Green & Alternative Chemistries 2 - J R Hess & Co., Inc.

Supplier Focus: Stepan

As a specialty chemical distributor of Stepan products for over 30 years, we are excited to promote their versatile surfactant offerings and add to our growing list of safer and more compliant alternatives for the consumer and industrial sectors. Two relatively new Stepan products of note – and with greener attributes and Cleangredients approval – are …

The need for Nonyphenol Ethoxylate (NPE) alternatives (EPA phase out actions on the horizon)

It’s no secret that the EPA has targeted nonylphenols and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), both falling into the general surfactant groups of alkylphenols and alkylphenol ethoxylates (APEs), for phase out in the coming year. In the EPA NP and NPE Action Plan, published in August of 2010, NPEs were described as highly toxic to aquatic organisms, …