Phenol and Specialties
SEQENS is a leading supplier of Phenol specialties
We have adopted a market-oriented business approach in order to facilitate closer relationships with our customers, who include many of the world’s largest companies in their respective industries. This proximity with our customers, combined with strong engineering capabilities and our innovation culture enables us to always develop new opportunities and create value for our customers.
Key end-markets include cosmetics and fragrances, pharmaceutical and healthcare, environment, food, flavor, automotive, construction and chemical intermediates.
Phenol
Phenol is used for the manufacturing of bisphenol A, an intermediate product of polycarbonate and epoxy resins. Phenol also finds widespread use as a raw material for phenolic resins for, caprolactam (raw material for nylon 6 fiber and nylon 6 resins) and is a precursor for other areas of application, from insulation, coatings or food additives.
Alpha Methylstyrene
Alpha-methylstyrene (AMS) is a colourless liquid used as a co-monomer in a range of polymerization processes to improve impact and heat resistance.
The primary use of AMS is in acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS)resin but it is also used in adhesives, tackifying resins, printing inks, fragrancies.