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Other Specialty Chemicals

Eco-Friendly & Green Chemistry

Performance Enhancement

Process Optimization

Regulatory & Market Compliance

Other Specialty Chemicals Solutions

Our portfolio of specialty chemicals delivers greener, high-performance solutions tailored for today’s manufacturing needs. With Nouryon’s eco-friendly catalysts, dispersants, surfactants, and sustainable solvents, we help customers reduce environmental impact while maintaining superior results. Metallic pigments such as aluminum paste from Nihonboshitsu enhance both functionality and aesthetics, providing brilliance, reflectivity, and durability in coatings, inks, and plastics. Our advanced waxes, adhesion promoters, and defoamers further optimize production—improving flow, curing, and stability for cost efficiency and consistent quality. Backed by compliance with global standards, our solutions allow manufacturers to innovate with confidence while meeting sustainability and regulatory demands.

Eco-Friendly & Green Chemistry

PFAS-free waxes, tin-free catalysts, bio-based polymers, and biodegradable surfactants meet growing demand for safer, sustainable products.

Performance Enhancement

Improve durability, adhesion, conductivity, and stability in coatings, inks, plastics, and advanced formulations.

Process Optimization

Catalysts, defoamers, dispersants, and specialty solvents ensure faster curing, smoother finishes, and lower production costs.

Regulatory & Market Compliance

Helping manufacturers stay competitive and compliant globally.

Examples of products we offer

Aluminum Paste

Problem Solved: Dull appearance, need help in elevating visual appeal, thermal control, and conductivity

Product Solution: Adds metallic shine, reflective properties, UV protection, and enhanced thermal/electrical conductivity when formulated into coatings, inks, plastics, or electronics.

Ideal For: Versatile, High-Performance Additive. Commonly used for automotive coatings, decorative paints, metallic inks for packaging, reflective architectural paints, conductive films in printed electronics, and solar cell metallization.

Manufacturer: Nihonboshitsu

Ethylene amine

Problem Solved: Need to improve manufacturing process

Product Solution: Used as building blocks in various industries. They are crucial in the production of agricultural chemicals, serve as epoxy curatives in paints and coatings, and are used in electronics and oilfield applications as corrosion inhibitors and in gas sweetening.

Ideal For: Manufacturing products for agriculture, pulp and paper, paint and coatings, adhesives, oilfield and gas treatment, polyurethane catalyst, electronics, as well as pharmaceuticals, and textile.

Manufacturer: Nouryon

EDTA 2Na / EDTA 4Na (Chelating agents, EDTA Sodium Salts)

Problem Solved: Need to control unwanted metal ions in formulations, prevents discoloration or product degradation, and reduces scaling or deposit issues in water-based systems.

Product Solution: Acts as a highly effective chelating agent, enhancing formulation stability, improving product performance, and extending shelf life.

Ideal For: Personal care and cosmetics (shampoos, creams, lotions), household cleaning and laundry products, water treatment applications, and select uses in food and pharmaceutical formulations.

Manufacturer: Nouryon (Dissolvine)

Colloidal Silica Solutions

Problem Solved: Need to improve surface hardness and durability, enhance adhesion in coatings, and reduce wear, corrosion, and thermal instability in various applications.

Product Solution: Provides uniform nanoscale silica particles in a stable aqueous dispersion, delivering excellent binding, reinforcement, and rheology control.

Ideal For: Precision casting, coatings and paints, catalysts, refractories, electronics polishing (CMP slurries), paper treatment, and as a functional additive in adhesives and textiles.

Manufacturer: Nouryon (Levasil^® colloidal silica)

Specialty Solvents (DIBK, DPM, Benzyl Alcohol, etc.)

Problem Solved: Difficulty in dissolving or blending certain active ingredients, uneven formulation performance, slow drying times, and limited compatibility with diverse systems.

Product Solution: Offers a wide range of solvency power and evaporation rates to improve formulation flexibility, ensure consistent performance, enhance stability, and enable precise control of viscosity and drying profiles.

Ideal For: Personal care and cosmetics (fragrances, creams, lotions), household and industrial cleaning products, coatings and inks, adhesives, and specialty chemical formulations requiring reliable solvency and compatibility.