Butanox®

The highest quality methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) on the market

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Butanox® world’s leading brand of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP)

MEKP products are used for the curing of thermoset resins and coatings.

Butanox® peroxide is an essential component for curing polyester composite materials such as pipes, wind turbine blades, bridges, yachts, chemical storage tanks and many other valuable end products. Butanox® product is recognized as the best and most reliably MEKP by the world’s leading composite manufacturers and users of unsaturated polyester resins (UP).

Butanox® MEKP has a consistent high quality and guaranteed low water content and can be used across the entire range of applications and reactivities of commercially available UP and vinyl ester (VE) resins. Butanox® M-50 product is the leading MEKP in our portfolio.

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Product categories

Thermoset composites

Curing agents for unsaturated polyester resins, vinyl ester resins and (meth)acrylate resins.

Organic peroxides

Classes like ketone peroxides, diacyl peroxides, peroxyesters, hydroperoxides and more.

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Organic peroxides

Butanox M-50

Butanox® M-50 is a medium-reactive, general purpose MEKP with low water content.

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Organic peroxides

Butanox M-50 VRN

Butanox® M-50 VRN is a high reactive, general purpose MEKP with low water content, including a Vanishing Red (VR) indicator system.

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Organic peroxides

Butanox LPT-IN

Butanox® LPT-IN is a general purpose MEKP for extra long geltimes in standard orthophthalic resins, and the product choice for curing vinylester resins.

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Organic peroxides

Butanox P-50

Butanox® P-50 is a special ketone peroxide for fast curing of laminates and gelcoats.

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Cobalt-free curing of polyester storage tanks

Nouryon successful with food-contact compliancy certification for cobalt-free curing.

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Thermoset brochure (EMEIA)

Overview of our Thermoset products in Europe, Middle East, India and Africa

Type: Brochure
Language: English
Format: pdf | 1.2 MB
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Thermoset brochure (NAR)

Overview of our Thermoset products in North America

Type: Brochure
Language: English
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Vanishing Red - small red investment for a better profitability

Butanox® M-50 VR is a colored peroxide allowing users to check the flow of the peroxide in the dosing line and initial cure within a laminate. Failures can be instantly detected and once the color disappears, you know the cure is finished.

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Our curing systems for thermoset resins are found in a wide variety of manufactured goods, including pipes, yachts, storage tanks, wind turbines to biofiber-based composite bridges.

Butanox® M-50 VRN reveal

Nouryon launches improved Vanishing Red peroxide for the composites market.

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