Floor Care
With a broad product portfolio and decades of industry expertise, Dow can help you develop floor care formulation to achieve superior performance that lasts.
Innovative and proven solutions for floor care formulations
As a leading provider of floor care solutions and services for many decades, Dow offers strong formulation expertise with technical and regulatory support to our customers.
Dow’s patented, high-throughput Accelerated Wear Tester (AWT) enables product segmentation and positioning, and accelerates the gathering of wear data. Our solutions enhance floor cleaners, finishes, sealers and strippers for efficient, effective cleaning and protection of various flooring surfaces in homes, institutional and commercial spaces.
Innovative solutions for floor polishes with exceptional shine and durability
Whether the floors are in homes, institutions or commercial buildings, floor polishes are key in protecting and maintaining the surfaces. Floor polish products are aqueous-based formulations that dry to produce a durable and smooth protective film.
Dow offers emulsion polymers, glycol ethers and defoaming agents to help customers develop the right balance of performance and cost in floor polish formulations. Dow floor care polymers are designed for the full range of maintenance procedures, from high to low maintenance.
High-Maintenance Solutions
Facilities such as large supermarkets, retail stores and office building lobbies often receive daily high-speed cleaning and burnishing. Dow has developed RHOPLEX™ 4336 Polymer and DURAGREEN™ 4373 Non-Zinc Crosslinked Polymer to provide excellent gloss, appearance and burnishing response for these high traffic areas.
Medium-Maintenance Solutions
Facilities such as small retail stores, hospitals, nursing homes, airports, schools and universities that are often cleaned and burnished about two-four times per week. Dow recommends DURAPLUS™ 3, DURAGREEN™ 4373, and RHOPLEX™ 2483, 3830 and 3479 Polymers for the right balance of performance and cost.
Low-Maintenance Solutions
Facilities such as small schools or offices that have infrequent buffing or burnishing, Dow recommends solutions that help withstand heel marks, scuffing and soiling – DURAPLUS™ 2 and 3 Polymers, RHOPLEX™ B-924 and 3479 Polymers, and DOWANOL™ DPM Glycol Ethers to improve film durability for long lasting quality.
Versatile solutions for floor stripper products with differentiated performance
Over time and daily use, polished floor finishes will wear off, losing both their protective film and aesthetic shine. Before floors can be polished and their finishes restored, the worn coatings must be removed – and that can be one of the most labor-intensive jobs in household or professional floor care. Floor stripper products can make the job easier and faster.
Dow offers a broad portfolio of ingredients for floor stripper formulations, including amines, solvents and surfactants, which help solubilize polymers and dissolve worn-out finishes.
Versatile Amines
Dow offers versatile ingredients such as Monoethanolamine, which reacts with and breaks up zinc bonds of polymers used in floor care polishes – to enable floor strippers that efficiently and effectively remove worn floor polishes.
Powerful Solvents
Our broad portfolio of powerful solvents, including Butyl CELLOSOLVE™ Solvent and DOWANOL™ PnB and DOWANOL™ DPnB Glycol Ethers are effective in floor stripping formulations, helping break down finishes and allowing water to solubilize polymers during the stripping process.
Eco-Conscious Surfactants
ECOSURF™ EH-6 Surfactant is a water-soluble, biodegradable nonionic surfactant that provides excellent wetting and detergency in floor stripping formulations as well as an excellent environmental profile.
Floor Care resources
Dow Home Care Solutions
Dow Surfactants Reference Chart
Dow Glycol Ether & Solvents Selection Guide
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