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Come Visit Grant Industries at PCHi Shanghai - March 10,11,12 January, 2010

Come visit Grant Industries at the Personal Care and Homecare Ingredients exhibition in Shanghai, China on March 10, 11, and 12 (Booth 1C22). Along with new product innovations Grant will be offering training presentations on its wide portfolio of products. For more information, please contact info@grantinc.com.



Grant Industries Expands Silicone-In-Water Dispersion Line
(Featuring Cold Process Compatible, Energy Saving Technology)		 January, 2010

Grant Industries, Inc. (Elmwood Park, NJ) has expanded its line of silicone-in-water dispersions to offer a wider variety of solvent categories. Specifically designed for formulation ease, Gransil SiW's combine elastomer, solvent, and emulsifier into one stable product, ultimately reducing the workload of the formulator. These high value products can simply be combined to an aqueous phase or added to an existing emulsion for improved skin feel. Using a minimalistic approach, our proprietary process does away with most sensory drawbacks associated with traditional emulsifier based formulations. Gransil SiW's are cold mix compatible for added energy and cost savings, and allow for silicones and actives to be mixed in creative ways. New solvent options include the 100% Ecocert approved vegetable alkanes in Gransil SiW-GVL.



Grant Industries has selected TCR Industries September, 2009

Grant Industries has selected TCR Industries (La Palma, CA) as its west coast distributor for the company’s wide range of personal care products. The alliance strengthens both Grant and TCR’s regional presence and provides customers with more product support. For more information please contact salesinfo@TCRIndustries.com or info@grantinc.com.



Grant Industries Introduces A New Senior Account Manager September, 2009

Grant is very pleased to welcome the addition of Lena Hotaling-McCaffrey as Senior Account Manager. McCaffrey, who spent 22 years at EMD Chemicals, will be responsible for key accounts in the northeast territory.



    


Gransil VX-405, Multifunctional Water-Soluble Wax July, 2009

Gransil VX-405 is a water-soluble silicone wax designed for a variety of personal care applications. An innovative combination of organic wax, polyether, and silicone in one molecule, VX-405 optimizes the properties of each component to deliver high performance. VX-405 takes specific properties from its three component structure — water-solubility from polyether, moisturization, adhesion, and rheology control from behenyl wax, and emolliency and silky feel from silicone.



Grant Industries, Inc. Announces the Launch of Granpowder Lumière May, 2009


Grant Industries, Inc. announces the launch of Granpowder Lumière, a new line of polymethylsilsesquioxane (PSQ) powders containing a core of an entrapped photoluminescent diamond complex. For the first time, photoluminescent diamonds have been encapsulated in a spherical polymer, rendering a soft-focus particle with both photoluminescent and color correcting attributes.

The powders, which all photoluminesce an intense blue color when illuminated by long wave UV, are available for personal care and industrial applications. Currently, the powders are sold as a white powder or in five different colors. The colored powders contain D&C dyes coordinated to the diamond complex, rendering unique and radiant colors. The different colors offer a cosmetics formulator the option to combine powders to create a unique shade, specific to the intended application. The particles are spherical and only 7 microns in diameter, rendering them invisible to the naked eye. When applied to the skin, they dramatically reduce the appearance of skin imperfections, neutralize discolorations and make the skin appear younger and more vibrant.

The photoluminescent diamond complex is from detonation origin, and for the first time, encapsulated into a spherical polymer. Because of its complete entrapment, the surface of the PSQ particle remains unchanged and behaves as an unmodified PSQ particle of similar size and shape. This is advantageous to many personal care formulators and materials applications, as PSQ particles have become widely used in the industry because of their superior sensory and optical attributes.

"While the particles were developed as a novel ingredient for cosmetics, a broad patent was filed by Grant Industries and Nanometics that also includes many industrial applications which would benefit from a durable, solid micronized particle with core photoluminescent properties" said John Gormley, a Technical Director at Grant Industries, Inc. PSQ is close to the silica family and is highly crosslinked and therefore generally stable to most chemical environments over a wide pH range. Since the diamond complex will not leech out of the system, the particles can be used for many materials applications, including optical coatings and plastics. The particles are ideal for use in liquid crystal displays, where the refractive index of the polymer meets critical optical requirements.

"We are looking forward to expanding use of these materials into solar energy applications, where the photoluminescent attributes can be utilized to increase photovoltaic conversion efficiency" said Steven Isaacman, Ph.D., Director of Research for Nanometics. Work is also under way to harness the unique optical signature for anti-counterfeiting measures. The optical and sensory properties of these particles are truly remarkable and we are excited about the panoply of applications.
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