NEW WEBINAR 

Vinavil is pleased to announce the WEBINAR “Vinavil XT: New Products for Exterior Use for Wood” which will take place on March 14th at 3:00 pm CEST. The webinar will be focused on the development of a new range of 2 component-adhesives in compliance with a recently issued norm EN 17619:2021 that classifies wood adhesives for nonstructural timber products for exterior use.

The new norm was put in place to fill a normative gap in the wood adhesive sector for exterior use, in which for the same application that undergoes specific environmental conditions, different adhesive technologies are deployed ranging from thermoplastic non-load bearing adhesives to thermosetting ones.

The new standard provides three durability classes:

•  XT5: Exterior application with rare exposure to direct weathering, in which the glued wooden product is covered by constructive protection from the weather. (e.g.: wooden products behind cladding and products completely protected by roofs, coverings, canopy, or open sheds….)
  
• XT6: Exterior application with occasional but not persistent exposure to direct weathering, in which the glued wooden product is partially covered by constructive protection.
  
• XT7: Exterior application with frequent exposure to direct weathering, in which the glued wooden product is not covered by constructive protection and not in contact with the ground (e.g.: decking, outdoor playground equipment…)

The adhesive classified for non-structural applications for exterior use shall have a minimum durability class of D4 as specified in EN 204.

Then, XT class performance of the adhesive shall be carried out with a tensile shear test after two different conditioning distinctly performed sequences:

1)            24 hours boiling water immersion, followed by 1 hour cooling in water at 20°C.

2)            Heat conditioning for 1 hour in a ventilated oven at 110 °C.

The simultaneous achieving of the performance in humid environments and heat resistance allows to destinate the adhesive in the specific exterior use.

Vinavil has recently designed a new range of 2 component-adhesives in compliance with two durability classes as follows:

• XT 5 Class: 100 pbw of Vinavil XT500 +   5 pbw of Vinadur 500
• XT 6 Class: 100 pbw of Vinavil XT700 + 20 pbw of Vinadur 700

TECHNICAL SEMINAR WITH KEYSER & MACKAY

In January, Vinavil participated in the Technical Seminar Coatings & Adhesives organized by Keyser & Mackay France.

The first day, Antonietta Schirò, Product Manager for Paints/Coatings, and Lucie Boeri, Sales Area Manager for France, introduced our products range dedicated to Paints & Coatings. They presented to the audience our last development such as our biobased pure acrylic CRILAT BIO D117 AF and the pure acrylic CRILAT 4850 dedicated to indoor & oudoor flooring applications.

During the second day, Fabio Chiozza, Product Manager for Adhesives, and Lucie Boeri presented CRILAT 2823 and 2824 for OPP lamination and gave an overview of our products ranges dedicated to paper and packaging such as VINAVIL 2428 adhesion promoter and also to PSA applications.

These two days were characterized by very interesting talks with customers and Keyser & Mackay team. It was a pleasure for Vinavil team to support Keyser & Mackay during this well-organized event.