A-Z Index

A product range of Uvicure cationic resins, including cycloaliphatic epoxy resins, valued for their high adhesion, low shrinkage and chemical resistance, and oxetanes, used in conjuction with cycloaliphatic epoxy resins, to improve speed of cure, viscosity control, hardness and adhesion to difficult substrates. These cationic resins offer high performance in a variety of applications, such as 3D printing, coatings and inks, composites, electronics and adhesives. 

A product range of MCure reactive modifiers and diluents for two-part epoxy/amine cured systems. 
Due to their rapid reaction and excellent diluting effect, these products can help formulators to produce low VOC systems required by specific applications overcoming the disadvantages of typical glycidyl ether diluent/modifiers.

A full range of specialty acrylate monomers and oligomers to answer evolving regulations and directives for indirect food packaging applications.

A product range of liquid Saret methacrylic coagents with varying functionalities for use in peroxide curing of elastomers. Peroxide curing of elastomers is an alternative to sulfur vulcanization that offers superior heat-aged performance. Saret coagents are available as proprietary mixtures with radical-scavenging retarders that provide prolonged scorch safety, while maintaining cure rate and increasing crosslink density.

A wide product offering of Speedcure photoinitiators for UV/LED free-radical and cationic curing of resins, varnishes, coatings and inks. Our photoinitiators are valued for their applicability across all key UV/LED curing technologies ranging from 3D printing, specialty coatings, adhesives, and printing inks to automotive, electronics, composites, and packaging industries.

The Sartomer® product line has one of the broadest ranges of acrylate monomers, oligomers, and specialties available.These products use UV, EB, LED, peroxide and amine cure technologies for the coatings, inks, adhesives, composites, 3D printing, construction markets, dedicated to many high performance consumer and industrial applications.

The acrylate and methacrylate Sarbio grades, based on renewable raw materials, allow formulators to combine high technical performance requirements along with environmental friendliness. With this offering, Arkema demonstrates its support to customers whose aim is to develop new formulations with lower carbon footprints. End-users can develop new systems with increased bio-content.

The Sartomer^® product line offers a wide range of methacrylate monomers and oligomers. Methacrylate monomers are used in applications ranging from chemical intermediates to composites to adhesives and sealants to elastomers and more. In addition to diluency, these monomers impart a variety of key performance characteristics, including heat resistance, chemical resistance, and adhesion. Methacrylate oligomers provide hardness, chemical resistance, and other properties critical to coatings and adhesives.

A range of Speedblock additives such as hindered amine light stabilizers (HALS), UV absorbers (UVA), Antioxidants and Optical brightening agents (OBA) for UV, thermal or cationic curing. 

Scaleva^® MSA (Methane Sulfonic Acid - CH₃SO₃H) offers an outstanding combination of properties for use in hard surface cleaning and removal of lime and metalic (iron) scales. Scaleva^® MSA is used in the sector of metal cleaning, acid base cleaner for food industry and beverage industries, I&I, concrete cleaning, membrane cleaning, etc. 

Luperox® organic peroxide formulations with Scorch Protection offer flexibility to mix, extrude, and mold rubber compounds at high temperatures while reducing loss due to scorch (premature crosslinking).

Sebacic acid is a natural C10 liquid fatty acid, directly produced from castor oil. Our decanedioic acid has a high quality, a secure supply chain, and a natural origin. 

The biobased nonionic surfactant range Sensio™ is dedicated to all types of home and professional care formulations where the following properties are required: degreasing, soil removal, wetting, solubilizing, hydrotrope, low foaming and foaming preservation.

High performance molecular sieves in activated powders provide a regulated delivery of cosmetic ingredients in beauty masks.

Siliporite^® activated powders are incorporated to plastics to trap moisture, VOC and odors, thanks to their superior adsorption capabilties and viscosity consistency.

Arkema molecular sieves are specially designed to provide maximum performance in Industrial gases production.

Airsiev^® Ox Series, one of Arkema’s Siliporite^® products, is a synthetic molecular sieves designed for non-cryogenic production of oxygen.
 

Airsiev^® P grade are synthetic molecular sieves designed to purify air (CO2 and H2O removal) upstream of the Air Separation Units. Airsiev^® P grade is a Sodium based product.
 

Siliporite^® beads are used to trap moisture, VOC and odors, thanks to their superior adsorption capabilties and dust free properties.

Molecular sieves real 3A beads, designed to dry ethanol down to the ppm level for years in high purity applications in food, beverage and pharmaceuticals

Molecular sieves real 3A beads with superior physical properties, designed to dry high volumes of ethanol down to the ppm level for years.

Arkema molecular sieves are efficient moisture scavengers, which protect the air conditioning units or the refrigeration units from the damages of moisture.
 

Arkema develop a range of Siliporite^® molecular sieves for the automotive markets to keep damaging moisture away from fluids: Air drying for the air brake systems in buses and trucks and refrigerant drying in automotive air conditioning systems.
 

For years, our Siliporite® molecular sieves have been used for ethanol dehydration down to the ppm level. Arkema Siliporite® EPX is the grade of choice for ethanol dehydration.
 

Zeolite based molecular sieves used as dessicants in Insulating glass, both for spacer bar and warm edge technology.
 

Siliporite® molecular sieves powders are used in polyurethane Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants and Elastomers (CASE) to avoid bubbles in the formulation. Our molecular sieves will extend the pot life of your polyurethane and provide a perfect surface finish, and strengthen the coating.
 

Siliporite® Molecular sieves in beads or powder are used to adsorb condensation in between windowpanes.
 

Natural gas is produced in wet conditions and must be dried to protect downstream equipment via Temperature Swing Adsorption process. In some cases sulfur compounds, CO2 & methanol must also be removed. Siliporite® molecular sieves offer a wide range of pore sizes (3Å, 4Å, 5Å, 13X) to address those types of impurities.
 

Arkema has decades of experience working with various petrochemical operators, major licensors and engineering companies. Arkema Siliporite® OPX grade is an excellent choice in cracked gas units for the drying of the olefins before the cold section.
 

Molecular sieves are used in pharmaceutical packaging to protect medical drugs from moisture.
 

The result of decades of R&D and the fruit of collaboration with the main players in the sector, Arkema's expertise in refining cuts is recognized around the world.
 

Molecular sieves beads are inserted in the stopper of the pharmaceutical tubes to protect them from moisture.
 

Molecular sieves activated powders are incorporated to the polypropylene liner of the tube to keep the moisture away from pharmaceuticals and blood tests.

High performance molecular sieves activated powder for short POT life PU when gassing and bubbling are not an issue.

Siliporite^® NK 10 B are robust molecular sieves designed for maximum moisture adsorption in air prior to compression. They will protect your compressor for years thanks to superior mechanical strength.

High performance molecular sieves in beads and activated powders protect pharmaceuticals in stopper or dessicant tubes.
 

Molecular sieves activated powder designed for gassing and bubbling control in polyurethane..
 

Molecular Sieves activated powder designed for moisture adsorption in warme edge polymer

Molecular sieves real 3A beads, with high adsorption capacity, low dust, lowstatic electricity and adjusted density.
 

The Siliporite^® PHYG series is a range of molecular sieves designed for hydrogen purification by PSA (Pressure swing adsorption) process (Siliporite® PHYG 1 and 3).

Siliporite^® PHYG, one of Arkema Siliporite^® products, is a synthetic zeolite designed to perform in H2 PSA units for CO and N2 removal.
 

Siliporite^® powders, beads and pellets are used to trap moisture and thus accelerate reactions, such as esterification, by water equilibrium displacement.

Molecular sieves activated powder designed for high pot life for polyurethane application
 

Arkema is offering SMM 21 % grade in water supplied in ISO or drums. Arkema has also developed a SMM 33% grade to improve concentration. This grade, supplied in ISO, could thus be more competitive and sustainable limiting transport to get requested quantity of SMM delivered. SMM 21% and SMM 33% can be used for agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals synthesis as well as catalyst for bisphenol A production.

Sodium hypophosphite (NaH₂PO₂) is a chemical reducer obtained from the reaction of phosphorous with caustic soda and lime. It is mainly used in electrochemical nickel plating applications, whitening agent and as catalysts in the fiber-glass industry.

A turnkey product, we offer sodium hypophosphite under the form of ready-to-use solution. Its assay is 810g/L, meaning a 60% solution. We package this product in 1250 kg IBC.

In order to double our capacity and ensure supplies to our clients, we also supply a Sofibex China grade. We guarantee Swiss expertise through systematic analyses in our laboratory in Switzerland.

Sofibex HD is a sodium hypophosphite grade specially designed for demanding applications such as chemical nickel plating for hard disks. This grade is appreciated for its low impurity content, its strict quality control, its good fluidity and its non magnetic properties.

Sodium hypophosphite, marketed under the brand name Sofibex, is manufactured in Switzerland. Given our expertise spanning more than 55 years, it is the best quality product of its kind on the market. In the form of white crystals, Sofibex is packaged in 25 kg bags, or in 500 and 1000 kg big bags. Our DEA import license holding partner enables our presence in USA as well.

Modern protective and industrial coatings require advanced, robust technologies. Arkema offers a wide range of liquid resins for solvent-borne coatings designed to address the issues you encounter every day – including compliance with sustainability requirements, performance in extreme conditions, enhanced durability and providing value for your customers.

Additionally, solvent-borne resins bring a range of high performance attributes to architectural coatings, offering enhanced durability and value across a range of applications.

We offer versatile solutions for your high demand applications that can help you develop the best possible coatings for your customers.

New generation of bio-based dispersant
1. Used as dispersant:
High performance to disperse all minerals used in the paper industry, coarse clays and calcium carbonates even TiO2
High stability.
2. Used as additive:
Allow homogeneous dispersion of your coating colors
Decrease high shear viscosities to limit scratches and streaks
Reduce aggregates significantly to avoid / prevent filtration issues.

Arkema has developed a gas odorant line called Spotleak^®; a comprehensive range of mercaptan and sulfide blends to meet the odorant needs of gas distribution companies. Spotleak^® products are specially designed for odorizing natural gas or industrial gases (e.g. O₂ leakage detection to reduce operating costs due to those losses, and mitigate related safety concerns -- asphyxiation, flammability, etc).

SPS^® 10LS is a water soluble sulfur additive (10% sulfur) showing excellent extreme pressure properties & designed for water miscible fluids. SPS^® 10LS is compatible with synthetic and semi-synthetic fluids

Key properties: readily biodegradable, colorless & odorless, limpid, free of unsatured hydrocarbon residues, non-foaming & fully water-miscible.

Stabiram^® bitumen emulsifiers are perfectly suited for quick and slow-set applications and others.

Arkema has the largest sulfonyls range including MSA (methane sulfonic acid - CAS 75-75-2) and MSC (methane sulfonic chloride - CAS 124-63-0). Arkema has been manufactured methane sulfonic acid for more than 40 years, and has developed various grades adapted to customer's applications for MSA (CH3SO3H) based on its high acidity and full biodegradability. MSC (CH3SO2Cl), is a versatile, reactive chemical used in the agrochemical, pharmaceutical, photographic. It is also commonly known as mesyl chloride.

The nonionic surfactant range Surfaline^® is dedicated to all types of industrial formulations where the following properties are required: detergent, wetting, dispersing, emulsifying, solubilizing, foam control.

These are key properties in many industrial sectors such as homecare, I&I cleaning, emulsion polymerization, lubricants and metalworking fluids, textile auxiliaries, paper treatment, etc.