Disclosed are silane functionalized rosins having multiple functionalities. Such silane functionalized rosins are curable and thus capable of providing unexpected properties for various uses and end products. Also disclosed are synthetic routes to prepare silane functionalized rosins, which are formulated with hydroxyl functional polymers to provide curable adhesive compositions. The adhesives may be used for woodworking, automotive, textile, appliances, electronics, bookbinding, and packaging. Suitable substrates can be metal, polymer film, plastics, wood, glass, ceramic, paper, and concrete.

A moisture curable hot melt sealant composition that includes a silane-modified polyurethane polymer that is free of isocyanate groups, a first rosin-based tackifying agent, a second tackifying agent different from the first rosin-based tackifying agent, a first ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer, a butene component having a weight average molecular weight from 30,000 g/mole to 700,000 g/mole and being selected from the group consisting of polyisobutylene, polyisobutene, polybutene, and combinations thereof; and filler.

A moisture-curable adhesive composition comprises a polymer component selected from a silane-terminated polyalkylene oxide and/or a polyurethane; a plurality of amino-silane modified wollastonite fibers having an average aspect ratio of from about 1.5:1 to about 12:1 and an average fiber length of from about 6 μm to about 825 μm; at least two fillers, wherein one of said fillers is untreated and a second of said fillers is treated with a modifier selected from the group consisting of a fatty acid derivative, a silane, a titanate, and mixtures thereof wherein at least one of said fillers is irregularly shaped; and a rheology modifier. The composition preferably further comprises a plurality of irregularly-shaped crumb rubber particles having an average particle size of between about 0.5 to 1.5 mm. The composition is useful for adhering tiles to surfaces, especially large format tiles to substantially vertically-extending wall surfaces.

One-component heat-activatable polyurethane water-based adhesive composition, which comprises, with respect to the total weight of the adhesive composition: —from 12% to 50%, by weight of dry matter, of an aqueous dispersion of a polyurethane (A) comprising alkoxysilyl pending and/or terminal groups, and —from 0.5% to 5% by weight of a glycidoxy substituted alkoxysilane compound (B) with a glycidoxy functionality of at least 2.

There is provided herein a clear, transparent, low yellow color and non-yellowing moisture-curable silylated polymer composition, which contains an alkoxysilyl-containing polymer, a light stabilizer, a sterically hindered amine, a silicon compound containing a conjugated C═C group, an adhesion promoter and curing catalyst. There is also provide a method of making the moisture-curable composition and a sealant comprising the same.

Specific hydroxysilanes of formula (I), a method for the production thereof, the use thereof as a constituent of moisture-curing compositions, and silane-functional compounds produced therefrom, in particular silane-functional polymers and isocyanatosilanes. The hydrosilanes can be produced in a simple process with a high degree of purity and are storage-stable after production. Production from the reaction of lactides with aminosilanes is particularly advantageous. Hydroxysilane of formula (I), where n is 1 or 2.

A compound is described having following formula: (I) Also described is a mixture of compounds comprising the reaction product of i) a urethane compound comprising a perfluorooxyalkyl moiety and at least two (meth)acryl groups; and ii) a silane compound comprising hydrolysable groups and a group selected from amine or mercapto group; wherein i) and ii) are reacted at an equivalent ratio of excess compound i) such that (meth)acryl groups remain unreacted. Methods and articles are also described.

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A method of producing wood-base panels, especially OSB wood-base panels is provided. The method including the steps of providing wood strands, applying at least one adhesive system to the wood strands having at least one polymer adhesive and at least one nanoparticle below 500 nm, and pressing the wood strands admixed with the adhesive system to form wood-base panels.

The invention relates to a two-component composition, including a component A, which includes at least one silane-functional polymer and at least one hardener or accelerator for epoxy resins, and a component B, which includes at least one aqueous emulsion of at least one epoxy resin. Two-component compositions according to the invention are suitable as adhesives, sealants or coatings.

A blocked polyisocyanate-containing curable silicone composition includes an amino group-containing organopolysiloxane, a blocked polyisocyanate and a catalyst which is an organic base compound and/or a metal compound. The composition has a high curability even under low-temperature conditions and, when used as a textile treatment, imparts textile fibers and products with good softness and water absorbency, and also has an excellent durability to washing.