MELAMINE-FORMALDEHYDE RESINS

Melamine-formaldehyde resins (MF resins) have been known and used for many decades. Because of their good properties, e. g. great hardness and abrasion resistance, chemical resistance, good electrical properties and the ability to react with a number of other synthetic resins. MF resins have opened up, as main fields of use, the sectors concerned with decorative laminates, thermosetting moulding compounds, wood adhesives, paper and textile finishing as well as stoving enamels. The continued development of melamine resins has, in recent years, been marked by the important points of pollution control, rationalization and process improvements in application, as well as product improvements. Apart from the opening up of new fields of use, the continual adaptation to modified processing techniques and the improvement of certain specific properties has resulted in securing and expanding the market situation.