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.
At Concentrol, we believe in driving innovation and sustainability through servitization—transforming products into comprehensive solutions tailored to your unique operational needs. Our Spray Process Control System (SPCS) is designed to enhance efficiency, improve quality, and foster sustainability, all while reducing costs and minimizing downtime.
Don’t let inefficiencies hold your business back. Discover how Concentrol’s Spray Process Control System can revolutionize your operations and deliver lasting value.
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.
PU Additives
PU Additives is our specialized product line that offers an extensive catalogue of polyurethane foams stabilizers or silicone surfactants for the production of: polyurethane systems, panels and blocks for thermal and acoustic insulation, automotive, footwear and furniture. The extensive catalogue includes stabilizers or silicone surfactants for polyurethane foams, and other ancillary additives for various industrial sectors: mattress manufacturers, the production of polyurethane systems, panels and blocks for thermal and acoustic insulation, as well as automotive, footwear and furniture manufacturers.
WHITE PAPER: 21ST CENTURY SURFACTANTS
White paper with studies on surfactants using PU foams developed in CONCENTROL’s R+D laboratories.
Discover why a correct chemical composition and choosing the ideal molecular weight of the surfactant is key to achieving gas emission free foams.
Find out if surfactants with truncated reactivity improve foam properties or only increase the cost of the surfactant.
QUALITY AND CERTIFICATIONS
We guarantee the quality of our products with actions, not just words and declare that we defend and support the highest quality in all our products and manufacturing processes. And we can prove it with the different certificates that guarantee the compliance with the regulations established by International Standards Organization (ISO).
This policy, applied from the beginning, reaped its rewards by obtaining the ISO 9002:94 in 1997, which was when we reinforced management control. Expanding the scope of our system in the year 2003 led us to the ISO 900,which defines the various requisites needed to achieve a good Quality Management System (SGC) in the different areas of the company. We now have the ISO 9001:2015 certificate.
We also have the ISO 14001:2015 certificate since 2007, which guarantees an effective Environmental Management System (EMS).
Now, in 2024 we have reached the renewal for both ISO certifications including whole design, commercial and logistic activities in Riudellots headquarters, USA and China subsidiaries.
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Performance Materials
Performance Materials is our main product line with the highest level of specialization. This division of Concentrol produces a wide range of products for the manufacturing and processing industries.
The extensive catalogue includes mold release agents for polyurethane foams, mold cleaners and other ancillary products for various industrial sectors: automotive, footwear, furniture or mattress manufacturers.
Success Story: Poliuretanos IGR
Poliuretanos IGR is a Spanish polyurethane company known for its environmentally friendly products, which it now exports to customers all over the world.
Its growth and expansion is surprising if we take into account its short life: its trajectory began in the early 80’s and it has already achieved an important relevance in a sector as competitive as the polyurethanes one.
At Concentrol, we are proud to be part of this success story.
WHITE PAPER: 21ST CENTURY RELEASE AGENTS
White paper with studies on release agents developed at CONCENTROL R&D laboratories
Find out what role a good release agent plays in the production efficiency of one of the most strategic sectors, Automotive.
Find out about the use of different types of release agents and the specific Value Proposal offered by Concentrol.
QUALITY AND CERTIFICATIONS
We guarantee the quality of our products with actions, not just words and declare that we defend and support the highest quality in all our products and manufacturing processes. And we can prove it with the different certificates that guarantee the compliance with the regulations established by International Standards Organization (ISO).
This policy, applied from the beginning, reaped its rewards by obtaining the ISO 9002:94 in 1997, which was when we reinforced management control. Expanding the scope of our system in the year 2003 led us to the ISO 900,which defines the various requisites needed to achieve a good Quality Management System (SGC) in the different areas of the company. We now have the ISO 9001:2015 certificate.
We also have the ISO 14001:2015 certificate since 2007, which guarantees an effective Environmental Management System (EMS).
Now, in 2024 we have reached the renewal for both ISO certifications including whole design, commercial and logistic activities in Riudellots headquearters, USA and Wuxi subsidiaries.
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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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Glass encapsulation and sunroofs
GLASS ENCAPSULATION AND SUNROOFS
CONCENTROL© offers specific products for those manufacturers who fabricate glass encapsulation with RIM/RRIM polyurethane. These are solvent based, water based and hybrid MOLD RELEASE AGENTS specifically made for this application with RIM/RRIM polyurethane. We have available ready-to-use references, concentrates and concentrates for dilution. Thanks to our specialization and know-how, we offer products customized according to the customer’s requirements.
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Steering wheels, armrests and air filters
STEERING WHEELS AND ARMRESTS
Made of flexible integral skin polyurethane foam that provides a soft touch and can be produced in a good variety of surface textures and colors. The process for these pieces also allows the foam to be molded with various inserts, such as airbag covers, while making it possible to obtain a wide range of different shapes by varying the thickness of the sections. To obtain any aspect required by our customers we offer MOLD RELEASE AGENTS with different properties, SILICONE STABILISERS for the same foam manufacture and CLEANERS for molds for integral leather polyurethane.
AIR FILTERS
The air filter is responsible for preventing air containing dust and/or residues from entering the combustion zone. The CONCENTROL® range provides a specific and efficient solution of MOLD RELEASE AGENTS FOR FLEXIBLE INTEGRAL SKIN FOAM necessary for its manufacture. In addition, we offer CLEANERS for the molds used in the foam formulation process, specially developed for cleaning.
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Soundproofing
SOUNDPROOFING
The CONCENTROL© range provides a specific and efficient solution for all soundproofing manufacturers and their increasingly demanding needs with regard to appearance, surface coating, high productivity, cost, mold cleaning, easy application and protection of the working environment and the environment. Concentrol offers products such as MOLD RELEASE AGENTS FOR FLEXIBLE FOAM, REINFORCEMENT PASTE AND SILICONE STABILISERSto make possible the best quality formulation.
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Seats and headrests
SEATS AND HEADRESTS
The CONCENTROL© range provides specific products for all manufacturers of seats and headrests according to their needs and requirements. It is a wide range of FLEXIBLE FOAM RELEASE AGENTS, NOISE REDUCTION TREATMENTS, REINFORCEMENT PASTES FOR FLEXIBLE FOAM, SILICONE STABILISERS for foam formulation, and NON-STICK AGENTS to satisfy even the most specific needs.
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Food Processing Aids
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Our specialized food area provides various solutions for the preservation, protection, preparation and finishing of products for the cheese and meat Industry. Within this product line, we provide outstanding edible and artificial coatings for cheese, dry-aging sausages, ham and cured meats, and other ancillary products. Our product range is complimented with a wide range of Food Sector solutions: antifoams products.
WHY CONCENTROL?
WHITE PAPER: COATING SOLUTIONS FOR CHEESES AND DEFOAMERS
White Paper on Cheese Coating Solutions and Food-Grade Antifoams by CONCENTROL.
Cheese coatings help regulate the processes of maturation and curing, and they are the perfect solution for adding certain components and additives that enhance quality, preservation, and appearance. Meanwhile, the application of our food-grade antifoams improves our customers’ production processes.
QUALITY AND CERTIFICATIONS
We guarantee the quality of our products with actions, not just words and declare that we defend and support the highest quality in all our products and manufacturing processes. And we can prove it with the different certificates that guarantee the compliance with the regulations established by International Standards Organization (ISO).
This policy, applied from the beginning, reaped its rewards by obtaining the ISO 9002:94 in 1997, which was when we reinforced management control. Expanding the scope of our system in the year 2003 led us to the ISO 900,which defines the various requisites needed to achieve a good Quality Management System (SGC) in the different areas of the company. We now have the ISO 9001:2015 certificate.
Some of our product references have Kosher or Halal certifications.
We have also have the ISO 14001 certificate since 2007, which guarantees compliance with an effective Environmental Management System (EMS).
We have implemented the FSSC2000 certification (Food Safety System Certification), which specifies the requirements to be met by a management system to ensure the safety of food products, food ingredients and related industries.
Now, in 2024 we have reached the renewal for both ISO certifications including whole design, commercial and logistic activities in Riudellots headquearters, USA and Wuxi subsidiaries.
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Performance Materials
Performance Materials is our division with the highest level of specialization. This division of Concentrol produces a wide range of products for the manufacturing and processing industries. We are a global reference with solutions adapted to the requirements of our clients. We create tailor-made products and we help industries in their processes by offering the right product with personalized service and quick response.
The extensive catalogue of this division includes release agents for polyurethane foams, stabilizers or silicone surfactants for polyurethane foams, mold cleaners and other auxiliary products for various industrial sectors: automotive, footwear, furniture or mattress manufacturers, as well as the production of polyurethane systems, panels and blocks for thermal and acoustic insulation.
Check out our specialized Performance Materials solutions for each sector below
Success Story: Poliuretanos IGR
Poliuretanos IGR is a Spanish polyurethane company known for its environmentally friendly products, which it now exports to customers all over the world.
Its growth and expansion is surprising if we take into account its short life: its trajectory began in the early 80’s and it has already achieved an important relevance in a sector as competitive as the polyurethanes one.
At Concentrol, we are proud to be part of this success story.
WHITE PAPER: 21ST CENTURY SURFACTANTS
White paper with studies on surfactants using PU foams developed in CONCENTROL’s R+D laboratories.
Discover why a correct chemical composition and choosing the ideal molecular weight of the surfactant is key to achieving gas emission free foams.
Find out if surfactants with truncated reactivity improve foam properties or only increase the cost of the surfactant.
WHITE PAPER: 21ST CENTURY RELEASE AGENTS
White paper with studies on release agents developed at CONCENTROL R&D laboratories
Find out what role a good release agent plays in the production efficiency of a variety of sectors such as the automotive or footwear industries
Find out about the use of different types of release agents: water-based, solvent or co-solvent (50-50 mix).
QUALITY AND CERTIFICATIONS
We guarantee the quality of our products with actions, not just words and declare that we defend and support the highest quality in all our products and manufacturing processes. And we can prove it with the different certificates that guarantee the compliance with the regulations established by International Standards Organization (ISO).
This policy, applied from the beginning, reaped its rewards by obtaining the ISO 9002:94 in 1997, which was when we reinforced management control. Expanding the scope of our system in the year 2003 led us to the ISO 900,which defines the various requisites needed to achieve a good Quality Management System (SGC) in the different areas of the company. We now have the ISO 9001:2015 certificate.
We also have the ISO 14001:2015 certificate since 2007, which guarantees an effective Environmental Management System (EMS).
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