Wesel, October 10, 2025 – BYK Additives is sticking to its sustainability commitments and will present innovative additives for Home Care, Industrial & Institutional (I&I), and Personal Care at Sepawa 2025 in Berlin next week. BYK Additives improve flow behavior, product stability and surface properties in a wide variety of care applications, perfectly stabilizing the ingredients. Developing PFAS-free and bio-based products is a top priority at BYK.
Home Care and I&I
The sustainable wax additive AQUACER 492 enables water-repellent textile finishing without the use of PFAS and silicones. It is similar to the hydrophobic properties of a lotus leaf, an example from nature. BYK has replicated the functionality of plant waxes in a form that can reliably be transferred to textiles, effectively repelling water without sealing the fabric or compromising its breathability, feel, or flexibility. AQUACER 492 is easy to use and can be integrated into all types of application systems without the need for complex equipment.
Personal Care
PURABYK-W 5560 BOOST is a micronized rapeseed-based wax powder that offers many benefits for cosmetic formulations. It creates a soft focus effect that minimizes wrinkles and minor imperfections. It also improves water resistance and increases the sun protection factor (SPF), making it ideal for sunscreens and decorative cosmetics. The powder optimizes formulation texture, giving products a smooth and creamy consistency. At the same time, it impresses with its excellent oil-binding and mattifying properties. It is vegan and meets the standards for natural cosmetics (COSMOS, NATRUE). Thanks to its versatile properties, PURABYK-W 5560 BOOST is an excellent choice for modern skincare products, sunscreens, and makeup formulations.
Visit our experts at the Sepawa Congress from October 15 to 17, 2025, at the ECC Estrel Congress Center in Berlin. The BYK booth is number C 424–426.
BYK is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. The company’s innovative additives and differentiated solutions optimize product and material properties as well as production and application processes. Among other things, BYK additives improve the scratch resistance and gloss of surfaces, the mechanical strength or the flow behavior of materials, and properties such as light resistance and flame retardancy.
BYK offers solutions for the challenges of surface cleaning, surface and fabric care for household, industrial and institutional cleaners. BYK Additives optimize rheology adjustments in cleaners and detergents as well as the adjustment of surface properties, such as substrate wetting, surface protection, and foam prevention. BYK offers a range of additives for polishes, cleaners, detergents, and fabric softeners for both aqueous and solvent-borne cleaners and care products.
BYK provides innovative solutions for personal care applications. BYK additives are highly versatile and improve a wide variety of formulation systems. They stabilize particles and active ingredients in skin care, sun protection, antiperspirants, and color cosmetics, among other products. They also control the flow behavior, influence product stability, exhibit absorption, matting, and binding properties, and lead to a wonderful skin feel. The portfolio also includes a selection of additives for natural cosmetics that meet the requirements of COSMOS and/or NATRUE.
BYK has a global network of branches and operates production sites in Germany (Wesel, Kempen, Schkopau, Moosburg, Geretsried), the Netherlands (Deventer, Denekamp, Nijverdal), and the UK (Widnes), in the USA (Wallingford, Chester, Columbia, Earth City, Gonzales, Louisville, Pittsford) and in China (Shanghai, Tongling). The company is part of the ALTANA Group and employs more than 2,600 people worldwide.
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