High Performance Additives

Borealis manufactures both processing and functional additives which are used for paper impregnation and board production.

Our AMI HIPERADD^® range of high performance additives are liquid materials with a clear to slightly milky appearance. They are specially designed to help the woodworking industry manufacture end products that offer superior strength and reliability. 

What these high performance additives can do for you 

Our AMI HIPERADD^® line of additives are ideally suited for paper impregnation and board production and are available as processing aids or functional products.

For paper impregnation, our additives are applied in small amounts to the aminoplastic resins which facilitates either the processing or functional stages of laminate production. 

Our AMI HIPERADD^®  processing additives for paper impregnation include:

• Wetting
• Transparency
• Release/parting
• Antiblocking
• Cleaning
• Combined (wetting and release) agents
• Modifiers/plasticizers
• Hardeners

The AMI HIPERADD^®  functional additives are incorporated during the process of impregnation to yield specific properties of the finished surface of the laminate.

These additives include agents such as our antimicrobial additive AMI HIPERCARE^®.

For board production, our line of high performance additives are mainly used in processing the adhesives that bind the laminates. These additives include:

• External release/parting agents
• Internal release/parting agents
• Hardeners