PvP’s & PvP Vinyl acetate blends are used in a very wide range of industries. A few of these applications are indicated here.

Personal care
PvP’s are widely used as fixing agents in hair care products such as gels & shampoos.

Pharmaceutical
PvP’s are used as binding agents in tableting as well as many other pharmaceutical applications.? Povidone Iodine antiseptic wipes are a very established application for PvP

Brewing & Winemaking
PvP’s are used as stabilising agents, which prevent sedimentation & clouding of the product.

Laundry detergents
PvP’s inhibit dyes running in laundry applications. During the washing PvP’s forms, a complex with dyes released in the wash & stops them being re-deposited on other cloth in the wash.

Textile dying
PvP affinity to certain dyes allow the dye house manager to more effectively control the strike rate.

Hollow fibre membrane manufacture
PvP’s create hydrophilic areas assisting in polysulphone coatings

Expandable polystyrene production
PvP’s form protective colloids during the production process.

Adhesive
Stearate base products use PvP’s? in their formulations

Ink jet printing
Non aqueous dye and pigment based writing ink delivery is enhanced using PvP’s

Oil Fields
PvP’s are used as fluid loss control agents in cementing

Ceramic binders
Added greens strength is give by PvP’s