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Specialty Chemicals
WeylChem buys Unilever’s Catexel detergent catalyst business
by Rick Mullin
November 12, 2018
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 96, Issue 45
WeylChem Group has acquired Catexel Technologies, the home-care, cellulosics, and synthesis division of Unilever Ventures. WeylChem says the deal will broaden its portfolio of performance cleaners with the addition of oxidation catalysts and bleach activators. Unilever’s original manganese(IV)-based bleach activator got off to a rocky start when it was introduced in Persil Power laundry detergent in 1994. It acted not unlike straight bleach, leaching colors and causing structural damage to clothing.
Chemical & Engineering News
ISSN 0009-2347
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