Business Units
In addition to offering customers with innovative solutions and technologies that respect the environment and community where it is present, Cognis operates in well-defined areas, particularly choosing the use of renewable and biodegradable raw materials and searching, continually, for new natural-source ingredients.
Our Strategic Business Units are:
Care Chemicals
This unit has hair, skin and body care products in addition to detergents and household and industrial cleaners. Its lasting goal is to offer innovative solutions that bring competitive advantages for its customers.
- Hair / Body / Oral Care
- Skin Care
- Home Care
- Industrial & Institutional Cleaning
Functional Products
Aware of today’s main demands, Cognis offers solutions focused on agriculture, coatings and inks, lubricants and mining, adapted to the ecological compatibility, credibility of use, consumer safety and the achievement of excellent performance.
Surfactants for industrial applications and in agriculture.
- Additives for plant protection
- Additives for coatings and inks
- Dimer and Polyamides
- UV acrylates and specialty in methacrylates
- Esters for cooling
- Compound lubricants
- Polyalkylene-glycols
- Mining chemistry for metal extraction
- Ion-transfer technology
Nutrition & Health
Specialized in natural functional ingredients which provide health and wellbeing, this unit develops products with the concept of functionality and convenience providing the bases for semi-elaborate food, additives and dietary supplements, as well as solutions for the pharmaceutical industry.
- Functional Food
- Food Technology
- Dietary Supplements
- Pharmaceutical Products and Medical Nutrition