Solutions Based on Science For Fabric and Surface Care

Capabilities and Products Overview Europe

Dow Fabric & Surface Care Gives You More Solutions for More Surfaces
Dow Fabric & Surface Care is now an even more powerful resource to help you meet rising consumer expectations for performance, sensory appeal, and a lighter environmental footprint. We offer the combined technology, product, and material science resources of Dow and the legacy Rohm and Haas business. Theres more than ever to help leading brand owners in household and institutional care succeed in the marketplace, today and in the future. We can help you deliver distinct functional benefits that can help bring you differentiated new label claims in the eyes of consumers.

Moving Beyond Clean: Anticipating and Addressing Unmet Consumer Needs

Dow Fabric & Surface Care can help bring convenience, wellness and a lighter environmental footprint to products that deliver excellent performance and sensory appeal. Let us help you formulate the next generation of products for fabric care, hard surface care, floor care, and dish care.

Solutions for Superior Household and Institutional Products

For household products, see us for advanced technologies for scale and spotting inhibition, anti-soil redeposition, and enhanced dispersion and rheology control. Dow Fabric & Surface Care can also help you develop phosphate-free and reduced-VOC systems that maintain high performance. In institutional systems, we can help you develop cleaners, strippers and floor care polymers that produce sparkling surfaces that look better longer. And, we can provide cleaning and odor control technologies for kitchen, janitorial, food and beverage processing, and laundry systems.

Collaborative Innovation Focused on Your Formulation Needs

Dow Fabric & Surface Care works with brand owners in a collaborative innovation process. Starting from your specific performance requirements, our dedicated regional teams tap into Dows global capabilities to deliver target solutions rapidly and effectively. Our combination of science and experience will help you get to market more quickly with a winning formulation.

Leaving a Lighter Environmental Footprint

Dow Fabric & Surface Care is fully committed to helping you create products that minimize environmental impact during production, use and disposal. We can help develop solutions that are based on renewable raw materials, and are readily biodegradable.

Greater Speed to Market with Rapid Formulation Development

Our Rapid Formulation Development capability can greatly streamline and speed evaluation tests to achieve better cleaning and surface care formulation performance. This system uses automated chemical testing and properties measurement equipment and software that give precise control over the experimental template, sample processing, and evaluation parameters. The technology can make evaluations of a wide range of formulation stability and performance parameters, including corrosion, storage stability, optical properties, ingredient solubility, laundry performance, surface cleaning performance, filming/streaking, and more.

More Powerful Scale-Up and Testing Capabilities

Rely on us to help you move your product quickly and efficiently from lab to commercial scale. This capability has been significantly enhanced through the addition of Rohm and Haas competencies in the area of applications development. We can help move your project efficiently from benchtop development through prototype testing, real-world testing, and production scale-up.

An Extensive Product List that is Just a Starting Point

We are constantly developing new products, technologies and delivery systems, as our work starts with your new product performance targets. We invite you to review the summary of our products and ingredients on the following pages. While the list is extensive, it is only a starting point for understanding how our capabilities can help you succeed faster in the marketplace.

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Fabric Care

A Wide Range of Performance Solutions

Surfactants
ECOSURF SA Surfactants are readily biodegradable, high performing surfactants for cleaners that are gentle to the environment but tough on dirt. ECOSURF EH Surfactants are readily biodegradable with outstanding performance for hard surface cleaners; particularly on greasy soils. TERGITOL 15-S Surfactants are nonionic surfactants based on secondary alcohol. These are readily biodegradable and provide excellent cleaning performance on fabric and hard surfaces. Nonylphenol ethoxylates are used in a wide variety of cleaning applications. TERGITOL Surfactants, DOWFAX Surfactants, and TRITON Surfactants increase the cleaning and wetting properties of household cleaners and enhance institutional cleaning product formulations, with a particular focus on low foam control. ECOSURF SA Series ECOSURF EH Series TERGITOL 15-S Series TERGITOL NP Series DOWFAX 20A / B Series DOWFAX DF Series TERGITOL TMN Series TERGITOL L Series TERGITOL 26-L Series TRITON BG-10 & CG-110, CG-50 TRITON CF Series TRITON DF Series TRITON GR Series TRITON H-66 CARBOWAX Polyethylene Glycols and MPEGs have a wide range of uses in household products, including cleaners, polishes, soaps and detergents, because they are water-soluble and inert, with low volatility and low toxicity. They exhibit good solvent properties for, and are compatible with, many ingredients normally used in household products. DOW P-Series Polyglycols provide general solvency and are compatible with many ingredients normally used in household products.

Powder Laundry Detergent

Liquid Laundry Detergent

Fabric Softeners

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Solvents
DOWANOL Solvents, CELLOSOLVE Solvents, CARBITOL Glycol Ethers and Isopropanol increase the effectiveness of household and institutional cleaners and degreasers, allowing wide formulating opportunities. Additional benets include low odor, low toxicity and good biodegradability. DOWANOL PnB DOWANOL DPnB DOWANOL TPnB DOWANOL EPh DOWANOL PPh DOWANOL PnP DOWANOL DPnP DOWANOL PM DOWANOL DPM DOWANOL PMA CARBITOL Methyl CARBITOL Butyl CARBITOL Butyl CELLOSOLVE Hexyl CELLOSOLVE Hexyl CARBITOL PROGLYDE DMM Isopropanol Note: Not all products are available in every geography.

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Hard Surface Care Laundry Aids & Pretreaters All Purpose Surface Specialty Surface Care Floor Care Dish Care Hand Auto Dishwash Dishwash Air Care

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Fabric Care

A Wide Range of Performance Solutions

Water Soluble Polymers
CELLOSIZE HEC nds use in many household products as a thickener, stabilizer, and binder. METHOCEL Cellulose Ethers provide viscosity control, cling, foaming, soil antiredeposition, and emulsion stabilization to household cleaners and detergents. POLYOX Resins add many important functional and sensory properties to cleaners. They act as thickeners, binders, lubricants and water-retention agents. UCARE and SoftCAT Polymers are used to provide softening and care benets. CELLOSIZE Hydroxyethyl Cellulose METHOCEL Cellulose Ethers POLYOX Water Soluble Resins Cationic HEC, hydrophobically modied HEC

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Chelating Agents
Chelants help maintain clarity, retard rancidity, prevent streaking, remove hard water soap/lm, and prevent scale in a wide variety of formulations including hard surface cleaners, laundry detergents, liquid soaps, germicidal and anti-bacterial cleansing preparations, and vehicle cleaners. VERSENE VERSENEX VERSENOL G G G G G G

Dispersants
ACUSOL Dispersants are designed to control scale formation and disperse and remove dirt and minerals in a full spectrum of household, industrial and institutional applications. ACUSOL Dispersants help maintain softer, whiter fabrics and cleaner, better looking surfaces. ACUSOL G G

Rheology Modiers
ACUSOL Rheology Modiers can be used to control ow properties, stabilize formulations, suspend particles, provide vertical wall cling, reduce misting, and control uniform dosing of a formulation. ACUSOL G G

Opaciers
ACUSOL Opaciers impart a milky or lotionized appearance to formulated products. ACUSOL OP G G

Film Formers
Film formers are polymeric products that leave a protective layer upon drying. The polymeric lm protects, maintains appearance and adds shine to oors. Floor care lm formers can be either oor polishes, removable by amine based strippers, or oor sealers, permanent lms which resist removal. DURAPLUS PRIMAL RHOPLEX UHSPLUS DURAGREEN

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Microbial Control
Dow Microbial Control products, including UCARCIDE Bactericides and Fungicides, BIOBAN Antimicrobial, TRIS NITRO Antimicrobial Agents and AMICAL Preservatives prevent microbial contamination of laundry detergents, fabric softeners, dishwashing liquids, household and industrial cleaners. UCARCIDE BIOBAN DOWICIDE TRIS NITRO AMICAL KATHON G G G

Solvents
Propylene Glycol (PG) and Dipropyleneglycol are designed for use in heavy duty liquid laundry detergents and fragrance delivery applications. Dow PG products offer consistent, high purity and an extended shelf life. Propylene Glycol and Dipropyleneglycol G

Amines
Amines are used as key neutralizing agents, alkalinity sources and as key intermediates for cleaning raw materials Key intermediates for cleaning raw materials Ethanolamines (MEA, DEA, TEA) Ethyleneamines (EDA) G G G

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Hard Surface Care Laundry Aids & Pretreaters All Purpose Surface Specialty Surface Care Floor Care Dish Care Hand Auto Dishwash Dishwash Air Care

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While this bulletin can serve as a brief introduction to the capabilities of Dow Fabric & Surface Care, it cannot begin to anticipate the many questions you may have about how we may help you bring a breakthrough product to light. With that in mind, contact us at the numbers below. Europe: call toll-free* +800 3 694 6367 call (+32) 3-450-2240 fax (+32) 3-450-2815
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