Formulation-friendly additives that optimise performance
Key features:
- Speciality portfolio of additives, dispersants, fluorosurfactants, opacifiers, and thickeners
- Optimise formulation costs and deliver performance properties
- Trusted by the world’s top brand names.
Many of the world’s top brands rely on our Synthomer speciality portfolio. This range of additives, dispersants, opacifiers, and thickeners delivers the performance properties manufacturers need to optimise formulation costs.
They are trusted in the manufacture of everyday products such as home and personal care, architectural and industrial coatings, adhesives, inks, and advanced materials such as electronics, packaging, and pharmaceuticals.
Our LYTRONTM brand of hollow-sphere pigment (HSP) opacifiers is used in liquid soaps, shampoos and cosmetics. ROHAGITTM brand products are used to prevent and counter microbial attack with UV-stable thickeners and dispersants.
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| Dresinate™ TX Rosin Soap | Rosin Resin | Dresinate™ TX tall oil soap is a free flowing solid, fully saponified sodium soap of tall oil. It is designed mainly as an emulsifier promoting detergent or cleaning activity, particularly in highly built industrial metal cleaners.
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| LYTRON™ 180 | SA | Mildly acidic brilliant white opacifier preserved with 2-bromo-2-nitropropane-1,3-diol. Lytron 180 opacifier for bath and shower products, including liquid hand wash and soaps, laundry detergents, and cleaners |
| LYTRON™ 180 AV | SA | Acidic un-neutralized opacifier for home and personal care products with no added preservatives. Lytron 180 AV styrene acrylic copolymer opacifier for bath and shower products, including liquid hand wash and soaps, laundry detergents, and cleaners. |
| Piccotac™ 1020-E Hydrocarbon Resin | Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Piccotac™ 1020-E hydrocarbon resin is a liquid, low molecular weight hydrocarbon resin based on aliphatic monomers of petroleum origin. Piccotac™ 1020-E is pale in color, has good heat and light stability and contributes an excellent balance of tack and adhesive properties to systems blended with elastomers. Piccotac™ 1020-E is designed primarily for use in pressure sensitive and hot melt adhesives. It is stabilized with antioxidant.
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| Piccotac™ 1095-N Hydrocarbon Resin | Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Piccotac™ 1095-N hydrocarbon tackifier resin is a narrow molecular weight distribution, aliphatic C5 tackifier designed for the adhesives industry. It has light color, low odor, and excellent thermal stability. It is compatible with SIS block copolymers, natural rubber, polyisoprene, butyl rubber, EVA, EnBA, mPE, mPP and APO elastomers. Piccotac™ 1095-N is stabilized by addition of antioxidant.
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| Piccotac™ 1100-E Hydrocarbon Resin | Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Piccotac™ 1100-E hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight, aliphatic hydrocarbon resin, derived mainly from dienes and other reactive monomers. It is characterized by its light color, excellent balance of tack and of adhesive and cohesive properties, heat resistance, and wide compatibility. Piccotac™ 1100-E is designed as a tackifier for various adhesive and hot melt compositions, particularly pressure-sensitive systems that require high cohesive and quick-stick properties. Piccotac™ 1100-E is stabilized by addition of antioxidant.
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| Piccotac™ 7590-N Hydrocarbon Resin | Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Piccotac™ 7590-N hydrocarbon resin is an aromatic-modified, aliphatic hydrocarbon resin developed for the adhesives industry. Its specific degree of modification provides Piccotac™ 7590-N with an excellent compatibility with styrene-based thermoplastic elastomers, and in particular SBS (styrene-butadiene-styrene and SEBS (styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene) block copolymers. It is also compatible with APAO (amorphous poly-alpha-olefins), metallocene-catalyzed polyolefins, SBR, EVA, and many polar elastomers. Due to its low odor and very good thermostability, Piccotac™ 7590-N is suggested as tackifying resin for high quality hot melt and hot melt pressure sensitive adhesives. Piccotac™ 7590-N is stabilized by addition of antioxidant.
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| Piccotac™ 9095-E Hydrocarbon Resin | Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Piccotac™ 9095-E hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight, slightly aromatic-modified aliphatic C5 tackifier designed for the adhesives industry. This light colored resin is compatible with styrenic block copolymers, EVA, and many polar elastomers. It is widely used with other tackifier resins, such as rosin esters and C9 hydrocarbon tackifiers to improve performance. It is primarily used in hot melt adhesives and pressure sensitive adhesives. Piccotac™ 9095-E is stabilized by the addition of antioxidant.
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| Picco™ A-10 Hydrocarbon Resin | Aromatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Picco™ A-10 hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight, resinous plasticizer derived largely from aromatic petroleum feedstock. It is characterized by its chemical inertness, excellent resistance to salts, acids, alkalis, water and brines, and its solubility in a wide variety of hydrocarbon solvents. Picco A-10 is indicated for use as a binder in lithographic (cold set) inks and as plasticizer, softener and tackifier for other resins and elastomers used in rubber compounding and various adhesive systems.
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| Picco™ A-100 Hydrocarbon Resin | Aromatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Picco™ A-100 hydrocarbon resin, with its low softening point and molecular weight has a high level of compatibility in various polymers. It has excellent resistance to acids, alkalis and moisture, good resistance to oxygen, and is extremely water repellent. In addition, it provides excellent solvent release, tack and tack retention, excellent pigment wetting, and can be used with both reinforcing and non-reinforcing fillers. Picco A-100 is a viscous fluid at rubber-milling temperatures, and aids compounding by reducing viscosity and by adding tack while on the rolls. These advantages, combined with improvement in mold flow during cure, are obtained without lowering the cured hardness of the finished product. In styrenic block copolymer-based adhesives Picco A-100 preferentially associates with the styrenic end blocks, producing higher room-temperature cohesion without affecting tack and adhesion properties. Picco A-100 is also utilized frequently in EVA-based woodworking adhesives.
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| Picco™ A-120 Hydrocarbon Resin | Aromatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Picco™ A-120 hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight, amber colored thermoplastic resin produced from petroleum-derived monomers that is polymerized under conditions that control its softening point within a narrow range. Being non-polar, it is characterized by its excellent resistance to acids, alkalis and moisture and is extremely water repellent. It shows good color stability and, when formulated with elastomers, a good balance of flex, tear, tack and adhesion properties. In addition, Picco A-120 has excellent solvent release, tack and tack retention, wide solubility and compatibility, good resistance to oxygen and UV light, provides excellent pigment wetting and can be used with both reinforcing and non-reinforcing fillers. Picco A-120 is a viscous fluid at rubber-milling temperatures, and aids compounding by reducing viscosity and by adding tack while on the rolls. These advantages, combined with improvement in mold flow during cure, are obtained without lowering the cured hardness of the finished product. This resin is particularly indicated as a processing and reinforcing agent in rubber compounds and as a binder in protective coatings. In styrenic block copolymer-based adhesives Picco A-120 preferentially associates with the styrenic end blocks, producing higher cohesion at temperatures up to 70°C without affecting tack and adhesion properties. Picco A-120 is also utilized frequently in EVA-based woodworking adhesives.
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| Picco™ A-140 Hydrocarbon Resin | Aromatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Picco™ A-140 Hydrocarbon Resin is a low molecular weight, amber colored thermoplastic resin produced from petroleum-derived monomers that is polymerized under conditions that control its softening point within a narrow range. It is characterized by its excellent resistance to acids, alkalis and moisture. It shows good color stability and, when formulated with elastomers, a good balance of flex, tear, tack and adhesion properties. In styrenic block copolymer-based adhesives Picco A-140 preferentially associates with the styrenic end blocks, producing higher cohesion at temperatures up to 70°C without affecting tack and adhesion properties. Picco A-140 is particularly indicated as a processing and reinforcing agent in rubber compounds and as binder in protective coatings. It is also utilized in EVA-based woodworking adhesives.
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| Picco™ AR-100 Hydrocarbon Resin | Aromatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Picco™ AR-100 Hydrocarbon Resin is a low molecular weight, modified aromatic hydrocarbon resin. This resin has good solubility in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons and is compatible with a wide variety of thermoplastic and elastomeric polymers. It is utilized frequently in EVA-based woodworking adhesives and finds widespread use in pressure sensitive adhesives, particularly in systems containing natural rubber or styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR). It offers an excellent balance of tack, adhesion and cohesive properties to pressure sensitive systems. In styrenic block copolymer-based adhesives Picco AR-100 preferentially associates with the styrenic end blocks, producing higher room-temperature cohesion without affecting tack and adhesion properties.
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| Picco™ AR-85 Hydrocarbon Resin | Aromatic Hydrocarbon Resin | Picco™ AR-85 hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight, modified aromatic hydrocarbon resin. This resin has good solubility in aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons and is compatible with a wide variety of thermoplastic and elastomeric polymers. Picco AR-85 is utilized in EVA-based woodworking adhesives. In addition, it is widely used in pressure sensitive adhesives, particularly in systems containing natural rubber or SBR. It offers an excellent balance of tack, adhesion and cohesive properties. In styrenic block copolymer-based adhesives Picco AR-85 preferentially associates the styrenic end blocks, producing lower melt viscosity while maintaining room-temperature cohesion without affecting tack and adhesion properties.
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| Regalite™ C6100 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ C6100 hydrocarbon resin is a very light color, partially hydrogenated, modified aliphatic resin designed as an excellent tackifier for the midblock of thermoplastic block copolymers, including styrene-isoprene-styrene (SIS), [low, medium, and high styrene content] styrene ethylene butylene styrene (SEBS) and styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS). It also shows excellent compatibility with ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA). Regalite™ C6100 is recommended for use in a variety of hot melt adhesives, including nonwoven assembly, packaging, bookbinding, glue sticks, and pressure-sensitive tape and label adhesives. |
| Regalite™ C6100L Hydrocarbon Resin | NBR-Dry | Regalite™ C6100L Hydrocarbon Resin is a hydrogenated water-white hydrocarbon resin developed derived from petrochemical feedstocks. This resin is especially designed as a component of a multipart tackifier system in hot melt and solvent based pressure sensitive adhesives based on SIS, SBS and SEBS thermoplastic block copolymers, providing superior tack, adhesion and cohesive strength characteristics.
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| Regalite™ C8010 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ C8010 Hydrocarbon Resin is a new liquid hydrogenated water-white resin derived from petrochemical feedstocks. This resin is especially designed as a component of a multipart tackifier system in hot melt and solvent-based pressure sensitive adhesives based on SIS, SBS and SEBS thermoplastic block copolymers. It provides superior tack, adhesion, and cohesive strength characteristics. Regalite™ C8010 is only available in the Asia Pacific region.
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| Regalite™ R1010 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ R1010 hydrocarbon resin is a liquid hydrogenated, water-white, low molecular weight resin derived from petrochemical feedstocks. This resin is especially designed as a component of a multipart tackifier system in hot melt and solvent based pressure sensitive adhesives based on SIS and SBS thermoplastic block copolymers, providing superior tack, adhesion and cohesive strength characteristics.
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| Regalite™ R1125 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ R1125 hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight fully hydrogenated water-white inert thermoplastic resin derived from petrochemical feedstocks. This resin is particularly useful as tackifier for hot melt systems based on EVA copolymers and SIS block copolymers. |
| Regalite™ R7100 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ R7100 hydrocarbon resin is a partially hydrogenated water-white inert thermoplastic resin derived from petrochemical feedstocks. This resin is especially designed as a tackifier in hot melt adhesives based on SBS block copolymers, providing excellent color retention upon aging. |
| Regalite™ S1100 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ S1100 hydrocarbon resin is a low molecular weight fully hydrogenated water-white thermoplastic resin derived from petrochemical feedstock. This resin is especially designed as tackifier in hot melt adhesives requiring good color retention upon ageing. |
| Regalite™ S5090 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ S5090 hydrocarbon resin is an unique partially hydrogenated water-white inert thermoplastic resin derived from petrochemical feedstock. |
| Regalite™ S5100 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ S5100 hydrocarbon resin is a unique partially hydrogenated water-white inert thermoplastic resin derived from petrochemical feedstock. This resin is especially designed as a tackifier in hot melt adhesives based on SIS and SBS block copolymers, where it provides superior room temperature cohesion combined with very low adhesive viscosity.
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| Regalite™ S7125 Hydrocarbon Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regalite™ S7125 hydrocarbon resin is a partially hydrogenated water-white inert thermoplastic resin derived from petrochemical feedstocks. This resin is especially designed as a tackifier in hot melt adhesives based on EVA, SIS and SBS copolymers, providing low odor and good color retention upon ageing. |
| Regaltac™ C-115R Resin | Hydrogenated Hydrocarbon Resin | Regaltac™ C-115R Resin is a tackifier resin with a softening point of 115°C and a molten Gardner color of 4.
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| ROHAGIT™ SD 15 | PA | Finely dispersed aqueous dispersion of a thermoplastic methacrylic acid-acrylic ester copolymer, anionic stabilised. The dispersion is free from APEO, film forming aids, solvents and plasticizers. ROHAGIT SD 15 is a pure acrylic universal ASE-thickener for pH-range > 8.0. It is UV stable and shows an excellent efficacy and is easy to incorporate. The consistency is pasty, not thready. |
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