Specialty solvents
Solvents and intermediates outside the main product families.
Application notes, material explainers and process guidance written around the chemicals we manufacture and export.
Second-sourcing propylene glycol ethyl ether
Choosing a solvent for a business is choosing suppliers, plural: how to qualify a second source, bridge it and keep the approval…
Propylene glycol ethyl ether in skin care products
An industrial solvent judged by cosmetic rules: isomer control, the documents a formulator needs, and why the grade matters more than the…
Coating solvents and the substrate they are painted onto
A solvent chosen for the resin still has to meet the surface underneath. Where a glycol ether helps, and where it attacks.
Why adipic acid was once called a fat acid
The name is a fossil of an old manufacturing route. What it tells a buyer about grades, oxidation chemistry and the nitrous…
Glycol ethers by duty: matching the homologue to the job
Five industrial duties outside coatings, and how the methyl, ethyl and dipropylene members of the P-series divide the work between them.
Changing solvent supplier: the regulatory workload
Swapping the source of a solvent in a consumer product is a documentation project first. What regulatory affairs needs, and when.
PGEE and water: tolerance, coupling and staying dry
One property explains most of what this solvent is bought for and most of what goes wrong with it: how it behaves…
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