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Versatile Metal Ion Chelates

Understand how chelates can work for you

You can control metal ions in your processes and end products with our versatile chelates, also referred to as chelating agents or chelants. Here’s what else they can help you do:

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Prevent downtime

Uncontrolled metal ions—iron, copper, manganese, calcium, and others—in your product or process can accelerate chemical reactions that lead to loss of product and equipment downtime. Our heavy metal chelating agents can help prevent that.

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Improve quality and sustainability

Chelates can be added to finished consumer products and in processes to address issues that metal ions can cause, including degradation, discoloration, precipitation, emulsion instability and rancidity. They also address scaling, degradation, and unwanted chemical reactions, improving operations.

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Boost performance and reduce costs

Our chelates can be used to enhance the performance of products like vitamins and plant micronutrients, as well as household, industrial and institutional cleaners. And because they’re effective at remarkably low concentrations, our chelating agents can lower operating and material costs.

Chelates

Explore our portfolio of VERSENE™, VERSENOL™ and VERSENEX™ branded chelates – and use filters to narrow by physical form, type, performance benefits and more.

Featured Dow chelates and their uses across industries

Our portfolio includes EDTA (ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid), HEDTA and DTPA chemistries.

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