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.
| Tradename | Chemistry | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ALCOTEX™ 864 | PVOH | Alcotex 864 is a polyvinyl alcohol, internally plasticized and supplied in a water solution. Alcotex 864 has a medium high hydrolysis level and a low molecular weight. FEATURES Aqueous solution. Forms very flexible films when dry. Dry films can be easily dissolved. Very receptive to ink jet printing inks. The dry film can be insolublised by crosslinking. Non-ionic copolymer. Alcotex 864 is manufactured on a dedicated polymerisation plant in Harlow, England. |
| ALCOTEX™ 975 | PVOH | Alcotex 975 is an internally plasticized polyvinyl alcohol supplied in a solvent system of water and propan-1-ol. Alcotex 975 has a high hydrolysis level and a medium molecular weight. FEATURES Ready to use solution. Forms very flexible films when dry. Dry films can be easily dissolved. Very receptive to ink jet printing inks. The dry film can be insolublised by crosslinking. Non-ionic copolymer. Alcotex 975 is manufactured on a dedicated polymerisation plant in Harlow, England. |
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