Produced using raw materials of the highest standard, our dipropionate and monopropionate products are salt-free and highly versatile for a broad range of industrial uses.
Excellent dirt-lifting and free-rinsing qualities, together with good environmental profiles and low aquatic toxicity, makes our amphoteric products a key component for applications including automotive care, household cleaning products, hard surface cleaners and detergents.
High and low-foaming variants, and powerful emulsifiers, are pH stable in a range of pH, providing corrosion inhibition, anti-static and dispersant properties which are utilised effectively in industrial and institutional cleaning, oil field and metal working sectors in particular.
Fully manufactured in-house, Lakeland Laboratories’ technical team tailors amphoteric products to offer bespoke properties that suit client need, creating unique, compliant and highly effective speciality amphoterics with reliable consistency.
| Products | Properties | Industrial Applications |
|---|---|---|
| AMA | Readily Biodegradable | Detergents |
| AMA 38 | Salt Free | Maintenance |
| AMA 100 | Solubilisers | Metal Finishing |
| AMA LF40 | High or Low Foam | Micro emulsions |
| AMA LF70 | Corrosion Inhibiting | Lubricants |
| AMA LF60 | Hydrotrope | Vehicle Cleaning |
| Agriculture |
| Products | Properties | Industrial Applications |
|---|---|---|
| ACP 70 | Lubricity | Oil Fields |
| Highly Alkali Stable | Lubricants | |
| Acid Stable | Emulsifier | |
| Environment Friendly | ||
| Free Rinsing |
| Products | Properties | Industrial Applications |
|---|---|---|
| CAB | Biodegradable | Toletries |
| Lubricity | Institution | |
| Industrial Detergents |
Versatile products drive businesses spanning a wide range of global sectors, with consistent results backed by excellent customer relationships.
Speciality amphoterics, phosphate esters, wax emulsions & bespoke surfactants carrying broad application use to suit continually evolving needs.
How Lakeland drives client industries worldwide through specialist chemical development & manufacture, backed by service excellence.
Which amphoterics does Lakeland manufacture? Where are amphoterics dispatched to and how can I obtain a sample? Find answers to your FAQs, or get in touch if you need more specific information.
Yes, Lakeland Laboratories manufactures dipropionate amphoteric surfactants. Our range of dipropionate amphoterics is versatile, mild and stable across a broad range of pH, with excellent lubricity, emulsification and anti-corrosion properties. Dipropionate amphoteric surfactants are biodegradable with good environmental profiles.
Yes, Lakeland manufactures monopropionate amphoteric surfactants. Monopropionate amphoterics by Lakeland carry excellent lubricity and anti-corrosion properties, and are frequently used in the oil field sector to clean, protect and preserve oil and petroleum pipelines, as well as in metalworking, metal fabrication, manufacturing and engineering processes.
Lakeland distributes amphoteric surfactants worldwide, in particular to Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Our global network of approved agents and suppliers work with Lakeland’s regulatory team in the UK to ensure amphoteric surfactant products are supplied in line with international compliance and approvals.
Lakeland Laboratories manufactures amphoteric surfactants at our plant in Greater Manchester, UK. Our self-contained facilities are home to our Head Office team, technical laboratory, research and development facilities, and our production facilities that manufacture amphoteric surfactants to scale before dispatch to clients worldwide.
Dipropionate amphoteric surfactants are used for a wide range of applications, from oil field pipeline cleaning and protection and automotive cleaning agents, to metalworking and industrial and institutional cleaning products.
Dipropionate amphoteric surfactants are multi-functional, and are used in hard surface cleaning and detergent agents, as well as automotive care and cleaning products, as they are salt-free and anti-corrosive with good foaming and free-rinsing properties.
Lakeland’s popular dipropionate amphoteric surfactant products include AMA LF40, AMA LF60 and AMA 100.
Monopropionate amphoteric surfactants are used for applications requiring good lubricity and anti-corrosion, such as cleaning and protecting oil field pipelines, and metalworking , fabrication and engineering.
Monopropionate amphoterics can be used in subsea settings such as oil and petroleum extraction because they carry anti-corrosion properties, low toxicity and good environmental and biodegradable qualities.
Lakeland’s popular monopropionate amphoteric surfactant products include ACP 70.
Yes, Lakeland’s amphoteric surfactants are biodegradable and carry good environmental profiles. With low aquatic toxicity, amphoterics by Lakeland Laboratories are used in cleaning and rinsing applications for industrial, institutional and automotive cleaning products, as well as subsea applications in the oil field sector.
Yes, Lakeland’s amphoteric surfactant products offer high foaming and low foaming properties, developed bespoke to your application. High foaming amphoteric surfactants increase contact with the surface for greater coverage and more effective cleaning.
Low foaming amphoteric surfactants offer excellent wetting and free-rinsing properties, good emulsification and effective lubricity where foaming may cause issues with equipment or slow processes down.
Yes, Lakeland Laboratories develops bespoke amphoteric surfactants collaboratively with clients across countless sectors, from automotive and vehicle care to agrochem, industrial and institutional cleaning and oil field.
Lakeland’s technical team at our laboratory in Greater Manchester works with clients to identify required bespoke amphoteric surfactant characteristics, adapting our range to suit specific needs.
Yes, Lakeland Laboratories offers toll manufacture of amphoteric surfactants for clients with bespoke or confidential requirements seeking a reliable, experienced surfactant manufacturer in the UK.
Toll manufacture clients have access to Lakeland’s amphoteric surfactant technical development team, enabling collaboration that creates amphoterics tailored to specific applications, as well as our extensive on-site production facilities that support the scalable manufacture of amphoteric surfactants under contract.