Clariant

The company has grown out of the Sandoz Chemicals division, which was floated on the stock market as a spin-off in the summer of 1995, and the Hoechst specialty chemicals businesses, integrated in the summer of 1997. The products and services of the six divisions: process and performance products, pigments and additives, masterbatches, surfactants, fine chemicals and cellulose ethers and polymerisates are based on specialty chemicals.