Products and investments

Products, customers and applications

Division

 

Products

Customer industries and applications

Dispersions & Pigments

 

Polymer dispersions, pigments, resins, high-performance additives, formulation additives, electronic materials

Raw materials used to formulate products for industries such as construction, automotive, adhesive, printing, packaging, electronics and paper

Care Chemicals

 

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, enzymes, chelating agents, polymers, biocides and products for optical effects

Solvents and other ingredients for crop protection product formulations, as well as products for concrete additives and chemical processes such as metal surface treatments or textile processing

Superabsorbents for baby diapers, incontinence products and feminine hygiene articles

Cosmetics industry, hygiene industry, detergent and cleaner industry, agricultural industry and technical applications

Nutrition & Health

 

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 pharmaceutical ingredients, such as ibuprofen and omega-3 fatty acids

Food and feed industries, flavor and fragrance industry and pharmaceutical industry

Performance Chemicals

 

Antioxidants, light stabilizers 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

Functional chemicals and process chemicals for the production of paper and cardboard, water treatment chemicals, membrane technologies, kaolin minerals

Plastics processing industry, automotive industry, fuel and lubricant industry, oil and gas industry, mining industry, municipal and industrial water treatment as well as paper industry and packaging made of paper

Production capacities of significant products1

 

 

Sites

 

Product

 

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

South America, Africa, Middle East

Annual capacity (metric tons)

1

All capacities are included at 100%, including plants belonging to joint operations and joint ventures.

Anionic surfactants

 

600,000

Citral

 

 

 

78,000

Chelating agents

 

 

170,000

Methane sulfonic acid

 

 

 

 

30,000

Nonionic surfactants

 

 

630,000

Polyisobutene

 

 

 

265,000

Superabsorbents

 

590,000

Investments

Location

 

Project

Startup

Antwerp, Belgium

 

Flexibilization: superabsorbent plant

2017

Besigheim, Germany

 

Expansion: production plant for bismuth vanadate pigments

2017

Kuantan, Malaysia

 

Construction: aroma ingredients complex

2017/2018

 

 

Construction: polyisobutene plant

2017

Ludwigshafen, Germany

 

Expansion: polyvinylpyrrolidone plant

2017

 

 

Expansion: production plant for resins (Basonat®)

2017

 

 

Expansion: production plant for dispersions

2018

 

 

Construction: production plant for vitamin A

2020

 

 

Construction: production plant for ibuprofen

2021

Nanjing, China

 

Construction: production plant for bio-acrylamide

2017

 

 

Expansion: polyacrylamide plant

2018

Shanghai, China

 

Construction: production plant for emollients and waxes

2017

 

 

Construction: production plant for plastic additives

2019