A-Z Index

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.

Acrylic acid is a colorless liquid above its freezing point of +13°C ( +56°F). It is fully miscible in water at +20°C (+68°F).
Acrylic acid will polymerize to form homopolymers and can be copolymerized with their esters and other vinyl monomers. Its carboxylic acid functionality provides anionic character and reactivity with alcohols and epoxides.

Arkema is a leading global producer of acrylic monomers. Thanks to their unique properties acrylic monomers improve every day life by making products last longer, allowing water based formulations wihout solvents and a cleaner environment.

Plastistrength^® acrylic processing aids enhance the extrusion or injection molding performance of polymer compounds by promoting fusion, improving melt strength, eliminating surface defects, and decreasing plate out. Plastistrength^® process aids also improve metal release and surface finish properties in extrusion or calendering. Vinyl compounds require less stearate, oxidized polyethylene, or paraffin wax with Plastistrength^® process aids.  Engineering resins like polycarbonate and its alloys gain better phase stability and easier processing with Plastistrength process aids.

Adame^® is produced by transesterification. Cationic nature linked to the tertiary amino functionality, which can be enhanced by quaternization of the tertiary amine. Adame^® is mainly used for production of cationic monomers (Adamquat).
Ability to polymerize and copolymerize.

Adamquat^® brings cationic charge to polymers. Monomers and homopolymers are water-soluble.
They have a good copolymerizability with Acrylamide. The main market is the production of cationic polyacrylamides used as flocculent for wastewater and sludge treatment, paper retention and drainage aids and wet and dry strength for paper sheet formation.

The range of CRAYVALLAC^® additives have been developed to help formulators improve the performance of solvent-free, solvent-based and water-borne coatings. 

Coating Resins by Arkema proposes a wide variety of functional additives for decorative and industrial coatings, sealants, adhesives and inks. Crayvallac^® additives include rheology modifiers, surface modifiers (designed to improve properties like matting, anti-abrasion, slip and rub, sanding and texturing), and flow and leveling agents. 

The range is available and well-known globally for its performance properties.

Clearstrength^® MBS impact modifiers are available around the world for use in engineering resins applications.  The Clearstrength^® E-series has been developed to withstand severe processing conditions and bring high impact peformance especially at low temperatures. Applications include PC/ABS monitor housings, PC/PBT automotive bumpers, and PC cell phone housings among a host of others. Our new MBS Clearstrength^® XT100 offers the possibility to bring impact performances in high performance composites and structural adhesives markets.

The Adiansol^® range contains polyether polyols with different functionalities. These products are based on glycerin, trimethylolpropane (TMP), propylene glycol or amines. The Adiansol^® polyols are mainly used as crosslinkers and building blocks.

Mercaptans can be used for some intermediate synthesis in agrochemical and pharmaceutical markets. Sodium methyl mercaptide (SMM), ethyl mercaptan (EM) and tertio-butyl mercaptan (TBM) are used worldwide to produce intermediates entering for instance in terbufos or phorate agrochemicals.

Arkema also produces Amines, Oxygenated Solvents and Hydrazine Hydrate that can be useful in synthesizing intermediates. 

The Airsiev^® Ox series is a range of molecular sieves designed for oxygen production by PSA (Pressure swing adsorption) process with a broad range of performances (Airsiev Ox 8 and Ox 19).

The Airsiev^® P series is a range of molecular sieves designed for air prepurification with four different performance ranges, for 140 minutes to 300 minutes of CO2 breakthrough (Airsiev P 140, P 180, P 220 and P 300).

Albone^® is formulated for general hydrogen peroxide applications. It is mostly used in the bleaching of paper pulp and of natural and synthetic textile fibers, chemical synthesis, as well as environmental applications such as wastewater and gas treatment. It is also used in the mining and metal treatment industries.

Alkylphenol polysulfides are multi-functional products. This range is articulated around Vultac^® and Rosinox^® products. Supplied by MLPC International, Vultac® and Rosinox® are low molecular weight alkyl phenol disulfide oligomers.
Vultac^® are sulfur donors and vulcanization agents for rubbers with antioxidant and tackifying properties due to their chemical structure.
Rosinox^® is a bleaching agent and catalyst for disproportionation of rosin and rosin esters

Alpure® sodium chlorate (NaClO3) by Arkema is a white crystalline solid produced from salt and water. This strong oxidant primarily serves for the generation of chlorine dioxide (ClO2), a key bleaching agent in the manufacturing of high quality chemical pulps for a large variety of papers and packaging applications.

AMSA (Anhydrous Methane Sulfonic Acid - CH₃SO₃H) is a strong organic acid widely used in the pharmaceutical industry due to its high acidity and high miscibility in aqueous and most organic media.

Apolhya^® products are the only soft polyolefin based thermoplastic materials that can withstand high temperatures : 150° C and higher for over 3,000 hours. Special grafting processes and chemistry produce polyamide-grafted polyolefins having a unique co-continuous structure that provides for breakthrough properties. The Apolhya^® range of products is suitable to the full spectrum of processing conditions (film casting, calendar and blown extrusion, injection moulding, etc.)

As derivatives of Hydrazine Hydrate, the azo-bis-Isobutyronitrile, AZDN or AIBN, is used as blowing agent for PVC foam, or as polymerization initiator for synthesis of flocculant agents in water treatment.