Products in Soaps & Surfactants: Metal Cleaners

Polyquart® S Granules are the solid version of Polyquart® S. The granules are intended for use in solid cleaning formulations (ADW-tab)

Polyquart® PN 60 operates as a cationic surfactant and finds its main utility within household spheres, particularly in glass, metal, and plastic cleaners. Delivered in a liquid form, Polyquart® PN 60 ensures ease of use and effective cleaning.

Polyquart® Ecoclean acts as a surfactant within the surfactant (cationic) category. Its notable features include color protection, effective soil removal, non-staining properties, reduced graying of whites, and wide pH resistance. This product finds application in home, institutional and industrial care, specifically in home care for surface care, as well as in institutional and industrial care for industrial cleaning.

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.

Polyquart® 149 A is a liquid product functioning as a cationic surfactant. It serves as an effective cleaner, specifically in home care applications such as glass, metal, and plastic cleaning.

Polyquart® Pro A serves as a cationic surfactant, catering to household cleaning requirements, specifically in glass, metal, and plastic cleaning products. Polyquart® Pro A is in liquid form and promotes practicality and efficient application methods.

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.

MERPOL® SH constitutes a nonionic surfactant solution, offering effective wetting and emulsification properties. It's used as a detergent for hard surface cleaning and as a lubricating agent during rubber part assembly. Its classification belongs to the specialty ethoxylates chemical group.

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.

MAKON® 6 is an all high-active nonionic surfactant with diverse applications, including agriculture, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. Their chemical group is nonylphenol ethoxylates, and they serve as emulsifiers, adjuvants, and wetting agents. This product is kosher-certified.

MAKON® 14 functions as a high-active nonionic surfactant with diverse applications, including agricultural applications, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. MAKON® 14's roles encompass being an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. The product holds kosher certification.

BIO-SOFT® LFS-07 is a proprietary nonionic surfactant technology tailored for hard surface cleaners requiring a balance between low film/streak performance and heavy-duty cleaning capabilities. This surfactant facilitates effective cleaning of both glass surfaces and heavy grease buildup in a single cleaner. It is suitable for both ready-to-use (rtu) and concentrated cleaners.

STEPOSOL® MET-10U is a unique unsaturated di-substituted amide crafted from renewable sources through nobel prize-winning metathesis technology. With attributes like rapid soil-penetrating kinetics, excellent solvency, heat and hydrolytic stability, and low voc content, it finds its place in various applications, including agriculture and coatings.

MAKON® OP-9 is a nonionic surfactant with versatile applications in agricultural, dilutable hard surface cleaners, and industrial formulations. It operates as an emulsifier, detergent, dispersant, and wetting agent, catering to a wide range of needs. Belonging to the chemical group of octyl phenol ethoxylates, its functions encompass acting as an emulsifier, an adjuvant, and a wetting agent. It's important to note that this product is also certified as kosher.

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.

AMPHOSOL® CS-50 is an amphoteric surfactant that can be used as a secondary surfactant, providing foam boosting and viscosity building for personal care and hi&i applications. It is a cocamidopropyl hydroxysultaine that is bio-based, kosher certified, naturally derived, sulfate-free, eo/po-free, and plant-derived.

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.

MAKON® L61 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer known for its low foaming, defoaming, and water-in-oil emulsification attributes. Its versatility spans markets like household, industrial, institutional, agriculture, paints and coatings, metalworking, and textiles. It finds usage in areas such as defoaming, metal cleaning, spray washing, warewashing, general-purpose cleaning, textile wetting and scouring, agricultural adjuvants, and non-foaming emulsions. It is another product within the makon® line, featuring low ash content.

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.

BIO-TERGE® PAS-8S is a low-foaming anionic surfactant with excellent coupling and wetting properties. Its versatility shines in formulating hi&i cleaners, covering areas like hard surface cleaning, carpet cleaning, machine dishwashing, and glass cleaning. Its compliance with the u.S. Epa safer choice program and cleangredients.Org adds to its appeal.

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.

MAKON® L62 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer with properties like low foaming and good oil-in-water emulsification. Its versatility covers an array of markets, including household, industrial, institutional, agriculture, paints and coatings, pulp and paper, and textiles. It finds its niche in metal cleaning, spray washing, warewashing, rinse aids, general-purpose cleaning, textile wetting, and agricultural pesticide formulations. As with other makon® products, it maintains the characteristic of being a low-ash product.

STEPANTEX® VL 90 A stands as a diester fabric softener quaternary, delivering excellent softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. This cationic surfactant paste is applicable in household and industrial cleaners and finds a diverse range of applications, including metal cleaning and polishing compounds, cutting oils, textile auxiliaries, leather conditioners, water repellents, shoe polishes, emulsifiers, paper treatment, and clays.

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).

MAKON® 4 is an all-high-active nonionic surfactant with diverse applications, including agriculture, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. Their chemical group is nonylphenol ethoxylates, and they serve as emulsifiers, adjuvants, and wetting agents. This product is kosher-certified.

BIO-SOFT® EA 10-85 is a nonionic surfactant that exhibits low foaming properties and excellent wetting action. It is a good emulsifier for industrial applications. It may be readily formulated into highly alkaline liquid systems and can be used in a variety of applications, including mechanical dishwashing, rinse aids, metal cleaning, spray washing, general-purpose cleaning, emulsion polymerization, textile wetting and scouring, oil field additives, agricultural adjuvants, and non-foaming emulsions.

MAKON® NF-5 stands as a nonionic surfactant, providing excellent wetting and low foaming traits. Its utility is broad, spanning mechanical dishwashing, metal cleaning, spray washing, general-purpose cleaning, emulsion polymerization, textile wetting, and scouring, as well as an additive for agricultural products.

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.

BIO-SOFT® GSB-9 is a nonionic surfactant blend offering moderate and stable foam, good wetting properties, and high detergency. Its application spans various industrial contexts and cleaning products, enabling versatile formulations. It can function as a dyeing assistant, emulsifier, and wetting agent. Its effectiveness at low concentrations adds to its cost-effectiveness and efficiency.

MAKON® 10 is a high-active nonionic surfactant with applications in various fields, including agriculture, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textile applications, and paper deinking. It belongs to the category of nonylphenol ethoxylates and serves as an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. This product is kosher-certified.

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.

BIO-SOFT® TA-2 is a nonionic tallow amine ethoxylate surfactant with functions that encompass wetting, foam generation, emulsification, and corrosion inhibition. Its primary use is as an acid thickener, making it valuable in cleaners intended for vertical surfaces like toilet bowls, dairy, brewery, and food processing equipment.