Products in Textile & Leather Chemicals

MERPOL® HCS is a versatile nonionic surfactant that acts as a wetting agent and emulsifier, with applications in textile and paper manufacturing. Part of the specialty ethoxylates chemical group, it specifically excels as a pigment dispersant. Its scope includes the home care, industrial products, and institutional and industrial cleaning markets for uses like textile scouring and treatment.

MAKON® 30 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 etheroxylates, and they serve as emulsifiers, adjuvants, and wetting agents. This product is kosher-certified.

BIO-SOFT® N91-6 is a c9-11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a low pour point and high hlb, excelling in fast wetting, moderate foam, emulsification, and detergency. Applications include laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It satisfies the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

AMMONYX® CDO SPECIAL is a cocamidopropyl amine oxide employed in personal care, household and industrial cleaning, and specialty foaming applications. AMMONYX® CDO SPECIAL is an amphoteric surfactant stable under peroxide bleach conditions, serving as a foam booster and textile antistat agent.

AMMONYX® CETAC-30 is a cationic surfactant with its primary application in hair conditioners, hair styling aids, creams, and lotions. Its functions encompass enhancing skin feel and acting as a textile antistatic agent. Its presence spans across the home care, industrial products, institutional and industrial cleaning, and personal care markets. It's worth noting that the product is kosher-certified, preservative-free, and sulfate-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.

MAKON® 12 functions as a high-active nonionic surfactant of great utility across agricultural applications, detergents, sanitizers, industrial cleaners, metal cleaners, textiles, and paper deinking. MAKON® 12's role encompasses being an emulsifier, adjuvant, and wetting agent. The product bears kosher certification.

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).

ALPHA-STEP® MC-48 is an anionic surfactant derived from oleochemicals, serving as a hydrotrope for solubilizing highly active systems. It exhibits favorable performance in hard water conditions, showcasing tolerance and lime soap dispersing ability. It is a readily soluble liquid with a ph range of 4 to 9, finding applications in household and industrial products.

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.

BIO-SOFT® N23-5 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.

MAKON® 17R2 is a nonionic reverse eo/po block copolymer renowned for its fast-breaking, low-foaming, and defoaming attributes. It finds application across diverse industries, including industrial, institutional, pulp and paper, textiles, paints and coatings, and more. Its usage is relevant in metalworking fluids, defoamers, dispersants, industrial lubricants, plasticizers, pulp and paper processing, rinse aids, and textile processing. As with other products in the makon® range, it is a low-ash product.

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.

BIO-TERGE® PAS 7S is an anionic surfactant characterized by low foaming, excellent coupling properties, and good wetting. It's highly versatile and can be used to formulate various industrial and institutional (i&i) cleaners, such as carpet cleaners, hard surface cleaners, and machine dishwashing detergents.

AMMONYX® LO-A is an amphoteric surfactant with applications in personal care and hi&i as a foam enhancer, viscosity builder, and emulsifier. It can also act as a lubricant in textile applications. It is produced and available for use in the asia-pacific region.

BIO-SOFT® D-62 LT presents as a 55% active slurry that includes the sodium salt of linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid. It excels in high foaming, fast wetting, and emulsification properties, making it suitable for cleaning formulations requiring foam. It aligns with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.Org, akin to bio-soft® d-40.

NINOL® 1301 is a peg-6 coconut dea amide, offering high detergency, viscosity control, and corrosion inhibition. NINOL® 1301 versatile nature makes it useful in various applications, including hard surface cleaners, wax strippers, degreasers, textile processing, cutting fluids, and drawing compounds.

IGEPAL CA-720 serves as a nonionic surfactant, finding application across various phases of detergent compounding and aqueous processing in industries like textiles, paper, industrial metal cleaning, acid cleaning, floor cleaning, detergent sanitization, and waterless hand cleaning. It's classified within the chemical group of octyl phenol ethoxylates.

ACCOSOFT® 501 is a diamidoamine fabric softener quaternary tailored for household and commercial fabric softeners. This cationic surfactant paste boasts excellent storage stability. It can be easily formulated into dispersions with varying concentrations (2.5% to 25% solids) that exhibit instant cold water dispersibility and favorable rewetting characteristics.

ZELEC® NK is a neutralized alcohol phosphate used in the pultrusion manufacturing process and is an effective, non-durable antistat for textiles, plastics, and films. It is an effective, non-durable antistatic agent for use in textiles, plastics, and films. It is dispersible in aqueous systems but is preferred in solvent systems. Zelec nk can be formulated with a variety of organic solvents, oils, and surfactants to make useful water-emulsifiable concentrates.

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.

STEPOSOL® C-25 is a methyl ester of fatty acids derived from vegetable oils, presenting as a biodegradable solvent with outstanding solvency and a low freeze point. These attributes make it well-suited for various household, industrial, and institutional applications. An added benefit is its potential to replace mineral oils in textile applications.

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.

ZELEC® UN is a powerful agent that combines antistatic properties with mold release capabilities. Its use spans metalworking, textile applications, and pultrusion molding. In metalworking, it aids in polyester resin molding operations involving external heat, like matched metal die, compression, and pultrusion processes.

BIO-SOFT® N25-7 is a c12–15 linear alcohol ethoxylate boasting fast wetting, excellent detergent, and emulsification attributes. Its low interfacial tension and low cmc make it particularly suitable for laundry detergents and prespotters, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It adheres to the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

BIO-SOFT® N25-9 is a c12–15 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a high hlb, offering emulsification, moderate foam, detergency, and excellent wetting. Its high cloud point promotes formulation clarity. This product is commonly used in laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications.

STEOL® CS-230 is a low-active, 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate lauded for its excellent foam properties regardless of water hardness and low skin irritation characteristics. It's a versatile anionic surfactant that extends its applications beyond cleansing. It finds use as a gypsum additive, scouring agent, and additive in textile processing.

STEOL® CS-170 UB is a 70% active, 1-mol sodium laureth sulfate recognized for its high activity, flowable paste form, excellent foaming, and mildness properties. Its applications are wide-ranging, encompassing shampoos, bath products, cleansing formulations, detergents, dishwashers, laundry, institutional and industrial cleaners, textile detergents, and wet processing.

STEPANTEX® VM 85 G is a cationic surfactant suited for the formulation of household and industrial fabric softeners from 3% viscous to 20% fluid-active concentrations. This ester quat can also be used in many other applications, such as metal cleaning and polishing compounds, cutting oils, textile auxiliaries, leather conditioners, water repellents, shoe polishes, emulsifiers, paper treatment, and clays.

CEDEPHOS FA-600 is the acid form of a complex mixture of mono- and di-phosphate esters based on an aliphatic hydrophobe. This anionic surfactant offers the combination of exceptional alkali solubility with excellent coupling ability for nonionics in liquid formulations. It is used in heavy-duty, alkaline industrial detergent systems, textile wet processing, pulp deresination, and dedusting agents.

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.

STEOL® CA-460 is a 60% active synthetic 3-mole ammonium laureth sulfate renowned for its excellent foaming and foam stability properties. This anionic surfactant, containing ethanol, maintains clarity and fluidity at room temperature. Its applications encompass liquid laundry detergents, car and truck washes, dishwashers, industrial foaming, scouring, leveling, and coupling in textile and metalworking applications.

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.

BIO-SOFT® N91-8 is a c9-11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with an hlb of 13.9, suitable for oil-in-water formulations. It offers fast wetting and high foam, even in high-temperature cleaning, due to its elevated cloud point. With applications spanning laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning, it complies with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

ZELEC® NE is a neutralized alcohol phosphate used in the pultrusion manufacturing process and is a highly effective antistatic for textiles, plastics, and films. It is effective in polyester resin molding operations that require external heat, such as matched metal dies, compression, and pultrusion. They are not generally successful at room temperature curing, such as hand lay-up or gel coat. This may be due to reactions with the metallic soaps used as accelerators in the operations, thus inhibiting the cure. Operations can be modified to use zelec products by eliminating these accelerators.

STEPANATE® SPCS 40 is an anionic surfactant specifically designed for use in liquid detergents, heavy-duty cleaning agents, wax stripping formulations, and dishwashing detergents. It functions as a solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant. Belonging to the chemical group of hydrotropic sulfonates, this product is kosher-certified.