Products for sustainable success

Sustainability as a competitive factor
Industrial users and end consumers are increasingly calling for ecologically acceptable products. Legislators worldwide are also tightening environmental and safety regulations. Sustainability as a product characteristic has long been a competitive factor. With long-standing experience in the processing of natural raw materials into high-performance specialty chemicals, we focus on degradable, sustainable and sound solutions without compromising in performance. Cognis is an expert, translating market demands into opportunities for our customers with minimum delay. Superior products, optimized by Cognis know-how, enable them to benefit from the sustainability trend – in many cases ahead of the field.

Innovation strength
With the innovation capabilities of a world market leader, Cognis is both harnessing and promoting the cross-industry trend toward biological and biotechnical production methods. Through our  "Strategy: Nature" approach, we are constantly creating high-performance and environmentally friendly products and solutions. They enable our customers to develop new and high-growth markets with viable prospects of sustainable success.

Ecological and toxicological safety
Global trends toward ecologically compatible manufacturing processes and toxicologically harmless applications are as much at the center of our market-oriented product development work as regionally aligned activities and customer-specific strategies. Moreover, behind our ecologically and toxicologically safeguarded concepts lies the know-how of a worldwide leader in the supply of specialty chemicals.

Get in pole position with Cognis
With complex formulations, sophisticated concepts and integrated services, Cognis offers its customers calculable value added. We provide our customers with particular advantages when it comes to aligning their own business activities to the future imperative of sustainable development.