Aer8® Valve
The aerosol spray industry faces some major challenges: volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions, global warming potential (GWP) contribution, explosion risk, flammability in storage, handling and in use, safety and solvent abuse concerns, fossil fuel based risks (supply and cost) and refillreuse sustainability demands.
Aer8® valve technology addresses the challenges facing the aerosol industry. The Aer8® valve spray is a two chamber device, with carbon dioxide propellant in a high pressure chamber connected to a low pressure formulation chamber via a pressure regulator. The device is suitable for all types aerosol spray applications. The commonly used high VOC and GWP liquefied propellants are replaced by zero VOC and low to zero GWP propellants (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, air, argon, helium, argon).
In the development of the Aer8® valve, several solvent systems have been rediscovered. The solvent technology follows the same philosophy used in the development of Aer8® valve, environmentally friendly, low cost and pharmacopoeial. Other non-pharmaceutical formulations have also been developed for the CO2 regulator.