoids its migration through the fresh paint film.
• Its passivation properties on rust allow to maintain good anticorrosion performances of the coatings, despite the adverse substrate conditions.
• It doesn’t compromise the coating anticorrosion performance on non-rusted substrates.
• ASCOTRUST® X3 is mainly designed for waterborne white or colored pigmented coatings, based on various binder technologies: acrylic, alkyd, epoxy, PU.
• It is recommended to use an organic-type anticorrosion agent when ASCOTRUST® X3 is added to a metal paint formulation.

ASCOTRUST® X3 is preferably added at the last manufacturing step (post-addition).

• In 2K PU systems: should be added into the resin part.
• In 2K Epoxy systems: preliminary tests should be performed to determine in which part ASCOTRUST-X3 should be added.

Indicative use dosages (% of total coating weight) :

• 1 to 3% depending on the coating formulation. The dosage can reach 5% into primers or one coat systems, applied on highly reactive rusted substrates, at low DFT (<40-50 μm). It is advisable to determine the optimum amount by a laboratory test.

*According to directive 2004-42-CE

• Plastic pail of 30kg net.
• Metal drum of 200kg net.
• IBC of 1000 kg net.

No specific condition for transport. Weight and packaging size (off-pallet) :

• Pail : 1.5kg - Ø30, H50
• Drum : 15kg - Ø60, H90
• IBC : 70kg - L120, l100, H120

• Ideal temperature conditions: 0 to 30°C.
• Expiration : 1 year in its original closed drum, in storage conditions described above. Some cristals may form when ASCOTRUST is stored at temperatures below 0°C for several days. Product will recover its initial properties after warming at ambient temperature.