Textiles and Leather Solutions

The “next generation” softener for a demanding textile finishing market

Dow Corning® OP-8800 Premium Hydrophilic Softener offers great versatility to formulators and market opportunities to textile value chain players
Market trends (especially in the home textiles and apparel markets) demand that formulators develop ecologically sound, multi-functional textile finishes. In response, Dow Corning introduces OP-8800 Premium Hydrophilic Softener, an extremely well-balanced product that helps formulators meet those needs by delivering:

• A more environmentally sustainable and safer solution
• Improved comfort through excellent softness, wickability and water absorbency
• Virtually no impact on whiteness and stain release properties
• Outstanding process stability

Excellent performance with eco-advantages

As our premium, next-generation finishing product, OP-8800 Softener is an ideal textile finish that offers excellent softness, water absorbency, and wicking, with minimum to no impact on original substrate whiteness and the stain-release properties of fluorocarbon-treated textiles. OP-8800 Softener outperforms conventional aminosilicones hydrophilic softeners on several key features. Most importantly, unlike several competitive silicone products that can contain up to 30% VOC content, OP-8800 Softener contains virtually no VOCs.

Formulation, processing, and application ease

OP-8800 Softener also provides maximum formulation flexibility, processability, stability, and ease of application.

Microemulsions made with OP-8800 have shown to provide the following benefits:

• High shear-stability
• Stability over a broad pH range
• Stability to electrolytes
• Very good compatibility to both cationic and anionic chemicals
• Readily exhaustible

Read the Dow Corning® OP-8800 product data sheet for typical properties and how-to-use information.

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