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Warewash Cleaning

High-performing solutions for commercial kitchen applications

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Cleaning solutions for automatic dishwashers to keep food service running safely and efficiently

There are unique challenges in keeping a commercial kitchen clean, from a high volume of dishes to hard-to-remove food to maintaining food safety certifications.

Dow offers a wide range of solutions for warewash cleaning applications that provide low foam and excellent wetting properties – two critical requirements in commercial automatic dishwashing. Our solutions enable commercial dishwashing formulations that help water penetrate and loosen soil, as well as rinse aids that help prevent spotting

DOWFAX™ Nonionic Surfactants

DOWFAX™ 20B102 and 20A42 EB are nonionic surfactants that provide excellent wetting performance for commercial dishwashing formulations.

TRITON™ DF Surfactants

TRITON™ DF-12 and CF-10 are low foam, nonionic surfactants that provide excellent detergency and wetting properties for commercial machine dishwashing and rinse aid formulations.

TERGITOL™ L-Series and Min-Foam Surfactants

Dow offers a range of solutions with low foaming, detergency and wetting properties for warewash cleaning, including TERGITOL™ L-62, a readily biodegradable anionic surfactant, and TERGITOL™ MinFoam, a low-foam nonionic surfactant with excellent rinseability and alkaline/acid stability.

VERSENE™ 100 Chelating Agent

VERSENE™ 100 chelating agent is Dow’s strongest, most versatile and widely used chelant for controlling metal ions over a broad pH range in aqueous systems and for manual dishwashing.

ACUSOL™ 445 Polymer

ACUSOL™ 445 is a detergent polymer for a variety of warewash applications, providing excellent performance properties such as the inhibition of crystal growth and the dispersion of precipitates.

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Cleaning solutions for manual dish wash to keep food service running safely and efficiently

For a commercial kitchen hard-to-remove food to maintaining food safety certifications.

Dow offers a wide range of solutions for warewash cleaning applications that provide low foam and excellent wetting properties – two critical requirements in commercial automatic dishwashing. Our solutions enable commercial dishwashing formulations that help water penetrate and loosen soil, as well as rinse aids that help prevent spotting. 

ECOSURF ™ SA Series Surfactants

ECOSURF™ SA surfactants are bio-derived from seed-oil with low-odor. SA surfactants build foam that collapses quickly with rapid dissolution even in cold water.

TERGITOL™ 15-S Series Surfactants

A secondary alcohol ethoxylate, nonionic surfactant that is readily biodegradable, and has excellent wetting ability to quickly cut through grease and grime.

DOWANOL ™ DPnB and TPnB

DOWANOL ™ DPnB and TPnB are glycol ethers with excellent surface tension-lowering ability, effectively removing oils and greases.

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ECOSURF™ LFE Series

Dow’s ECOSURF™ LFE Series can help meet your formulation needs while providing improved hard surface and soft surface cleaning. ECOSURF™ LFE 1410 and 635 are readily biodegradable surfactants listed on CleanGredients™, meeting U.S. EPA Safer Choice Standards, and EU Ecolabel. They offer low foam properties, even under high shear. 

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