Gantrade + Tiarco-RST: Creating Customer Benefits

With 45 years in the global chemicals business, Gantrade is an experienced and responsible worldwide marketer of a broad range of Monomers, Intermediates, & Polymers. Our goal is to provide value and innovation to help our customers succeed and grow.

With over four decades in the Rheology & Surfactants industry, Tiarco-RST offers a wealth of experience, capabilities and leading-edge products that can help to create products with distinctive performance advantages. Tiarco-RST's portfolio of Surfactants & Rheology Modifiers has a product for every formulators needs.

Together, Gantrade and Tiarco-RST offer a broad portfolio of monomers, intermediates, polymers, crosslinking chemistries, surfactants, rheology modifiers, dispersants and related products that help to advance performance dimensions in emulsion-based paint & coatings, adhesives & sealants, inks and related products.

Our flexibility, customer focus, professional support services and environmental consciousness make doing business with us easy. Our combination allows us to better help our customers achieve the right solution for your specific applications. Gantrade and Tiarco-RST's combined capablities are always available to assist customers with formulation challenges and to tailor new products that can offer distinctive performance advantages.

Whatever your speciality requirements, we welcome the opportunity to work jointly to enhance the performance of your products.

What does this mean for you? New products to work with!

Sodium Polyacrylate Thickeners

Sodium polyacrylate thickeners are versatile, aqueous polymer solutions designed to provide thickening, suspending, coating, and unique rheological properties for a host of applications. Uses include primary and secondary thickening of coatings, adhesives, grouts, dispersions, suspensions; thickening of liquid solutions applied by spray application; and as protective colloids and particle coatings in specialty products.

The broad product selection provides the formulator with a high degree of flexibility in determining the best choice for each application. Sodium polyacrylate thickeners are neutralized, viscous solutions. Paragum thickeners are used in the thickening of natural and synthetic latexes for a wide variety of applications. These product may be used to thicken styrene-butadiene, acrylonitrile, butadiene, acrylic, neoprene, vinyl acetate, and ethylene-vinyl acetate latex compounds. They are a great thickener for latexes that have an alkaline reaction.

Product	Active	FDA Clearance	Application Information
Paragum T-111	15	175.105, 175.320, 175.300, 176.170	Thickening of coatings, adhesives, sizes, and dispersions used in upholstery, drapery, carpet, paper, paint, wallpaper, printing, and textile.
Paragum 184	13	175.105, 175.300, 175.320, 176.170, 173.340, 176.200	Thickening of specialty formulations including defoamers, textiles and paper coatings.
Paragum 241	13		Thickening of suspensions, slurries, dispersions of inorganic color pigments, mineral fillers, and clays.
Paragum 341 (APEO-free)	13	175.105, 175.320, 175.300, 176.170	Thickening of liquid products applied by spraying, including defoamers and cleaning products.
Paragum 247	13	175.105, 176,180	Secondary thickening agents used to impart unique rheology properties to a formulation.
Paragum 288	10.5		Particle coatings and temporary coating vehicles removable by water rinse.
Paragum 390 (APEO-free)	14.5	175.105, 175.320, 175.300, 176.170	Superior thickening efficiency in carpet compounds.
Paragum 277	12.5	176.18	Specially-formulated to incorporate the performance attributes of the products above with the added benefit of built-in added thickening efficiency for EVA (VAE) lattices.
T-Gum 104	13.5	176.170. 176-180, 176.200	Superior thickening in defoamers or other coatings

Polyacrylate Rheology Modifiers (Thickeners): ASE & HASE

ASE (Alkali Soluble Emulsions) thickeners contain a balance of methacrylic acid and acrylate ester. They are supplied in liquid form. Thickening is triggered by a change from low to high pH with bases such as ammonium hydroxide or caustic. ASE Rheology Modifiers are supplied at low pH and a low viscosity. When subject to a pH >8 in the coating formulation, ASE copolymers solubilize, swell and thicken the formulated coating through volume exclusion. ASE thickeners are steeply shear thinning and well suited to high-viscosity, thick-film applications such as caulks, mastics, finishes, sealers, paints, coatings and adhesives.

HASE (Hydrophobically modified) rheology modifiers retain the pH dependent behavior and easy handling advantages of their ASE counterparts, but in addition to absorbing water, HASE rheology modifiers also thicken via hydrophobe association. Associative thickening, offers performance properties over a wider range of shear levels and facilitates a wider range of rheology profiles than is possible with thickeners such as ASE and cellulosic offerings. They are compatible with multiple binder chemistries,, where they offer a range of key performance properties, including flow and leveling, sag resistance and film build.

Product	Active	FDA Clearances	Application Information
Paragum 500	35	175.105	Excellent all-purpose in situ acid type thickener, short rheology, clear gel. Workhorse acrylic coatings thickener used in defoamers.
Paragum 511	20	175.105	Superior all-purpose in situ acid type thickener, stringy rheology, clear gel. Used in conjunction with Paragum 500 to achieve the exact blend of rheological properties.
Paragum 109	35	175.105, 176.170, 176.180, 176.200, 173.34	Intermediate rheology in situ type thickener. Gentle thickening action.
Paragum 525 (HASE)	30	175.105, 176.170,176.18	Associative in situ acid type thickener. High-efficiency and effective in diverse applications including carpet, wood, and tile adhesives.
Paragum 530 (HASE)	35	175.105, 176.170, 176.18	Associative in situ acid type thickener. High-efficiency and effective in diverse applications including carpet, wood, and tile adhesives.
Paragum 600 (APEO-free)	35	175.105, 176.170, 176.18	Used as an in situ thickener by adding directly to the material. Performs effectively in a broad range of lattices, coatings, adhesives, dispersions, and solutions. Ease of handling and processing, safety, thickening, efficiency, and consistency, combined with its short, smooth flow characteristics, give the formulator latitude and flexibility in product design.
Paragum 601 (APEO-free)	20	175.105, 176.170, 176.180, 176.200, 173.34	Used as an in situ thickener by adding directly to the material. Performs effectively in a broad range of lattices, coatings, adhesives, dispersions, and solutions. Ease of handling and processing, safety, thickening, efficiency, and consistency, combined with its unique stringy or viscoelastic flow characteristics, give the formulator latitude and flexibility in product design.
Paragum 630 (HASE)	30	175.105, 176.170,176.180, 175.300,175.32	APEO-free. Hydrophobically modified anionic thickener designed to give high- efficiency and pseudoplastic rheological behavior. Used in tile adhesives, mastics, paint, water treatment and most textile applications.

Anionic Surfactants

Tiarco-RST surfactants enhance the performance of many products in the CASE segment. Our anionic surfactants and surfactant blends are specially designed to meet the diverse needs of a broad range of emulsion polymer applications. They are effective with SBR, VAE, EVA, Acrylics, Vinyl Acrylics, SBR-X (carboxylated), and many other aqueous emulsion dispersions. We can custom blend a wide variety of unique formulations to meet your special requirements and reproduce them in small and large quantities. Our formulated blends are compatible with most fillers, thickeners, and auxiliaries. Designed to be both cost-effective and efficient at low usage levels, these products provide the formulator with a full range of emulsion polymers capabilities.

Product	Active	Chemical Name	Applications
Stanfax 969 (3 mole)	60	Ammonium Laureth Sulfate	Emulsion Polymerization, Paints & Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants & Related Products.
Stanfax 1012 (12 mole)	30
Stanfax 1026 (3 mole)	27
Stanfax 1045 (2 mole)	25
Stanfax 1094 (11 mole)	30
Stanfax 238	27.5	Ammonium Lauryl Sulfate	ditto
Stanfax 998 HV
Stanfax 998
Stanfax 1061	30	Ammonium Decyl Sulfate	ditto and penetrants.
Stanfax 1033 (2 mole)	32	Ammonium Octyl/Decyl	ditto and high foaming ether sulfate agent.
Stanfax 967	30	Sodium Decyl Sulfate	ditto and Emulsifier dispersant, wetting agent
Stanfax 1024 HV	25	Sodium Laureth Sulfate	High Viscosity
Stanfax 1024 (1 mole)	25		Emulsion Polymerization, Paints & Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants & Related Products
Stanfax 1022 (2 mole)	25.5		ditto
Stanfax 1022 UM (2 mole)	25.5		ditto
Stanfax 1023 (3 mole)	28.5		ditto
Stanfax 1015 (3 mole)	60		ditto
Stanfax 1066 (12 mole)	30		ditto
Stanfax 234	29.5	Sodium Lauryl Sulfate	ditto
Stanfax 234 LCP
Stanfax 1025
Stanfax 1007	33	Sodium Octyl Sulfate	Ditto and wetting agent and dispersants
Stanfax 1089	32	Ammonium Nonyl Phenolethoxy Sulfate	ditto
Stanfax 972	40	Triethanolamine Lauryl Sulfate	ditto
Stanfax 560	22	Sodium Dodecyl Benzenesulfonate	ditto and anionic wetting agent

GANTRADE & TIARCO-RST COLLABORATE TO MEET & ENHANCE CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS FOR THICKENERS & SURFACTANTS

Serving the Emulsion Polymerization, Paint & Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants, Inks and Related Markets

What does this mean for you? New products to work with!

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