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Specialty Chemicals Ingredients

Eugenia Krasnok

Manager, Local Business Line Specialty Chemicals Industry

+41 44 386 7272
Fax +41 44 274 2034
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DKSH Switzerland Ltd.
Wiesenstrasse 8
8034 Zurich
Switzerland
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DKSH innovative specialty chemicals

DKSH Business Line Specialty Chemicals Industry is a leading chemical distributor and global provider of Market Expansion Services for business partners in the graphics, electronics, paints and coatings, polymers, fibers and adhesives and industrial specialties industries.

We provide specialty chemicals to manufacturers in the paints, coatings, inks, polymers, engineering plastics, adhesives, rubber, agrochemical, petrochemical, packaging, graphics, technical film and other specialty industries.

We help our customers to develop new innovative products and applications in collaboration with our valuable suppliers and our team of specialized staff.
 

What we can do for you

With our long-standing business contacts and strategic market insight, we develop new and alternative sources for innovative high-performance specialty chemicals that help drive your business success. Through our comprehensive global network, which gives instant access to markets around the world, we provide responsible and traceable sourcing of hard-to-find specialty raw materials, chemicals and products.

We develop tailor-made new products, formulations and breakthrough applications in collaboration with our team of chemists and chemical engineers from our dedicated award-winning Innovation Centers. Our market insight and broad overview enables us to scout for trends in products and technology in the vast global chemicals industry.

We provide all the required marketing and sales services as well as distribution and inbound logistics for companies lacking a global footprint. We have the capability to manage your entire supply chain, including import and export management, warehousing solutions and value-added services.
 

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Our product portfolio

We provide specialty chemicals to manufacturers in the following sectors of the specialty chemicals industry:

Electronics and specialties


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SCI 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 products in Graphics & Electronics

We offer the following products for film coating:

  • 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 approvaland 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:
    - CPO adhesion promoters
    - Receptor coatings for inkjet printing
    - Conductive and anti-static materials
    - Polymeric beads
    - High-heat, scratch and chemical resistant coatings
    - Additives for thermal papers

  • 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:
    - Plasticizers compatible with key resins and suitable for food packaging
    - Biodegradable and compostable resins from non-GM renewable sources
    - Adhesion promoters such as chlorinated and chlorine-free polyolefins and organic titanates, and highly polymerized co-polyester resins
    - 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
    - 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

Industrial Specialities

Specialty Chemicals is also involved in the petrochemical , fine chemical, construction, plant protection and pest control, catalyst, water treatment, and ceramics industries.
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SCI Idustrial Specialities

Specialty Chemicals is also involved in the petrochemical , fine chemical, construction, plant protection and pest control, catalyst, water treatment, and ceramics industries.

Our products in Industrial Specialities

  • 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

  • Crop protection
  • Professional indoor pest control
  • Home, garden and household insecticides

  • Pyrethrum
  • Pheromone portfolio
  • Glyphosate

  • 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

Paint and coatings


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SCI Paints and 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.

Our products for Coatings

  • Polyolefins (PP, TPO,PE)
  • Rubber and metals (AI and steel), supplied in solid, solvent-borne

  • Easy cleaning systems
  • Weatherability improving
  • Heat resistant coatings
  • Electric insulation
  • High-corrosion restistance marine paint
  • Special matt and glossy coating for glass
  • Highly effective and binder for can and coil coatings
  • Silicones resins for high heat resistance coating

  • Special-effect additives including scratch resistance, soft effect, light diffusion, thermochromic and photochromic pigments, anti-blocking, conductiven, and antistatic agents

  • Matting agents
  • Anti-yellowing agents,
  • Cross-linkers
  • Flow improvers
  • Hardeners
  • UV absorbers
  • Anti-oxidants

  • Nano-particles
  • UV acrylate monomers
  • Oligomers and Photoinitiators
  • Plasticizers
  • Hot melt resins
  • Water scavenger
  • Anti-skinning
  • Opacifiers
  • Silicones additives

Our products for Paints

  • Polyolefins (PP, TPO,PE)
  • Rubber and metals (AI and steel), supplied in solid, solvent-borne

  • Easy cleaning systems
  • Weatherability improving
  • Heat resistant coatings
  • Electric insulation
  • High-corrosion restistance marine paint
  • Special matt and glossy coating for glass
  • Highly effective and binder for can and coil coatings

  • Special-effect additives including scratch resistance, soft effect, light diffusion, thermochromic and photochromic pigments, anti-blocking, conductiven, and antistatic agents

  • Nano-particles
  • Plasticizers
  • Hot melt resins
  • Water scavenger
  • Anti-skinning
  • Opacifiers

Polymers


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SCI 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.

Our products in Polymers, Fibers & Adhesives

  • Adhesion promoters
  • Aliphatic isocyanates
  • High-molecular weight co-polyesters
  • Liquid isoprene rubbers
  • Moisture scavengers (PTSI)
  • Non-chlorinated co-polyolefines
  • Oxetanic resins
  • Oligomers and diluents for cationic UV curing
  • Oxetanic reactive diluents and plasticizers

  • Specialty materials and additives for master batches

  • Specialty materials and additives for compounds

  • Blowing agents, co-agents for peroxidic
  • Vulcanization, fluorescent pigments
  • Halogen-free flame retardants, metal deactivators
  • Nanosilver masterbatches
  • Non-staining antioxidants, nucleating
  • Agents, and optical brighteners

  • Diamines
  • Diisocyanates
  • Diols
  • Di-Acids and anhydrides
  • Sulfonated
  • Monomers
  • Acrylamides
  • Acrylates
  • Cross-linkers

  • Functional additives

  • Additives for fibers extrusion
  • Aziridines
  • Color pastes and PMMA microbeads
  • Curatives for high-resistant composites
  • Cycloaliphatic diamines
  • Soft-touch modifiers

  • Films for industry applications

  • Color pastes
  • Diamines (cycloaliphatic and aromatic)
  • Isocyanate
  • Blockers
  • Meta-xylenediamine
  • Permanent antistatic fillers
  • Special diols
  • Thermolatent diaminic hardeners

Our services at a glance

We offer tailored services that create new opportunities for clients and customers including:

Get the most innovative materials worldwide

  • We provide early trend scouting of innovative raw materials and screening of new suppliers in accordance with international standard audit performance
  • We source hard-to-find raw materials and cost-effective products through our global supplier network
  • We provide in-house quality assurance and control, cGMP audits and regulatory affairs
  • We provide tailor-made product modifications and develop products
  • We negotiate purchase orders and contracts with suppliers
  • We provide just-in-time delivery and availability based on agreements
  • We provide project management, technical transfer and troubleshooting
  • We define product specifications together with our customers

Develop new products, ideas and patents with us

  • Our innovation centers develop prototype finished product formulations for start-up products, product testing and demonstration
  • We provide information exchange on global/regional/local market trends with customers and suppliers
  • We collaborate with customers and suppliers to develop customized finished product formulations
  • We assist customers in troubleshooting difficulties and provide technical transfer
  • We assist in clinical trials, efficacy testing and home usage tests
  • We support technical seminars for customers in collaboration with suppliers
  • We provide regulatory affairs support

Benefit from our efficient manufacturing process control and superior quality

  • We scout, screen and manage toll manufacturers
  • We develop new suppliers producing new products exclusively for us, sold under the DKSH brand
  • We develop and manage production technology transfer
  • We provide project management and troubleshooting

Let us bring your products to new markets

  • We develop market access strategies and business plans
  • Our regulatory affairs knowledge and expertise allows market entry and product registration in major chemical markets
  • We expand your market potential through our technical expertise, capabilities and market insights
  • We attain import licenses, importation through customs, maintain relations with national and international authorities and handle regulatory affairs
  • We provide marketing support and give market feedback to suppliers and customers
  • We organize technical seminars and lectures to build and enhance technical expertise
  • We participate in industry exhibitions and industry associations
  • We establish market feedback mechanisms related to global trends and innovations

We deliver in time, on budget and in line with your specifications

  • We have well-established distribution channels and extensive local customer networks
  • We provide a dedicated logistics service, including handling of products under special conditions, such as dangerous goods/hazardous materials, transportations in cool and top-ventilated containers
  • We provide an advisory service on transportation safety
  • We coordinate with warehousing manpower and facilities for stock handling
  • Our DKSH IT systems supports supply chain management services, from material requirements planning to delivery at customer sites
  • Use our global logistics network for just-in-time delivery of materials

We care about new products and accompany them all the way

  • Our experienced sales support are focused on your complete product and service satisfaction

Success stories

  • Strengthening market share the eco-friendly way

    With consumers in India becoming more environmentally conscious, DKSH helped LCY Chemical to promote its eco-friendly thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) products to successfully strengthen its presence in the local market. TPE products are non-toxic eco-friendly alternatives to hazardous phthalate-based PVC formulations. They are REACH and FDA approved as well as being recyclable.

  • Making the best connections

    When a customer approaches us with a problem, the combination of DKSH’s global network and expert knowledge means we will find the right solution.

  • Intelligent and customized solutions with WACKER

    In 2013, DKSH started a new strategic regional partnership with WACKER, a leading international provider of specialty chemicals. Established in 1914 in Burghausen, Germany, WACKER initially focused on the domestic market before continually extending its international network. Today, the company has 24 production sites and generates over 80% of its sales outside Germany. Looking to gain market leadership for its biotech and silicone products in Asia, the highly diversified company has found just the right partner in DKSH.

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