With 40 years of expertise in science communication, Tekno Scienze Publisher (TKS) continues to evolve, providing high-quality information to a global audience of scientists, managers, and industry leaders. Based in Italy, TKS publishes three leading scientific journals—Chimica Oggi – Chemistry Today, Agro Food Industry Hi Tech, and Household and Personal Care Today—as well as the digital-only Italian publications Beauty Horizons and Nutra Horizons, known for their innovative and interactive content.

TKS now expands into the world of podcasts with The Surfactant Insights Podcast, an in-depth series dedicated to the surfactant industry.

The podcast is hosted by Neil Burns, Managing Partner of Neil A. Burns LLC, an expert in the surfactants and oleochemicals sector. He produces major surfactant conferences, authors the Surfactants Blog, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Household and Personal Care Today.

The Surfactant Insights Podcast covers technical, commercial, and economic aspects of the surfactant value chain, particularly as it impacts household and personal care consumer products. Each five-minute episode will dig into a subject of current topical interest for manufacturers, users, and sellers of surfactants. We are open to requests for subject matter to cover on these podcasts. We hope you enjoy and find them useful.

Surfactant Insights Podcast – Episode 1

KEYWORDS: Specialty; Speciality, Commodity; Surfactant; Marketing; Technical Service; Applications; Performance; Specification.

Specialty and Commodity Surfactants - What’s the Difference?
This episode looks at what makes a specialty surfactant so special and what makes it different from a commodity surfactant. We consider the different roles for these different types of surfactant and the different challenges in selling and marketing of each type. We also cover the markets where you would expect to see each type of surfactant and the process technologies used to make them.