Companies
Clariant
Clariant, headquartered in Muttenz, Switzerland, is a specialty chemicals company serving industries from personal care and mining to oil refining and electronic materials, with products including functional minerals, sorbents, flame retardants, and high-performance masterbatches for polymers. Its catalysis business develops industrial catalysts for ethylene oxide, methanol synthesis, and Fischer-Tropsch processes in collaboration with academic chemistry departments globally. Clariant's Innovation Centre in Munich and the Catalyst Research Institute in Frankfurt are hubs for co-development with university partners. The BiomassToPower project and the Sunliquid cellulosic ethanol technology were partly developed with academic collaborators. Clariant's Additives division also supplies the fluorescent whitening agents and UV-absorbers widely used in academic photochemistry and polymer-degradation research.
Details
- Industry
- Specialty Chemicals
- R&D Spend
- $290M (2023)