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  • noun Plural form of sulfonate.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sulfonate.

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  • Industrial Performance Products' net sales increased $21 million or 7% driven principally by higher selling prices of $24 million and $3 million of favorable foreign exchange translation, offset by lower sales volume of $4 million driven by our antioxidants business and a decrease of $2 million due the divestitures of the natural sodium sulfonates and oxidized petrolatum product lines in 2010.

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  • The increase in net sales was attributable to higher selling prices of $62 million and a $12 million benefit from favorable foreign currency translation, partially offset by decreased sales volume of $9 million and a reduction in net sales of $2 million due to the divestiture of the natural sodium sulfonates and oxidized petrolatum product lines in the third quarter of 2010.

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  • Petroleum is the source of one of the most common group of surfactants used in laundry detergents-linear alkyl benzene sulfonates (LAS) - which is made by sulfonating a petrochemical product, linear alkyl benzene (LAB).

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • So while prices of the largest selling surfactants, linear alkyl benzene sulfonates (LAS), were up near the end of 2006, they didn't leap off the charts. household detergents, including laundry powders and liquids, dishwashing liquids and other household cleaners, according to a 2006 study of LAS markets by

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Competing surfactants like methyl ester sulfonates and alcohol derivates are forecast to grow at an annual rate of 5%, but from a much smaller base.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • (Liquid detergents generally use less LAS and more alcohol surfactants such as alcohol ether sulfonates and alcohol ethoxylates, while more LAS is used in powdered formulations.)

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • For example, there is not a lot of excess capacity for linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS), the world's largest volume surfactants, Burns observes.

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • (Liquid detergents generally use less LAS and more alcohol surfactants such as alcohol ether sulfonates and alcohol ethoxylates, while more LAS is used in powdered formulations.)

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • Petroleum is the source of one of the most common group of surfactants used in laundry detergents-linear alkyl benzene sulfonates (LAS) - which is made by sulfonating a petrochemical product, linear alkyl benzene (LAB).

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

  • So while prices of the largest selling surfactants, linear alkyl benzene sulfonates (LAS), were up near the end of 2006, they didn't leap off the charts. household detergents, including laundry powders and liquids, dishwashing liquids and other household cleaners, according to a 2006 study of LAS markets by

    Purchasing - Top Stories 2010

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