Each day, millions of people use Clariant products without even knowing it: when washing their hair, painting a home, while growing grain, de-icing an aircraft or preparing food. Why is the Clariant name not everywhere where Clariant products are used? Clariant is an innovative company that applies its expertise for the design, development and manufacture of specialty chemicals in cooperation with customers from various industries. Success lays in Clariant continuously creating value by translating customer and consumer needs into innovative technologies.
Focus on global trends
Clariant continuously develops and aligns the company portfolio with customers and markets that show good future prospects and above-average growth. The focus is on activities in which the Group has substantial price leverage resulting from a leading market position and outstanding innovative technologies. In doing so, the four Business Areas Care Chemicals, Catalysis, Natural Resources, and Plastics & Coatings primarily address long range global trends, such as mobility, resource conservation, energy efficiency and increasing urbanization in emerging markets. Each business area contributes to achieving corporate goals, be it in terms of sales growth, profitability, strengthening innovative capabilities or the strong commitment to sustainability.
Sales by Business Area
Group sales: CHF 5 807 m
EBITDA by business area
Group EBITDA1: CHF 853 m, including corporate costs: CHF 115 m
1 before exceptional items
»Clariant has a well-balanced portfolio with a very good profitability and substantial growth potential.«
The Business Area Care Chemicals unites Industrial & Consumer Specialties (ICS) with the operations of New Business Development and the promising Biotechnology business. This Business Area supports customers in improving product characteristics of personal care products or crop protection solutions, for example.
With GlucoTain®, Clariant offers an innovative product that makes personal care more pleasant and environmentally compatible.
The Business Area Catalysis offers a broad portfolio of catalysts which allow the use of alternative raw materials such as natural gas, coal and biomass. 90% of all chemical processes require catalysts.
The catalyst AmoMax®-10 helps reduce CO2 emissions and improve efficiency with regards to the manufacture of fertilizers.
The Business Area Natural Resources comprises Oil & Mining Services and Functional Minerals. Oil & Mining Services supports customers on step change innovative solutions that ensures that oil and mining companies alike can produce more efficiently, economically and sustainably. Functional Minerals offers products and solutions for industrial manufacturing and purification processes, as in the refining of edible oils and metal casting.
Clariant helps to drastically reduce emissions in foundries with LE Technology.
The Business Area Plastics & Coatings comprises the Business Units Additives, Masterbatches and Pigments. This Business Area develops products for customers in diverse industries – from the packaging industry to the electrical and electronics industry to the paint and coatings industry.
A typical application example of Easy Dispersible (ED) pigments are road markings.
In 2013 Clariant adjusted its reporting segments and grouped its businesses with similar end-user markets and growth drivers. Today, the company reports in four distinct Business Areas: Care Chemicals, Catalysis, Natural Resources, and Plastics & Coatings.
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EBITDA
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.
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Executive committee
Management body of joint stock companies; at Clariant the Executive Committee currently comprises four members.
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Business area
In 2013 Clariant adjusted its reporting segments and grouped its businesses with similar end-user markets and growth drivers. Today, the company reports in four distinct Business Areas: Care Chemicals, Catalysis, Natural Resources, and Plastics & Coatings.
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Catalyst
A substance that lowers the activation energy, thereby increasing the rate of a chemical reaction without being consumed by the reaction itself (Clariant Business Unit Catalysts).
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Additive
A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives).
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Masterbatches
These are plastic additives in the form of granules with dyestuffs or other additives used to dye or alter the properties of natural plastic.
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Pigment
Pigments are substances used for coloring; they are used in a technical manner, for example in the manufacture of dyes, varnishes, and plastics.
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