Neste Renewable Isoalkane™ provides the means to decrease the environmental footprint of biochemical businesses and products

Neste Renewable Isoalkane™

Neste Renewable Isoalkane™ provides the means to decrease the environmental footprint of biochemical businesses and products, and an answer to consumer demand for high-quality sustainable solutions.

As the world’s leading supplier of renewable oils, we have the capacity to enable the chemical industry to provide their customers with chemicals and plastics produced in large scale from renewable raw materials.

Neste Renewable Isoalkane oil offers a sustainable, safe, and odorless alternative to traditional mineral oils, and is ideal for a wide range of chemical applications from paints and coatings to lubricants.

Neste Renewable Isoalkane – sustainable to the core

As with Neste’s other renewable products, Neste Renewable Isoalkane offers premium quality, and thanks to its renewable origin helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while being biodegradable in accordance with OECD 301.

Neste Renewable Isoalkane is produced using Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology, a hydrotreatment process that can convert natural oils, such as vegetable oil and a range of industrial waste and residues, into high-purity isoparaffinic hydrocarbon oils with a low sulphur and aromatic content. All renewable raw materials used in producing Neste Renewable Isoalkane are sustainably produced. 

Key benefits

  • ​ Colorless
  • ​ Odorless – low aromatic content
  • ​ High purity
  •  Non-corrosive
  •  High chemical stability
  •  Low surface tension – superior wetting
  •  Compatible with most other organic oils and packaging materials

Examples of typical applications

Decanter green iconPaints, coatings, inks, and adhesives
In wood oils, oil-based paints, as a plasticizer for resins, in adhesives, and to bind dust.

Improving existing icon Lubricants and metal working fluids
As a component in lubricants, as a lubricating oil in metal working fluids, or as a carrier for actives or additives.

Test tube iconWater treatment and functional fluids
As a component in water treatment additives, such as defoamers for detergents and coatings.

Partnerships

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