Germany · Foaming Agents & Adhesion Promoters
Tramaco GmbH
A German specialty chemical company making foaming agents, adhesion promoters, and polymer additives, part of the ROWA Group.
Germany · Foaming Agents & Adhesion Promoters
A German specialty chemical company making foaming agents, adhesion promoters, and polymer additives, part of the ROWA Group.
Tramaco has been developing and producing specialty additives for plastics, rubber, and coatings since 1973, when it was founded in Hamburg. The company became part of the ROWA Group in 1979 and has since operated as its specialty additives division alongside ROWA Lack.
Their three core product families are TRACEL foaming agents and additive masterbatches for plastics and rubber foaming, TRAPYLEN adhesion promoters and primers for polyolefinic substrates, and TRAPUR polyurethane-based primers for films, including PVC film that the TRAPYLEN grades do not cover.
P.A.T. Products is the exclusive North American distributor for the TRAPYLEN adhesion promoter range. Polyolefins are difficult to coat, print, or laminate without pre-treatment; TRAPYLEN systems do this chemically, without plasma or flame treatment.
The range is organized by application case, the way Tramaco publishes it: adhesion additives for printing inks on PP, PE and BOPP film, primers for molded plastics for painting PP and PP/EPDM parts, and primers for films, foils and sheets for TPO and FPO web. Each page carries the grades Tramaco currently recommends with chemistry, chlorine content, form and solids.
Customers running coated textile systems can get both the surface preparation and the final lacquer from us, through Tramaco and ROWA Lack.
TRAPYLEN primers for coating, printing, bonding, and laminating PP, PE, and TPO substrates.
TRACEL chemical foaming agents and masterbatches for PVC, polyolefins, PS, and engineering polymers.
TRACEL systems for sponge rubber and cellular rubber production via extrusion and molding.
TRAPUR products for coating, bonding, and laminating polyurethane substrates and synthetic leathers.
The TRAPYLEN range is in our own catalog, organized the way Tramaco publishes it: one page per application case, each with the grades Tramaco recommends, their chemistry, chlorine content, form and solids. The chlorine free APO grades are marked on every table, and all thirteen of them are collected on chlorine free adhesion promoters for polyolefins.
| Application case | What it covers | Grades |
|---|---|---|
| Printing ink additives | Adhesion additives for solvent-based and UV-curable inks on PP, PE and BOPP film | 186 EAC, 187 EAC, 196 X, 5650 UV, 5800 UV, and the solid 118 S to 196 S range |
| Primers for molded plastics | Painting and coating molded polyolefin parts, in solvent, waterborne and solid form | 130 X, 777, 6600 W to 6800 W, the solid 112 S to 146 S range, and the chlorine free 900-series |
| Primers for films, foils and sheets | Ready-to-use primers for coating TPO and FPO film, foils and sheets | T 4121, 8000, X 8280, X 9100 M, 9352 W, 9703 W |
| TRAPUR polyurethane primers | Chlorine free PU primers for PVC, PES, PS, ABS, rubber and TPO film | 113, 115 X, 209 W |
| TRAZIDIN VN crosslinker | Polyfunctional aziridine for carboxyl-bearing acrylic emulsions and PUDs | TRAZIDIN VN |