High performing plasticizers

We offer the industry’s broadest range of high-molecular-weight (HMW) plasticizers. Jayflex™ high-molecular-weight plasticizers provide an optimum balance of properties with outstanding performance and permanence.

What does it mean for your application?

Based on ExxonMobil tests and assessments and published literature.
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Extrusion
Key parameters:
  • Anti-aging
  • Resistance to migration
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Calendering
Key parameters:
  • Cold flexibility
  • Long term compatibility
  • Extraction resistance
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Plastisols
Key parameters:
  • Curing temperature
  • Anti-Aging
  • Resistance to migration
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Calendering
Key parameters:
  • Cold flexibility
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Calendering
Key parameters:
  • Dry blending time
  • Melt rheology
  • Anti-aging
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Plastisols
Key parameters:
  • Plastisol gel velocity
  • Anti-aging
  • Extraction resistance
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Extrusion
Key parameters:
  • Volume cost
  • Long term compatibility
 
=  benchmark
+  advantage
  disadvantage
 
DINP1=
DIDP1++
DINCH2– –
DOTP (DEHT)
 
Process used for this assessment:
  • Plastisols
Key parameters:
  • Cold flexibility
  • Long term compatibility
  • Extraction resistance
 
1 ExxonMobil commercializes DINP and DIDP under the brand Jayflex™
2 DINCH is a trademark of BASF

Explore our products

  • Adipate Plasticizers

    Adipate plasticizers

    Jayflex™ adipate plasticizers can be used as a primary plasticizer but, more typically, are used in blends with general-purpose phthalates to improve low temperature properties.

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  • Plastificantes DIDP

    DIDP plasticizer

    Jayflex™ DIDP plasticizer is one of the largest-volume general-purpose high-molecular-weight plasticizers for the wire and cable industry.

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  • Plastificantes DINP

    DINP plasticizer

    Jayflex™ DINP plasticizer is the largest-volume and preferred general-purpose high-molecular-weight plasticizer for PVC, providing the opportunity for cost savings with a good balance of properties.

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  • Plastificantes DIUP

    DIUP plasticizer

    Jayflex™ DIUP plasticizer is a high-molecular-weight plasticizer designed to provide good performance at high temperatures and good outdoor-weathering capabilities.

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  • DTDP Plasticizers

    DTDP plasticizer

    Jayflex™ DTDP plasticizer is the highest-molecular-weight phthalate plasticizer, providing greater performance at high temperatures. It is the preferred plasticizer for automotive cable applications and THHN/NMB electrical wire insulation.

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  • Plastificantes lineales

    Linear plasticizers

    Jayflex™ linear plasticizers are used to prepare a series of premium flexible PVC products, where the performance requirements cannot be met with branched plasticizers.

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  • MB10 Plastificantes

    MB10 plasticizer

    Jayflex™ MB10 plasticizer is a monoester of benzoic acid and isodecyl alcohol. It features good compatibility with thermoplastic resins, particularly polyvinyl chloride (PVC).

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  • Trimellitate Plasticizers

    Trimellitate plasticizers

    Jayflex™ trimellitate plasticizers are used in wire and cable applications that require resistance to very high temperatures over long durations, and in automobile interiors.

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Each plasticizer is a different story

Learn all about plasticizers and make the right choices for your business.

Plasticizers story - flexible hose

Fundamentals of plasticizers

Plasticizers bring flexibility to PVC applications. They also attract misconceptions across the value chain. There are indeed similarities, but the truth is that plasticizers can also be fundamentally different!

Plasticizers story - flexible hose

Looking for a general purpose plasticizer?

Jayflex™ plasticizers show superior performance in the key requirements for a general purpose plasticizer. Jayflex plasticizers exhibit low volatile losses and high gelation, are cost competitive, are available globally and have a longstanding record of safety in use and wide toxicological review.

Plasticizers story - flexible hose

What about "non-phthalates"?

Toy ducks are fun: they float on water and squeak. But beware of ducks containing plasticizers with poor PVC compatibility: they don’t squeak, they leak! Which plasticizers produce squeakers and which produce leakers?

 
 
Featured resources

  • US regulatory updates

    ACC's High Phihalates Panel Statement on EPA's Draft Risk Evaluation for DINP

    The American Chemistry Council's High Phthalates Panel Issued a statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) completion of a draft manufacturer-requested risk evaluation for DINP

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  • High-performance plasticizer meets demanding flexible PVC requirements

    High-performance plasticizer meets demanding flexible PVC requirements

    Read how Jayflex L9TM plasticizer, a linear trimellitate, exhibits excellent mechanical properties with PVC, but also provides permanency at both high and low temperatures while combining extraction and migration resistance with low fogging, and ease of processability.

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