Products in Textile Manufacturing: Surfactant

STEPFAC™ 8181 stands as an ethoxylated phosphate ester that holds significance across a variety of agricultural applications. It belongs to the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate esters and phosphate esters, functioning as a dispersant, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its application scope encompasses capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), and tank mix adjuvants.

ZELEC® A081 is an alcohol phosphate that can be used to help decrease the viscosity of high-pressure compounds. It can also be used to reduce and stabilize viscosity and act as a color stabilizer in rubber. It also plays the role of a lubricant additive for plastic materials and provides antistatic properties in fiber lubricating oils. It can also be used as a spreading agent for oils and waxes and as an internal demolding agent for molding plastic and pultrusion. It is an additive that inhibits deposits of a corrosive nature during the soldering of light metals (aluminum and magnesium) and can be used in construction as a concrete additive. It is also used as a dispersing agent in ink formulations.

BIO-SOFT® S-101 is a c11.3 linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid that delivers excellent detergency and compatibility with other anionic, nonionic, and amphoteric surfactants. Its versatile application encompasses various hi&i cleaning scenarios, including acidic formulations. This surfactant's utility extends to emulsifiable concentrates, concentrated emulsions, and suspoemulsions within agricultural contexts. Compliant with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen, it also makes an appearance on cleangredients.

STEOL® CS-460 is a 60% active, synthetic 3-mole sodium laureth sulfate featuring excellent detergent and foaming properties. This anionic surfactant's ethanol content lends clarity and fluidity at room temperature. Its versatility spans shampoos, laundry detergents, h&i cleaners, textile mill keir boiling and bleaching formulations, textile detergents, and various agricultural applications.

STEPANTEX® DC 90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary that offers commendable softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. As a liquid cationic surfactant, it is particularly well-suited for creating formulations of fabric softeners intended for both household and industrial use. It falls within the chemical group of dialkyl quaternary esters and functions as a textile antistatic agent. Notably, this product is kosher-certified, can be cold-mixed, and does not necessitate heating during the formulation process.

STEPANOL® WA-EXTRA-E is an anionic surfactant produced in europe and preserved with isothiazolones, providing excellent foaming and viscosity-building properties. It can be formulated into a wide variety of personal care and detergent formulations, such as shampoos, liquid hand soap, bath products, dishwashing detergents, fine fabric wash, carpet cleaning products, and textile applications.

AMMONYX® CETAC serves as a cationic surfactant employed in hair conditioners, skin creams, and lotions to deliver conditioning and softening benefits. It is also multifunctional, working as a skin-feel enhancer, textile antistatic agent, and adjuvant. Its applications span a wide range, including 2-in-1 shampoo, automatic dishwashing detergents, body wash, creams and lotions, dairy cleaners, degreasers, detanglers, and more. Notably, it is kosher-certified, preservative-free, and sulfate-free.

MAKON® NF-12 is a nonionic surfactant renowned for its low foaming characteristics and excellent wetting capabilities. Its versatility is evident in applications like mechanical dishwashing, metal cleaning, spray washing, general-purpose cleaning, emulsion polymerization, textile wetting and scouring, and as an adjuvant for agricultural products.

MAKON® 8 serves similarly to makon® 12, functioning as a high-active nonionic surfactant with versatile applications. Its use spans agricultural applications, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. Just like MAKON® 8's counterpart, it holds kosher certification.

STEOL® CS-230 KE is a mild anionic surfactant notable for good foaming, wetting, and high detergency. This low-active, 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate is preserved with cit or mit. Its uses encompass laundry products, liquid dishwashing products, car and vehicle washes, textile applications, industrial foamer specialties, as well as shampoos, bath products, and body washes.

MAKON® 25R2 stands as a notable nonionic reverse EO/PO block copolymer, prized for its swift-breaking, low foaming, and defoaming capabilities. Its versatility extends across a spectrum of industries where its unique properties find diverse applications and contribute to enhanced performance and efficiency.

STEPFAC™ 8180 serves as an ethoxylated phosphate ester with a broad spectrum of applications within the agricultural domain. It falls within the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate ester phosphate ester and fulfills functions as a dispersant, textile antistatic agent, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its versatile usage covers capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metal working applications, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), tank mix adjuvants, and textile wet processing.

STEPANTEX® HTS-100 is a diester fabric softener quaternary in a nonionic system for use in the coating of household and commercial fabric softener sheets. This solid cationic surfactant offers excellent controlled release, good rewetting, and static reduction. The product is biobased.

BIO-SOFT® N1-7 is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate delivering fast wetting, moderate to high foam, emulsification abilities, and effective detergency. Its application spans laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and cleangredients listing, ensuring environmental and safety compliance.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40K is an anionic surfactant prized for its excellent viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. This makes it particularly well-suited for personal care applications such as liquid hand soaps, shampoos, facial cleansers, body washes, and even hard surface cleaning. It meets the stringent requirements of the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

MAKON® DA-6 is a high-active nonionic surfactant that excels in emulsification, moderate foam generation, detergency, and excellent wetting properties. It has a broad spectrum of applications, including laundry, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, carpet cleaning, hand dishwashing, and institutional and industrial cleaning formulations. Importantly, makon da-6 aligns with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

ACCOSOFT® 808-90% presents a highly concentrated imidazoline fabric softener quaternary with 90% solids content. Designed for household and industrial liquid fabric softeners, its liquid form eases handling and formulation. By incorporating this cationic surfactant, stable dispersions with solid concentrations of up to 18% can be achieved, imparting softness and reducing static cling to fabrics.

ACCOSOFT® 550-90% HHV is a cationic surfactant, a diamidoamine fabric softener quaternary, commonly employed in household and commercial liquid fabric softeners. It enables the creation of high-viscosity dispersions with solid concentrations of up to 20%, all while maintaining excellent rewetting characteristics.

ACCOSOFT® 780 PG is a canola-based diamidoamine fabric softener quaternary with a high flash point. Engineered for use in wash and rinse cycle detergents and softeners in the household and textile industries, it can be combined with nonionic surfactants to create stable detergent and softener formulations. Its application extends to a variety of rinse-cycle fabric softener concentrations.

ACCOSOFT® 550-90% HF is a high-flash-point diamidoamine fabric softener quaternary primarily used in household and commercial fabric softeners. With its cationic surfactant paste nature, it achieves instant cold water dispersibility, leading to dispersions with solid concentrations ranging from 2.5% to 25%.

ACCOSOFT® 808 is a liquid cationic surfactant with an 80% solids content. Tailored for use in household and industrial liquid fabric softeners, its versatility lies in creating stable dispersions with solid concentrations of up to 20%. Known for its ease of handling, it delivers softness to fabrics while reducing static cling, thereby enhancing the overall quality and comfort of laundered textiles.

WACKER® E60 350 is a 60% emulsion of medium-viscosity polydimethylsiloxane using a nonionic surfactant system. It has been designed for use in many applications, including automotive care, polishes, industrial release, and textile lubricants. It has been designed to be used in many applications, such as mold release, textile lubricants and softeners, automotive care, and other specialty product applications.

WACKER® E60 1000 is a 60% emulsion of a medium-viscosity polydimethylsiloxane fluid using a nonionic surfactant system. This product has been designed to be used in many applications, such as mold release, furniture polish, automotive care, and other specialty product applications.

REWOQUAT® WE 15 DPG is di-(nor-oleyl carboxyethyl) hydroxyethyl methylammonium methosulfate and can be applied to textiles alone or in combination with other compatible finishing products. It is used for the handling and finishing of textiles made from various fibers, including cellulosic, synthetic, wool, and their blends, as well as a hydrophilic softener for non-wovens.

DYNOL® 607 is a high-performance, non-ionic superwetter capable of delivering the exceptional equilibrium and dynamic surface tension reduction synonymous with the Dynol name. It also boasts improved ease-of-incorporation and formulation compatibility compared to the more hydrophobic DYNOL® 607 Surfactant. Furthermore, comparative wetting performance tests have confirmed that DYNOL® 607 Surfactant is a valuable replacement for conventional fluorosurfactants and offers a cost-effective, non-persistent alternative to emerging fluorosurfactant technology.

Lutensol® TDA 10 is an ethoxylated tridecyl alcohol POE (10). It is an excellent wetting agent with good oil-in-water emulsification, dispersing, and solubilizing properties and relatively low foaming. It has a wide range of applications, including its use in emulsifier concentrates, emulsions (oil and water), microemulsions, suspension concentrates, suspo-emulsions, soluble liquids, and wettable powders.

Ethylan EF-90 is a VOC-free additive designed to enable freeze thaw stability in premium grade waterborne paint products, without compromising performance or finish.

T-Det® A 107 C is an anhydrous liquid surfactant produced through the reaction of an alcohol with seven moles of ethylene oxide. It has a wide range of applications, including textile processing, metal degreasing, clay soil removal, firefighting, and as a cleaner for industrial, institutional, and household use. This product is highly effective as a detergent due to its excellent ability to penetrate, wet, solubilize, disperse, and emulsify.

T-Det® EPO 68 F is a flaked nonionic surface-active agent produced by the reaction of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide. It is used in the paper, petroleum, textile, detergent and agriculture industries, and is recommended as a dispersing agent, gelling additive, wetting additive and chemical intermediate.

T-Det® AA 10 is an ethoxylated product based on Allyl alcohol, primarily used as a surfactant in products such as laundry detergents, surface cleaners, cosmetics, agricultural products, textiles, and paint. It is a clear, colorless to yellow liquid. They do not exert any harmful effect on health, provided they are used properly.

T-Det® OAM 8 is a liquid surfactant based on ethoxylated Oleyl amine and is commonly used as a dye leveling agent and wetting agent in textile formulations and detergents. It is manufactured by Harcros Chemicals Inc. and appears as a liquid. In addition to its applications in textiles, T-Det® OAM 8 also serves as an emulsifier, foaming agent, and wetting agent in a variety of industrial applications, including agrochemicals, coatings, and textile processing.

T-Det® A 106 is an anhydrous liquid surfactant produced through the reaction of an alcohol with 6 moles of ethylene oxide. It has a wide range of applications, including textile processing, metal degreasing, clay soil removal, fire fighting, and as a cleaner for industrial, institutional, and household use. This product is highly effective as a detergent due to its excellent ability to penetrate, wet, solubilize, disperse, and emulsify.

T-Det® A 91-8 is an anhydrous liquid surface-active agent produced by the reaction of an alcohol with 8 moles of ethylene oxide. This product is useful in many applications, such as textile processing, metal degreasing, clay soils, fire fighting, and industrial, institutional, and household cleaners. It is considered a great detergent due to its superb ability to penetrate, wet, solubilize, disperse, and emulsify.

Venadol® 104PA is a 50% active surface-active agent in 2-propanol(IPA) with a unique structure that allows multi-functional properties which include the following: foam control, reduction in surface tension, and viscosity stabilization. These various properties allow Venadol® 104PA to be utilized in various application such as, inks, paint, coatings, adhesives, pigment manufacturing, pigment dispersion, dye processing, This product is APE Free.

Venadol® 85 is an effective weitting agent that can be utilized in various application such as, inks, paint, coatings, adhesives, pigment manufacturing, pigment dispersion, dye processing, agricultural, cement, and metalworking lubricants. This product is APE Free.

T-Det® TAM 20 is an ethoxylated product based on tallow amine. It is primarily used as a nonionic surfactant in both industrial and domestic formulations. This product serves as a cleaning agent, antistatic agent, dispersant, and emulsifier in textile products and a corrosion inhibitor in metals.