Solvent products are utilised in almost all manufacturing processes in a wide variety of applications. Many of the products we use that are vital to everyday modern living such as pharmaceuticals, personal[…]

Solvents can be classed as organic or inorganic materials. Water, the simplest and most abundant solvent on earth is classed as an inorganic solvent as its chemical structure does not contain[…]

Solvents are chemical products which have the ability to dissolve, suspend or extract other substances without changing their physical properties. Solvents can be organic (contain carbon) or inorganic (do not contain carbon). As[…]

As the name suggests, hydrocarbon solvents contain only carbon and hydrogen atoms within their structure.There are hundreds of different types of hydrocarbons and are extracted from crude oil in the[…]

Oxygenated solvents are solvents whose chemical structure contains carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms. The four main groups of oxygenated solvents are:AlcoholsKetonesEstersGlycol ethers Oxygenated solvents used industrially tend to[…]

Aromatic hydrocarbons have the most solvency power of all solvents, with a chemical structure based upon the aromatic 6-membered benzene ring.Toluene and xylene are the most commonly used aromatics and[…]

Aliphatic hydrocarbons can be supplied as highly pure single products such as hexane or heptane (normal or iso), cyclic (eg. cyclohexane) or as a distillation cut containing large numbers of[…]

Petroleum distillates are produced from crude oil in the refining process by fractional distillation. Distillates can be collected from the distillation column over a range of temperatures and are used[…]

Alcohols are a versatile range of solvents used in large quantities in a wide range of applications. Very miscible with water, alcohols are used extensively in personal care, cleaning products,[…]

Ketones are a group of solvent products widely used in cosmetics and personal care, surface coatings, pharmaceutical manufacture, printing inks, resins and a number of other industrial applications. Acetone in[…]