For over 50 years, Libra has been an example of excellence in the provision of products and services to the chemical industry. The company’ s specialty chemicals and surfactants are manufactured and distributed globally for use within a range of industries and product applications.

A surfactant is a surface-active agent; a molecule that reduces the surface tension between two substances, like water and oil, enabling them to mix by having a waterattracting( hydrophilic) head and a waterrepelling( hydrophobic) tail. This dual nature makes them excellent for cleaning by allowing water to spread and penetrate dirt, trapping the soil in spherical structures called micelles, and lifting it away from surfaces. Surfactants are common in detergents, shampoos, and various industrial applications thanks to their ability to clean, emulsify, and foam.

From its Manchester site, Libra has been producing and developing a wide range of specialty surfactants with different properties and purposes in chemical formulations. As primary, secondary and co-surfactants in formulations, Libra’ s products can act as foaming agents, detergents, emulsifiers and dispersing agents. The company also

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