Compounds that Keep Your Products Performing
From construction to footwear and nonwovens to textiles, Styron is committed to helping customers take latex products to the next level of innovation. We offer a wide variety of products designed to meet the needs of multiple applications. Styron’s Performance Latex products enhance and improve an application’s:
- Mechanical properties
- Water, chemical, stain, abrasion
or oil resistance - Cohesive and adhesive strength
- Dimensional stability
- Stiffness and softness
- Flexibility
- Water impermeability
- Efflorescence resistance
Enhancing the Innovation in Your Product Line
Because of our unique latex heritage and renowned industry leadership, Styron is able to produce and deliver products, each with distinctive benefits, for a wide variety of market segments. Our expertise demonstrates why our quality products have become industry essentials in many sectors, while providing a technological advantage for many of our customers.
Styron provides Performance Latex chemistries for an array of applications, including:
- Adhesives — laminate wood structures, paper, foil, plastic film and adhesives for flooring
- Building & Construction — modify mastics, mortars, structural cements, water proof barriers, breathable barriers, primers, stain blockers and similar applications
- Composites — used in wet end processes such as ceiling tile, flooring felts, regenerated materials and similar applications
- Road, Athletic, and Automotive Surfaces — modify athletic running tracks, rubber particle binding, bridge deck overlays, tennis court coatings, dust control, investment casting, mineral briquetting and similar applications
- Technical Fabrics — add performance properties to fabrics like ignition resistance, dimensional stability, thermo-moldable, fiber lock, tear improvement, alkali resistance, acoustic properties and similar properties
- Technical Papers & Boards — coat or saturate papers and board to give improved dimensional stability, tensile, elongation, moisture barrier, grease and oil resistance, thermoforming, ignition resistance and similar properties
Global Partner
Styron is a truly global partner because of our ability to provide manufacturing and product development capabilities virtually anywhere in the world, which allows us to supply our customers with latex chemistries they need quickly and efficiently. It also means that we can provide performance latex products anywhere, anytime, on a global, as well as a regional, basis.
Click here to learn more about Styron’s worldwide locations for latex manufacturing and R&D.
