Kenya Chemical is one of the leading Latex Exporters, Manufacturers, Suppliers, and Producers in Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret, Malindi, and Nairobi Kenya. We are supplied to various industrial markets including Household, Institutional Cleaning, Personal Care, and Industrial sectors including Oil fields, chemical, Animal feed additive, Food additive, Agrochemical, Fertilizer, pharmaceuticals, water treatment, Minerals, Lubricants, Marine Industry, Metal Working chemical industry, and Coatings markets.
Latex is a stable dispersion (emulsion) of polymer microparticles in water. Latexes are found in nature, but synthetic latexes are common as well.
Latex as found in nature is a milky fluid found in 10% of all flowering plants (angiosperms). It is a complex emulsion that coagulates on exposure to air, consisting of proteins, alkaloids, starches, sugars, oils, tannins, resins, and gums. It is usually exuded after tissue injury. In most plants, latex is white, but some have yellow, orange, or scarlet latex.
The word latex is also used to refer to natural latex rubber, particularly non-vulcanized rubber. Such is the case in products like latex gloves, latex condoms, and latex clothing.
application
The latex of many species can be processed to produce many materials.
Balatá and gutta-percha latex contain an inelastic polymer related to rubber.
Chicle and jelutong tree latex was used in chewing gum.
Personal and healthcare products.
Natural rubber is the most important product obtained from latex; more than 12,000 plant species yield latex containing rubber, though in the vast majority of those species the rubber is not suitable for commercial use. This latex is used to make many other products including mattresses, gloves, swim caps, condoms, catheters, and balloons.
Opium and opiates
Dried latex from the opium poppy is called opium, the source of several useful analgesic alkaloids such as codeine, thebaine, and morphine, the latter two of which can then further be used in the synthesis and manufacture of other (typically stronger) opioids for medicinal use, and of heroin for the illegal drug trade. The opium poppy is also the source of medically useful non-analgesic alkaloids, such as papaverine and noscapine.[citation needed]
Industrial and biological applications from synthetic latexes
Synthetic latexes are used in coatings (e.g., latex paint) and glue because they solidify by coalescence of the polymer particles as the water evaporates. These synthetic latexes therefore can form films without releasing potentially toxic organic solvents in the environment. Other uses include cement additives and concealing information on scratchcards. Latex, usually styrene-based, is also used in immunoassays.
Used for coating the bottom surface of medium and high-grade copperplate paper, whiteboard paper, card paper, boxboard paper, etc. White latex, shoe glue, non-woven fabric, and other slurry were added.
It is suitable for the dipping of tire cord fabric, industrial fabric, etc..
Textile to rubber adhesion for:
Tire fabrics: carcass and belt, chater, and other textile components used in tires.
Industrial rubber products: conveyor belts, V belts, hoses, and other textile reinforced products.
The combination of small particle size and narrow particle size distribution, together with excellent processing properties, ensure the optimum adhesion performance demanded by even the most stringent applications, such as tyres.
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