A special adhesive and high viscosity substance has been developed by blending KEMAT polybutenes and polyisobutylenes as raw materials. It can be used for crop protection: applied as an adhesive paint on the trunks of fruit bearing trees for capturing small crawling organisms as well as pest control: applied to pasteboards to capture flies and mosquitoes.

Crop Protection Adhesives & Pest Control Formulations

KEMAT offers a broad range of pure Polybut low molecular weight polybutenes and Polybol medium and high molecular weight polyisobutenes which are key raw materials for Crop Protection Adhesives and Pest Control Formulations.

KEMAT has also developed its own brand of novel water-based emulsions of polybutenes and polyisobutenes: Polybut EM. Polybut EM comes as an easy to handle liquid or paste which offers high formulation and application flexibility to producers of a Crop Protection Adhesives and Pest Control Formulations. Polybut EM can be applied pure, further diluted or blended with other components.

End User Applications include

  • Crop protection: Applied as an adhesive paint on the trunks of fruit bearing trees for stopping or capturing crawling insects
  • Pest control: Applied as an adhesive to horizontal and vertical pasteboards for capturing flying insects or small rodents