Paraffin Wax Products

Candle Manufacture

The search for artificial light started in medieval times and wicked candle-making dates back to ancient Egypt with discoveries going back to 3000 BC with different applications in lighting up homes, knitting, sewing, religious celebrations such as Easter and Hanukkah celebrations. The manufacturing process though has surprisingly changed little since the primitive days of dipping branches in fish oil or animal fat followed by beeswax burning in Middle Ages for a slow-burning and reliable source of light. The candle waxes were produced from such diverse raw material as insects and tree fruits.

Now days candles are no longer used as major source of light but continue to be used for home decoration, romance, celebrations, candlelight vigils etc. and the main choices to be made are concerned with the melting point, refinement etc. depending on the desired manufacturing process outcome.

Waxes

Candles are made from candle wax. Although waxes have many other applications including cosmetics, packaging, coatings, adhesives, inks, castings, polishes etc.

Candle waxes have been produced from different material over the history of candle-making. These include oils, fats and wax-like derivatives from insects, plants and fruits. For example, Indians produced wax from boiling the fruit of cinnamon tree and the Japanese used insects for producing waxes.

Waxes used for candle manufacturing have the following characteristics:

Hydrocarbon chemical composition
Odourless
Tasteless
Smooth texture
Solid at room temperature
Turn liquid when heated
Water insoluble
Combustible

Wax Production

The term "wax" refers to a large number of materials with different chemical compositions. Waxes can be produced naturally or synthetically.

Petroleum waxes are oil derivatives and by-product of a complex oil refining process performed at refineries. One of the products derived from refining crude oil is lubricant oil,. This oil is produced by crude oil distillation process or from re-refining used lubricants and contains up to 10% wax.

A de-waxing process then produces petroleum wax by extracting it from the lubricant.

Paraffin Wax

Paraffin wax is a familiar substance and a popular wax due to its well-established usage in candle making. It is a type of petroleum wax with carbon and hydrogen chemical composition developed by removing the oil from the waxy by-product formed during the petroleum refining process. These waxes are categorised based on the oil content and level of refinement from slack wax with more than 5% oil content to semi-refined wax of 0.5-1.5% oil content to fully refined wax of less than 0.5% oil content.

Our paraffin wax is available in standard 5 KG slab form suitable for larger candle making plants. Please click on the link to download the data sheet for our paraffin wax products.

Packaging

We offer a choice of industry standard packaging material to suit your needs. These include the following:

Flexible and semi-transparent 84x55 cm polypropylene (PP) bags weighting under 1kg
Metallised aluminium bags 80x60 cm, ideal for packaging solid paraffin wax slabs, offering protection against UV light, moisture and oxygen
Medium duty export carton boxes weighting 0.5kg with dimensions 52.5x24.5x32.5