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SIA Issues 2021 First Quarterly Newsletter

SIA Issues First Quarterly Newsletter of 2021

4th February 2021

The Solvents Industry Association has issued our first quarterly newsletter! Click on the link below to view: Solvents Industry Association […]

Expo Technologies Joins the SIA

13th January 2021

The SIA is delighted to announce Sunbury-on-Thames based Expo Technologies as the latest company to join the Association as an […]

SIA Events Diary

11th January 2021

The SIA hosts a number of events in the calendar year for our members and guests.     SIA Board […]

Safe Handling of Gin and Ethanol Poster

SIA Safe Handling of Gin and Ethanol Products Poster

4th December 2019

The Solvents Industry Association has produced Safe Handling of Gin & Ethanol poster to highlight the dangers of handling ethanol […]

Common Uses of Solvents

3rd September 2019

Solvent products are utilised in almost all manufacturing processes in a wide variety of applications. Many of the products we use that […]

Types of Solvent

Solvents can be classed as organic or inorganic materials. Water, the simplest and most abundant solvent on earth is classed […]

Solvents and You

Solvents are chemical products which have the ability to dissolve, suspend or extract other substances without changing their physical properties. Solvents can […]

Hydrocarbon Solvents

As the name suggests, hydrocarbon solvents contain only carbon and hydrogen atoms within their structure.There are hundreds of different types […]

Oxygenated Solvents

Oxygenated solvents are solvents whose chemical structure contains carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms and oxygen atoms. The four main groups of […]

Hydrocarbon Solvents – Aromatic Hydrocarbons

2nd September 2019

Aromatic hydrocarbons have the most solvency power of all solvents, with a chemical structure based upon the aromatic 6-membered benzene […]