Fourteen application fields - one division
With industries as diverse as Personal Care, Metal Working, Crop Protection and Oil Services, the question is - what is common to all these markets?
- The ability to modify surfaces and interfaces is the key to solving our customers' needs.
- Our core competence is delivering this know-how to our customers.
- Functional Chemicals division has a fully integrated, market driven organization which links production, research & development and marketing in an effective manner which results in quick and innovative solutions to customers' problems.
The Functional Chemicals division offers its customers world-wide a broad range of surfactants and specialties. With production sites on five continents, Clariant's Functional Chemicals division is well positioned to face the growing globalization of markets.
An extract from the divisional facts & figures: global sales in 2005 were CHF 2,083 million with an EBITA of CHF 259 million.
The division's business principles are the leading guidelines of our business. They express the division's attitude towards important topics such as quality, ESHA (Environmental, Safety and Health Affairs) and its employees.