Slack Wax Description

Wax is a petrochemical product of refineries so this is highly related to oil in refinery towers wax is near to bitumen and their difference is in the color. Slack wax is also petroleum product; the raw material of paraffin wax. It is a mixture of oil and wax in yellow or brown color, processed by De-oiling to decrease the oil content and De-coloring by special powders after heating to produce paraffin wax.

It is the product, which serves as IGI’s feedstock and that is further refined and blended to create value-added petroleum wax products.

Slack wax is naturally brown in color and depending on the viscosity of the lube oil being de-waxed it is categorized in two types of light and heavy. In light grades the melting point is 50-52˚C where in light grades the melting point is 53-55˚C is the heavy grade and their oil content ranges from 5.0% to 35%.

Slack Wax Application

Slack wax is used in emulsions, construction board, matches, candles, rust protective products and moisture vapor barriers, polishes, inks, carbon paper and externally can be applied as good dust suppressants or controlled-release agents for various chemical and fertilize. Also, it is used in insulation industry and tarpaulin fabric.

• Emulsion
• construction board
• match industry
• candle making
• tarpaulin fabric
• insulation industry
• ink industry
• carbon paper

Storage & Handling

If you use drum for slack wax packing there is no any special condition to store it. But you should consider the temperature of environment. With increasing ambient temperature, it going to be liquid. For jumbo bag packing it is so better to use it as soon as you can and keep it away from direct sun light and high temperature (more than 30 °C). Jumbo bag packing is used in winter usually and it is so good for it with low oil content (below than 8%). There is no any limitation for handling except jumbo bag packing. high weight Jumbo bags are a little risky to handle and should not be moved so many times.

Slack Wax Packing

Slack wax is packed in new or second hand 180 kg drums, iso tank, flexi tanks. Each 20-foot container takes 80 drummed slack waxes. We recently use 1 Metric ton Jumbo bag for packing too. It is so economic and safe for exporting. If clients need more safety, we can use box pallet to improve the strength of jumbo bags. In 40 Ft. Containers we can load 20 Metric ton slack wax with jumbo bag packing. 25 Kg Slab form is the another one of packing. We use this packing for special orders in order to decrease the final price and easy use.

• 180 Kg New steel drums
• 180 Kg recondition drums
• ISO Tanks
• 800 Kg Jumbo Bags
• 1000 Kg Jumbo Bags
• 25 Kg carton box

Specification

Slack wax is yellow or brown, easy melt able product. There is no general specification for it because it depends on the production process. But you can find below specifications as sample. If you need the exact and valid specification please be in touch with us by email.

Slack Wax 5% Oil
Test	Result	Method
Color	3	ASTM D 1500
Density @ 15.6 c	810-840 kg/m3	ASTM D-4052
Congealing Point	60 c	ASTM: D-937
Flash Point Open	240 c	ASTM D-92
Oil Content	3-5% wt	ASTM D-721
Vis @ 100 c	5.5-7.5 (cSt)	ASTM: D-445

Slack Wax 8% Oil
Test	Result	Method
Color	3	ASTM D 1500
Density @ 15.6 c	810-840 kg/m3	ASTM D-4052
Congealing Point	60 c	ASTM: D-937
Flash Point Open	240 c	ASTM D-92
Oil Content	5-8% wt	ASTM D-721