dar-tech distributes specialty chemicals and raw materials used in the formulation of car-care appearance products
Car-care appearance products
If you manufacture car-care appearance products, dar-tech Inc has the chemicals you need!
dar-tech, inc. supplies specialty chemicals and raw materials that are used to formulate state-of-the-art car care products for use in automatic car washes, such as Trifoam waxes, clear-coat conditioners, wheel and tire cleaners, car soaps and washes, liquid and solid waxes, polishes, compounds, dispersants, emulsifiers, thickeners, detergents, cleaners, degreasers, protectants, interior products, glass cleaners, detailers, and more.
These products contribute to enhancing and/or protecting the exterior and interior of an automobile.
MEET OUR SUPPLIERS
AFCONA
Afcona is an innovative manufacturer of specialty additives designed to help car-care-product formulators solve issues covering rheology, surface appearance, air entrapment and dispersion.
BURGESS PIGMENT
Burgess Pigment is a longstanding manufacturer of kaolin clay products comprised of anhydrous, hydrous, and flash calcined kaolin clays to meet the formulating requirements of very mild polishes to the needs of more aggressive rubbing compounds.
MICRO POWDERS
Micro Powders offers new additives for automotive waxes, polishes, and cleaners that combine lubricious, water-repellant waxes with innovative functional inorganics embedded inside the wax particle, including graphene
and ceramic-modified products.
MINIFIBERS
MiniFIBERS SHORT STUFF® fibrillated HDPE fibers provide general reinforcement, crack resistance, reduced shrinkage, viscosity control, particle suspension, shear thinning, and improved dimensional stability without absorbing other ingredients or reducing shelf life.
SIBELCO
Sibelco, a global mineral company that provides an array of naturally occurring functional mineral options in a broad range of controlled particle size distribution curves to meet the needs of formulators of both mild and aggressive polishes.
TOLSA
Tolsa has a global presence and offers a wide range of additives and industrial products to a broad scope of end applications, including micronized products used as thickeners, thixotropes, suspending agents or high- absorption fillers from selected sepiolite, bentonite, and attapulgite clays.
APPLICATIONS
DISPERSANTS
Disperses polishing agents, pigments, or liquids (such as fragrance oils) into a product
Features: Break down larger particles and prevent re-agglomeration
Benefits: Better product consistency, longer product shelf life, less settling
Suppliers: AFCONA
POLISHING AGENTS
Wide variety of various particle-sized kaolin clays, silicas, and silica-free alternatives
Features: Enhance polishing and help remove unwanted surface contaminants
Benefits: Smoother and cleaner surfaces lead to better appearance
Suppliers: Burgess, Sibelco
EMULSIFIERS
For water-in-oil, oil-in-water, and microemulsions (full HLB range)
Features: Enable the formation of stable emulsions of incompatible materials
Benefits: Water-based products, better product consistency, longer shelf life, less settling
Suppliers: AFCONA
THICKENERS
Powder and liquid thickeners for anionic, cationic and nonionic products; materials for thickening the water phase or the oil phase; thixotropic and pseudo-plastic thickeners stable in a wide pH range
Features: Modifies the “thickness” and resistance to flow of a fluid
Benefits: Optimum application and flow properties, less settling
Suppliers: AFCONA, Tolsa, MiniFIBERS
DETERGENTS
Foam boosters and low foaming agents for cleaning and removing various types of oil and dirt
Features: Combines with dirt and impurities for easy removal
Benefits: Better appearance, flow out, and leveling of cleaners, waxes and sealants
Suppliers: AFCONA
