Syncrowax™ HGLC

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Syncrowax™ HGLC is the triglyceride ester of long-chain (C18-36) fatty acids. It is a highly crystalline wax and confers a high degree of rigidity to formulations. Syncrowax™ HGLC has similar properties to carnauba wax and can provide an excellent glossy finish in wax and polish formulations.

Functions: Emulsion Stabilizer, Surface Protectant, Viscosity Modifier

Chemical Family: Synthetic Waxes, Waxes

Features: Fiber Protection, Gloss, Stabilizes Emulsions

End Uses: Furniture Polishes, Industrial Cleaners, Multisurface Polishes, Polishes, Shoe Polishes, Wax Polishes

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Identification & Functionality

Chemical Family

Features & Benefits

Product Highlights
  • Hardest and most crystalline wax of the range conferring similar properties to Carnauba wax.
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.

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. Due to its high molecular weight Syncrowax HGLC improves paste structure and produces high gloss finishes.

Applications & Uses

Markets
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 HGLC is a hard wax for use in paste and emulsion-based polishes. Due to its high molecular weight Syncrowax HGLC improves paste structure and produces
high gloss finishes.

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
Insoluble in
Water
Typical Properties
ValueUnitsTest Method / Conditions
Acid Valuemax. 4-10-
Melting Point60-70°C

Packaging & Availability

Regional Availability
  • Asia
  • Europe
  • Latin America
  • North America