Chemical Admixtures - Cement
Superplasticizers, also known as plasticizers or high-range water reducers (HRWR), reduce water content by 12 to 30 percent and can be added to concrete with a low-to-normal slump and water-cement ratio to make high-slump flowing concrete. Flowing concrete is a highly fluid but workable concrete that can be placed with little or no vibration or
Plasticizers | ExxonMobil Product Solutions
Plasticizers We offer the industry’s broadest range of high-molecular-weight (HMW) plasticizers. Jayflex high-molecular-weight plasticizers provide an optimum balance of properties with outstanding performance and permanence. Adipate plasticizers
High Molecular Weight Phthalates Plasticizers
ExxonMobil offers the industry’s broadest range of high-molecular-weight (HMW) phthalate plasticizers including branched and linear phthalates but also benzoates, adipates and trimellitates. This range of plasticizers provide the optimal balance of performance and safety to serve almost every flexible PVC end uses, including for example
Plasticizer
In the concrete technology, plasticizers and superplasticizers are also called high range water reducers. When added to concrete mixtures, they confer a number of properties including improved workability and strength. The strength of concrete is inversely proportional to the amount of water added, i.e., the water-cement (w/c) ratio.
What Plasticizers Do & How They Affect Properties | Osborne
Posted May 17, 2025. Plasticizers are non-volatile chemical solvents used throughout the plastics industry to increase such properties as flexibility, pliability, durability, longevity, biodegradability, and extensibility in polymers. When added to a plastic or elastomer, plasticizers affect the properties of the material without fundamentally
- What are the benefits of a polymeric plasticizer?
- The range includes both monomeric and polymeric plasticizers to enable customers to choose the optimum solution based on their requirements. Benefits of this range include low temperature performance, low viscosity, low extractability and low volatility.
- How to choose a plasticizer?
- The choice of the plasticizer is dependent on the requirements that have to be met for the final product and the conditions around that product’s use. This may include low volatility, high permanence, low temperature flexibility, flame retardancy, high thermal stability and saponification resistance.
- What are Cargill plasticizers?
- Cargill plasticizers make the coating film more flexible, helping to improve toughness and flexibility to minimize film cracking. Cargill plasticizers provide an effective, bio-based alternative to phthalates and other additives. These renewable materials can be used in applications such as plasticization, stabilization, acid scavenging and more.
- How can plasticizers be used to make polymers soft and flexible?
- By adding plasticizers to compatible polymers, the materials can be modified in such a way that they become soft and flexible by decreasing their glass transition temperature. Plasticizers are classified according to their molecular structure into monomeric or polymeric types.
- How are plasticizers classified?
- Plasticizers are classified according to their molecular structure into monomeric or polymeric types. The choice of the plasticizer is dependent on the requirements that have to be met for the final product and the conditions around that product’s use.
- What are plasticizers & modifiers?
- Plasticizers and Modifiers are part of the Polymer Additive Business Unit and comprise of a wide range of high-quality products under the brand names Mesamoll ®, Adimoll ®, Unimoll ®, Ultramoll ®, K-FLEX ®, Vitroflex ®, Modulast ®, Uniplex ®, Triacetin, Acetine, and Baymod®. Mesamoll ® is a phthalate-free universal monomeric plasticizer.
