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Features & Benefits
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- Background
Waxes find many important uses in industry due to their varying physical and chemical properties. Combinations of different waxes and wax emulsifiers with other materials are commonly used to obtain specific effects, such as waterproofing, lubrication, dispersing, emulsification and glossing. Croda manufactures a wide range of natural and synthetic waxes, both non-emulsifying and emulsifying.
- Benefits
- Produces high gloss, buffable films
- Structure modifiers
- Glossing
Croda's Syncrowax synthetic waxes offer advantages over natural waxes, such as consistency of quality and ready availability of raw materials. Blends of Syncrowaxes can be used to obtain the desired gloss levels and buffing characteristics. Syncrowax BB4, a synthetic beeswax alternative, imparts a traditional beeswax-type finish to surfaces.
Applications & Uses
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- Applications
- Home Care Applications
- I&I Cleaning Applications
- Applications
Polishes (household, shoe and automotive)
Croda's range of synthetic waxes may be used as extenders for natural waxes such as carnauba and candelilla in polish production. The advantages of using synthetic waxes include consistency of quality and ready availability of raw materials. The product ranges consist of wax acids, esters, partially saponified esters based on synthetic wax acids and alcohols, and oxidized hydrocarbon wax. By careful formulation these waxes can enhance the properties of paste and emulsion polishes, contributing to paste hardness, solvent retention, shelf stability as well as gloss and film hardness.
Syncrowax BB4, a synthetic beeswax alternative, imparts a traditional beeswax-type finish to wooden furniture.
Leather Treatment
Waxes can be used to impart water repellency, alter handle, act as fillers (in emulsion form) and give matt or gloss finishes to leather. Speciality waxes such as the Syncrowax range are buffable, gloss-giving waxes.
Textile Processing
Waxes and wax emulsifiers are useful in a number of applications in textile processing. In spin finishes and lubricants they are used as processing aids to reduce friction and function as antistatic agents. Their lubricating properties make them useful additives in fiber production, texturing and processing eg in coning, weaving and knitting oils, where they reduce friction and subsequent wear of the fiber or yarn.
Metal Working
Waxes serve as lubricants, temporary anticorrosives and emulsifiers in a variety of metal working applications. Lanolin and derivatives are useful additives in protective coatings, metal polishes, metal working greases and drawing fluids.
Printing Inks
Natural and synthetic waxes are commonly used in a broad range of printing inks, including screen, gravure, lithographic and flexographic inks. In these systems waxes promote rub- and scuff-resistance, improve slip, adhesion, water repellency and reduce blocking. Waxes with surface active properties additionally function as emulsion modifiers and stabilizers, for example in letterpress and lithographic inks.
Plastics
Waxes such as the Syncrowax range and Crodamides are useful as lubricants for extrusion, blow and injection molding of rigid and plasticised PVC.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Odor
- Characteristic
- Appearance
- Pale yellow solid
- Insoluble in
- Water
- Typical Properties
Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
Acid Value | 20-26 | - | — |
Melting Point | 62 - 70 | °C | — |
Packaging & Availability
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