Articles Tagged with ''Surfactants''

Learn how the amount of actual dispersant added on pigment solids will have an effect on tinting power, stability, compatibility of formulations, and other properties.

This month's Formulating with Mike column discusses the development of surfactant molecules for use as a carbon black pigment dispersant. 

Pilot Chemical Company is a privately owned and independent global specialty chemical company providing high quality products and services to the adhesives & sealants, paints & coatings; HI&I; metalworking & lubricants; and oil & gas recovery industries.

The surfactants we add to synthetic latexes have allowed us to create wonderful nanoparticles and at the same time provide colloidal stability to the dispersions. But they also can cause foaming problems when mixing and transporting the latexes, and remain in the final products, causing potential water absorption problems in films and coatings. 

Colonial Chemical Inc. held a groundbreaking earlier this year for a new specialty chemicals manufacturing plant in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. 

Chemical company Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd. (IVL) recently completed its acquisition of Brazil-based Oxiteno S.A. Indústria e Comércio.

Clariant has unveiled its new Vita 100% bio-based surfactants and polyethylene glycols (PEGs) to help directly address climate change by helping remove fossil carbon from the value chain.