Since 1926 our portfolio has included industrial chemicals. The company has had experience with producing and marketing sulfur-based, and later also formaldehyde-free reducing agents. Discovered over 100 years ago, sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate (SFS) is still one of the most important industrial reducing agents used today. We market it under the name Bruggolite® and currently we are its only manufacturer in the western world. In addition to various Bruggolite® types in solid form, Brüggemann also offers liquid reducing agents on the basis of sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate. We keep developing our reducing agents in light of new market requirements and application possibilities. In addition to the textile industry, they are also used as initiators in the production of polymer dispersions, in an increasingly important and very demanding and diverse field.
Stricter environmental regulations, higher demands on products, and increasing cost pressure:
Confronted with these challenges, manufacturers of polymer dispersions are increasingly dependent on reducing agents that exceed their conventional performance capacity.
With its patented new development Bruggolite®FF6M, Brüggemann has developed its own reducing agent that efficiently masters the challenges associated with emulsion polymerization.
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With a composition optimized for the rigorous requirements of the cosmetics industry, Bruggolite®FF7 also has the positive properties of Bruggolite®FF6, and thus it can also be used as a reducing agent for emulsion polymerization.
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Bruggolite®E28 is the technical variant of Bruggolite®FF7, and it is suitable for use in the production of polymer dispersions.
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In the constant communication with customers, over the years Brüggemann has optimized sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate (SFS) for a wide variety of application areas, so that today we can offer a complete product palette of solid and liquid reducing agents based on SFS.
Bruggolite®E01 is a reducing agent in solid form that is suitable for both emulsion polymerization and bleaching of textiles.
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Bruggolite®L40, L35, and No5 are some of our liquid and odor-improved reducing agents. For example, they considerably facilitate manual dosing – e.g., in the textile industry, particularly in polyester reduction clearing and emulsion polymerization.
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In the pharmaceuticals industry too, reducing agents help stabilize solutions. Our product, Bruggolite®NF, is USP certified and tested, so it can be used in specific industries.
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Sodium hydrosulphite, also known as sodium dithionite, was developed in the early 20th century. Initially used in textile printing, but with the structural change in the textile industry it is increasingly used to bleach ground-wood pulp in the paper industry. For these applications Brüggemann offers the products Sodium Hydrosulphite S, N, and F.
However, as a strong and reactive reducing agent, in special formulations sodium hydrosulfite is also used in special areas, e.g., reduction of heavy metals such as chromium in wastewater. For these applications we deliver the product Sodium Hydrosulfite S.
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Reducing agents with lower activity can be used as antioxidants. For example, with high temperatures and exposure to atmospheric oxygen, it can prevent the yellowing of polymer dispersions.
The technical variant of our Blancolen® HP is particularly suited for use in lattices and solids.
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Matthias Lubik
Sales Management and Product Management Reducing Agents
Tel.: +49 71 31 15 75-225
Fax: +49 71 31 15 75-25 225
Dr. Jan Klitschke
Sales Management Reducing Agents, EMEA
Tel.: +49 71 31 15 75-300
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Elen Kaden
Customer Service Reducing Agents
Tel.: +49 71 31 15 75-129
Fax: +49 71 31 15 75-25 129
Markus Piotrowsky
Sales Management Zinc Derivatives and Hydrosulfite
Tel.: +49 71 31 15 75-130
Fax: +49 71 31 15 75-25 130
Nothing comes from nothing.
For this reason, we invest in extensive research and development.
Close to the market and always a bit ahead of the future.
More in the story “Research and Development.”
What makes the day-to-day routine of the Director of Application Technology at Brüggemann so exciting?
We accompany Ümit Özkütükcütü as he wanders through his realm.
Everything about this is in the story “Report on a Visit to Application Technology.”
