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Expo Technologies Joins the SIA

13th January 2021

The SIA is delighted to announce Sunbury-on-Thames based Expo Technologies as the latest company to join the Association as an […]

SIA Events Diary

11th January 2021

The SIA hosts a number of events in the calendar year for our members and guests.     SIA Board […]

Safe Handling of Gin and Ethanol Poster

SIA Safe Handling of Gin and Ethanol Products Poster

4th December 2019

The Solvents Industry Association has produced Safe Handling of Gin & Ethanol poster to highlight the dangers of handling ethanol […]

Common Uses of Solvents

3rd September 2019

Solvent products are utilised in almost all manufacturing processes in a wide variety of applications. Many of the products we use that […]

Types of Solvent

Solvents can be classed as organic or inorganic materials. Water, the simplest and most abundant solvent on earth is classed […]

Solvents and You

Solvents are chemical products which have the ability to dissolve, suspend or extract other substances without changing their physical properties. Solvents can […]

Hydrocarbon Solvents

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

Oxygenated Solvents

Oxygenated solvents are solvents whose chemical structure contains carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms. The four main groups of […]

Hydrocarbon Solvents – Aromatic Hydrocarbons

2nd September 2019

Aromatic hydrocarbons have the most solvency power of all solvents, with a chemical structure based upon the aromatic 6-membered benzene […]

Hydrocarbon Solvents - Aliphatic Hydrocarbons

Hydrocarbon Solvents – Aliphatic Hydrocarbons

Aliphatic hydrocarbons can be supplied as highly pure single products such as hexane or heptane (normal or iso), cyclic (eg. […]