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Whatever your metalworking fluid challenges, ANGUS has the formulation expertise, product and technology solutions to enable a winning formulation. The ANGUS specialty additives portfolio consists of the CORRGUARD™ family for water-miscible fluids, as well as ALKATERGE™ Surface Active Agents, Neutralizing amines, AEPD™ 85 low-VOC corrosion inhibitor, and vapor-phase corrosion inhibitor DMAMP-80™.

The newest innovation – CORRGUARD™ EXT Amino Alcohol—enables higher performing and longer lasting metalworking fluids. CORRGUARD EXT provides formulators:

  • Exceptional performance enhancement of biocides and alternatives to formaldehyde-releasing biocides
  • Improved corrosion control
  • Advanced primary amine that is readily biodegradable and REACH compliant
Product Chemistry Description
AEPD-85 2-amino-2-ethyl-1,3-propanediol + 15% water Liquid
ALKATERGE-T 2-Heptadecenyl-4,4(5H)Oxazoledimethanol Solid
CORRGUARD-75 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol solution + 25% water Liquid
CORRGUARD-95 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol solution + 5% water Liquid
CORRGUARD
EXT Amino Alcohol 
3-Amino-4-octanol Liquid
CORRGUARD M 2-Amino-1-butanol Liquid
CORRGUARD RED Amino Alcohol Liquid
CORRGUARD SI Proprietary anionic organic Liquid
DMAMP-80 80% 2-Dimethylamino-2-Methyl-1-Propanol + 20% water Liquid

For additional information on specialty chemicals for metalworking fluids applications, please visit the Dow Microbial site.

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*Reprinted with permission from the November 2010 issue of TLT, the monthly magazine published by the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, a not-for-profit international technical society headquartered in Park Ridge, Ill.

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