Products in Cleaning Aids: Metal Cleaners

BTC Europe GmbH APG 325 UP is an aqueous solution of alkyl polyglucosides based on synthetic fatty alcohol C9 - C11. It is a nonionic alkyl polyglucoside surfactant that combines the formulation ease of typical nonionics with the foam characteristics of anionics. Unpreserved and carrying the Safer Choice designation, APG® 325 UP provides excellent detergency and stability benefits in various cleaning products, exhibiting superior wetting, dispersing, and interfacial tension reduction properties for increased soil removal, especially on hard surfaces.

BIO-SOFT® N1-3 is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a low hlb value, offering emulsification, low foam, detergency, and wetting properties. Its versatility shines in oil-in-water formulations, making it suitable for textiles, automatic dishwashing detergents, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning.

BIO-SOFT® N91-2.5 is a c9-11 linear alcohol ethoxylate featuring a low hlb. This versatile product offers rapid wetting, low foam, emulsification, and detergency. Its applications span laundry, textiles, hard surface cleaning, machine-based cleaning, paints, carpet cleaning, and institutional and industrial cleaning contexts.

MERPOL® SE is a nonionic surfactant known for its effective wetting properties and low foaming characteristics. It finds application in textile and paper processing, including automatic dishwashing detergents, brewery cleaners, floor cleaners, laundry aids, laundry detergents, and meat packing plant cleaners. Its market reach includes home care, industrial products, and institutional and industrial cleaning.

STEPOSOL® CITRI-MET presents a solution composed of steposol® met-10u, citrus terpenes, and emulsifiers, surpassing petroleum-based solvents in cleaning and solvency with minimal voc content and a bio-based source. It's applicable to various cleaner types, from home-market multi-surface cleaners to industrial cleaners.

STEPFAC™ 8175 functions as an acid phosphate ester hydrotrope in nonionic surfactant-based alkali cleaners and excels in high-electrolyte systems. STEPFAC™ 8175's applications span agriculture, metalworking, and textiles, with roles encompassing dispersing, emulsifying, adjuvant functions, and acting as a wetting agent.

BIO-SOFT® 35-7, renowned for its nonionic surfactant properties, excels in delivering superior detergency, emulsification, and solubilization functionalities. As a highly versatile product, it serves as a potent degreaser and wetting agent, addressing a wide array of application requirements across various industries with remarkable efficiency and effectiveness.

STEPANTEX® CO-36 is a castor oil ethoxylate that functions as a lubricating and emulsifying agent within the scope of metalworking applications. Its chemical group is linked to castor oil ethoxylates, and it fulfills the functions of an emulsifier and solubilizer.

STEPANATE® SCS takes on multiple roles as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. It's used in various applications, including heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, dishwashing detergents, and metalworking. Its chemical group belongs to hydrotropic sulfonates, and it holds kosher certification.

STEPANATE® SCS-40A serves as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant in liquid detergent formulations. Its hydrotropic property enables the incorporation of incompatible materials, while also lowering the cloud point or crystallization temperature of complex blends. Notably, STEPANATE® SCS-40A contains no alcohol, thus preserving the flash point of your formulation.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 HASB is sodium c14-16 olefin sulfonate that provides excellent viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. It is an ideal anionic surfactant for a variety of household, industrial, and institutional cleaning and personal care applications, as well as agricultural formulations and construction products used for concrete bases, firefighting foams, and dust control. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

MAKON® TD-3 is a nonionic surfactant with broad utility in various agricultural formulations and is adjustable based on hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (hlb). The product, certified kosher, is applicable in agricultural solutions, home care, institutional, and industrial cleaning. Its use spans automatic dishwashing detergents, brewery cleaners, capsule suspensions (cs), and concentrated emulsions (ew).

STEPANQUAT® ML is a quaternary compound intended for use in hair conditioners, hair styling aids, creams, and lotions. Its functions include conditioning, static control, and emulsification for both oil-in-water and water-in-oil emulsions. It finds application across various markets including Food & Nutrition, Household, Industrial & Institutional Care, and Personal Care.

MERPOL® A is an alcohol phosphate that offers attributes such as low foam generation, effective wetting, and reliable emulsification. It serves a range of applications, including metal processing, composite handling, printing ink manufacturing, and coatings. Classified within the chemical group of alcohol phosphate esters, its functions encompass being a plastic anti-static agent, pigment dispersant, and textile lubricating agent.

STEPANATE® SXS is an anionic surfactant that functions as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. Its applications span liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning products, wax stripping formulations, dishwashing detergents, and textile applications. It adheres to the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

STEPFAC™ 8181 PT3 is an ethoxylated phosphate ester widely used in various agricultural applications. Its functions span agrochemical emulsifiers, dispersants, adjuvants, and wetting agents. With applications in concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), soluble concentrates (sl), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), and tank mix adjuvants, it caters to home care and industrial products.

STEPANATE® AXS is an anionic surfactant providing hydrotropic/solubilizing and coupling properties. It is used in light-duty cleaners, heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, and dishwashing detergents. STEPANATE® AXS can also be used in agricultural and industrial textile applications. The product is kosher-certified.

STEPANTEX® CO-30 operates as a castor oil ethoxylate fulfilling the roles of a lubricating and emulsifying agent in metalworking applications. It is part of the castor oil ethoxylates chemical group and functions as both an emulsifier and solubilizer. It holds kosher certification.

BIO-SOFT® N25-3 is a c12-15 linear alcohol ethoxylate with low hlb. It provides emulsification, moderate foam, detergency, and wetting. This product finds application in laundry prespotters, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, machine cleaning, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

BIO-SOFT® N23-3 is a c12-13 linear alcohol ethoxylate that provides moderate wetting, low foam, emulsification, and detergency. With a low hlb, this product can be used in textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

STEPFAC™ 8182 is a phosphate ester used in high electrolyte systems. It can be used as a compatibility agent in liquid fertilizer systems. It is a phosphate ester of an alkyl polyethoxyethanol and is typically used in high electrolyte systems. They can be used as compatibility agents in liquid fertilizer systems. They can also be incorporated into many emulsifier blends.

STEPFAC™ 8181-E is an ethoxylated phosphate ester that finds application in a wide range of agricultural contexts. Classified within the chemical group of ethoxylated phosphate ester phosphate esters, it performs a multitude of functions, including acting as a dispersant, emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. Its versatile application encompasses adjuvant additives, capsule suspensions (cs), concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), oil in water emulsions (ew), ready-to-use (rtu) products, soluble concentrates (sl), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), tank mix adjuvants, water dispersible granules (wg), and wettable powders (wp).

STEPANTEX® CO-40 is a castor oil ethoxylate renowned for its utility as a lubricating and emulsifying agent in metalworking applications. It finds application in various sectors, including body scrubs, body washes, dilutable and ready-to-use hard surface cleaners, kitchen cleaners, and textile applications, across markets such as home care, industrial products, institutional and industrial cleaning, and personal care.

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.

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.

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.

Plurafac® SL 62 is a moderately low-foaming surfactant with a cloud point of 62°C. It is suitable for high-temperature cleaning applications above 60°C, especially in food and beverage processing and industrial cleaning, offering cleaning with low foam as a significant benefit.

APG® 325N is a liquid product composed of alkyl polyglycosides derived from synthetic C9-C11 fatty alcohol and dissolved in water. It is a liquid product of approximately 50% concentration and has high primary cleaning, excellent gloss retention (low to no streak) and excellent plastic compatibility.

Glucopon® 425 N is a mid-chain APG surfactant with moderate hydrotrope ability and high foam with good primary cleaning properties that is 100% derived from renewable resources. It has excellent gloss retention, low to no streaking, and excellent plastic compatibility, and won't damage even floor finishes. Furthermore, it is stable at high alkaline conditions and is an excellent option for wetting, although a defoamer may need to be used.

Glucopon® 420 UP is 100% derived from renewable resources. It is mild to the skin and can synergistically reduce the skin irritation caused by anionic surfactants. It has excellent gloss retention, little to no streaking, and excellent plastic compatibility. This product contains no biocide for preservation and is listed on the EPA’s Safer Chemical Ingredients List.

Triameen T is a tallow dipropylene triamine.

AG 6206 is a low foaming alkyl glucoside, non-ionic surfactant, based on a short chain fatty alcohol and glucose.

Duomeen CD is a coco propylene diamine.

AG 6202 is a low foaming alkyl glucoside, non-ionic surfactant, based on a short chain fatty alcohol and glucose.

Lankropol 4500 is a Sodium di-(2-EH) sulfosuccinate in ethanol/water.

Berol DGR 81 is an environmentally improved non-ionic surfactant blend with very good degreasing properties.