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. Using our  “Strategy Nature”, we are constantly creating innovative, intelligent products and solutions that enable our customers to develop new and high-growth markets with viable prospects of sustainable success.

Industrial users and end consumers are increasingly calling for ecologically acceptable products. Legislators worldwide are also tightening environmental regulations. Sustainability as a product characteristic has long been a competitive factor. With longstanding experience in the processing of natural raw materials into high-performance specialty chemicals, we translate market demands into opportunities for our customers at an early stage. Superior products, optimized by Cognis know-how, enable them to benefit from the sustainability trend, – in many cases ahead of the field.

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. And: Behind our ecologically and toxicologically safeguarded concepts lies the know-how of a worldwide leader in the supply of specialty chemicals.

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