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Added value for customers means to offer tailored solutions with outstanding performance features.

Tailor-made Solutions

  • GLUCAMIDES

  • CATALYSTS

  • HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

  • BENTONITE

  • LICOCENE

  • PIGMENTS

  • HEALTHCARE AND PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING

  • GLUCAMIDES

    Innovative agents from sustainable raw materials

    The surfactants from palm oil developed by Clariant not only have excellent product characteristics, but their raw materials are also certified for their sustainability according to RSPO. Clariant aspires to organize and certify the locations by 2020 in such a way that the complete separation of certified and non-certified palm-oil-based raw materials can be ensured. This also allows us to meet the requirements of customers who increasingly request certified products. With the sustainable surfactant technology of GlucoTain®, a relatively low-cost product is available that carries the EcoTain® label thanks to its outstanding sustainability profile.

  • CATALYSTS

    Combat harmful emissions

    Options exist for removing laughing gas (N2O reduction) from nitric acid production processes. The most effective and efficient method for use in large production plants for nitric acid is the tertiary method – which also removes nitrogen oxide (NOx). For this, Clariant offers EnviCat® N2O. And with the recently developed EnviCat® N2O-S, Clariant offers a catalyst for plants of any size to remove nitrous oxides in the secondary stage of chemical production.

    Significant reduction of nitrous oxide

    EnviCat® N2O reduces the nitrous oxide emissions of a nitric acid plant by more than 90%. With this concept, Clariant reduces the global emissions of CO2 equivalents by approximately 12 million metric tons per year, which corresponds nearly to the amount of greenhouse gas emissions of four million cars per year. With the evolution of EnviCat® N2O, this reduction continues to reduce.

  • HYDRAULIC FRACTURING

    Environmentally compatible

    Clariant offers customers innovative technologies that are more efficient and environmentally compatible. HOSTAFRAC™ is an innovative sugar-based surfactant sourced from natural renewable raw materials and is non-toxic. HOSTAFRAC™ was awarded the EcoTain® label due to its leading sustainability profile.

    HOSTAFRAC™ is applied to improve the efficiency of both pre-flush and flow-back applications for hydraulic fracturing. Flow-back is a key process in bringing an oil or gas well onto production following fracturing. HOSTAFRAC™ is a proven technology that has greatly improved the rate and volume of the fracturing fluids to surface allowing the well to produce more efficiently, and enabling greater volumes of the water that is flowed back to surface to be re-used for other fracturing applications.

    An example of where HOSTAFRAC™ has been proven to be beneficial is in the replacement of 2-butoxyethanol (2-BE). Significant value was added to the customer through a significant increase in gas production as compared to the more conventional technology, 2-butoxyethanol (2-BE). A yield of 11 million m3 of gas was achieved within 145 days in wells pretreated with 2-BE. In wells pretreated with HOSTAFRAC™ the yield in this period was 16 million m3 of gas, which represents an increase of over 40% with an otherwise identical use of resource.

  • BENTONITE

    A natural all-purpose raw material

    Bentonite has a wide range of applications. For example, Clariant is a market leader in bleaching earth (TONSIL®) for the purification of edible oils. These bentonite products prevent undesirable impacts on odor or taste and remove impurities from fats or vegetable oils that are used in the food industry.

    In food processing, bentonite serves as a natural clarification aid for beverages (for the removal of haze in wine or fruit juice) or visual improvement of fatty products. With Clariant bleaching earth, the raw material for the production of biofuels is purified, thereby increasing its productivity.

    Bentonite can also be used as a desiccant for export packaging (Desi Pak®). For containerized goods Container Dri® II is basically the gold standard in the international transport of goods for the safe use against moisture, humidity and the resulting infestation of mold.

  • LICOCENE

    Enable better recycling

    CLOSING LIFE-CYCLES

    90 %

    of all chemicals currently produced could even be made with bio-based materials

    With regard to transport and mobility, two aspects play an important role: Means of transportation must always be lighter (lower fuel consumption) with the same functionality and performance and their material balance for manufacturing and recycling must continuously improve. One aspect of this is the use of carpets in cars, trains, ships or aircraft. Textiles that are glued with latex-based adhesives can no longer be separated at the end of product life-cycle – which makes separation for recycling impossible.

    The use of polypropylene instead of latex allows the production of 100% thermoplastic based textiles which doesn’t need to be seperated for recycling. Licocene® of Clariant has considerable advantages, even during processing by the customer. While the conventional methods – water-based latex dispersions and hot gluing technology with formulated polymers and adhesives – are certainly relatively inexpensive in the use of materials, they either require large equipment and large quantities of water and they release volatile organic compounds (VOCs), or they only have limited chemical, mechanical and thermal resistance – which can cause yellowish discoloration of the adhesive as well as unpleasant odor during processing and in the finished product. In both processes, the carpets cannot be recycled into their textile components. Expecially coated carpets cannot be recycled economically, so they get incinerated.

    Licocene® Performance Polymers have clear advantages in these points: Superior mechanical strength combined with easy malleability. Licocene® is tailor-made according to customers’ wishes because its properties, such as hardness, melting point, transparency and viscosity, can be selectively adjusted. The low melting point of Licocene® and its viscosity enable optimum processing at lower temperatures and a lower dosage compared to other adhesives. In carpet manufacturing – as well as later when the carpet is installed in the vehicle – Licocene® is liquefied at about 80°C and applied to the carrier material with the woven fibers.

  • PIGMENTS

    Pink going green

    Clariant is working to use renewable raw materials in production wherever this is possible and useful. The demand from downstream users is certainly there; the desire to be more sustainable is increasing. Clariant wants to develop a unique selling proposition in the pigment production market with this strategy. However, the prerequisite is that pigments must be able to provide the same performance without compromising on economic viability. Because even if sustainability is welcomed, industrial customers as well as consumers often remain price-sensitive.

    Assuming efficiency in the production and processing, bio-succinic acid is very attractive not only from an ecological standpoint, but also from an economic perspective. By 2020, it is expected that approximately 20% of the chemicals currently produced will be made from bio-based materials. Theoretically, more than 90% of all chemicals currently produced could even be made with bio-based materials.

    Still no colorant directly from nature

    Extracting natural directly from nature, such as chlorophyll for green colors or iron oxide for red colors, is practically impossible even today, although there are some dyes and pigments from natural resources that are already in use. However, these products are not suitable for bright and chromatic colors in the most diverse applications. They do not meet the high-performance standards required in the market, such as in the architectural or automotive industry. Optimized pigments are needed here to meet the expectations for shelf-life and provide constant dye tones over a longer period of time.

  • HEALTHCARE AND PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING

    Packaging as high-tech products

    Healthcare and pharmaceutical solutions have arisen mainly as a result of close contact and a lively exchange between all participants – Clariant employees from Research & Development, Production, Sales, Customer Service on the one hand and the customers’ experts on the other. This has made a proposition of precisely targeted product solutions for the medical and pharmaceutical fields possible in the design phase.

    Clariant dedicates itself to high product quality and consistent customer service, Clariant provides full, seamless documentation to certify that its products meet or exceed product specifications and all relevant standards.

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

Compliance

Compliance is a key element of Corporate Governance. It refers to compliance with the law and directives as well as with voluntary codes within the company. VIEW ENTIRE GLOSSARY