Clariant focuses on enhancing the sustainability performance of its product portfolio and innovation pipeline through the holistic . This continuous improving of the sustainability performance results in benefits not only of the company, but also of customers and consumers, e.g via lower resource input, higher eco-efficency or performance advantages. Each has a number of proof points how with sustainable products added value is generated in this way.

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Strategic Approach at Product Level

  • BUSINESS UNIT INDUSTRIAL & CONSUMER SPECIALTIES

  • BUSINESS UNIT CATALYSTS

  • BUSINESS UNIT OIL & MINING SERVICES

  • BUSINESS UNIT FUNCTIONAL MINERALS

  • BUSINESS UNIT ADDITIVES

  • BUSINESS UNIT PIGMENTS

  • BUSINESS UNIT MASTERBATCHES

  • NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

  • BUSINESS UNIT INDUSTRIAL & CONSUMER SPECIALTIES

    Glucamides – all-purpose agents from sustainable raw materials

    The Industrial & Consumer Specialties is one of the largest suppliers of specialty chemicals and application solutions for the consumer goods sector (personal care, cleaning and crop protection, for example) and for the industrial sector (lubricants, for paints, coatings and de-icing fluids for the aviation industry, for example). Clariant intends to use more and more renewable raw materials as starting products in these product fields. These include, for example, glucamides made from palm oil or coconut oil. With this approach, Clariant is continuously expanding the product range of innovative sugar-based surfactants, in personal care products and cosmetics, among other areas.

  • BUSINESS UNIT CATALYSTS

    Catalysts combat harmful emissions

    The Catalysts is one of the world’s leading suppliers of catalysts. Catalysts initiate the acceleration, change or triggering of chemical reactions and processes. With catalysts, chemical processes are more efficient and less energy intensive. Clariant has developed numerous catalysts for various chemical and fuel-related processes – including applications for exhaust gas cleaning and the efficient use of alternative energies. These include EnviCat® and Zeolites.

  • BUSINESS UNIT OIL & MINING SERVICES

    Hydraulic fracturing – environmentally compatible

    The Oil & Mining Services is one of the most important suppliers of and services for the oil and gas sector as well as the refining and mining industries. Oil & Mining Services supports customers on game-changing innovation solutions that ensures oil and mining companies alike can produce more efficiently, economically and sustainably.

    For Oil Services the product range is broadly diversified with hydraulic fracturing being a focus for innovative chemical technologies that improve efficiency and have an excellent environmental profile.

  • BUSINESS UNIT FUNCTIONAL MINERALS

    Specialty chemicals based on bentonite

    The Functional Minerals is a market leader in bentonite-based specialty products and solutions to improve product properties for various industries. These include, for example: bleaching earths or for foundries; additives for fabric care, ceramics and paper making; materials for tunneling and civil engineering; and protective packaging. The key raw material for these solutions and products is always a natural clay material: bentonite.

  • BUSINESS UNIT ADDITIVES

    Innovative technology for better recycling

    The is a major supplier of flame retardants, polymer additives and waxes for plastics, coatings, printing inks and other special applications. As such, patented non-halogenated additives as flame retardants offer an environmentally compatible alternative to flame retardants made from bromine. Halogen-free are also very good for protection in housings of smartphones, tablets, plugs and circuit breakers.

    With the novel AddWorks® portfolio the Business Unit Additives offers customer specific tailor-made solutions for a broad spectrum of applications for a variety of sectors and industries like agriculture, automotive and transportation, electrical & electronics, construction, packaging as well as textile & fibers. For example Addworks® light stabilizer solutions enable to extend the lifetime of agricultural films, thus reducing material waste. The Clariant material Licocene® as a component of technical textiles, carpets and artificial turf facilitates the recycling of these products considerably and therefore makes them more sustainable.

  • BUSINESS UNIT PIGMENTS

    Pink going green

    The earns a leading position worldwide as a supplier of organic pigments, pigment preparations and colorants for coatings, printing inks, plastics and other special applications. Clariant is the first producer to offer high-performance quinacridone pigments based on bio-succinic acid, a renewable raw material.

  • BUSINESS UNIT MASTERBATCHES

    Packaging as high-tech products

    The is a leading manufacturer of and concentrates as well as technical compounds for the plastics industry, which also supplies the packaging, consumer goods, healthcare, textile and automobile sectors. Specially developed masterbatch concentrates and compound solutions are used in the medical device and pharmaceutical packaging fields to fulfill very important functions. For example, the packaging must protect the drug or device against light, moisture and oxygen, and materials should not have a negative interaction with the drug or the patient.

  • NEW BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

    Liquify the sun

    Biofuels made from agricultural residues play a key role in making mobility more sustainable worldwide. Clariant has developed the sunliquid® technology for the production of cellulosic ethanol and sugars.

    Using the sunliquid® process biofuels and bio-based chemicals made from agricultural residues such as straw are produced sustainably and economically without competing with food or feed production. These non-edible renewable raw materials accrue regionally as a by-product during agricultural practices and do not use additional agricultural land. The production of cellulosic ethanol is virtually CO2 neutral.

    In collaboration with Mercedes-Benz and Haltermann, Clariant has successfully tested a fuel of the future, sunliquid®20 – a premium-grade E20 blend that contains 20% cellulosic ethanol, in a fleet test with Mercedes-Benz series vehicles. The fuel shows excellent performance and sustainability properties: the cellulosic ethanol content exhibits particularly high greenhouse gas savings across the entire value chain and gives the fuel a high knock resistance with 100 octane (RON) and guarantees optimum efficiency. At the same time, particle emissions were reduced by 50%.

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Additive

A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Additive

A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Additive

A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Additive

A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Additive

A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Pigment

Pigments are substances used for coloring; they are used in a technical manner, for example in the manufacture of dyes, varnishes, and plastics (Clariant Business Unit Pigments). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Pigment

Pigments are substances used for coloring; they are used in a technical manner, for example in the manufacture of dyes, varnishes, and plastics (Clariant Business Unit Pigments). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Business unit

Clariant’s seven Business Units include: Additives; Catalysts; Functional Minerals; Industrial & Consumer Specialties; Oil & Mining Services; Pigments. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

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. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Pigment

Pigments are substances used for coloring; they are used in a technical manner, for example in the manufacture of dyes, varnishes, and plastics (Clariant Business Unit Pigments). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

Additive

A substance added to products in small quantities to achieve certain properties or to improve a product (Clariant Business Unit Additives). VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY

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