Enterprise Specialty Products, Inc. (ESP) applications
Defoamers and anti-foaming agents that can be sprayed over water’s surface or added directly to the supply. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for water treatment in biological systems. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives knock down foam in a wide variety of water and wastewater treatment applications. They’re available in silicone and non-silicone formulations that are fast-acting, long-lasting, and effective at low doses that do not easily disperse or cause disruptions to wastewater systems.
Minimize refinery downtime and maintenance costs with our high-performance foam control solutions. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for the oil and gas industry. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives significantly reduce the emergence of foam from surfactants and other additives found in various refinery and production applications. By stopping foam from interfering in your oil and gas processes, you’ll experience increased production output and reduced operating costs.
Foam control chemistries for pigment grinding, acrylic alkyd blending, oil- and water-based coatings, and more. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for paint and coating manufacturers. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives are developed for latex, PVC, styrenated acrylics, vinyl acetate copolymers, and countless other chemistries of emulsion-based paints and coatings. They are suitable for foam control in wood and flooring products and for use as let-down defoamers and in traffic paints.
Our products are suitable for a range of adhesive chemistries including latex, acetate, epoxy, urethane, and UV-curable systems. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for adhesive manufacturers. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives reduce foaming for all sorts of adhesive applications, especially emulsion polymers, which are prone to foam formation during mixing. Foaming is known to cause overflow in tanks, instability of adhesive emulsions, and aesthetic defects like cratering, pin-holing, and dewetting.
Choose from an inventory of defoamers specially formulated for graphic-design applications, or have one custom-made. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for graphics-related use. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your organization’s specific needs. Our chemical additives are suitable for everything from silicone to phase-stable, oil-based products to non-silicone/non-oil synthetics. Whether your graphics system is waterborne or 100% active, we have experience in numerous substrates and can produce the ideal defoamer for your inks and coatings.
We manufacture a comprehensive line of additives for use in the construction chemicals market. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for building and construction applications. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives are ideal for application in the construction & building materials sector. They are compatible with various concrete and mortar mixes including EIFS and other architectural coatings, vapor membranes, floor polymers, tile adhesives, and a comprehensive array of sealant chemistries.
Our roots are in the textile industry and we offer a variety of defoamer chemistries for dyeing, fire retarding, and more. ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for textile and carpet manufacturers. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives are suitable for reducing foam at all stages of textile processing, whether produced by alkalis and surfactants or during mechanical operations. ESP offers textile chemical compounder in concentrated forms as well as ready-to-use versions for maximum flexibility.
We offer a broad portfolio of foam control agents suitable for water- and oil-based metalworking fluids and synthetics.ESP has over 175 years of combined experience in the manufacture of foam control products for metalworking fluids. Our team of technologists, engineers, chemists, and formulators create solutions for an array of applications and can customize a solution to meet your specific needs. Our chemical additives are designed for foam control in various metalworking fluids. We’ve optimized the latest in reacted homopolymer and copolymer surfactant technologies, alkoxylated, ethoxylated, and propoxylated chemistries, and various ultra-refined hydrophobes in the development of our products.