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Stepan Company, manufacturer of specialty and intermediate chemical products, partners with customers to create innovative solutions for a cleaner, healthier, more energy efficient world. Collaborations with customers bring high-quality products that drive growth in consumer and functional markets such as construction, oilfield, agriculture and paints and coatings. Stepan has been a mainstay in the industry since 1932, committed to developing sustainable practices and products that reflect the company’s core values of responsibility, integrity and innovation.

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BIO-SOFT® is a nonionic surfactant blend that is an excellent cleaner, degreaser, and detergent. It can be formulated into concentrates and ready-to-use products for household, industrial, and institutional applications. 

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POLYSTEP

STEPANTEX® is a cationic surfactant providing excellent softening, cold water dispersability and good rewetting properties. It is used in household and industrial fabric softeners. 

STEPANTEX

STEPFAC

AMMONYX® is an amphoteric surfactant finding application in personal care, HI&I applications as foam enhancers, viscosity builders and as emulsifiers and lubricants in textile applications. 

AMMONYX

Our butyl-based TOXIMUL® series are multifunctional polymeric surfactants that are excellent emulsifiers in oil-based systems and come in a range of high ethylene oxide (EO) content. Our product line of low pour point materials has been developed with a range of hydrophilic-lipophilic balance (HLB) values, EO content and water solubility to enable formulators to find solutions for even the most challenging formulations.


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STEPAN-MILD® is an mild surfactant blend with good foam quality and viscosity building. It is used for baby products, shampoos, bubble baths, liquid hand soaps, shower gels and bath products.

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STEPOSOL

STEPANOL® offers a range of features and benefits, including cleansing, compatibility, creamy texture, dense foam, and effective detergency. It is easy to handle, enhances foam, and has good electrolyte tolerance and wetting properties. STEPANOL® provides high foaming, high purity, and viscosity boosting, with options for low viscosity and mild formulations. It also creates a pearlescent effect and excels in solubilizing. STEPANOL® meets bio-based, credo clean Standard, kosher, natural, and sustainable labeling claims. Ideal for beauty and care, home care, institutional and industrial care, leather and textiles, personal hygiene, pest control, and processing and packaging applications, STEPANOL® ensures high performance and versatility.

STEPANOL

STEPANATE® SCS-40 is a versatile solubilizer, coupling agent, and cloud point depressant that is applicable in heavy-duty cleaners, wax strippers, dishwashing detergents, and the oil field and metalworking sectors. Holding kosher certification, it serves the home care, industrial products, and institutional and industrial cleaning markets.

STEPANATE® SCS-40

STEPOSOL® MET-10U is a unique unsaturated di-substituted amide crafted from renewable sources through nobel prize-winning metathesis technology. With attributes like rapid soil-penetrating kinetics, excellent solvency, heat and hydrolytic stability, and low voc content, it finds its place in various applications, including agriculture and coatings.

STEPOSOL® MET-10U

STEPANTEX® VL 90 A stands as a diester fabric softener quaternary, delivering excellent softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. This cationic surfactant paste is applicable in household and industrial cleaners and finds a diverse range of applications, including metal cleaning and polishing compounds, cutting oils, textile auxiliaries, leather conditioners, water repellents, shoe polishes, emulsifiers, paper treatment, and clays.

STEPANTEX® VL 90 A

AMMONYX® LO is a lauramine oxide that finds applications in personal care, hi&amp;i applications as foam enhancers, viscosity builders, and as emulsifiers and lubricants in textile applications. It offers long-lasting foam. This product meets the u.S. Epa safer choice program's surfactant screen and is listed on cleangredients.

AMMONYX® LO

STEPANTEX® VT-90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary, providing excellent softening, cold water dispersibility, and good rewetting properties. This cationic surfactant paste can be used to produce up to 25% solid dispersions in household and industrial fabric softeners. The product is biobased.

STEPANTEX® VT-90

STEPANTEX® DC 90 is a diester fabric softener quaternary that offers commendable softening, antistatic, and rewetting properties. As a liquid cationic surfactant, it is particularly well-suited for creating formulations of fabric softeners intended for both household and industrial use. It falls within the chemical group of dialkyl quaternary esters and functions as a textile antistatic agent. Notably, this product is kosher-certified, can be cold-mixed, and does not necessitate heating during the formulation process.

STEPANTEX® DC 90

NACCONOL® 90G is a high-active sodium salt of linear alkylbenzene sulfonic acid, renowned for its high foaming, fast wetting, and emulsification attributes. It finds use in cleaning formulations where foam is desirable and is versatile enough to be used in high-active, powder formulations, as well as construction products like concrete admixtures, firefighting foams, and dust control additives.

NACCONOL® 90G

STEPOSOL® CITRI-MET presents a solution composed of steposol® met-10u, citrus terpenes, and emulsifiers, surpassing petroleum-based solvents in cleaning and solvency with minimal voc content and a bio-based source. It's applicable to various cleaner types, from home-market multi-surface cleaners to industrial cleaners.

STEPOSOL® CITRI-MET

BIO-TERGE® PAS-8S is a low-foaming anionic surfactant with excellent coupling and wetting properties. Its versatility shines in formulating hi&amp;i cleaners, covering areas like hard surface cleaning, carpet cleaning, machine dishwashing, and glass cleaning. Its compliance with the u.S. Epa safer choice program and cleangredients.Org adds to its appeal.

BIO-TERGE® PAS-8S

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POLYSTEP® SY 15 is an anionic surfactant that primarily serves as a primary emulsifier in the emulsion polymerization process. Specifically designed for latex manufacturing, it plays a pivotal role in forming and stabilizing latex emulsions. Moreover, POLYSTEP® SY 15 is kosher certified, ensuring its alignment with relevant dietary requirements. Its utilization in latex production contributes to the creation of top-notch latex materials characterized by enhanced stability and performance.

POLYSTEP® SY 15

POLYSTEP® B-27 is an anionic surfactant, contributes to latex manufacturing as an emulsifier. Falling under the alkyl phenol ether sulfates nonyl phenol ethoxylate sulfates chemical group, it holds kosher certification and caters to markets such as emulsion polymerization, home care, institutional cleaning, and industrial cleaning.

POLYSTEP® B-27

POLYSTEP® B-29 is an anionic surfactant that plays a crucial role in latex manufacturing with its alkyl sulfate chemical group. This product is suitable for industrial foaming applications and holds kosher certification, serving the emulsion polymerization, home care, and institutional and industrial cleaning markets.

POLYSTEP® B-29

POLYSTEP® OPA is an anionic surfactant with effective wetting and low foaming properties, finds application in latex manufacture. Belonging to the sulfonates chemical group and certified kosher, it serves markets like emulsion polymerization and institutional and industrial cleaning. Its application focuses on latex manufacturing.

POLYSTEP® OPA

POLYSTEP® A-16-22 serves as an anionic surfactant with a primary focus on latex production. Its effectiveness shines, particularly when used in conjunction with vinyl chloride and vinylidene chloride. Its use extends to the manufacture of styrene butadiene rubber (sbr) and styrene acrylic latexes.

POLYSTEP® A-16-22

POLYSTEP® P-12A is a phosphate ester that plays a pivotal role in coating production by controlling particle size, coagulum, shear stability, and freeze-thaw stability. Within emulsion polymerization of various compositions, it demonstrates advantages like low coagulum formation, stable particle size, shear stability, and resistance to various degradations.

POLYSTEP® P-12A

POLYSTEP® TSP-16PE30 is a tristyrylphenol phosphate ester that functions as an emulsifier and post-addition additive in the realm of paints and coatings. With kosher certification, it adheres to dietary requirements. This surfactant is used in the manufacturing of latex, specifically emulsion polymerization. Its dual functions encompass emulsification facilitation and performance enhancement for paints and coatings.

POLYSTEP® TSP-16PE30

POLYSTEP® A-15/30K holds significance in latex manufacture, particularly with vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, and styrene-butadiene. Its exceptional thermal and hydrolytic stability makes it a reliable choice for latex production within the emulsion polymerization market. Its application finds its place in latex manufacturing.

POLYSTEP® A-15/30K

POLYSTEP® A-16 is an anionic surfactant employed in latex manufacture, compatible with vinyl chloride, vinylidene chloride, and styrene-butadiene. In combination with nonionic surfactants like polystep® f-6, it complements styrene-butadiene. In acrylic latexes, it pairs with higher nonionic surfactants such as polystep® f-9. It finds relevance in vinyl acetate latexes, especially those rich in protective colloid, contributing to the formation and stabilization of latex emulsions.

POLYSTEP® A-16

POLYSTEP® SY 15 is an anionic surfactant that primarily serves as a primary emulsifier in the emulsion polymerization process. Specifically designed for latex manufacturing, it plays a pivotal role in

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Actives Content	15	%	-
Boiling Point	100	°C	-
Density (at 25°C)	1.03	g/ml	-
Flash Point	min. 94	°C	-
Pour Point	0	°C	-
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