Additives for Hot, Warm and Recycling Mixes from BYK
Additives for hot, warm, and recycling asphalt mixes are designed to optimize processing conditions, improve workability, and enhance the performance of bitumen based mixtures across different production technologies. We offer process additives like: thixotropic agents, breaking control additives, adhesion promoters, defoamers, rheology modifiers, dispersing agents, and flow improvers from BYK.
In hot mix asphalt (HMA), these additives act as dispersants and flow improvers, ensuring efficient coating of aggregates, better distribution of fillers, and consistent mixing at high temperatures. For warm mix asphalt (WMA), BYK additives help reduce viscosity and enable lower production and compaction temperatures, which translates into energy savings, reduced emissions, and improved working conditions on-site. In recycling applications, including mixes with reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), these additives support the integration of aged and virgin binders by improving compatibility, dispersion, and overall homogeneity of the mix.
Across all applications, BYK’s process additives contribute to more stable production, easier handling, and enhanced durability of the final pavement, making them a valuable component in modern, efficient, and sustainable road construction systems.
Processing Additives for Roofing Applications from BYK
Additives from BYK support the efficient production and consistent quality of bitumen used in roofing and other non-paving applications. Acting as process aids, dispersants, defoamers and rheology modifiers, they improve the incorporation of fillers, enhance flow behavior during mixing and application, and ensure uniform formulation of roofing membranes, sealants, and coatings. These additives help optimize manufacturing processes while contributing to better surface quality, stability, and performance of finished waterproofing systems.
Performance Additives from BYK
Waxes, wetting, dispersing, and rheology additives from BYK are essential for optimizing the performance and application of road marking systems. Waxes improve scratch resistance, surface durability, and controlled matting, while wetting and dispersing additives ensure uniform pigment distribution and color consistency. Rheology modifiers help achieve the right flow and viscosity, enabling smooth application and preventing sagging or settling. Together, these additives enhance processing efficiency, marking quality, and long-term visibility, making them critical components in high-performance road marking formulations.
Cutting-edge matting technologies through from BYK
Delivering cutting-edge matting technologies through their CERAFLOUR® and AQUACER® portfolios. BYK offers natural, semi-synthetic, and synthetic wax emulsions and micronized additives that provide efficient matting, silky gloss appearances, and excellent scratch, slip, and anti-blocking properties.
Wetting, Dispersing, Surface, Rheology, Wax Additives
Bjørn Thorsen distributes the full portfolio of wetting and dispersing agents, rheology modifiers, surface additives, waxes, defoamers, adhesion promoters and stabilizers from BYK. Wetting and dispersing additives help to incorporate and stabilize pigments and fillers.
Rheology additives, which can be based on urea, polyamide, phyllosilicates, liquid associative thickeners or liquid waxes, in order to establish and optimize the viscosity profile.
Surface additives enable control and coordination of the surface tension and energy on substrate and coating. When correctly managed, it will prevent wetting and levelling issues, as well as surface defects.
Wax additives improve a multitude of surface properties. These can be scratch and abrasion resistant, soft feel, anti-slip, matting and gloss, anti-blocking and structure, etc. We can supply wax additives in liquid emulsions and dispersions, as well as solid micronized wax additives.
Defoamers from BYK
Foam often causes problems in production and application processes. It also has a negative impact on surface coatings such as appearance and mechanical protective effects. In order to achieve the desired defoaming effect, the defoamer should have a certain degree of incompatibility in the system. The defoaming effect is generally based on a combination of hydrophobic particles and an oil component. Most common chemical structures are Mineral Oil, Silicone or Silicone free polymeric defoamers.
