United Kingdom · Industrial Surfactants
Lankem Ltd.
A UK surfactant specialist with an on-site laboratory, production lines for both conventional and bio-based surfactants, and a focus on sustainable chemistry through their BioLoop product line.
United Kingdom · Industrial Surfactants
A UK surfactant specialist with an on-site laboratory, production lines for both conventional and bio-based surfactants, and a focus on sustainable chemistry through their BioLoop product line.
Lankem was founded in 1999 and is based in the UK, specializing in surfactant technology for industrial markets. Their product range covers anionic, nonionic, cationic, and amphoteric surfactant types serving coatings, emulsion polymerization, agrochemicals, textiles, oils, lubricants, and industrial cleaning applications.
Lankem manufactures their own surfactants, with an on-site laboratory that develops custom chemistries for application-specific requirements.
Their BioLoop surfactant line is Lankem's sustainable chemistry platform: bio-based surfactants derived from renewable sources that deliver performance comparable to synthetic products. BioLoop covers anionic and nonionic types across a range of HLB values and functionality profiles.
PAT supplies the Lankem range across North America, with a focus on coatings, emulsion polymerization, and specialty industrial applications. We stock and sample the working grades, and the BioLoop line covers formulators who need bio-based content claims.
For non-standard surfactant requirements, we can route your spec into Lankem's UK laboratory for application-specific development.
On the dispersant side, choosing a dispersant for pigment concentrates sets out the selection logic we work through with formulators: wetting versus stabilization, matching the anchor to the pigment surface, dosing from surface area, and what changes when a millbase moves off APEO chemistry.
Anionic and nonionic emulsifiers for acrylic, vinyl acetate, and styrene-butadiene polymerization.
Wetting agents, dispersants, and emulsifiers for waterborne and solventborne coating systems.
Emulsifiers and adjuvants for herbicide, fungicide, and insecticide formulations.
Detergent and wetting surfactants for industrial cleaning formulations and degreasers.
Renewable, bio-derived surfactants for formulators seeking sustainable alternatives to petrochemical-based products.
Specialty surfactants for textile processing and lubricant formulation.