Effects

Good news for all film producers from Hollywood to Bollywood: Our silica-based antiblocking agents increase your productivity in film processing and ensure smooth handling. With nearly no effect on other major film characteristics.

The storage of spices, cement, fertilizers, and other powders has two major enemies: any kind of wetness and pressure. Our silica-based anticaking products help to defeat these enemies to give your powders enhanced storage stability.

Friction causes electrostatic forces, and electrostatic forces cause production problems: Charged powders or granules will stick to the walls of your pipes and pumps. Find out how our fumed alumina will neutralize the problem.

Some liquids are easier to process and to use when they are not liquids anymore. Learn in this effect profile that you can pack liquids into a so-called “silica carrier“ to turn them into dry powders. And let us inspire you to develop new products.

You want bubbles in champagne. But you don’t want bubbles in concrete, coatings, or when bottling shampoo. So, we invented a performance booster for defoamer agents made of silica. Learn in our effects profile how it works.

Your car needs wheels to roll properly. Your powder particles need silica to roll properly. The result: faster production rates by improved powder flow, reduced downtime and maintenance costs as well as an exact dosage for producers and customers.

It is estimated that road traffic accounts for about 15% of total CO₂ emissions. Learn in our effects profile how our rubber fillers significantly reduce the rolling resistance of tires and with that, the energy consumption and costs of mobility.

Silicas are a rubber enhancer. Silica in combination with Silanes are a super rubber enhancer. Used as an active filler, our ingredients raise the mechanical stability of your rubber products by “gluing” to the polymer chains and making the rubber compound stronger. Find out all the details here.

With our silica range you can control the flow behavior of liquids. You could even create liquids that are both: fluid AND gel-like. Find out how this effect makes the use of products more convenient. From nail polish to silicone sealing mass.