Other Industries

Polygon offers a selected portfolio of specialities for other industries, such as:
Antioxidants, EP/AW additives, corrosion inhibitors, surfactants, emulsifiers, wetting agents, metal and lime soaps dispersants, incrustation inhibitors, bleaching aids, dispersants, fluorescent markers, and cationic polymers as fixers for inkjet inks and organic pigments for plastics.
Additives for cooling lubricants and oils
Product range
Polygon offers a variety of additives for use in cooling lubricants and oils, these include e.g:
- Antioxidants
- Minimum quantity lubricants
- EP and AW additives
- Corrosion inhibitors
- Metal and lime segregating dispersants
- Surfactants, emulsifiers and wetting agents
Find more Polygon Special Surfactants and Corrosion Inhibitors here.
Paper manufacturing and finishing
Product range
Polygon offers selected products for paper production and finishing, including e.g:
- Bleaching agents for DIP, groundwood pulp or TMP (complexes metal hydroxides and increases the degree of whiteness)
- Dispersing agents for fillers such as kaolins for SC, newsprint paper as well as decorative and art print qualities
- Fluorescent marker for speciality papers
- Cationic polymer as strength additive, flocculant, retention agent, dispersing agent or for controlling the adhesive behaviour as well as fixer of inkjet printing inks (inkjet-receptive-layer)
Additives for water treatment
Product range
Polygon offers a variety of additives for water treatment, these include e.g.
- Corrosion inhibitors
- Incrustation inhibitors: polymeric phosphonates to replace polycarboxylates or classical phosphonates to prevent incrustation (lime) caused by calcium, magnesium or barium salts, such as its carbonates, sulphates or hydroxides
- Dispersants: to control deposits (e.g. silicates or lime)
- Oxygen scavengers
Find here further information about Polygon Special Surfactants and Corrosion Inhibitors.
Suppliers
- Bozzetto (IT) with the brand HYDRODIS®
- Own products under the brand POLYGON
Organic pigments for plastics
Product range
IQChem Inc. and Polygon offer a wide range of organic pigments for plastics (and also for paints & coatings), which have been tested in our own pigment laboratory.
These include e.g.
- IQC COAT YELLOW with monoazo, diazo, disazo, isoindolinone, quinophthalone and benzimidazolone pigments
- IQC COAT ORANGE with disazo, benzimidazolone, anthraquinone and diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) pigments
- IQC COAT RED with monoazo, quinacridone, perylene, anthanthrone, benzimidazolone, anthraquinone and diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) pigments
- IQC COAT VIOLET with quinacridone and dioxazine pigments
- IQC COAT BLUE with phthalocyanine and anthraquinone pigments
- IQC COAT BROWN benzimidazolone pigment
- IQC COAT BLACK Quinacridone pigment
- IQC OPTIBRIGHT Optical brightener OB-184
Suppliers
- IQChem Inc. (Switzerland) with the brand IQC COAT and IQC PLAST