Your Technology – Our Chemistry

With more than 35 years of experience, and two manufacturing facilities, we offer a broad portfolio of cationic, quaternary, alkyl and reactive silicones for many markets including Siltech Coatings Additives and Silmer® Reactive Silicones.  

To increase our sustainability, Siltech has developed a new series of Farm to Lab Coatings Additives which are redesigned with enhanced bio-feedstock content instead of petroleum. These Silsurf® Bio coatings additives, in which the formerly petroleum derived portions of the molecule are now derived from corn or sugar cane, have been shown in our labs to behave the same as the petroleum based analogues. Depending on the structure these have up to 80% new carbon.
 
In keeping with this made from botanical plants instead of petroleum plants theme, we have recently found a similar supply for the alpha olefins needed to make our Silwax product line bio-sourced. We are now evaluating these Silwax® Bio products. These two product chemistries form the bulk of chemistries used for silicone coatings additives.

On another front, we are exploring the replacement of fluoroalkyls, which are under regulatory pressure today. Using our silicone resins and/or silicone surfactants many fluoroalkyl applications such as AFFF, slip, hydrophobic and some lipophobic applications have been successfully resolved.    

Finally, we are breaking ground on our third manufacturing facility and are designing into that plant sustainability improvements such as removing solvents and reducing water usage and waste streams. Energy in Ontario is largely nuclear which is about as clean as one can get today.