Kemitek
  • Profile
    • Mission and History
    • Board of Directors
    • General Policy
  • Expertise and Services
    • Green Chemistry
    • Renewable Chemistry and Oleochemistry
    • Chemical Process Development
    • Process Scale-up and Piloting
    • Pre-commercial Production
    • Applied Research
    • Technical Assistance
    • Characterisation, Testing and Analysis
    • Financing
  • Team
  • Equipment
  • Sectors Served
    • Biofuels and Bioenergy
    • Biosourced Polymers for Organic Electronics
    • Biosourced Resins
    • Cleaning Agents
    • Cosmetics, Food and Nutraceutics
    • Impregnating Agents
    • Lubricants and Mechanical Fluids
    • Materials, Coatings and Adhesives
    • Mining and Hydrometallurgy
  • News
  • Publications
  • Contact Us
  • 360° Virtual Visit
  • En
  • Fr
  • Menu Menu
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Flickr
  • Twitter

Impregnating Agents

Kemitek’s expertise enables us to support companies in the sectors of inks, surface treatment or impregnation for their development projects

The impregnation sector has begun a shift towards low VOC, water-based and renewable components. Kemitek’s leading expertise in renewable chemistry and oleochemistry enables us to support our clients with the following services:

  • Replacement of toxic or non-renewable components in existing products

  • Development of new biosourced additives or components

  • Formulation of products according to specific performance

  • Development and stabilisation of emulsions

  • Testing and analysis

    Caractérisation, pureté et performances

  • Technical consultation

    ex. Reformulation de produits chimiques faisant face à des contraintes environnementales et réglementaires

  • Scale-up of manufacturing processes

  • Pre-commercial production

Examples of projects realised in the impregnation sector

  • Development of a non-toxic wood preservative treatment
  • Development of replacement products for bitumen in waterproofing agents for the construction sector
  • Development of a biodegradable and vegetable base anti-rust treatment for automobiles
  • Formulation and stabilisation of microémulsions for impregnation purpose

Testimony

Development of an biodegradable automobile anti-rust treatment

logo-antirouille

“Since obtaining our ISO 14001 certification in 2001, we wanted to develop a biodegradable product”, says Jean-Luc Saint-Onge, Executive Director of Antirouille Métropolitain. “Not only it’s a core value of the company to be green, but it’s also a way to distinguish ourselves from the concurrence.” But how develop this new product? Mr St-Onge search led him to Kemitek: “In the area of oleochemistry, it was an unmissable name”.

Kemitek has developed an anti-rust treatment that was vegetable based instead of mineral based. The vegetable oil has both good lubricity and biodegradability, which proved beneficial in reaching the objectives.  “We’ve obtained a better product at the same price. The anti-rust action was revealed to be superior and the recuperation of the oil is now easier”, noted M. Saint-Onge.

Governemental grants have absorbed 40% of the project’s costs, which certainly is pleasing to M. Saint-Onge. But over all, it’s Kemitek’s engagement that seduced him: “A complicity was established right from the start! We were not another project for them, but a mandate that they were taking to their hearts”.

Jean-Luc St-OngeExecutive Directorhttp://www.antirouille.com/index-en.html – Antirouille Métropolitain

KEMITEK

835, rue Mooney
Thetford Mines, Québec, Canada G6G 0A5

Phone : (418) 338-1318
Fax : (418) 338-1338
Email : info@kemitek.org

Monday to Friday: 9h – 17h
Saturday and Sunday: Closed

FINANCIAL PARTNERS

© Copyright - KEMITEK
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Flickr
  • Twitter
  • Profile
  • Expertise and Services
  • Team
  • Equipment
  • Sectors Served
  • News
  • Publications
  • Contact Us
  • 360° Virtual Visit
  • En
  • Fr
Scroll to top