Swiss specialty chemicals company Clariant (Muttenz, Switzerland), and its Healthcare Packaging unit, is launching a new and improved line of Aroma-Can canisters to enhance nutritional products by adding an enjoyable scent to product packaging.
The canisters are modeled after Clariant’s desiccant canisters for pharmaceutical and nutraceutical packaging and employ aroma technology that can give consumers a positive sensory experience when the packaging is open. The technology embeds food-grade flavors, such as vanilla, orange and lemon, directly into a plastic canister, which can be placed in easily into the container.
Release Date: 06/06/2016
About Clariant:
Clariant is a Swiss speciality chemicals company, formed in 1995 as a spin-off from Sandoz. The company is focused on four business areas: care chemicals (consumer and industrial); catalysis; natural resources (oil & mining, minerals); and plastics & coatings. Headquartered near Basel, Switzerland, the public company encompasses 110 operating companies in 53 countries. Major manufacturing sites are located in Europe, North America, South America, China and India.
Business
The company has a turnover of around US$8 billion and is headquartered in Muttenz with a corporate centre in Pratteln, both near Basel, Switzerland. Clariant manufactures a range of specialty chemicals based largely on pigment, surfactant and polymer chemistry.
The company expanded by the incorporation of the speciality chemicals business of Hoechst (Germany) in 1997 and the acquisition of British Tar Products (BTP plc) in 2000. In 2011 Clariant acquired German speciality chemical company Süd-Chemie.
Clariant’s largest business units make functional chemicals such as biocides, industrial ingredients, and detergents as well as chemicals and dyes for textiles, leather, and paper. Clariant’s other segments make pigments for inks, paints, and plastics and masterbatches, which are highly concentrated additives for plastics and textiles. It is also among the leading manufacturers of de-icing agents and flame retardants, and chemicals used in the oil & gas and mining industries. Active in 150 countries on five continents, Clariant is now focusing on its fast-growing fine and specialty chemicals and on expanding operations in Asia.
With its Head of Corporate Controlling, Stephan Lynen, the company pursues a rather minimalist finance approach. These days, the global business unit collects the financial data from the 11 business units and establishes a bottom-up objective—not a budget. This way, the company’s goals are more realistic and every incentive is bound to them.
The company is a supply of chemicals and colors for the textile, leather, paper, packaging, plastics, printing, oil & gas, detergent, mining, personal care and metalworking industries. In 2012 Clariant announced that it would divest its textile chemicals, emulsions and paper specialities businesses to SK Capital, its leather services to Stahl and detergents & intermediates business to Weylchem.
