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Elevance And Stepan Target Surfactants

by Michael McCoy
November 1, 2010 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 88, Issue 44

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Credit: Elevance Renewable Sciences
A researcher in Elevance’s Bolingbrook, Ill., labs.
Credit: Elevance Renewable Sciences
A researcher in Elevance’s Bolingbrook, Ill., labs.

Elevance Renewable Sciences and surfactants maker Stepan Co. have agreed to commercialize surfactants, antimicrobials, and polyurethane polyols based on Elevance feedstocks including 9-decenoic ester and C18 dibasic ester. Elevance uses olefin metathesis to convert natural oils into industrial chemicals. The partners say Stepan’s sulfonation, esterification, and quaternization chemistry “provides an excellent complement” to Elevance’s building blocks.

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