a global chemical manufacturer

Textiles

Stepan is ideally positioned to supply the surfactant ester products used in the Textile and Fiber industries.   Stepan’s surfactant line includes wetting agents, emulsifiers, and detergents made from natural and biodegradable raw materials.  Anionic, nonionic and cationic product offerings provide you with a choice.

The ester product line contains fatty alcohol esters, water dispersible polyethylene glycol esters, and thermally stable polyol esters.

 

With manufacturing facilities near the markets and dedication to this industry, Stepan assures you of technical and laboratory support to assist you in product selection and new product development.

 

Metalworking

To the metalworking industry, Stepan’s sulfonation, amidization, esterification and alkoxylation capabilities make it an ideally suited component supplier to the metalworking industry. 

 

The ester product line contains fatty alcohol esters, water dispersible polyethylene glycol esters, hydrolytically stable phthalic anhydride based esters and thermally stable polyol esters.

 

Stepan’s every expanding alkoxylation product line offers EO, PO and EO/PO block copolymer capabilities.

 

Plastic Additives

Stepan’s esterification, amidization and phosphorylation capabilities make it well positioned as an additive supplier to the plastic industry.

 

Stepan offers slip agents for easier processing, antistatic agents for thermoplastic polymers and release agents for thermoset composite applications.