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Oxidized polyethylene wax is primarily used in rubber demolding to enhance release properties and surface compatibility while providing anti-adhesion functionality. ‌ Specific Applications Oxidized polyethylene wax is commonly employed as a release agent or lubricant in rubber processing, improving demolding efficiency and reducing adhesion issues. Its powder form facilitates dispersion within rubber compounds and maintains stability during high-temperature processing. For instance, it forms a barrier layer within rubber molds to enable smooth demolding. ‌ Performance Advantages This product features: ‌High-Temperature Resistance: Suitable for high-temperature vulcanization or injection molding processes, maintaining consistent release performance; ‌Dispersibility: White powder structure facilitates uniform mixing within rubber compounds; ‌Environmental Friendliness: Water-based formulation minimizes pollution risks.

Key Advantages of Oxidized Polyethylene Wax in PVC Applications Superior Lubrication: Delivers stable and balanced internal and external lubricity across a broad processing temperature range. Enhanced Plasticisation: Effectively regulates plasticisation rates, ensuring a smoother process and preventing premature or delayed plasticisation. Improved Thermal Stability: Indirectly enhances PVC material thermal stability by reducing frictional heat, thereby extending safe processing times. Improved Surface Quality: Significantly reduces bloom (sweating) phenomena, resulting in smoother, glossier surfaces with superior tactile properties. This is particularly crucial for transparent products and those demanding high surface finish (e.g., sheets, films, foils). Low Volatility: Exhibits minimal volatilisation during high-temperature processing, minimising smoke and odour generation.

During the final stage of leather manufacturing—the finishing process— micro-wax is added to topcoat finishing agents (such as glazes and fixatives). Its primary purpose is to impart a premium feel and practical physical properties to the leather surface. Primary Functions: Hand Feel Improvement (Most Critical Function) Silky Smoothness: Micro-wax particles form an ultra-thin, smooth wax film on the leather surface, significantly reducing friction coefficients to create an exceptionally smooth and refined tactile sensation. Waxy Feel: Delivers a premium, waxed-like fullness and nourished hand feel. Flaw Concealment: Micro-wax particles can slightly fill minor scratches or imperfections on the leather surface, making the grain appear more uniform and flawless. Enhanced Physical Properties Scratch Resistance & Abrasion Resistance: Wax particles form a protective layer on the surface that effectively disperses and cushions external scratching forces, preventing permanent marks on the leather surface and improving durability. Anti-Sticking: Prevents treated leather pieces from sticking together due to temperature and pressure when stacked or rolled. Dulling Effect: Wax particles cause diffuse light reflection, reducing the coating's gloss level. By selecting different types and quantities of micro- wax, the leather's sheen can be precisely controlled from semi-matte to fully matte.

During PVC processing (such as extrusion, calendering, and injection molding), the molten PVC material becomes highly viscous due to heat and mechanical shear forces, readily adhering to the metal surfaces of processing equipment (such as screws, barrels, and molds). This leads to increased energy consumption, reduced production efficiency, rough product surfaces, and even decomposition. As an external lubricant, Fischer-Tropsch wax functions through the following mechanisms: Migration and spreading: During PVC plasticization, Fischer-Tropsch wax migrates from the PVC mixture interior to the melt surface. Formation of a barrier layer: A thin, uniform lubricating film forms between the melt surface and the metal surfaces of processing equipment. Reduced Adhesion and Friction: This lubricating film effectively lowers friction and adhesion between the PVC melt and metal equipment, achieving lubrication. Fischer-Tropsch wax is widely used in various rigid and flexible PVC products: Rigid PVC: This is the primary application area for Fischer-Tropsch wax. Window and Door Profiles: Provides excellent surface finish, facilitates extrusion, and reduces energy consumption. Pipes and fittings: Ensures stable extrusion and smooth inner/outer walls. Sheets and films: Such as transparent PVC sheets and advertising boards, maintaining lubrication without compromising transparency. Injection-molded products: Excellent demolding performance. Flexible PVC: Used as a lubricant and surface modifier in wire and cable compounds, artificial leather, flooring, etc.

Micronized wax is a solid powder with an extremely fine particle size (typically 1-20 microns). When added to an epoxy resin system and cured, its mechanism of action is as follows: 1. Floating Migration Effect: This is the primary mechanism. Due to poor compatibility between wax and epoxy resin, coupled with its low density, wax particles gradually migrate to the coating surface during curing. Formation of a protective layer: Ultimately, these wax particles create an extremely fine, uniform, and uneven wax film on the outermost layer of the coating. This film acts as a “sacrificial layer.” Reduced Friction Coefficient: When an object scrapes the coating surface, the force first impacts these protruding wax particles rather than directly affecting the epoxy resin matrix. This significantly lowers the surface friction coefficient, achieving scratch resistance and wear resistance. Generated Micro-Irregularities: The surface wax particles make complete optical contact difficult, thereby also contributing to a certain degree of matting effect (reducing gloss).

Microcrystalline wax has the following primary applications in candle making: Improving Texture and Performance Microcrystalline wax enhances candle hardness and surface smoothness while improving flexibility and extensibility, preventing cracking or deformation. For instance, adding hard microcrystalline wax increases paraffin's hardness and gloss, while soft microcrystalline wax is suitable for soft waxes like beeswax, improving demolding and reducing bubbles. ‌ Enhancing Adhesion and Stability Microcrystalline wax blends well with various waxes (e.g., soy wax, paraffin). By adjusting the melting point (e.g., using food-grade microcrystalline wax with a melting point below 60°C), it improves the adhesion of essential oils or decorative materials while reducing white streaks and cup separation issues. ‌ Extended Burn Time Candles containing microcrystalline wax burn more stably, resist dripping or black soot, and exhibit higher combustion efficiency.

Micronized wax is a wax powder with an average particle size of less than 10 micrometers. It is made by air jet milling or spray chilling. Wax can also be precipitated out of solution.  Some of the applications of micronized wax are: Powder coatings. Micronized waxes are used as an additive in the production of coatings and surfaces, improving their gloss and glide, and they also contribute to good dispersion of resins and form a smooth layer on the surface to protect it from scratches and abrasion.  3D printing.  Industrial coatings.  Printing inks.  Some of the types of micronized wax are: Polyethylene wax. It can be a linear or branched wax at any molecular weight. Carnauba wax. It is a natural wax and is very grindable. Semi-natural wax. It is ethylene bistearamide, which is produced by reacting stearic acid with ethylene diamine.

Detailed Explanation of Fischer-Tropsch Wax Application in PVC: 1. Primary Function: Serves as an external lubricant During PVC processing (such as extrusion, calendering, injection moulding), the polymer melt undergoes friction and adhesion with the metal surfaces of processing equipment (e.g., screws, barrels, moulds) at elevated temperatures. The lubricant's role is to reduce this friction and adhesion. Function of Fischer-Tropsch wax: As a typical external lubricant, Fischer- Tropsch wax exhibits low compatibility with PVC. During processing, it migrates from the PVC melt to its surface, forming a thin lubricating molecular layer between the melt and metal equipment. Benefits: Reduced processing energy consumption: Minimises friction, lowering equipment drive power requirements. Prevents melt fracture: Reduces shear stress, preventing material degradation from excessive shear. Facilitates demoulding: Effectively prevents products from adhering to moulds during injection moulding or calendering. Enhances production line speed: Superior lubricity permits higher processing speeds.

Specific Advantages in Hot-Melt Adhesive Applications Adjustability: Fischer-Tropsch wax effectively modulates the initial gelation temperature and curing time of hot-melt adhesives, enhancing their plasticity and tensile properties. Low Viscosity and High Melting Point Advantages: Low-viscosity, high-melting-point Fischer-Tropsch wax also reduces the viscosity of polymers and resins, facilitating efficient resin blending and smooth hot melt adhesive pumping while maintaining appropriate surface wetting of polymers and resins. Food Contact Safety: Refined Fischer-Tropsch wax is contamination-free and odorless, making it suitable for hot melt adhesive applications requiring compliance with food contact standards. Its elevated melting point confers superior heat resistance to the adhesive. Low penetration enhances the adhesive's strength. The narrow carbon distribution range shortens open time and reduces curing time. The wax's stability ensures no migration or leaching, further optimizing hot melt adhesive performance.

Micronized wax is primarily used to enhance the scratch resistance, smooth hand feel and anti-blocking properties of inks and coatings, suitable for solvent-based ink and coating systems. ‌ Key Functions Micro-wax reduces surface friction in printed materials through its regular spherical particle structure. Its uniform fineness facilitates easy dispersion with pigments, allowing direct incorporation into inks or coatings at room temperature without requiring additional solvents or heating. ‌ Application Areas ‌Inks: Suitable for solvent-based flexographic inks, packaging gravure inks, and offset inks. Improves sliding friction on printed surfaces and reduces printing friction. ‌ ‌Coatings: Employed in thin-film coatings to enhance paint film abrasion resistance and slip properties while preventing adhesion and soiling. ‌ ‌Plastics Processing & Cosmetics: Beyond inks and coatings, also utilised in plastics processing and cosmetics to boost wear resistance and tactile comfort.

Investment casting wax is widely used in fields demanding extreme precision, surface finish, and complexity. 1. Jewelry Industry Applications: Used to create intricate models for rings, pendants, bracelets, and other complex jewelry pieces. Advantages: Perfectly reproduces extremely fine textures, patterns, and intricate structures—challenging to achieve through traditional carving or direct metal casting. Designers can first sculpt wax or use rapid prototyping before casting into metal. 2. Aerospace Industry Applications: Manufacturing critical high-temperature components like turbine blades, engine blades, and nozzles. These parts are typically made from superalloys with highly complex internal cooling channels. Advantages: Enables casting of monolithic components with intricate internal cavities, eliminating segmented welding and ensuring overall structural integrity and high-temperature resistance. 3. Dental Field Applications: Production of models for restorations such as dental crowns, bridges, and implant abutments. Advantages: Cast restorations achieve perfect fit with patients' teeth, offering exceptional precision and excellent biocompatibility. 4. Industrial Manufacturing and Artistic Creation Applications: Industrial Components: Production of precision mechanical parts, hardware tools, gears, etc. Artworks and Sculptures: Creation of intricate bronze sculptures, art pieces, and decorative items. Artists can sculpt directly in wax, then cast the design into metal using the lost-wax method. Golf Club Heads: Many high-end titanium alloy golf club heads are also manufactured via the lost-wax process.

Casting wax is primarily used in the aerospace sector for precision casting processes, involving the manufacture of critical components such as aircraft engine blades and airframe parts. Below are specific application scenarios and technical characteristics: Core Applications of Precision Casting Wax In the production of aircraft engine components, casting wax is mainly used to create wax patterns. Its low melting point and high toughness ensure dimensional accuracy for complex parts. Technical Breakthroughs Enhancing Performance ‌Lost-wax casting process: The silica sol-water glass composite shell process resolves shell cracking issues during high-temperature casting of nickel- based alloys, enhancing blade high-temperature strength and service life. ‌ Expanded Application Scenarios Beyond engine components, casting wax is also applied in airframe structures, stealth technology, and other domains.

Precision casting wax is primarily used in the manufacturing of complex precision components such as aircraft engine blades, marine turbines, and automotive parts, finding extensive application across aerospace, medical devices, and automotive industries. ‌ Aerospace Sector Used to produce critical high-temperature, high-pressure components like turbine blades and combustion chambers, meeting stringent precision and performance requirements. ‌ Automotive Manufacturing Sector Manufactures structurally precise parts such as engine blocks and transmission gears, enhancing vehicle performance and reliability. ‌ Medical Device Sector Used to create precision components like artificial joints and dental implants featuring complex surfaces and biocompatibility requirements. ‌ Shipbuilding and Machinery Manufacturing Applied to casting complex structural components like ship turbines, petrochemical equipment, and machine tool parts, ensuring operational stability and precision. ‌ Electronics and Consumer Products Involves manufacturing electronic device housings, precision molds, and near- net-shape production of home appliance components.

Fischer-Tropsch wax is a synthetic wax primarily used in the hot melt adhesive industry. Characterised by a high melting point, low viscosity, and high hardness, it significantly enhances the performance of hot melt adhesives. ‌ Primary Functions ‌ Adjusting curing time: Fischer-Tropsch wax rapidly reduces viscosity in hot melt adhesives, improving flow properties at elevated temperatures and shortening curing time to under 15 seconds. ‌ Enhances heat resistance: Its high melting point (approximately 100°C) improves the adhesive's thermal stability, making it suitable for bonding operations in high-temperature environments. ‌ Optimises surface wetting: The wax's strong fluidity enhances the adhesive's wetting effect on bonding surfaces, thereby increasing adhesion strength. ‌ ‌Improved processing properties: In plastics processing, Fischer-Tropsch wax promotes filler dispersion, increasing production speed and enhancing product surface gloss.