Products and Investments

Products, customers and applications

Division

Products

Customer industries and applications

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, water-soluble polymers, biocides and products for optical effects

Chemical ingredients and processing additives, for example for crop protection, excipients for chemical processes such as emulsion polymerization, metal surface treatments or textile processing, as well as products for concrete additives, biofuels and other industrial applications

Cosmetics industry, detergent and cleaner industry, agrochemical industry, technical applications for various industries

Nutrition & Health

Additives for the food and feed industries, such as vitamins, carotenoids, sterols, enzymes, emulsifiers, omega-3 fatty acids, human milk oligosaccharides

Industrial enzymes for bioethanol and food production

Natural and synthetic flavors and fragrances, such as citral, geraniol, citronellol, L-menthol and linalool, Isobionics® Santalol, valencene and nootkatone

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, pharmaceutical industry and bioethanol industry

Production capacities of selected productsa

 

Sites

 

Product

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

South America, Africa, Middle East

Annual capacity
(metric tons)

Anionic surfactants

600,000

Citral

 

 

78,000

Chelating agents

 

170,000

Methane sulfonic acid

 

 

 

30,000

Nonionic surfactants

 

635,000

a

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

Material investments

Location

Project

Startup

Antwerp, Belgium

Capacity expansion: alkoxylates

2018–2022

Bishop, Texas

Capacity expansion: production plant for ibuprofen

2020

Düsseldorf, Germany

Gradual upgrade of production plants in accordance with the Good Manufacturing Practice Standard issued by the European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients (EFfCI)

2022

Jinshan, China

Capacity expansion: alkoxylates

2020

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

New production line: UV filters

2022

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Capacity expansion: production plant for methane sulfonic acid

2021

Construction: production plant for vitamin A

2021