Products

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.

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.

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.

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® N1-7 is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate delivering fast wetting, moderate to high foam, emulsification abilities, and effective detergency. Its application spans laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning. It meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and cleangredients listing, ensuring environmental and safety compliance.

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.

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® N23-6.5 is a c12-13 linear alcohol ethoxylate that provides fast wetting, moderate foam, emulsification, and detergency. This product finds application in laundry detergents, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

MAKON® DA-6 is a high-active nonionic surfactant that excels in emulsification, moderate foam generation, detergency, and excellent wetting properties. It has a broad spectrum of applications, including laundry, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, carpet cleaning, hand dishwashing, and institutional and industrial cleaning formulations. Importantly, makon da-6 aligns with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

STEPCOTE® W-846 stands out as an exceptional wetting agent ideally suited for waterborne coatings. Its versatile application encompasses both the letdown phase of production and post-formulation addition. While its primary function revolves around enhancing wetting properties, its potential impact extends to multiple essential coating attributes. These include gloss improvement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, enhancing color acceptance, and optimizing hiding characteristics.

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.

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® 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.

MAKON® P104 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer that excels in oil-in-water emulsification. Its application spans across multiple industries, including agriculture, industry, paints, and coatings. Its contribution is prominent in agricultural pesticide formulations, as well as serving as a dispersant and oil-in-water emulsifier.

STEPCOTE® W-714 serves as a highly effective wetting agent designed for use in waterborne coatings. While its primary role is as a wetting agent, it's noteworthy that it can positively influence film properties such as washability, stain penetration, and corrosion resistance. Its application is commonly found within paint additives, and its market presence extends to c.A.S.E. Additives.

STEPCOTE® W-700 is another potent wetting agent tailored for waterborne coatings. It can be incorporated during the letdown phase of production or after final formulation. Despite its core function as a wetting agent, it possesses the potential to positively affect properties such as low foaming, color acceptance, and washability.

MAKON® P105 is a nonionic eo/po block copolymer that exhibits good oil-in-water emulsification properties. It can be used in a variety of markets, including agriculture, industrial, and paints and coatings. Applications for best fit are agricultural pesticide formulations, dispersants, emulsifiers, and industrial cleaning.

STEPWET® DOS 50NC is an anionic surfactant able to provide very good wetting properties for aqueous systems. It enables the reduction of surface tension to extremely low levels. It is suitable for emulsion polymerization as a primary emulsifier and/or post-additive to latex, as well as a paint additive for coatings.

POLYSTEP® TD-9 PE is an ethoxylated phosphate ester, serving as both an emulsifier and a post-additive in paints and coatings. This surfactant is categorized as a kosher-certified product, aligning with kosher dietary laws. Its versatile applications include the manufacturing of latex, offering benefits in terms of emulsification and performance.

STEPCOTE® W-888 emerges as a highly efficient wetting agent tailored for waterborne coatings. Its inclusion can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its core role centers on optimizing wetting characteristics, it is also capable of exerting favorable effects on a range of critical coating properties. These encompass gloss enhancement, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and bolstering corrosion resistance.

POLYSTEP® TD-3 functions as a nonionic surfactant post-additive in paints, coatings, adhesives, and sealants. This product belongs to the chemical group of tridecyl alcohol ethoxylates and finds a prominent place in emulsion polymerization, especially in latex manufacturing. It is also certified kosher.

STEPCOTE® W-119 is an effective wetting agent for use in waterborne coatings. It can be incorporated during the letdown phase of production or added after the final formulation. Although it is primarily a wetting agent, it may positively impact the following coating properties: gloss, low foaming, color acceptance, hiding, and washability.

STEPOSOL® CS 12-14 is a coalescing solvent, finding relevance in paints, coatings, adhesives, and sealant applications. Belonging to the amino-disubstituted chemical group, it is utilized in the manufacture of latex within the emulsion polymerization market. Its chemical family is amides.

STEPCOTE® W-877 proves its worth as an effective wetting agent engineered for waterborne coatings. Its inclusion can take place during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after final formulation. While its core role is enhancing wetting characteristics, it holds the potential to positively impact significant coating attributes, including gloss enhancement, bolstering high-temperature block resistance, optimizing color acceptance, augmenting wet scrub resistance, and improving hiding characteristics.

STEPCOTE® W-843 proves its efficacy as a highly capable wetting agent tailor-made for waterborne coatings. Its integration is versatile, being applicable both during the letdown phase of production and as an addition after final formulation. While its central role revolves around enhancing wetting characteristics, it carries the potential to exert a favorable influence on critical coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, bolstering high-temperature block resistance, augmenting color acceptance, and contributing to the effective hiding of the coating.

POLYSTEP® C-12S operates as an alkyl sulfate emulsifier tailored for paint and coating applications. Its kosher certification highlights its alignment with dietary laws. Applied in latex manufacture within the emulsion polymerization market, it supports the formation and stabilization of latex emulsions, contributing to high-quality coatings and paints.

POLYSTEP® LAS-40 is a linear sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate that acts as an emulsifier. Its versatility extends to applications in paints and coatings, adhesives and sealants, paper, and nonwoven textiles. Importantly, it is kosher certified. This product caters to the industrial market, with relevance in processes such as emulsion polymerization and latex manufacturing.\

STEPSPERSE® 163P is an anionic polymeric dispersant suitable for iron oxide pigments in waterborne applications. No wetting agents are necessary. Typical loading levels are 2–4% solids on the weight of pigment (mass of dispersant used/mass of pigment used x 100%). A ladder study is advised to determine optimal dosage levels.

STEPCOTE® W-125 serves as a highly effective wetting agent suitable for utilization in waterborne coatings. It can be integrated either during the letdown phase of production or added after the final formulation. While its primary role is as a wetting agent, it might also exert a positive influence on various coating properties such as gloss, low foaming, and color acceptance.

BIO-SOFT® N25-3 is a c12-15 linear alcohol ethoxylate with low hlb. It provides emulsification, moderate foam, detergency, and wetting. This product finds application in laundry prespotters, textiles, hard surface cleaning, paints, machine cleaning, and institutional and industrial cleaning applications. The product is kosher-certified and preservative-free.

STEPSPERSE® 160S is an anionic polymeric dispersant suitable for dispersing phthalo blue pigment systems in waterborne applications. No wetting agents are necessary. Typical loading levels are 10–15% solids on the weight of pigment (mass of dispersant used x mass of pigment used x 100%). A ladder study is advised to determine optimal dosage levels.

STEPCOTE® W-805 excels as a potent wetting agent designed for waterborne coatings. Its integration can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its primary function revolves around optimizing wetting properties, its beneficial effects extend to several pivotal coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and enhancing washability.

POLYSTEP® TD-6 is a nonionic surfactant designed to collaborate with anionic surfactants for latex production. POLYSTEP® TD-6 is added after the initial latex formulation, thereby improving mechanical stability and application formulations. This liquid form surfactant offers an appealing APE-free option.

STEPCOTE® W-811 is a potent wetting agent specially designed for waterborne coatings. It offers versatility in its application, capable of being incorporated either during the letdown phase of production or added after the final formulation. While its core function lies in being a wetting agent, it has the potential to contribute positively to various essential coating properties, including gloss, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, and hiding.

POLYSTEP® TSP-16PE30 is a tristyrylphenol phosphate ester that functions as an emulsifier and post-addition additive in the realm of paints and coatings. With kosher certification, it adheres to dietary requirements. This surfactant is used in the manufacturing of latex, specifically emulsion polymerization. Its dual functions encompass emulsification facilitation and performance enhancement for paints and coatings.

STEPCOTE® W-722 excels as a potent wetting agent designed for waterborne coatings. Its integration can occur during the letdown phase of production or as an addition after the final formulation. While its primary function revolves around optimizing wetting properties, its beneficial effects extend to several pivotal coating attributes. These encompass gloss enhancement, mitigating foam formation, bolstering temperature stability, augmenting color acceptance, improving wet scrub resistance, promoting hiding characteristics, and enhancing washability.