SpecialChem - Chemical Industry Reference Website

SpecialChem is a speciality chemicals knowledge and solution provider.

Registration to SpecialChem's websites is free, and gives unrestricted access to:

• Online technical chemical assistance
• Chemical industry news
• Technical chemical articles and expert networks
• Searchable chemical database (raw material and datasheet, additives, tackifiers, base polymers – thousands of items)
• Online training courses and technical web seminars

ADHESIVES AND SEALANTS FORMULATIONS

SpecialChem's adhesives website provides educational resources and training in adhesives and sealants, serving key influencers who lack basic information.

The website features reference materials on adhesive bonding, and provides updates on new adhesive / sealant solutions, articles organised by market and application focus, global regulations, case studies, an online adhesive and sealant library, and a glossary.

• Discover tie-layer technology and learn how to optimise your multilayer systems
• Learn to formulate an adhesive in line with your chemical requirements (such as temperature, application and regulations)
• Benefit from tips and formulation tricks

EXPERT ONLINE CHEMICAL ASSISTANCE

Producers, compounders, masterbatchers and processors use SpecialChem to achieve assistance with new products and formulation developments, solve troubleshooting problems, optimise the productivity of their manufacturing process, improve final product properties, and stay up-to-date with new developments.

OEMs and parts manufacturers find the right expertise for new product developments, and enhancement of product appearance and performance. SpecialChem provides OEMs with the latest technologies to achieve new effects for products.

SPECIALITY CHEMICALS AND PLASTICS ASSISTANCE

More than 250,000 formulators, processors, applicators, designers, engineers, specifiers, OEMs and brand owners regularly use SpecialChem's online speciality chemicals and plastics services.

SpecialChem's expert professionals:

• Rapidly solve technical chemical problems
• Reduce product development time
• Help create innovative chemical products
• Improve chemical product performances
• Constantly provide the latest industry trends

Using the Internet, e-marketing tools, technical expertise and knowledge management systems, SpecialChem has developed a wide range of services highly responsive to the needs of speciality chemicals and plastics users and producers.

CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY TRAINING AND WEB SEMINARS

You can maintain up-to-date knowledge of chemical industry technologies, such as additive and pigment innovations, without leaving your computer.

SpecialChem's free chemical industry e-training courses are delivered at your desk by world-renowned experts.

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY NEWSLETTERS

SpecialChem's free technical chemical newsletters include:

• Chemical industry news, trends and developments
• Case studies on solved troubleshooting chemical issues
• Expert chemical articles and editorials
• WebSeminars' agenda, online technical conference programme, and notice of upcoming WebSeminars and new zones on the website
• Chemical industry innovations – new materials, new applications, process technologies, and the environment and recycling
• The 'Latest Solution DataSheet'
• The 'Featured Trend Report' and 'R&D Highlight of the Week,' reporting up-and-coming chemical technologies
• New raw material trends and developments
• Business reports on new chemical technologies and innovations
• Upcoming chemical events
• Insight into new chemical technologies and product launches

SpecialChem is a gateway to several chemical platforms for specific needs.

PLASTIC AND ELASTOMER INNOVATIONS

• Select the best plastics for your applications
• Packaging solutions that provide weight savings, a gas barrier, biodegradability and aesthetics
• Understand regulations
• Solve processing issues

POLYMER ADDITIVES AND COLOURS INNOVATIONS

• Get updated on the latest additives and performances
• Know more about processing aids and improve your product appearance
• Increase output and optimise your manufacturing cost-effectiveness
• Find additives and colours for thermoplastic (polyolefin, PVC and engineering resins), thermosets and elastomers
• Solutions for UV barrier, smart packaging, weight savings, etc.

BONDING AND FASTENING INNOVATIONS

Find your ideal bonding solution with our data sheets, testimonials, and case studies. Or browse our online multiple-criteria selector to find the appropriate bonding solution in just two mouse clicks.

Gain more adhesive knowledge and expert assistance by consulting our news and articles library, or consult an extensive bonding glossary and attend high value e-training courses.

All information on bonding in your specific market – including transportation, tapes and labels, flex pack, and building and construction – is available in our exclusive market applications section.

We also supply the latest bonding regulations.

• Understand and select the best tie-layer for your application
• Learn about new-generation packaging
• Compare bonding solutions on performance and cost

CHEMICAL COATINGS AND INKS

• Formulate ink compatible with food contact application
• Solve your formulation issues
• Efficiently develop and reproduce coloration

PERSONAL CARE AND TOILETRIES CHEMICALS

• The latest innovations and trends for cosmetics packaging and luxury packaging, such as biodegradable packaging for green cosmetics
• Innovate and develop new chemical products compliant with cosmetic regulations
• Be the first to test new personal care and toiletry chemical concepts and ideas