Products and investments
Products, customers and applications |
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Division |
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Products |
Customer industries and applications |
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Dispersions & Pigments |
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Polymer dispersions, pigments, resins, high-performance additives, formulation additives |
Printing and packaging industry, adhesives industry, plastics processing industry, products for construction chemicals, raw materials for paints and coatings, paper industry, specialties for the electronics and other industries |
Care Chemicals |
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Ingredients for skin and hair cleansing and care products, such as emollients, cosmetic active ingredients, polymers and UV filters Ingredients for detergents and cleaners in household, institution or industry, such as surfactants, chelating agents, polymers, biocides and products for optical effects Solvents for crop protection product formulations and products for metal surface treatments Superabsorbents for baby diapers, adult incontinence products and feminine hygiene articles |
Cosmetics industry, hygiene industry, detergents and cleaners industry, agricultural industry and technical applications |
Nutrition & Health |
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Additives for the food and feed industries, such as vitamins, carotenoids, sterols, enzymes, emulsifiers and omega-3 fatty acids Flavors and fragrances, such as geraniol, citronellol, L-menthol and linalool Excipients for the pharmaceutical industry and selected, high-volume active ingredients, such as ibuprofen and omega-3 fatty acids |
Food and feed industries, flavor and fragrance industry and pharmaceutical industry |
Performance Chemicals |
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Antioxidants, light stabilizers, pigments and flame retardants for plastic applications Fuel and refinery additives, polyisobutene, brake fluids and engine coolants, lubricant additives and basestocks, components for metalworking fluids and compounded lubricants Process chemicals for the extraction of oil, gas, metals and minerals, chemicals for enhanced oil recovery, water treatment chemicals, membrane technologies Auxiliaries for the production and treatment of leather and textiles Functional and process chemicals for the production of paper and cardboard, kaolin minerals |
Plastics processing industry, automotive industry, fuel and lubricant industry, oil and gas industry, mining industry, municipal and industrial water treatment, leather industry as well as paper industry and packaging made of paper |
Production capacities of significant products1 |
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Europe |
North America |
Asia Pacific |
South America, Africa, Middle East |
Annual capacity (metric tons) |
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Anionic surfactants |
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600,000 |
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Citral |
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40,000 |
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Chelating agents |
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>120,000 |
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Methane sulfonic acid |
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30,000 |
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Nonionic surfactants |
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630,000 |
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Organic pigments |
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n/a |
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Polyisobutene |
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215,000 |
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Superabsorbents |
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590,000 |
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Capital expenditures |
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Location |
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Project |
Startup |
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Antwerp, Belgium |
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Modification for new superabsorbent technology platform |
2016 |
Besigheim, Germany |
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Expansion: bismuth vanadate pigments |
2017 |
Camaçari, Brazil |
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Construction: superabsorbents |
2015 |
Cork, Ireland |
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Expansion: process chemicals for mining industry (LIX®) |
2015 |
Kuantan, Malaysia |
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Construction: aroma chemicals |
2016 |
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Construction: polyisobutene |
2017 |
Ludwigshafen, Germany |
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Expansion: lubricants |
2016 |
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Expansion: resins |
2016 |
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Expansion: Paliocrom® pigments |
2016 |
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Expansion: vinyl formamide |
2017 |
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Expansion: polyvinylpyrrolidone |
2017 |
Pasir Gudang, Malaysia |
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Construction: dispersions |
2015 |
Shanghai, China |
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Modification: polyvinylpyrrolidone |
2016 |
Theodore, Alabama |
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Construction: chelating agents |
2015 |