FOAM XTRACT® Defoamers
FOAM XTract®
Redefine foam control with advanced, eco-friendly, high-efficiency technology.
FOAM XTract® is an advanced defoamer solution engineered to optimize every stage of your paint and coatings process. By swiftly eliminating both micro and macro foam, it delivers smoother applications, fewer defects, and vibrant finishes—all while meeting modern eco-standards. Transform your production with FOAM XTract® and discover a new benchmark in efficiency, sustainability, and quality.
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The Challenge of Foam in Coatings
Evolving raw materials and increasingly stringent regulations—such as the elimination of APEOs and reduction of VOCs—demand a shift from traditional, commodity defoamers. Without proper foam control, you risk:
- Adhesion Loss & Color Inconsistencies: Imperfections that affect the final finish.
- Production Inefficiencies: Increased waste, downtime, and defects in packaging.
- Costly Reworks: Uncontrolled foam leads to higher operating costs.
Our Solution: FOAM XTract®
FOAM XTract® is the next-generation defoamer designed to tackle both micro and macro foam effectively. It optimizes every stage of your production process, ensuring consistent, high-quality results.
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- Eco-Compliant: Free from APEOs, VOCs, and hazardous components.
- Superior Performance: Instantly targets foam even in high-shear systems.
- Stable & Compatible: Withstands mechanical stress and integrates seamlessly with diverse formulations.
- Cost-Effective: Requires lower dosages, reducing overall production costs and minimizing rework.
Key Benefits
1. Balanced Chemistry
- Rapid Action: Quickly interrupts foam formation for immediate results.
- Long-Term Stability: Maintains defoaming efficiency throughout production, storage, and application.
2. Wide Compatibility
- Versatile Application: Effective with spray, brush, roller, and other methods.
- System Integration: Performs in both water-based and solvent-based formulations without compromising coating properties.
3. Eco-Conscious Design
- Low VOC & APEO-Free: complies with strict environmental regulations, supporting your sustainability goals.
- Safe & Responsible: Formulated without harmful addictives that could jeopardize worker safety or air quality.
4. Optimized Performance
- Reduced Downtime: Faster foam elimination means quicker transitions between production batches (“right the first time”).
- Consistent Quality: Eliminating surface defects and reworks, leading to higher customer satisfaction.
Application & Best Practices
- Incorporation: Add the defoamer at multiple stages—such as during grinding and pre-mixing—to achieve optimal foam control.
- Testing & Validation: Start with a water dispersibility test and adjust the dosage to match your coating’s specific characteristics.
- Expert Support: Leverage our personalized technical service to tailor the perfect defoaming strategy for your formulation.
Why Specialize in Foam Control?
- Precise Foam Disruption: FOAM XTract® optimizes droplet size to effectively break foam formation without compromising the film’s integrity.
- Prevention of Defects: Avoid issues like poor adhesion, color inconsistencies, and application defects often caused by inappropriate defoamers.
- Personalized Technical Assistance: Our Concentrol team provides a close, customized approach to ensure seamless integration into your process.
Defoamers for the food industry
Defoamers are key products in many industrial processes. Their use allows to increase the production capacity and the quality of the final products. Controlling and reducing the level of foam improves the performance of production processes.
- SILICONE-BASED ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS
- ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS BASED ON VEGETABLE OILS
AREAS OF APPLICATION
Concentrol’s food defoamers cover a wide range of applications, among which we highlight:
- Oils and fats for frying.
- Treatment of frozen, fresh or processed vegetables
- Jams, marmalades or similar.
- Cereals.
- Broths, soups, sauces, protein products.
- Meat brines.
- Beverages, flavoured drinks, cider and some fruit juices (s/ Directive 2001/112/EC)
SILICONE-BASED ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS
In the case of the food industry, it is common to use defoamers based on polydimethylsiloxane type silicone emulsions (food code E-900).
The EMULTROL DFM® family of products is specially designed for foam control in food industry processes. We have a wide range, some are Kosher and Halal certified.
In the preparation of deep-frozen vegetables, the defoamer is not added directly to the food, but is used in blanching baths. In these cases, the use of suitable defoamers as food additives is highly recommended, as it is possible that during cooking the vegetables will absorb part of the bath water and all the additives it contains.
In the case of beer, the use of defoamers improves the reproducibility of the waste yeast treatment process, increases the yield in weight per load during transport and reduces the risk of spillage during unloading processes.
ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS BASED ON VEGETABLE OILS
To offer an alternative to silicon-based defoamers, CONCENTROL has formulated the EMULTROL DFM OLV-55 FG product from vegetable oils, which makes its application spectrum wider than that of silicones and makes it suitable for processing dairy products, drinks, fruit, vegetables, soups and meat derivatives, among others. This option has the advantage of maintaining its activity in the long term, which allows for the reduction of anti-foam additions during the process. All this considering that it is a product based on vegetable oil suitable for direct contact with food.
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Textile and leather
It is composed of a whole range of additives and ingredients that, not only give textiles and leather the desired finish and properties, but also improve and facilitate the production process.
- ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS
- WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
- SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
- OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS
The EMULTROL DFM range is specifically designed to eliminate foam generated during all the stages of production of leather and textiles. We have a complete range based on all the technologies.
WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
The EMULTROL range is composed of a large number of wax and silicone emulsion references. The wax emulsions give properties of smoothness, a matte effect, improved shine, anti-slip properties, scratch resistance, water repellence and in general, modification of the surface coating. Silicone emulsions are additives that give sliding properties, shine and water repe-llence.
SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
The ORDISOL SWT range improves wettability without increasing foam formation, using a dose of up to ten times less than the one for traditional wetting agents. It can also add special finishes.
OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
We supply AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS OF METAL SOAPS that give a matting effect, sliding and non-stick properties.
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Adhesive manufacturers
It is composed mainly of resin dispersions that modify the cohesion parameters and stickiness of aqueous adhesive formulations, and a series of additives and ingredients that give the final finish and properties desired, to these formulations.
- RESIN DISPERSIONS
- DEFOAMERS
- WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
- SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
- OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
RESIN DISPERSIONS
The main purpose of the EMULTROL® range of resin dispersions is to improve the properties of cohesion, tack and sticking of adhesives based on polymeric dispersions of acrylic resin, PVA, EVA, SBR, NBR, natural latex, polychloroprene and aqueous polyurethane dispersions. They increase adhesion and tack in non-polar substrates and low energy surfaces, improving their wetting capacity. We have a wide range of microemulsions of different characteristics, origins and types of resins according to their application: esterified acid colophony resins, hydrocarbon resins, terpenophenolic resins, hybrids, etc. Our dispersions are highly stabilized against oxidation and action of ultraviolet rays.
DEFOAMERS
The EMULTROL DFM® range is specifically designed for adhesive manufacturers. We have a complete range based on all technologies. When developing these defoamers for adhesives, special care is taken to achieve the best performance without affecting the wetting of the adhesive formulations.
WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
The EMULTROL® range is composed of a large number of references of metallic soap dispersions and also wax and silicone emulsions. Their use gives water repellency, removable properties and separation of substrates without breakage. In special adhesive formulations, the EMULTROL PS range of silicone micro-emulsions enable properties like adhesiveness and cohesion to be regulated, improving processability. After aqueous dilution, these silicone micro-emulsions are used as sliding and release agents for surfaces and conveyor belts.
SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
The ORDISOL SWT® range improves wetting without increasing foam formation, using doses of up to ten times less than those of traditional wetting agents. We can also offer special finishes, make a coating smoother, reduce friction or improve resistance to abrasion and scratches etc.
OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
We supply customized POLYMERIC DISPERSIONS as a part of our adhesive formulations.
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Paper manufacturers
It is composed mainly of a series of additives and ingredients that give to the paper the final finish and properties required, besides improving the production process .
- DEFOAMERS
- SIZING ADDITIVES
- OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
DEFOAMERS
The EMULTROL DFM® range is specifically designed for paper manufacturers. We have a range of defoamers that give a high performance without negative effects on cellulose fibre properties.
SIZING ADDITIVES
The EMULTROL range is composed of a large number of sizing additives or wax emulsion references. The wax emulsions give removable properties, smoothness, a matte effect, improved shine, anti-slip properties, scratch resistance, water repellence and in general, modification of the surface coating.
OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
We supply ANTI-STATIC products for paper and impregnation processes of decorative paper with melamine formaldehyde resins as well as DISPERSANTS for the paper industry. We also offer STEARATE DISPERSIONS which act as internal non – stick coatings in processes of coated thermal paper and AQUEOUS DISPERSIONS OF METAL SOAPS that not only give a matte effect but sliding and non-stick properties
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Inks
It is composed of a whole range of additives and ingredients that give printing inks the desired finish and properties, improving their manufacturing process.
- ANTI-FOAM AGENTS
- WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
- SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
- OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
ANTI-FOAM AGENTS
The EMULTROL DFM® range is specifically designed for manufacturers of printing inks. We offer a complete range based on all technologies to cover any application, condition of use and type of emulsion.
WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
The EMULTROL® range consists of a large number of wax and silicone emulsion references. The wax emulsions help to achieve anti-blocking properties, smoothness, matte effect, improve shine, anti-slip, scratch resistance, water-proofing and in general – modify the surface coating. The silicone emulsions are additives that give slip properties, waterproofing and improve resistance to abrasion.
SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
The ORDISOL SWT® range improves wetting without increasing foam formation, using doses of up to ten times less than those of traditional wetting agents. We can also offer special finishes, make a coating smoother, reduce friction or improve resistance to abrasion and scratches etc.
OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
We can also offer aqueous dispersions of metallic soaps that give a matte, and slip or non-stick effect. Custom made polymeric dispersions are included in our painting ink formulations.
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Waste water treatment
The EMULTROL DFM range includes those defoamers especially formulated for waste water treatment in many industrial sectors. It is used to eliminate foam in all parts of the process or for its effective control, which prevents product loss caused by unwanted foam formation. We can offer a complete range based on all technologies for the following treatments:
- BIOLOGICAL METHODS
- USE OF PROTEIN
- SPECIAL METHODS
- PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL METHODS
- BIODEGRADABLE RESOURCES
- OTHER METHODS
BIOLOGICAL METHODS
Anaerobic and aerobic microbial metabolism can cause persistent foaming that results in filamentous infestation, fast changes of temperature and pH, changes in the composition of waste water, shock loading or start -up and re start in treatment plants. We have references especially indicated for aerobic or anaerobic sludge digestion systems.
USE OF PROTEIN
References especially formulated for waste water with high protein content, like in scalding and peeling in pig slaughterhouses. We have a range of defoamers, classified as food additives for direct use in food as well as a range of defoamers for direct or indirect food contact. Some of these references are Kosher or Halal certified.
SPECIAL METHODS
We supply references developed for use in severe or very severe conditions, such as defoamers for very alkaline or very acid systems or for those with extremely high temperatures.
PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL METHODS
Waste water treatment has become a necessity for many companies, in order to eliminate contaminants and/or reduce COD values. Unwanted foam often forms in waste water and we supply suitable references for foam elimination in numerous industrial processes.
BIODEGRADABLE RESOURCES
This range has been formulated with non-toxic, biodegradable raw material for processes related to products or services which are 100% ecological.
OTHER METHODS
We also have a wide range of references for different applications and we can design others to meet our customer’s needs.
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Pressure-sensitive adhesives
It is composed mainly of resin dispersions that modify the cohesion parameters and stickiness of aqueous self-adhesive formulations, and a series of additives and ingredients that give the final finish and properties desired, to these formulations.
- RESIN DISPERSIONS
- ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS
- WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
- SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
- OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
RESIN DISPERSIONS
The main purpose of the EMULTROL® range of resin dispersions is to improve the properties of cohesion, tack and sticking of self-adhesives based on polymeric dispersions of acrylic resin, PVA, EVA, SBR, NBR, natural latex, polychloroprene and aqueous polyurethane dispersions. They increase adhesion and tack in non-polar substrates and low energy surfaces, improving their wetting capacity. We have a wide range of microemulsions of different characteristics, origins and types of resins according to their application: esterified acid colophony resins, hydrocarbon resins, terpenophenolic resins, hybrids, etc. Our dispersions are highly stabilized against oxidation and action of ultraviolet rays.
ANTI-FOAMING AGENTS
The EMULTROL DFM® range is specifically designed for self-adhesive paper manufacturers. We have a complete range based on all technologies. When developing these defoamers for self-adhesive paper, special care is taken to achieve the best performance without affecting the wetting of the adhesive formulations.
WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
The EMULTROL® range is composed of a large number of wax and silicone emulsion references. The wax emulsions give removable properties y and, in general, modify cohesion.
The EMULTROL PS® range of polymeric silicone micro-emulsions is especially recommended for self-adhesive formulations and, when added to these, they improve the die-cutting and stamping process of rolls of paper and film.
SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
The ORDISOL SWT® range improves wetting without increasing foam formation, using doses of up to ten times less than those of traditional wetting agents. We can also offer special finishes, make a coating smoother, reduce friction or improve resistance to abrasion and scratches etc.
OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
We supply customized POLYMERIC DISPERSIONS as a part of our pressure-sensitive adhesive formulations.
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Paints
Our paints range is a whole range of additives and ingredients that give paint the desired finish and properties, improving their manufacturing process, from anti-foaming agents to wax and silicone emulsions, silicone surface additives and other auxiliary products for paints manufacturers.
- ANTI-FOAM AGENTS
- WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
- SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
- OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
ANTI-FOAM AGENTS
The EMULTROL DFM® range is specifically designed for manufacturers of paints. We offer a complete range based on all technologies to cover any application, condition of use and type of emulsion, with solutions for each need.
WAX AND SILICONE EMULSIONS
The EMULTROL® range consists of a large number of wax and silicone emulsion references. The wax emulsions help to achieve anti-blocking properties, smoothness, matte effect, improve shine, anti-slip, scratch resistance, water-proofing and in general – modify the surface coating of paints. The silicone emulsions are additives that give slip properties, waterproofing and improve resistance to abrasion.
SILICONE SURFACE ADDITIVES
The ORDISOL SWT® range improves wetting without increasing foam formation, using doses of up to ten times less than those of traditional wetting agents. We can also offer special finishes, make a coating smoother, reduce friction or improve resistance to abrasion and scratches etc.
OTHER AUXILIARY PRODUCTS
We can also offer aqueous dispersions of metallic soaps that give a matte, and slip or non-stick effect to your paints. Custom-made polymeric dispersions are also included in our paint formulations.
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