Award-winning anti-corrosion technology:
Intelli-ion® is an award-winning, multi-regional, patented anti-corrosion additive, that offers ‘smart' corrosion protection.
Specifically designed to completely replace heavy metal and chromate inhibitors or co-blend with phosphate inhibitors, Intelli-ion® elevates your primer coatings at low loadings.
Providing the coatings market with:
Cost Effective
High Performance
‘Smart’ Technology
Improved Adhesion
Price Stability
Sustainable Benefits
Are you using too much corrosion inhibitor?
Intelli-ion® AX1 has a low specific gravity (1.35) compared to traditional inhibitors. This unique characteristic makes Intelli-ion® AX1 notably lighter, with a greater volume, significantly reducing the amount of inhibitor needed to maintain your anti-corrosion performance. Providing you with multiple cost advantages, including reduced storage and transport costs, and stable pricing.
‘Smart’ technology
The award-winning, multi-regional, patented Intelli-ion® technology offers a fast, ‘smart’ and effective corrosion response. Active ingredients stay dormant in the micro-reservoir system until they sense corrosion activity and release the inhibitor ‘on demand.’
High performance
Independent testing by leading coatings manufacturers shows that Intelli-ion® offers superior or comparable performance vs current market-leading alternatives [*depending on reformulation goals]. While also providing improved adhesion.
Sustainable benefits
Intelli-ion® is not only chromate, phosphate and heavy metal free but is manufactured using a circular economy approach, repurposing waste product into a high-performance, sustainable corrosion inhibitor.
With Intelli-ion® you can also:
Remove environmental warning labels from your packaging
Reduce your CO2 emissions per liter of paint
Applications Guide
Co-blend vs. complete reformulation
Intelli-ion® can be used to replace existing inhibitors or to co-blend with existing phosphates.
The table below summarizes the product offering – with significant advantages for coatings manufacturers and end users via co-blend and complete replacement formulas.
Co-blend
Complete
Performance
Comparable or better performance
Better adhesion
Significant performance increase
Better adhesion
Cost
Significant cost savings vs. phosphate-based inhibitors alone
Comparable cost to phosphate-based inhibitors
Technology
Blend of known plus smart technology
Differentiated smart technology
Environment
Category 4 when phosphate-based inhibitor loadings < 2.5% - no environmental warning labels
Category 3 when in paint system - no environmental warning labels
Zero heavy metal content
Incorporation and testing
Hexigone provides confidential and bespoke coatings systems advice on loading levels, to optimise performance and cost, for existing product reformulation and new product development.
Incorporation: the technology is designed to replace existing inhibitors without any changes to the manufacturing process. It can be ground or added during the let down phase, just add into the formula at the point you add your current corrosion inhibitors.
Testing: to effectively evaluate Intelli-ion®, it is advised that full coatings systems, with the protective barrier topcoat applied, are tested.
