Profile: Struktol Company of America specializes in the production of specialty chemicals. We are an ISO 9001 certified company. We offer rubber & plastic additives, personal care products and silicon surfactants. We supply activators, coated sulfurs, coupling agents, fillers, peptizers, slip agents, specialty polymers and rubber antitack. Our intelligent additive solutions make polymers easier to process ensuring maximum product quality and performance consistency. Our homogenizing agents are particularly effective with those elastomer blends that tend to crumble at the beginning of the mixing cycle. They are used to improve the homogeneity of elastomers of different polarity and viscosity. They also reduce bagging tendencies. Extrusion rates are increased without increasing the die swell, and calendaring properties are improved. TH 10A is a processing additive that gives good tack and homogeneity in raw compounds. Due to the balanced combination of the tackifying resins and homogenizing agent, an optimum dispersion of the ingredients in the raw compound is achieved which maintains its green tack for several weeks under normal storage conditions. A 50 is a rubber soluble zinc soap of high molecular weight that leads to a faster physical peptizing of natural rubber. It starts to be effective in the lower temperature range of compounding and can be used for mastication in a separate stage as well as for single stage mixing.