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AK VINA

AEKYUNG CHEMICAL

Aekyung Petrochemical, which grew along the Korean petrochemical industry, has combined forces with the old Aekyung Chemical and AK ChemTech and relaunched as Aekyung Chemical.

Aekyung Chemical’s efforts to create history will continue.

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About AK VINA

AK VINA Co., Ltd (Established 2004) is subsidiary company of Aekyung chemical in Korea (Korea stock Market No. 161000) and Aekyung Group (AK holdings, Korea stock Market No. 006840).

Our manufacturing plant is located in Go Dau industrial zone, Dong Nai province. Sales office is located in Sala territoy, HCM.

We have 3 main business field. It is Suffactant manufacturing and sales, PCM Paint manufacturing and sales, and Unsaturated polyester resin sales.

Currently company sales revenue is around USD 30~40million in annual. Now we are focusing more on our surffactant and unsaturated polyester resin business and will make more investment on it to make more growth.

AK VINA HISTORY

AK VINA MAIN BUSINESS DIVISIONS

Surfactants

Amino Acid Derivatives,
Betaines, Cationic
Surfactants, etc.

Unsaturated Polyester Resin (UPR)

FRP (Fiber Reinforced Plastics),
Engineered Stone,
Pipe, etc.

Pre – Coated Metal Paint (PCM)

Industrial Construction Steel
(Zinc, AI Zinc) Coating Paint

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Basic Surfactants

It is a substance that reduces surface tension by a adsorbing to the interface in an aqueous solution and has excellent foaming and cleaning power, so it is used as a main ingredient in personal care products, detergents, and household or industrial cleaners.
It is mainly divided into anionic, cationic, amphoteric, and nonionic surfactants. In particular, Aekyung Chemical’s anionic surfactant produced through a continuous gas-liquid process has the largest production capacity in Korea.

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Betaines

Product Specifications

It is a representative amphoteric surfactant widely used in personal care and cosmetics. When used as a co-surfactant, it reduces the irritation of anionic surfactants and has excellent compatibility with nonionic and anionic surfactants.
Because it has excellent foaming power and provides a thickening effect, it is mainly used in personal care products such as shampoo.

Application

· Personal care – Shampoo, body & facial cleanser, shaving cream, makeup remover, hand wash, etc.
· Household items – Dishwashing detergent, wet wipes, liquid detergent, etc.
(*) You can check the INCI Name, Active, and Foam information for each product.

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Quats

Product Specifications

It is a cationic surfactant applied on fabric softeners, hair conditioners, etc.

It is mainly used in fabric softeners and hair conditioners due to its anti-static effect and excellent dispersion stability.

Application

1) EQ Series
· Household products – Fabric softeners, fabric softeners for drying machines, dry sheets, etc.

2) Alkyl ammonium chloride
· Personal care products- Hair conditioners, hair treatments, body washes, hand washes, etc.
· Household products – Hand sanitizers, kitchen detergents, laundry detergents, etc.

※ INCI name, active content, foam information is available by product.

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Mild Surfactants

Mild surfactant are surfactants that have various advantages such as lowering skin irritation and improving skin barriers and moisture during the cleansing stage.

It is as an eco-friendly product with excellent sulfate-free and biodegradability; Aekyung Chemical strives to provide technologies beneficial for both the human body and the environment.

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Amino acid deriv.

Product Features

It is a mild anionic surfactant based on vegetable raw materials, such as amino acid derivatives and coconut oil, etc., which are the components of human protein.

As a classic sulfate-free product, it has excellent foam formation and low irritation and is applied to various personal care products such as shampoos and facial cleansers.

Applications

Personal care products – Shampoos, hair conditioners, body washes, facial cleansers,
liquid soaps, hand washes, hair styling products, etc.

※ INCI name, active content, foam information is available by product.

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Unsaturated polyester resin, Vinylester

It is a substance that reduces surface tension by adsorbing to the interface in an aqueous solution and has excellent foaming and cleaning power, so it is used as a main ingredient in personal care products, detergents, and household or industrial cleaners.

It is mainly divided into anionic, cationic, amphoteric, and nonionic surfactants. In particular, Aekyung Chemical’s anionic surfactant produced through a continuous gas-liquid process has the largest production capacity in Korea.

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For Buttons

Product Features

Polycoat for buttons is a resin that considers color, transparency, pearl effect and formability to suit high-end buttons such as shirt buttons.

It allows for easy cutting & punching processing and has a good balance of heat resistance, water resistance, and weather resistance.

Applications

· Centrifugal buttons, rod buttons, mold buttons
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For Marbles

Product Features

Aekyung Chemical’s resins for marbles can impart heat resistance and contamination resistance to artificial marbles used for bathtubs and washbasins.

Aekyung also develops and offers resins with improved wet deformation properties and resins with low volume shrinkage that doesn’t crack when hardening.

Applications

· Artificial marbles
· Aprons, bath tubs, washbasins
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For Craft Molding

Product Features

Polycoat resin for molding is used to make various craftworks for decoration. It has excellent properties of fast curing, filler dispersion and defoamation and workability.

Applications

· Accessary molds
· Craftworks
· Flower pots
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For Wood coating

Product Features

Polycoat resin for painting is used for wood painting such as furniture, musical instruments, etc.

They are categorized by purposes: general painting, musical instrumental coating and UV curing.

Polycoat resin for painting has excellent workability and dryness as well as excellent film formation and surface hardening properties.

Applications

· Furniture painting
· Decorated plywood
· Musical instrument primer and intermediate coats
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For Lining

Product Features

Resins for waterproofing mortar lining are classified into primers, intermediate coats, and topcoats. They can be used as flooring materials in various industries by mixing various stiffeners like silica. Compared to cement mortar lining, it has higher chemical resistance such as acid resistance. It also has strong crack resistance due to excellent elongation property and low volume shrinkage.

Applications

· Mortar lining
· FRP lining
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For Putty

Product Features

Polycoat resin for putty is used for furniture, buildings and automobile repairing.It has excellent workability, air dryness and adhesion to metal materials.

Applications

· Putty for automobiles
· Putty for metals
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For Gelcoats

Product Features

Gelcoat is a gel-type thermoset liquid paint made by adding pigment and thixotropic agent to unsaturated polyester resin. Giving the gelcoat strong mechanical, electronic, waterproof, weatherable, oil-resistant, and acid-resistant properties.

Gelcoat can be referred to as a colored thixotropic product developed for FRP and marble topcoats and thus can be used for surface coatings such as bathtubs, water tanks, ships, and septic tanks.

Applications

· FRP surface protection
· Surface finish
· Bath tubs
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For Pipes

Product Features

GPR pipes use unsaturated polyester resins as a binder and is suitable for the continuous filament winding molding method using glass fibers alone or filler mixtures.

It has excellent impregnability and defoaming properties and can implement excellent physical properties in mechanical strength and chemical resistance.

Applications

· GRP pipes
· Resin concretes
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For Machine Molding

Product Features

Polycoat for machine molding are resins that have thermosetting and formability suitable for various continuous molding and are designed to meet physical and chemical properties of different purposes.

Applications

· Water tanks, ceiling materials
· Automobile components, electric components
· BMC Artificial marbles
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For Flame Retardance

Product Features

General UP resin products need to be improved because they combust easily without having self-extinguishing properties, creating toxic gases.

Flame retardance can be added by adding a flame retardant component to a general resin. Typical flame retardant components can be categorized as halogen compounds, non-halogen compounds, and inorganic metal oxides.

Aekyung Chemical does not stop at providing flame retardance to resins in need of flame retardance but provides various solutions that combine low harmfulness, low smokability, low corrosion and heat resistance.

Applications

· Railway vehicles
· Vessel thermal covers
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For Corrosion Resistance

Product Features

Corrosion-resistant polycoats are widely used in hand lay-up, spray-up, filament winding, and other corrosion-resistance processes.

In particular, FRP products made of polycoat DION and FG series have excellent physical properties such as high corrosion resistance, high chemical resistance, heat resistance, impact resistance as well as excellent electric and mechanical properties.

Applications

· Corrosion-resistant tanks
· corrosion-resistant linings
· scrubbers
· corrosion-resistant ducts
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For Lamination

Product Features

Polycoat resin for lamination is a two-component (or three-component) resin that is widely used in hand lay-up, spray-up, and other FRP manufacturing processes.

Applications

Vessels, car components, silos, general FRP components, etc.
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