RE: Products23 Apr 2021 06:52
Thordon, Grace,
Did a quick dig and I think that was the COSH sheet link you posted Thordon (Care Of Substances Hazardous) and there are not many. The data sheet ink is below. Its high in phosphorous in its concentrated form but completely environmentally friendly in its dispersed form. To explain put a pile of veg on your lawn it dies but spread it out over your lawn and its fed and flourishes it just need handling right in that concentrated form but petroleum based alternatives can not stand up in any way shape or form against it in this respect also in any quantity. The data sheet summary (and link below) looks like this, see bullets below also. Its applications are endless and it has just blew my head off as I deal with use and specify products as a civil engineer but it could be in so much stuff that you probably touch something every time you touch something with substances in it that is probably petrol based and environmentally hazardous or a drain on fossil fuel type polymer supplies that could be replaced with this or something else ITX owns. This has anti scaling properties sure but you think about scale in home goods say and think well yeh that's good, big demand but this is in or could be used in the products sited below from its data sheet and its uses are endless mind blowing and these only scratch the surface. It is relatively new technology and basically citric acid based available to all to develop but ITX are so far ahead of the game its incredible and with so many patents nailed down they have been way cute here. This is basically as I see it a plant based polymeric plasticiser, anticaking agent, that reduces the need for excessive expensive bulk fluid to keep solids fluid in transport and general use, and easy to move when you get there and need to handle the material or if it sits in bottes tins on shelves etc . Its used as a plasticiser to reduce water content to make it cheaper to transport or to tremmy/pour/lay in concrete without weakening it with excessive water content and in bentonite tunnelling drilling mud etc alluded to in some of the uses below. But unlike the other products that do a similar thing and petroleum based this is as I mentioned Itoconic (the company name) that is its a type of fructose acid based substance or fermented in vats from plant based ingredients. And if its not in it directly its been used to move it like the calcium carbonate in everyone’s plastic doors windows anything plastic and many other materials.
Its beautiful in fact................ Sorry I am an absolute civil engineering bore.....
See data sheet: https://itaconix.com/wp-content/uploads/Tech-Data-Sheet-XDP-820-v1.0.1.pdf
Applications
• Mineral processing & transport
• Personal care
• Paints, inks & coatings
• Concrete & cement
• Wallboard
• Detergents
• Ceramics
• Drilling muds
• Agriculture
Advantages
• Desired viscosity with less water
• Desired viscosity with less polymer
• Excellent for calcium car