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Specialty Chemicals Industry

Business Line Specialty Chemicals Industry offers the entire range of DKSH Market Expansion Services to companies wishing to source or supply materials in the graphics and electronics, paints and coatings, polymers, fibers and adhesives industries, among others.
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Graphics & Electronics
In the graphics area we provide products and services for printing plates (including computer-to-plate), ink-jet receptive media for paper and plastic substrate, specialty inks, and products for photographic applications.
For the electronics industry we offer products and services for IC photo resists and color filter resists, printed circuit boards, liquid crystal intermediates for liquid crystal production, optical films for printed electronics and photovoltaic applications.
Our offering for the film coating industry includes hightech films, packaging, and lamination, environmentally friendly products, and ID and security applications. We help our business partners find the correct, most innovative materials, while flexibly sourcing worldwide to ensure best value.
Our expertise covers the following products:
Custom-made materials for the formulation of coatings for printing plates (including computer-to-plate) such as photopolymers, novolacks, sensitizers, N-IR dyes, pigment dispersions, diazoresins, triazines, coumarines and other specialty additives
Inkjet receptive media for paper and plastic substrate
Specialty materials for ink formulations such as:
Other materials such as thermal and UV color change pigments, additives to modify the texture, feel and aroma of printed inks, aqueous polyolefins to enhance rub resistance, and nanosized particles
UV-curable materials such as acrylates and methacrylates, oxetanic resins, oligomers and diluents for cationic UV curing, cationic resins, oligomers and diluents, photoinitiators and synergists, and additives
Adhesion promoters such as chlorinated and chlorine-free polyolefins and organic titanates, and highly polymerized co-polyester resins
Biodegradable and compostable resins from non-GM renewable sources
Plasticizers compatible with key resins and suitable for food packaging
A specialized range of materials for the production of IC lithographic resists, color filter resists, solder-resists and dryfilm-resists such as:
Dyes and color formers, and polyimide intermediates
Photoinitiators and sensitizers
Fluorine bisphenol derivatives
Photoacid and photobase generators
Diazo compounds and resins
Norbornanes and adamantanes
Phenols and polyvinylphenols
Novolacks
High-purity chemicals for developers, strippers, etchants, fluxes, electroplating and surface treatments such as:
Benzaldehyde derivatives
Non-ionic surfactants
Gallates
Organic acids and solvents
Thiadiazoles
Mercapto derivatives
Tetrazoles
Triazoles
TMAH 25%
Selected specialties for the formulation of UV curing systems and stereolithography composites such as:
Additives
Multi-functional acrylates
Photoinitiators and synergists
High and low refractive index materials
Oligomers and diluents
Cationic resins
Oxetanic resins, oligomers and diluents for cationic UV curin
Acrylates and methacrylates
Printed electronics materials for EL lamps, switch membranes, touchscreens, RFID antennas, solar cells and OPC-drums such as:
ITO and ATO powders
Precious metal
Charge generation and transportation materials
Silver and aluminium-based firing pastes
Silver and carbon-based conductive pastes
Polyaniline and polypyrrole-based transparent conductive polymers
Polythiophene (PEDOT)
Liquidcrystal intermediates for liquidcrystal production
Special N-IR dyes
OLED materials
A specialized range of high molecular weight co-polyesters
Biodegradable and compostable resins manufactured from non-GM renewable sources
Non-chlorinated primers for PP, TPO and engineering plastics, heat-sealing adhesives for metals and plastics – with food contact approval and environmentally friendly grades
Water-based primers for heat-sealing adhesives for metals, paper and film, additives for inks and paints – with approval for direct and indirect food contact for packaging
Others (including custom synthesis molecules) such as:
Additives for thermal papers
High-heat, scratch and chemical resistant coatings
Polymeric beads
Conductive and anti-static materials
Receptor coatings for inkjet printing
CPO adhesion promoters
Paints & Coatings
Our Paints & Coatings Industry team is a technical marketing and sales force that provides key raw materials and ideas to help drive technology forward. By sourcing new raw materials and low-cost alternatives we help our business partners to stay competitive. We are industry experts for products and services for adhesion promoters, high-performance resins and special-effect additives, and cater to the automotive and industrial paints, and decorative and architectural paints industries, among others.
We offer the following products:
Adhesion promoting resins for different substrates, including:
Rubber and metals (AI and steel), supplied in solid, solvent-borne (high resin content), and water-borne form
Polyolefins (PP, TPO, PE)
High-performance resins (solvent and water-borne) with special properties such as:
Highly effective and binder for can and coil coatings
Special matt and glossy coating for glass
High-corrosion restistance marine paint
Electric insulation
Heat resistant coatings
Weatherabilityimproving
Easy cleaning systems
Special-effect additives including scratch resistance, soft effect, light diffusion, thermochromic and photochromic pigments, and anti-blocking, conductive and antistatic agents
Additives for powder coating such as:
Anti-oxidants
UV absorbers
Hardeners
Flow improvers
Cross-linkers
Anti-yellowing agents
Matting agents
Other products, including:
Opacifiers
Anti-skinning agents
Water Scavenger
Hot melt resins
Plasticizers
Oligomers and photoinitiators
UV acrylate monomers
Nano-particles
Polymers, Fibers & Adhesives
Polymers, Fibers & Adhesives offers a wide range of products and services for the formulation of adhesives and sealants, master batches, compounds, engineering plastics and rubbers. In addition to this, we source and supply intermediates for resin manufacturing, and offer a range of materials for the production of artificial leather, fibers and textiles, as well as films for industry applications.
We offer products for the preparation and formulation of:
Adhesives and sealants for high performance formulations such as:
Oxetanic reactive diluents and plasticizers
Oligomers and diluents for cationic UV curing
Oxetanic resins
Non-chlorinated co-polyolefines
Moisture scavengers (PTSI)
Liquid isoprene rubbers
High-molecular weight co-polyesters
Aliphatic isocyanates
Adhesion promoters
Specialy materials and additives for master batches
Specialy materials and additives for compounds
Engineering plastics and rubbers: additives, stabilizers and curing agents such:
Agents, and optical brighteners
Non-staining antioxidants, nucleating
Nanosilver masterbatches
Halogen-free flame retardants, metal deactivators
Vulcanization, fluorescent pigments
Blowing agents, co-agents for peroxidic
Production of epoxys, polyurethanes, acrylics, polyesters, and polyamide resins, where our product range includes:
Cross-linkers
Acrylates
Acrylamides
Monomers
Sulfonated
Di-Acids and anhydrides
Diols
Diisocyanates
Diamines
Materials for leather, fibers, and textile treatment, such as:
Functional additives
Coatings for inkjet printing on artificial leather, paper, and technical fabrics such as:
Soft-touch modifiers
Cycloaliphatic diamines
Curatives for high-resistant composites
Color pastes and PMMA microbeads
Aziridines
Additives for fibers extrusion
Films for industry applications
Other materials such as:
Thermolatent diaminic hardeners
Special diols
Permanent antistatic fillers
Meta-xylenediamine
Blockers
Isocyanate
Diamines (cycloaliphatic and aromatic)
Color pastes
Other Industries
Specialty Chemicals is also involved in the petrochemical , fine chemical, construction, plant protection and pest control, catalyst, water treatment, and ceramics industries.
Petrochemicals industry:
We supply additives and services to refineries, focusing on sulfur degassing with a unique product. We provide a comprehensive logistics and packaging service, enabling safe handling of the product and compliance with all regulations
Construction
Plant protection and pest control:
Home, garden and household insecticides
Professional indoor pest control
Crop protection
We are also a proud contributor to an environment-friendly industry with our key products:
Glyphosate
Pheromone portfolio
Pyrethrum
Fine chemical producers and industrial chemicals and services:
We supply tailor-made materials for high-end applications and custom synthesis. We supply these materials under strict confidentiality agreements with our partners
Water treatment
Ceramics

