Brands

Our portfolio brings together a broad range of established and well-recognized brands that have been trusted across the specialty chemicals industry for decades. These brands are rooted in technical expertise and have evolved over time through continuous development and innovation to market needs. By integrating and advancing them under a unified global organization, Italmatch Chemicals Group ensure continuity, reliability and ongoing innovation for customers worldwide.

All Our Brands

Bricorr® range is Italmatch Chemicals Advanced Water Solutions all-organic scale and corrosion inhibitor serving the Industrial Water Treatment & Process market. Boasting multi-functional performance and high quality effects, this brand line also offers stability in both oxidizing and non oxidizing environment.

Features:

  • Multifunctional product
  • Excellent scale and corrosion control
  • Easy to blend in formulations
  • Reduces cost and complexity due to multifunctional capability

Applications:

  • Cooling towers

Briquest® is a series of phosphonate-based scale inhibitors engineered for high-salinity and high calcium environments. These robust inhibitors maintain calcium carbonate inhibition even in extreme brine concentrations. The high salt tolerance of Briquest formulations makes them ideal for offshore, deepwater, and geothermal reservoirs where conventional inhibitors fail.

Features:

  • High-salinity tolerant antiscalants;
  • specifically targets CaCO₃ scale;
  • effective in concentrated brines and high-Calcium waters in a broad pH range;
  • maintains performance at elevated temperatures.

Applications:

  • Produced water and injection systems;
  • Squeeze treatments;
  • hydraulic fracturing fluids;
  • surface water systems (cooling towers, RO plants);
  • well clean-outs and scale removal;
  • refinery/petrochemical cooling circuits;
  • geothermal systems.

BromiCide® is an oxidizing biocide in both granular and tablet form that provides effective microbiological control in cooling water systems and industrial process waters. BromiCide® products are safer and easier to handle than chlorine gas or liquid oxidizing biocides and reduce the risk of chemical accidents and environmental exposure.

Features:

  • Safer and easier to use
  • Oxidizing biocide for effective microbial control in water treatment applications

Applications:

  • Cooling water
  • Food & beverage
  • Pulp & Paper and other industrial process water

CIC-Phosphonates are Italmatch’s concentrated phosphonate-based scale inhibitor additives for water treatment, manufactured in Asia for the regional market. These high-purity phosphonates serve as versatile building blocks for the best cost-in-use scale and corrosion inhibitor formulations. They provide strong chelation and threshold inhibition and can be blended into various treatment programs.

This product line includes specialty chemicals to optimize well cementing while ensuring proper slurry performance, placement and precise cement settling. The range covers fluid-loss control agents to prevent slurry dehydration,  cement retarders, anti-gas migration encapsulants, spacers to separate fluids, and dispersants/surfactants for uniform mixing.

Features:

  • Fluid-loss control polymers in soldi and liquid form;
  • anti-gas migration solids (swellable particles);
  • spacer surfactants and rheology modifiers;
  • cement dispersants and defoamers;
  • accelerators/retarders for slurry control.

Applications:

  • Primary and remedial (squeeze) well cementing;
  • annular gas plug placement;
  • wellbore abandonment cement plugs;
  • deepwater and HPHT cementing;
  • liner tops and micro-annulus remediation
  • Well workovers.

PIBSA/ PIBSI based emulsification and dispersant additives for high performance oil in water emulsion technologies.

Features:

  • Range of molecular weights and diluents

Applications:

  • Water based emulsions
  • Automotive lubricants
  • Explosives

Range of natural and synthetic oleyl esters for use in many applications from biodegradable and Environmentally Acceptable Lubricants to specialized lubricity additives for industrial applications.

Features:

  • Varied range of bio-based mono, adipic and complex esters
  • LuSC approved products

Applications:

  • Industrial lubricants
  • Metalworking fluids
  • Biodegradable lubricants
  • Automotive lubricants

Range of phosphate ester based additives for industrial applications. Used as non-ferrous corrosion inhibitors and high performance EP additives.

Features:

  • Wide range of phosphate based performance additives and corrosion inhibitors
  • Superior performance, stability and foam control

Applications:

  • Automotive gear and transmission fluids
  • Automotive lubricants
  • Industrial lubricants
  • Surface cleaners and treatments
  • Sensitive metal corrosion inhibitors

Non EDTA based sequestrant for use in industrial water-based wash systems and allied applications. Limits the formation of calcium and/or magnesium soaps and scales, in water based fluids.

Features:

  • Phosphate based chemistry

Applications:

  • Water based cleaning fluids
  • Water based metalworking fluids

Italmatch Chemicals offers unique specialty additives to meet the needs of the industries involved in water management or deal with processes or applications where water plays a crucial role. More than 50 years ago, the Dequest® brand pioneered the development of phosphonates-based scale inhibitors. Since then, DEQUEST® line have been the product of choice in various applications for many years. Today, we manufacture a broad range of water management additives including Dequest® phosphonates, Dequest® P acrylic / maleic based (co-)polymers, Dequest® PB biological polymers and tailor-made products for specific applications. Either individually or in combination, the essential properties of Dequest® products are:

  • Threshold scale inhibition
  • Sequestration/Chelation
  • Dispersion/Deflocculation
  • Corrosion control

Due to their wide range of functional properties Dequest® products have been used in many applications in numerous water-related industries, including:

  • Cement modification
  • Ceramics
  • Cleaning (Acid Cleaners, Boiler Cleaning, Bottle washing compounds, Dairy cleaners, Household detergents and cleaners, Industrial & Institutional cleaners, Vehicle wash)
  • Cosmetics/Shampoos
  • Desalination
  • Electroplating
  • Geothermal water treatment
  • Hypochlorite bleach stabilization
  • Industrial Water Treatment (Cooling water treatment, Boiler water treatment
  • Metal cleaners and finishing
  • Mining
  • Peroxide bleach stabilization
  • Pigment dispersion
  • Paper recycling and Pulp & paper bleaching
  • Scale removal
  • Swimming pools
  • Textile applications

Dequest® line is also used for Oil and Gas applications. After pioneering phosphonate antiscalant technologies, the product line has evolved to meet the industry’s growing demands with advanced acrylic/maleic copolymers, and biodegradable polymers under the Dequest® P label; a new generation of sustainable amino-acid phosphonates and a suite of ready-to-use solutions tailored to specific needs, under the Dequest® FS label. Dequest® additives prevent inorganic scale while delivering non-filming corrosion inhibition and dispersion in harsh downhole environments.

Features:

  • Phosphonate and polymer chemistries
  • Convenient residual inhibitor detection for squeeze applications
  • Inhibits CaCO₃, CaSO₄ and BaSO₄ scale
  • Multifunctional (scale inhibition, corrosion control, dispersion)
  • High thermal stability and iron tolerance; formulations tailored to water chemistry; biodegradable options available

Applications:

  • Produced water and injection systems
  • Squeeze treatments
  • hydraulic fracturing fluids
  • surface water systems (cooling towers, RO plants)
  • well clean-outs and scale removal
  • refinery/petrochemical cooling circuits
  • geothermal systems

Detrex Chemicals is the only FDA registered, and inspected, high purity Hydrochloric Acid manufactured by direct synthesis under CGMP.

Features:

  • Detrex Chemicals produces custom dilutions from 0.1N – 37.5%, custom packaging, custom testing and custom compendials.
  • We offer additional low-trace metal grades to meet the future demands of our customers in the pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries.
  • We have no volume requirements and produce your products with short lead times. All customer orders are produced on purpose under a batch and lot system.
  • We are the only hydrochloric acid producer in North America that packages directly from our batch tanks into your final package thereby eliminating any risk of contamination.
  • FDA registered and inspected drug manufacturing facility.
  • FDA registered and inspected for food and beverage applications.
  • 1ppb-100ppb semiconductor grade tested via ICP/MS.

Applications:

  • Pharmaceutical API and Excipient production.
  • Semiconductor chip manufacturing.
  • Solar cell manufacturing.
  • Food and beverage manufacturing.
  • Lab testing and high purity industrial applications.

A line of additive components for use in automotive and industrial lubricants based on various chemistries including Zinc, Sulphur, Phosphorus and other allied chemistries.

  • Antiwear additives
  • Phosphates & phosphites
  • ZDDP’s
  • Sulfur & Phosphorus chemistries
  • Corrosion Inhibitors: Yellow, Ferrous and White metals

A range of packages and tailor-made solutions for grease and high-performance industrial lubricants. Developed to help lubricant formulators be successful – faster.

  • Automotive Gear
  • Industrial Gear
  • Hydraulic
  • Grease
  • Slideway

Firequal® solutions are Italmatch Chemicals fireside additives used to control fireside deposition, fouling, slagging and corrosion. They are designed to improve boiler efficiency and reliability and to reduce high temperature and low temperature corrosion.

Features:

  • Antifoulant, anticorrosion, antislugging and antideposition properties to boost boilers performances and overall plant efficiency.

Applications:

  • Fireside Additives

Flocon® products range is a pre-treatment chemical for membrane desalination applications. Flocon® products are developed in order to control scale formation effectively under a wide range of RO operational conditions and to ensure compliance with local environmental legislation. The antiscalants will inhibit scale and disperse solid particles.

Applications:

  • Membrane separation (Reverse Osmosis and Nanofiltration)

Italmatch Advanced Water Solutions have been present in the Geothermal market with the Geogard® portfolio which consist of a state of the art chemical solution based on the synergistic effect of phosphonates and polymers. Geogard® products have been specifically design to inhibit and control scaling and fouling which may occur under the most severe geothermal conditions.

Application:

  • Geothermal – Scale prevention and corrosion inhibition

Below you can find further details about Geogard range:

  • Geogard® CA: Scale inhibitor for Calcite, used in geothermal applications with temperature < 150°C
  • Geogard® ACA: Scale inhibitor for Calcite, used in to geothermal applications with temperature < 150°C. Specifically designed for warm-humid environments to avoid potential microbiological growth
  • Geogard® HCA (Ready to Market): Calcite scale in geothermal wells for temperature > 150°C up to 250°C
  • Geogard® SB: Scale inhibitor specifically design to control Stibnite scaling
  • Geogard® SX: Amorphous silica inhibitor specifically designed for geothermal brines containing up to 400ppm of silica
  • Geogard® SX2: Amorphous silica inhibitor designed for geothermal brines containing more than 400ppm of silica
  • Geogard® SX3: Amorphous silica control specifically designed for geothermal brines containing highly charged cations (Al3+, Fe3+)
  • Geogard® N: NORMS scale inhibitor specifically designed and developed to control scaling and fouling related to Ba and Sr sulfate

Should you require additional information, please refer to our Contacts page.

Contact us
Contacts Suppliers