ABITEC has leveraged its more than 25 years of quaternary experience to develop a new, easy to use car drying aid system. Accoquat EZ-Dry 7000 is a car drying aid system designed to provide customers an easy and nearly fool-proof way to formulate across a wide product dilution range. Accoquat EZ-Dry 7000 requires minimal raw materials, while providing excellent formulation and freeze/thaw stability.

In addition, ABITEC offers Accoquat CS 4000, a premium car care drying aid alternative to existing quaternary emulsifiers. Accoquat CS 4000 can be formulated with mineral seal oil (MSO) or biodegradable oil, along with ethylene glycol monobutyl ether (EB), to produce a wide range of MSO concentrations (5-25%).

Company Information

ABITEC (www.abiteccorp.com) is a world leader in the development and product of lipids and specialty ingredients for the personal care, pharmaceutical, food, and industrial industries. For more than 50 years, ABITEC has utilized its technical expertise to create diverse and versatile product lines that meet a wide range of formulating challenges. ABITEC continues to expand its product offerings and create new technologies to meet the growing market trends or a result of customize solutions addressing unique problems. 

ABF Ingredients (www.abfingredients.com) is a division of Associated British Foods focusing on high value ingredients for both food and non-food areas and comprises a range of ingredient companies which include AB Enzymes, ABITEC Corporation, Ohly, and PGP International.

The group has established strong market positions in cereal specialties, enzymes, esters, extruded ingredients, lactose, specialty lipids, specialty powders, specialty flours, yeast extracts and whey protein concentrates/isolates with locations worldwide.

For further information about Accoquat EZ-Dry 7000 or Accoquat CS 4000 please contact Bob Keys (bkeys@abiteccorp.com) orjanderson@abiteccorp.com).

Accoquat^® STEQ-90 (tallow based) and Accoquat VEQ HF-85 (vegetable-based) are TEA ester quaternaries which provide excellent softener and antistatic characteristics in formulations, leaving a dry, subtle feel on the hand. Each is readily biodegradable and can be easily formulated into formulations from 4-24% solids.

Formulators seeking to identify ingredients that have potential environmental benefits, now have the ability to include either of these two ester quats in their formulations. CleanGredients^® is an online database of chemicals used in green cleaning products. Additional information can be found on the CleanGredients website, www.cleangredients.org.

TEA ester quaternaries are primarily used as consumer rinse cycle fabric softeners due to:

• being readily biodegradable (may be suitable for DfE formulations*),
• low base product odor,
• possess excellent product color and softening, and
• are widely accepted and used globally.

Design for the Environment—This mark enables consumers to quickly identify and choose products that can help protect the environment and are safe or families. For more information regarding the designation, visit www.epa.gov/dfe.

Company Information

ABITEC (www.abiteccorp.com) has been a manufacturer of rinse cycle fabric softeners for more than 25 years. Our vast experience and expert formulation knowledge provides us the flexibility to produce all types of tallow and vegetable-sourced DMS quaternaries (e.g., diamido amine, imidazolinium, and TEA ester quaternaries) at volumes from small pail to rail cars.

ABF Ingredients (www.abfingredients.com) is a division of Associated British Foods focusing on high value ingredients for both food and non-food areas and comprises a range of ingredient companies which include AB Enzymes, ABITEC Corporation, Ohly, and PGP International.

The group has established strong market positions in cereal specialties, enzymes, esters, extruded ingredients, lactose, specialty lipids, specialty powders, specialty flours, yeast extracts and whey protein concentrates/isolates with locations worldwide.

For further information about ABITEC’s rinse cycle fabric softeners please contact Bob Keys (bkeys@abiteccorp.com).

This 2-day Society of Cosmetic Chemists event offers an excellent opportunity to present new products as well as discuss the latest innovations with technical, marketing, and business associates from around the world.

These products include

• Accoquat^® STEQ-90 (di–tallow TEA ester quaternary ammonium compounds) and
• Accoquat VEQ HF-85 (vegetable based TEA ester quaternary ammonium compounds).

These products offer excellent softening and anti-static properties in formulations and will leave a dry, subtle feel on the hand. To learn more about these and other ABITEC products, contact us at 800.555.1255 or sales@abiteccorp.com.

More About CleanGredients®

CleanGredients is an online database of cleaning ingredients — the online resource for green formulation®. CleanGredients aligns broad environmental and human health goals with the cleaning product industry’s business objectives and will support formulation of products with human and environmental health benefits, whether to meet corporate internal objectives, regulations, voluntary product recognition programs, or national and international eco-labels. CleanGredients is designed to:

1. help formulators identify ingredients that have potential environmental and human health and safety benefits, and
2. provide opportunity for manufacturers and producers of cleaning ingredients to showcase their ingredients with potential environmental and human health and safety benefits.

 At present, CleanGredients includes listings for surfactants, solvents, fragrances, and chelating agents. Modules for additional ingredient classes are in development. Key attribute data and the ingredient formulations are reviewed by an approved third-party, and carried out under confidentiality, providing verification of claims for the key ingredient attributes for ingredients without compromising proprietary formulations.

Additional information can be found on the CleanGredients website, www.cleangredients.org.

“This kind of partnership gives us access to basic science that we did not have the internal resources to commit to. By combining our expertise in this way we are providing real solutions to the pharmaceutical market, expanding our trustworthy reputation and ultimately building our brand. We have already had two peer reviewed articles published by Dr. Serajuddin and co-authored by Damon Dalrymple. We look at the long view of trends in drug formulization and delivery and help direct research that will solve problems for our industrial partners,” explains Dr. Kelemen.

The ABITEC strategic alliance is focusing on key areas such as providing soluble forms of drugs for research so they can be scientifically assessed for toxicology and efficacy and improved delivery systems for existing drugs with issues around bio compatibility and effective dosage. Damon, Donald and colleague Dr. Jim Williams, anticipate that by 2014, eight out of ten drugs will be based on biological proteins and their research is also taking them towards creating solid particles for oral treatment with drugs that could only previously be injected.

The speed with which ABITEC, its university partners and its industry clients are seeing results is relative. The journey to market for any drug is long and rightfully includes countless steps in research, testing and trials before it reaches the market but the collaborative partners play pivotal roles in ensuring that every step is a step in the right direction. The time, money and expertise that ABITEC invests in supporting the graduate students in its partnership program is a long term investment that pays dividends on many levels. “We are extremely pleased to be actively involved with the training of future pharmacology scientists and helping them complete their thesis and dissertations. We are building brand recognition and a bond between us and the scientist that could last the life of their entire career. We are extending the concept of strategic collaborations to embrace India and the UK and we are looking forward to great things to come,” concludes Dr. Kelemen.

Publications as a result of the strategic alliance with Dr. Serajuddin and St. John’s University:

•  DOI 10.1007s 11095-011-0541-3
• J. Excipients and Food Chem. 2 (3) 2011