Products

IGEPAL CA-630 is a nonionic surfactant finding application in household and industrially controlled foam detergents, industrial metal cleaners, floor cleaners, and waterless hand cleaners. Igepal ca 630 is used in all phases of detergent compounding and aqueous processing in the textile and paper industries. Igepal ca 630 is also used in industrial metal cleaners, acid cleaners, floor cleaners, detergent-sanitizers and waterless hand cleaners and is an effective emulsifier for more polar solvents such as xylene.

BIO-SOFT® N1-9 is a c11 linear alcohol ethoxylate with a high hlb, strong water solubility, and high cloud point, making it well-suited for general-purpose cleaning and fragrance solubilization. It offers emulsification, moderate to high foam, detergency, and moderate to fast wetting. Like other mentioned products, it complies with the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

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.

POLYSTEP® B-5 is an anionic surfactant primarily utilized in latex production, specifically well-suited for manufacturing acrylics and styrene acrylics with fine particle sizes. It can be combined with nonionic surfactants to create efficient acrylic emulsions. The product POLYSTEP® B-5 is biodegradable.

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.

STEPAN® MWA-202 is a polyoxyethylated castor oil containing 40 moles of ethylene oxide. It can be used as an emulsifier and as a coupling agent for metalworking formulations. It can be used alone or in combination with other surfactants. It can enable improved performance in metal cleaning in metalworking applications. It can be used to efficiently remove oil residue from metal surfaces.

STEOL® 4N is a low-active, biodegradable 3-mol sodium laureth sulfate known for excellent flash foam and emulsification properties. Stepan's continuous so₃ process minimizes chloride content through the sulfation of the fatty ethoxylate. Its applicability spans detergents, dishwashers, laundry products, car wash applications, textile applications, industrial cleaning applications, as well as shampoos and bath products.

STEOL® CS-225 is a low-active 2-mol sodium laureth sulfate with strong wetting, foaming, and detergent characteristics. It's employed in shampoos, body washes, cleansing products, liquid hand wash formulations, and even textile applications. This mild anionic surfactant is widely utilized in mexico, central america, and south america.

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.

MAKON® DA-4 is a nonionic surfactant recognized for its efficacy as an emulsifier and as a key component in emulsifier blends for agricultural formulations. It plays a pivotal role as an hlb variable across various formulations. Classified within the chemical group of decyl alcohol ethoxylates, its functions encompass serving as an emulsifier, a versatile multifunctional wetting agent, and an adjuvant. Additionally, it's important to note that this product holds kosher certification.

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.

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.

STEPFAC™ 8181 PT3 is an ethoxylated phosphate ester widely used in various agricultural applications. Its functions span agrochemical emulsifiers, dispersants, adjuvants, and wetting agents. With applications in concentrated emulsions (ew), emulsifiable concentrates (ec), fumigants, metalworking cleaners, microemulsions (me), oil dispersants (od), soluble concentrates (sl), soluble liquids (sl), suspension concentrates (sc), suspoemulsions (se), and tank mix adjuvants, it caters to home care and industrial products.

POLYSTEP® B-40 stands as a mild anionic surfactant suited for diverse latex systems, potentially replacing ape surfactants. Belonging to the alkyl ether sulfates chemical group, it functions as an emulsifier. It holds kosher certification and finds its place in the market for emulsion polymerization, particularly in latex manufacture.

POLYSTEP® C-OP3S is an anionic surfactant that plays a pivotal role in enhancing mechanical and freeze-thaw stability within latex systems. It also assists in controlling latex particle size and functions as an emulsifier across a variety of systems, particularly those involving vinyl acetate copolymers. It contributes to the mechanical and freeze-thaw stability of latex systems.

STEPAN® MWA-200 is a polyoxyethylated castor oil that can be used as an emulsifier and as a coupling agent for metalworking formulations. It can be used alone or in combination with other surfactants. It can enable improved performance in metal cleaning in metalworking applications. It can be used to efficiently remove oil residue from metal surfaces.

STEPANOL® WA-EXTRA PCK is a liquid anionic surfactant that provides excellent foaming and was designed for higher viscosity formulations. It is utilized in a variety of personal care, household detergent formulations, and textile applications. This product meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.Org.

IGEPAL CA-520 is a nonionic surfactant that facilitates emulsification of non-polar hydrocarbon solvents and oils. Its applications encompass solvent emulsion cleaners, dry cleaning detergents, anti-icing additives for automotive gasoline, emulsifiers for pesticides, and floor polishes. It falls under the category of octyl phenol ethoxylates.

STEPAN® MWA-502 can be used as either a solvent or cosolvent in metalworking, die casting, and metal forming processes. It combines excellent characteristics of cleanliness, low odor, high flash point, and good film-forming properties. It can be used as a non-staining additive for metal forming or metal removal operations on ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

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.

BIO-TERGE® AS-40 CG-P is a cosmetic-grade anionic surfactant renowned for its superb viscosity, flash foam characteristics, and mildness. BIO-TERGE® AS-40 CG-P is ideal for a variety of personal care applications, including liquid hand soaps, shampoos, facial cleansers, and body washes.

POLYSTEP® OP-9 PE is an octylphenol ethoxylate phosphate ester used as an emulsifier and post-additive in paints and coatings, especially in emulsion polymerization processes. It is also kosher certified. This product is relevant to the industrial market and applicable processes such as emulsion polymerization and latex manufacturing.

STEPAN® MWA-181 is a biodegradable linear fatty alcohol ether sulfate used in the emulsification of components and can enable improved performance in metal cleaning in metalworking applications. It can be used to efficiently remove oil residue from metal surfaces. It is kosher-certified.

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® 550-90% HHV is a cationic surfactant, a diamidoamine fabric softener quaternary, commonly employed in household and commercial liquid fabric softeners. It enables the creation of high-viscosity dispersions with solid concentrations of up to 20%, all while maintaining excellent rewetting characteristics.

POLYSTEP® HPE serves as a functional monomer in both emulsion and solution polymerization systems. Its incorporation enhances substrate adhesion, provides corrosion resistance, improves pigment dispersion, and imparts antistatic properties to polymers. Key features of this base chemical include excellent adhesion and corrosion resistance.

STEPAN® MWA-237 is a nonionic surfactant for use in metalworking applications. It can be used as an emulsifier and a coupling agent, alone or in combination with other surfactants. This alcohol ethoxylate can enable improved performance in metal cleaning in metalworking applications and can be used to efficiently remove oil residue from metal surfaces.

POLYSTEP® J-927 is a surfactant blend designed for use in emulsion polymerization and as an additive in latex manufacturing, with a focus on acrylics and vinyl acrylics that have a high concentration of acrylic monomer. It plays a pivotal role in achieving desired polymerization processes and latex properties within the emulsion polymerization market.

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® 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.

G-3300 operates as an anionic surfactant with versatile applications. It is employed as a pigment dispersant in both water- and oil-based paints. Additionally, it serves as an effective wetting agent suitable for waterborne coatings. Its integration can take place during the letdown phase of production or through post-addition to the final formulation. The potential positive effects encompass gloss enhancement, improved color acceptance, and enhanced washability.

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.

STEPAN® MWA-212 can be used as emulsifiers and coupling agents for metalworking formulations, either alone or in combination with other surfactants. It can enable improved performance in metal cleaning in metalworking applications and can be used to efficiently remove oil residue from metal surfaces.

ZELEC® A130 can be used as a wetting agent in the paint and coating industries. In this application, it could also contribute to the improvement of corrosion resistance, gloss, color acceptance, wet scrub resistance, and the hiding power of the film. It can also be used as an antistatic agent in textile and leather finishing and processing and in rubber, plastic, and composite processing. It can also act as an emulsifier and corrosion inhibitor in metalworking fluid, printing pressrooms, and oil fields. It can also be used as a demolding agent in a construction area and in rubber, plastic, or composite processing. It also has lubrication properties for metalworking fluids and textile and leather finishing and processing, including extreme-pressure and anti-wear properties.

STEPAN® MWA-260 is a biodegradable, nonionic surfactant that exhibits low foaming properties and excellent wetting action. It resists foam development even under extreme or prolonged agitation and is non-foaming above 25°c. It can be used as an emulsifier and lubricant in synthetic and semi-synthetic metalworking fluids. And can be used as a component of lubricants, gear and chain oils, metalworking fluids, hydraulic fluids, and plasticizers.

BTC® 85-RT is a quaternary for formulation into a wide variety of institutional and industrial cleaning applications, including water treatment, gas and oil drilling muds and packer fluids, gas and oil recovery injection water systems, gas and oil fracturing fluid systems, and wood preservation. This biocidal active is associated with a u.S. Epa-registered end-use formulation that meets the criteria for applications against emerging viral pathogens. End-use formulations meeting this criteria may be considered for use as hard surface disinfectants against sars-cov-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease covid-19.