With a wide range of applications and benefiting from our team’s years’ of surfactant development expertise, Lakeland Laboratories manufactures a broad range of speciality products used across industries worldwide.
From iodine solutions to speciality amphoterics, terpene cleaning concentrates and hydrotropes, Lakeland’s technical team is continually exploring new applications and new ranges to suit diverse client needs, changing regulations and evolving consumer expectations in global sectors from agrochem and manufacturing to cleaning, construction and oil field.
Committed to the development of reliable chemicals backed by specialist chemistry knowledge and understanding, Lakeland uses the highest-quality raw materials on the market to ensure consistency and high performance in our speciality ranges.
Whether manufacturing in bulk or sampling in smaller quantities, Lakeland’s team provides the technical and compliance support our clients need to create unique products that drive new product lines, improve environmental qualities and enhance consumer benefits.
| Products | Properties | Industrial Applications |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeland P4 | Solubilisation | Hard Surface Cleaners |
| Detergency | Perfume Solubilisers | |
| Co-solvent | Microemulsions | |
| Free Rinsing | Sanitisers | |
| Metal Finishing | ||
| Textile Processing |
| Products | Properties | Industrial Applications |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeland IS 20 | Concentrated solution of Iodine in mobile and stable form | Food Processing Dairy and Poultry Plants Brewery |
| Products | Properties | Industrial Applications |
|---|---|---|
| Lakeland CS100-LF | Detergency | Metal Cleaning/Finishing |
| Hydrotrope | Rinse Aids | |
| Low Foam | CIP Systems | |
| High Alkali Stability | Dairy/Food Process Cleaning | |
| Hard Surface Cleaning |
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 speciality surfactants does Lakeland manufacture? Can I develop my own bespoke speciality surfactant with Lakeland? Find answers to your FAQs, or get in touch if you need more specific information.
Lakeland manufactures speciality surfactant products including nonionic and anionic surfactants which are developed continually to serve new applications, product ranges, and ever-evolving customer needs as a result of market changes and changing regulations.
Bespoke speciality surfactants, developed with good environmental profiles, including iodine solutions, speciality amphoteric surfactants, terpene cleaning concentrates and hydrotropes used across industries ranging from agrochem and manufacturing to industrial and institutional cleaning, oil field asset management, food production, and agricultural dairy production.
Yes, Lakeland Laboratories manufactures speciality and bespoke surfactants at our plant in Greater Manchester, UK. Our self-contained facilities are home to our Head Office team, technical and surfactant development laboratory, research and development facilities, and our production facilities that manufacture speciality surfactants to scale, or in smaller order quantities, before dispatch to clients worldwide.
Lakeland distributes speciality and bespoke surfactants, including those developed under toll manufacture, 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 speciality surfactant products are supplied in line with international and local compliance and approvals, including sustainability and environmental requirements.
Yes, Lakeland’s range of speciality surfactants includes nonionic surfactant products Lakeland P4 and Lakeland IS20. Our anionic speciality surfactant CS100-LF is also developed and manufactured at our plant in Greater Manchester, UK.
Speciality surfactants complement our range of amphoteric surfactants, phosphate ester surfactants and wax emulsions, creating bespoke formulations for specific, speciality needs including cleaning agents for food processing and dairy facilities.
Yes, Lakeland’s P4 speciality product is an aromatic nonionic surfactant that acts as a perfume solubiliser. Low foaming, and with good wetting and hydrotroping properties, P4 surfactant is used in hard surface cleaning agents including low foam traffic film removers. The product’s perfume solubilising properties allow for the effective mixing of fragrances without resulting in changes to appearance or separation.
Yes, Lakeland manufactures some speciality surfactants in smaller order quantities to suit more bespoke customer needs and applications. Our manufacturing facility in Greater Manchester, UK, supports the large-scale manufacture of amphoteric, phosphate ester and wax emulsion surfactants and formulations, but may be adapted to suit smaller order quantities where required. Small orders of speciality surfactants are still manufactured using quality raw materials for consistency, reliability and performance.
Yes, Lakeland’s speciality surfactants carry good environmental profiles and low aquatic toxicity, making them ideally suited to cleaning, disinfectant and rinsing applications for industrial and institutional cleaning products, in particular those used in the food processing, food production and dairy industries.
Yes, Lakeland manufactures CS100-LF, a speciality surfactant based on Phenol Ethoxylate phosphate ester which is specifically tailored to and manufactured for effective and thorough cleaning in the food processing, food production and dairy industries. CS100-LF is low-foaming with good wetting and detergency properties. Stable in hypochlorites and peroxides, CS100-LF is widely used in the industrial and institutional cleaning sector.
Yes, Lakeland’s nonionic IS20 surfactant is free of nonylphenol. Nonylphenols, formed when nonylphenol ethoxylates break down, belong to the alkylphenol family and are highly toxic to aquatic life where exposed to the environment, as well as causing severe irritation to skin and eyes. Lakeland’s IS20 surfactant does not contain harmful nonylphenols. IS20 comprises 20% available iodine in nonionic solution, producing a less hazardous formulation which can be dispersed more easily.
IS20 is used for the disinfectant and cleaning of dairy farms, poultry plants, food processing plants and breweries to maintain good facility hygiene.
Yes, Lakeland Laboratories offers toll manufacture of speciality surfactants and bespoke chemicals for clients with specific, confidential requirements seeking a reliable, experienced speciality surfactant manufacturer in the UK.
Toll manufacture clients have access to Lakeland’s speciality surfactant laboratory and technical team, working collaboratively to develop speciality surfactants that perform in specific applications, as well as our extensive on-site production facilities that support the scalable manufacture of speciality and bespoke surfactants under contract.