Products in Functional Additives

BTC Europe GmbH BUTYLGLYCOL is a high-boiling, low-volatility liquid with a mild odor, serving as a solvent and starting material for syntheses. It is an excellent co-solvent in aqueous coating systems (water-based paints). This colorless, neutral, slightly hygroscopic, mobile liquid with a mild odor is miscible with water and common organic solvents in all proportions at room temperature.

Poligen® WE 1 is a versatile liquid product serving as an Abrasion Resistant, Release and Mold Agent. It finds applications in Paper Manufacturing and Textiles, offering properties such as Anti-Abrasion and Polishing.

Protectol® GA 50 AS, functioning as a biocide and preservative, emphasizes instant deal capabilities, delivering anti-fungal and antimicrobial advantages. Protectol® GA 50 AS is in liquid form and allows versatile application across creams, lotions, and leave-on products, presenting effective solutions against fungal concerns.

Pluriol® P 4000 is a multifunctional liquid that acts as a plasticizer, defoamer, and cleaning agent. It plays a pivotal role as a defoamer in textile manufacturing, ensuring efficient processes. Additionally, its application extends to liquid laundry detergents in home care, showcasing its effectiveness in ensuring cleanliness. With its liquid form, it significantly aids in textile production, enhancing efficiency and quality.

Lutropur® MSA-XP boasts labeling claims of being biodegradable, halogen-free, nitrogen-free, organic, and phosphorus-free. Its features include acid stability, quick dissolution, lower corrosion tendencies, and thermal stability. It caters to markets in Home, Institutional and Industrial care, industrial applications, chemical manufacturing, and home care. Its applications span various sectors such as industrial cleaning, surface care, acid cleaners, detergents, and IandI cleaning, offering a liquid physical form.

BTC Europe GmbH N-HEXYL GLYCOL, a member of the glycols chemical family. Its main application lies in surface care within the home care sector of home, institutional, and industrial (household, industrial, and institutional) care. This compound plays a role in coating manufacturing and ink manufacturing processes and is available in liquid form.

Nuclesil® 70 serves various markets, including building and construction, hi-care, industrial, and paint and coating applications. Its applications span across building and construction (decorative paints, building materials, plasters, and renders), decorative materials and finishes, hiandi care (home care surface care, institutional and industrial care), industrial cleaning, and power, water, and utilities (water treatment applicable processes, cement manufacturing). It finds utility in home care applications like cleaners and detergents, as well as in iandi cleaning applications and industrial additives. Its end use includes plasterboard, with a physical form available in liquid.

BTC Europe GmbH Sodium Nitrite HQ free flowing (non-food grade) is a white to slightly yellow crystalline product. Recommended uses include raw material, intermediate, corrosion inhibitor, and surface treatment agent. Its form is crystalline, with a color ranging from white to slightly yellow, and it carries a faint odor.

Poligen® Wax V Flakes is a solid formulation belonging to the polyvinyl ethers (PVE) and Waxes chemical family. This product, presented in flake form, is designed for use in industrial cleaners, sanitizers, and institutional cleaners. Poligen® Wax V Flakes adheres to high-quality standards, ensuring reliability in various applications.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 stands as an anionic surfactant that offers remarkable viscosity, foam characteristics, and mildness. This makes it an excellent candidate for an array of hi&i cleaning and personal care applications, as well as applications in agriculture formulations and construction products like concrete bases, firefighting foams, and dust control.

NINOL® CAA stands for a naturally derived esthetic enhancer and fragrance solubilizer. Its large hansen solubility sphere enables the solubilization of fragrances and other organic materials at room temperature. Despite its capacity for dissolving, it maintains viscosity and foaming performance. As a dea-free nonionic surfactant, it offers viscosity-building performance and foam stabilization similar to traditional amides and betaines, presenting an effective solution that meets both performance and esthetic needs.

AMMONYX® DO is an amphoteric surfactant catering to household and h&i applications. It boasts low and fast-breaking foam properties while contributing to viscosity building. With relevance in the textile industry, AMMONYX® DO is kosher certified, preservative-free, sulfate-free, and eo/po-free (ethylene oxide, propylene oxide).

NINOL® PC, an effective DEA amide, plays a crucial role in enhancing viscosity while simultaneously boosting and stabilizing foam. This versatile liquid nonionic surfactant finds widespread use in various applications such as shampoos, bubble baths and metalworking cleaners, offering consistent performance and reliability across diverse formulations and industries.

STEOL® CA-330 is a low-active, 3-mole ammonium laureth sulfate with commendable foaming and viscosity characteristics, coupled with low skin irritation potential. Its versatile applications span children's cleaning products, shampoos, bath products, cleansing products, industrial foaming agents, and various agricultural formulations.

STEOL® CS-230 HP MZ is a sodium lauryl ether sulfate derived from fatty alcohols, ethoxylated to an average of two moles, and sulfated via Stepan's continuous SO3 process. This continuous sulfation process ensures consistent, high purity, affording excellent reproducibility in formulations utilizing STEOL® CS-230 HP MZ.

STEPANOL® AM 30-KE is an ammonium lauryl sulfate product produced in europe and preserved with cit or mit. It's recognized for excellent foam and viscosity attributes, finding applications in liquid hand soaps, bath products, detergents, carpet and upholstery cleaners, offset printing, and textiles.

NINOL® 30-LL is a high-active lauramide produced through a 1:1 reaction between the ester of lauric acid and diethanolamine. It functions as a lauryl dea amide, providing foam and viscosity building in various formulations, including shampoos, bubble baths, bath products, and detergents. Its liquid form at room temperature contributes to its ease of use.

STEPFAC™ 8171 is an acid form of phosphate ester that excels as a hydrotrope for nonionic surfactants in alkali cleaners, particularly in high-electrolyte systems. It serves diverse functions, including dispersing, acting as a textile antistatic agent, emulsifying, adjuvanting, and wetting agents. Its applications span agriculture, metalworking, and textiles.

BTC® 835 is a quaternary that can be formulated into a variety of applications, similar to btc® 824. This product is kosher-certified and finds use in applications including algaecides, deodorizers, disinfectants, fungicides, preservatives, sanitizers, and water treatment. It serves the antimicrobial market as well as the home care, institutional, and industrial cleaning sectors.

AMPHOSOL® DM is a mild amphoteric surfactant derived from c12–14 alkyl dimethyl amine. It acts as a primary or secondary surfactant, boosting foam, enhancing viscosity, and providing antistatic properties. It is compatible with anionic, nonionic, and cationic systems, making it suitable for a range of personal care products, including bubble baths, shampoos, hand soaps, and pet care items. Additionally, it finds application in liquid dishwashing formulations. An rspo mass balance-certified version of this product is also available.

AMMONYX® LO is a lauramine oxide that finds applications in personal care, hi&i applications as foam enhancers, viscosity builders, and as emulsifiers and lubricants in textile applications. It offers long-lasting foam. This product meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

STEOL® 4N is a low-active, biodegradable 3-mol sodium laureth sulfate known for excellent flash foam and emulsification properties. Stepan's continuous so₃ process minimizes chloride content through the sulfation of the fatty ethoxylate. Its applicability spans detergents, dishwashers, laundry products, car wash applications, textile applications, industrial cleaning applications, as well as shampoos and bath products.

AMPHOSOL® HCG-HP is a mild amphoteric surfactant derived from coconut oil that provides foam boosting and viscosity building in a wide range of personal care, hard surface cleaning, and specialty foamer products. It is preserved with excess alkalinity, which allows the formulator flexibility when choosing a preservative for their finished formulation.

STEPANQUAT® 8188 operates as a dialkyl quat, functioning as a corrosion inhibitor. Its applications encompass hard surface cleaners, spanning both dilutable and ready-to-use formulations. It serves the markets of home care, institutional, and industrial cleaning. The product is also biodegradable.

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.

STEPANOL® AM is an anionic surfactant recognized for its exceptional foam and viscosity properties. It finds utility in various applications including liquid hand soaps, bath products, carpet and upholstery cleaners, textile wet processing and scouring, as well as metalworking processes. Some of its key features include ease of handling, foam enhancement, and high purity.

NINOL® 11-CM is a modified coconut dea amide providing high detergency and moderate foam with excellent wetting, thickening, and lubricity properties. The applications for this nonionic surfactant paste include hard surface cleaners, degreasers, waterless hand cleaners, and chain lubricants. The product is kosher-certified.

BTC® 2125 M 50 stands as a broad-spectrum quaternary suitable for formulation into disinfectants, deodorizers, and sanitizers. BTC® 2125 M 50's use spans household, institutional, and industrial applications, as well as swimming pools and industrial water treatment. The product has kosher certification.

STEPANOL® AM-CIT/MIT is an ammonium lauryl sulfate preserved with cit/mit, providing foaming and viscosity-building properties. Suitable for personal care and household cleaning, this bio-based, kosher-certified, naturally derived, and plant-derived product serves markets like home care, institutional and industrial cleaning, personal care, and vehicle care.

ALPHA-STEP® PC-48 is an anionic surfactant derived from oleochemicals and is extensively utilized in household, industrial, and personal care applications. It meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and clean ingredients listing. Its functions include serving as a foam booster, and it boasts attributes like being bio-based, kosher (certified), naturally derived, plant-derived, preservative-free, sulfate-free, and eo po-free.

BTC® 25M-SC is a quaternary compound used in institutional and industrial cleaning, water treatment, gas/oil drilling, and wood preservation. It can be incorporated into gas/oil recovery injection water systems and packer fluids. This biocidal active is associated with a u.S. Epa-registered end-use formulation meeting the criteria for combating emerging viral pathogens. Such formulations can be used as hard surface disinfectants against sars-cov-2, the virus responsible for covid-19.

STEPANOL® AM-BA is an anionic surfactant that can be used in a variety of applications, including liquid hand soaps, shampoos, and bath products. This ammonium lauryl sulfate preserved with benzoic acid provides excellent foam and viscosity characteristics. It is bio-based, kosher certified, naturally derived, and plant-derived.

STEOL® CS-225 is a low-active 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate with strong wetting, foaming, and detergent characteristics. It's employed in shampoos, body washes, cleansing products, liquid hand wash formulations, and even textile applications. This mild anionic surfactant is widely utilized in mexico, central america, and south america.

STEOL® CS-330 is a low-active, 3-mole sodium laureth sulfate known for its excellent skin compatibility, foam, and viscosity characteristics. This anionic surfactant finds a wide array of applications, ranging from personal care products like shampoos, body washes, and liquid hand washes to household cleaning products like dishwashing liquids, laundry detergents, and car wash solutions. It also has roles in agricultural applications and textile processing as a scouring, leveling, coupling, and foaming agent.

ONYXIDE® 3300 is a registered biocide with a unique saccharinate counterion, distinguishing it from conventional n-alkyl dimethylbenzyl ammonium chloride (adbac). While it has limited water solubility (<0.01%), larger quantities can be solubilized by adding other surfactants or certain solvents (alcohols, glycols, or glycol ethers). It offers an alternative to traditional biocides with chloride counterions, thereby mitigating the severe metal corrosivity linked to them.