Kemira Specialty
Kemira Specialty is the leading expert in specialty chemicals in selected customer segments, serving customers in a wide array of industries, such as the paints, cosmetics, packaging inks, feed and food industries, through its customer-driven solutions.
Kemira Specialty's global market is approximately EUR 5.5 billion, with a growth of approximately 200 MEUR annually (Kemira’s projection). Kemira Specialty's share of Kemira’s revenue was 15% in year 2007.
Consumers in Contact with Our Know-how
Our key products include titanium dioxide pigments, organic acids and acid derivatives as well as bleaching chemicals for detergents. When you apply sunscreen that protects you from UV radiation or put on some shiny lipstick, a white shirt or a soft leather jacket, you literally come in contact with our know-how.
Active Involvement in Emerging Markets
The markets for our products are global: therefore, we are actively involved in the emerging markets, too. We are especially focusing and committing to serve the growing Asian food and feed industries with our calcium propionate based solutions including planned investments to sales and manufacturing capacity in China. This supports our goal of becoming the leading solution provider for the food and feed industries and it will enable us to provide even better service for our customers worldwide.
Our objective is to retain our leadership in selected customer segments for specialty products through organic growth and profitability improvement. The extremely high quality of our products gives us a competitive advantage in many product groups.
Close Cooperation with Customers
We serve customers in the cosmetics, packaging inks, paint, environment, food, feed, chemical, pharmaceutical and detergent industries by delivering customer-driven solutions and high quality products. Focus on selected customer segments means better profitability and enables close cooperation with customers.
Our innovativeness and strong expertise in applications set us apart from competitors and deliver added value to customers. We offer customers access to our strong technical expertise, and we work together with customers to either identify the most suitable products or develop entirely new solutions.
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During winter, ice and snow pose a safety risk in traffic. Our products are used at airports and on roads to improve safety and traffic flow by removing ice and snow.
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We offer new products and concepts for the cosmetics and personal care industry. Dedicated to working with our customers, our tailor-made products are designed to meet specific marketing and formulating needs.
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We provide bleaching and builder solutions for cleaners, laundry detergents and automatic dishwashing products to support effective and ecological cleaning.
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As a leading global producer of organic acids and salts of acids, we offer a complete portfolio of high quality, organic acid based products providing creative solutions for animal feed.
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We offer the food industry a range of organic salts, blends and food emulsifiers as well as tailored specialty products for applications in the bakery, meat, beverage and dairy sectors.
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Pharmaceutical intermediate producers, and diabetes medication manufacturers, as well as dialysate providers rely on our high quality products, such as formic acid, formamide and acetates.
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For the packaging inks industry, we offer increased visual value. Titanium dioxide, TiO2, is the most widely used white pigment in packaging ink applications, because it provides the best hiding power.
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For paint producers, we offer easy and cost-efficient paint production with a wide selection of high-quality TiO2 pigments for decorative paints and industrial coatings. We provide pigments also for other applications.
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Ferrous Sulphate is used for Environmental Solutions; as an additive in cement, as coagulant in waste water, as an iron source for animals in feed premix, and as an essential trace element for plants in fertilizers.
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We offer formic acid for the production of soft, top quality leather. It is used in various processes, especially in pickling, deliming and tanning; it promotes the even absorption and fixation of the dye, and helps to keep the leather free from harmful microbes.
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We offer formic acid for the production of high quality rubber from the naturally obtained raw material, especially when high elasticity of the final product is required (gloves, rubber bands, toys, adhesives for carpets).
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