»The Business Area Natural Resources creates special chemicals which help to keep the global economic engine fueled.«
Oil and gas recovery
Deepwater (chemical) technologies
Corrosion management systems
Additives for diesel, home heating oil and biofuels
Edible oil purification
The longer-term outlook for energy demand remains high and forecasts a narrowing of the supply-demand balance and the continued rise in the demand for hydrocarbon and metal ore-based materials with the global demand for oil increasing over the next 20 years. The oil and mining industries remain committed to ensuring that supply is maintained to meet the future demand. The Business Area Natural Resources is focused on step change innovative solutions that ensure that oil and mining companies alike can produce more efficiently, economically and sustainably.
The management of the Business Area Natural Resources aims to achieve sales growth of 6% to 7% and an increase in EBITDA margins before exceptional items of 15% to 17%. With Oil & Mining Services and Functional Minerals, Natural Resources brings together two complimentary business units under one roof.
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Progressive industrialization has led to significant environmental pollution in many places. The public demands massive environmental precautions to counteract this promptly. With Ecosil® LE (Low Emission), Clariant provides the possibility to reduce the generation of harmful emissions in the foundry industry by up to 80%. This creates value for the environment and Clariant’s customers.
Clariant provides the option to reduce the possibility of harmful emissions in the foundry industry by up to 80%
Bentonite is a mix of various clay minerals and is characterized by an especially high ability to absorb water, a high swellability, and thus a good bonding capacity for heavy metals and toxic substances, for example.
Areas of application for bentonie-based additives: Civil engineering, drilling, metal casting, ceramics, detergents, papermaking, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, feed, edible oil purification
Thomas Engelhardt
Lab Head Application Development EMEA and
inventor of the LE Technology
»Our customers have monetary benefits.«
Early on, we began by analyzing where the most harmful substances were created in the foundry process and how they could be avoided. What we discovered is that the green sand from which the molds are made for the foundry process can be manufactured in a much more environmentally compatible and efficient manner with special bentonite-based additives.
The foundry process is conducted at temperatures of up to 1 500°C and in doing so, produces a variety of BTEX1 emissions, which are all considered to be carcinogenic. These harmful emissions can be reduced by more than 80% when using bentonite-based LE additives.
In addition to the environmental factor, our customers benefit from increased efficiency in the production process, improved product quality and less waste. Those are monetary benefits.
Ecosil® LE meets the requirements of Clariant EcoTain® product screening and was given the label for outstanding sustainability properties.
Ecotain products Ecosil® LE Discover Value storyBentonite based additives are applied in the manufacturing of casting molds and help foundries to reduce more than 80% of emissions and at the same time substantially increase productivity.
Less waste
Less waste
Improved product quality
Improved product quality
Reduced use of resources
Significantly lower emissions
With HOSTAFRAC® SF 13213, Clariant has achieved a technological breakthrough to extract shale oil in an environmentally acceptable and highly efficient manner using hydraulic fracturing. Extensive testing in direct collaboration with the end-user customer showed that enhanced flow back of the hydraulic fracture fluid could be achieved when using HOSTAFRAC® SF 13213 when compared to other commonly used flow-back aids.
This is achieved by reducing the capillary forces between the grains of rock in the reservoir using the sugar-based surfactant, thereby enabling an increase in the flow rate and speed of well clean-up. The product meets the rigorous sustainability criteria for the Clariant EcoTain® label.
87%
of the fracturing fluid used can be recovered
40%
or more increase in production can be realized
~33%
less chemicals needed to achieve the same performance
Mining Services has developed an emulsifier technology allowing the use of low grade ammonium nitrates (AN) for explosive emulsion producers; providing a significant cost reduction and operational flexibility. This technology provides excellent stability of emulsions made with low grade ammonium nitrites with high crystal modifiers content. For producers not fully integrated in AN production this product provides superior performance and cost savings in the field. Additionally, this innovative product can be used with a wide range of AN grades, providing significantly improved operational flexibility.
»For us, Indonesia is an ideal location to benefit from the forecasted growth in the Southeast Asia-Pacific region.«
