Cognis - Global, dynamic, successful

How can a delicious sandwich spread help to lower your cholesterol level? How can you apply sun cream without touching it? Or, how can you use palm kernel oil to drill for petroleum?

The answer is: With our exciting, versatile products. Cognis products are encountered everywhere, in jeans, the bathroom, or the car. As powerful, ecocompatible actives and ingredients, they make your day-to-day life more pleasant.

Specialty chemicals from Cognis are an integral part of numerous brand products for the modern wellness, nutrition and health markets.

As raw materials and active ingredients from natural sources, they are used as successfully worldwide by renowned manufacturers in the detergents and cleaners industry as in cosmetics, foods, or health products, but also in industrial markets such as paints and coatings, plant protection, or high-tech textiles. Cognis offers its customers solutions that generate true added value, from overall marketing concepts to ready-to-market products.

With its formulation know-how and knowledge regarding trends and markets, Cognis develops innovative products like the first sprayable sun lotion, margarine whose added sterols lowers cholesterol levels, and care-providing microcapsules in textiles.

Cognis, one of the world’s leading specialty chemical companies, believes in the logic of nature: It uses renewable resources to produce high-performance products in harmony with mankind and the environment.

Sound exciting? It is.