VEEGUM^® and VAN GEL^®

VEEGUM Magnesium Aluminum Silicate and VAN GEL Magnesium Aluminum Silicate products are natural smectite clays that have been water-washed to optimize purity and performance. Smectite clay (also known as bentonite) is valued for its ability to swell in water and to impart useful rheological properties to aqueous compositions. VEEGUM and VAN GEL clays are widely used to stabilize suspensions, perfect emulsions and optimize flow properties.

  VANZAN^®

VANZAN Xanthan Gum is a high molecular weight water-soluble polysaccharide that is widely used as a rheology control agent for aqueous systems. It increases viscosity, helps to stabilize emulsions, and prevents the settling of solids in a wide variety of applications. VANZAN Xanthan Gum provides the same thickening, stabilizing and suspending properties during long-term storage at elevated temperature as it does at ambient conditions. In addition, it ensures excellent freeze/thaw stability. These properties are even better when used in combination with VEEGUM or VAN GEL Smectite Clays. A weight-to-weight ratio between 1:9 and 1:2 of VANZAN to VEEGUM or VAN GEL generally produces the most desirable results. VANZAN Xanthan Gum provides a combination of benefits unique among the rheology control additives used in water-based formulations.