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    Technical and Quality

    The Synthetic Latex Company (Pty) Ltd. is committed to achieving and maintaining the highest quality products. This is enabled by fully facilitated Quality Control (QC), Research & Development (R&D) and Application Testing Laboratories (ATL), ensuring that a high standard on product quality and consistency is continuously achieved.

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    Carpet Industry
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    Manufacturing
    The manufacturing facility, located in Sasolburg, is characterised by several batch and a continuous monomer addition reaction processes, incorporating highly automated process control technology, ensuring safe manufacturing of quality, consistent products.
    Textile Industry
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    Environment, Health & Safety
    The processes are unique in that each process includes a steam stripping stage, ensuring low VOC products, illustrating commitment to being responsible and environmentally friendly and being aligned to Responsible Care (by CAIA). In addition, global best practices in process safety standards ensure a safe working environment.
    Safety
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    Products
    The Synthetic Latex Company (Pty) Ltd. has historically produced carboxylated (hot) and non carboxylated (cold) latices for the carpet, textile, paper, construction, adhesive, automotive and road markets and recently has developed styrene acrylate and pure acrylic emulsions for the carpet, textile and coating markets.
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    SLC introduces its Environmentally Friendly Latex – Savinex 8200

    Savinex 8200 is an Environmentally Friendly Adhesion Promoted Pure Acrylic Copolymer Emulsion specifically designed for application in premium quality coatings that require adhesion to numerous substrates. This high performance binder exhibits excellent weather durability such as water, UV and scrub resistance. This binder is Formaldehyde and APEO Free and therby assists with environmentally friendly coatings.

     

    Savinex 8200

History

The Synthetic Latex Company (Pty) Limited was established in 1966 as a joint venture with Revertex South Africa with the styrene butadiene latex manufacturing technology from Doverstrand, Reichold, Synthomer and Yule Catto. The company was incorporated into Sentrachem which was bought by Dow Chemicals in 1997. The divestiture of Sentrachem from Dow Chemicals in 2003 resulted in a management buyout and the establishment of Karbochem Holdings, which presently wholly owns The Synthetic Latex Company (Pty) Ltd. and Karbochem (Pty) Ltd.

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Locations

The latex plant is situated in Sasolburg, approximately 90km south of Johannesburg and the Sales and Marketing office is at Eastgate Office Park, Bruma.

The Synthetic Latex Company (Pty) Ltd. has an ISO 9001:2008 certification and the Karbochem Sasolburg site is ISO 14001:2004 certified. The company also has a Five Star rating on the NOSA CMB 253 system, having received its 28th NOSCAR in 2009.