International Specialty Products is now part of Ashland
International Specialty Products (ISP) is now part of Ashland Inc. In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, nutrition, personal care, pharmaceutical, tissue and towel, and water treatment. Visit us at www.ashland.com.

Expand the horizons of your
high performance plastics
No matter what kind of plastics you are manufacturing today, ISP has chemistry that can help. Our comprehensive portfolio of polymer building blocks, performance additives and processing aids allow you to create the performance that your customers want in the next generation of plastics. We match that performance with a full range of biocides that protect your plastics from microbial degradation, making sure the products you make today last well into the future.

Discover unprecedented opportunities for performance with the ISP family of Flexidone™ plasticizers. In addition to providing outstanding cold flexibility, our innovative Flexidone chemistry expands your horizons for PVC formulation, manufacturing and end-product design. Our performance additives can enhance the functional characteristics of your plastics end products and our processing aids improve efficiencies, lower costs and improve final product quality.

For virtually any resin or wood plastic composite, across industries and around the world, plastics engineers and manufacturers are using ISP specialty chemicals to redesign products, create new applications, streamline processes and reduce energy inputs. With ISP, you, too, can lower costs while boosting end-product value and performance.

Broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection
that beats the competition
With ISP biocides, protecting your plastics and protecting the environment are finally compatible. Our family of Fungitrol® and PlastiGuard® biocides outperform the competition on broad-spectrum bacterial resistance, pink staining, and ease of processing, and excel at protecting wood composite plastics in outdoor applications.

Most of all, you can feel good about using them. ISP biocides are totally organic, biodegradable and VOC free, rivaling the leading “green” competition for risk assessment. When used in combination with our ester-based UV absorbers, your plastics will look good, resist fading, remain stable and last well into the future.

Service support that helps ensure your success
We invite you to work with the chemistry and material science experts at ISP to formulate, design and manufacture plastics that flex farther, stretch longer and remain stable and durable when others fail. Through ISP, you gain access to state-of-the-art labs and equipment for product research, testing and development.

With the additional support of our highly technical global sales, marketing and regulatory teams, ISP can help you commercialize your products and improve your chances of success in the market.

For more information, ask an ISP expert.


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