Result of the distillation of petroleum, waxes form the basis of multiple consumer goods. Many beauty products use this substance for their manufacture. The list of applications of this product is long and also includes the production of wood pellets and the manufacturing of cleaning products.
Paraffin’s are part of this category. They are highly resistant to heat and with almost no odour, are applied in candle manufacturing.
Galp Energia manufactures and markets two families of petroleum waxes:
- Hydrogenated in order to launder and extract compounds of double bonds (refined paraffin and microcrystalline wax);
- No hydrogenated (Soft Wax).