Whois & Analysis for clariant.com

Clariant is a 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.

In 2015, sales from continuing operations were 5.8 billion CHF.

Speciality chemicals (also called specialties or effect chemicals) are particular chemical products which provide a wide variety of effects on which many other industry sectors rely.

Some of the categories of speciality chemicals are adhesives, agrichemicals, cleaning materials, cosmetic additives, construction chemicals, elastomers, flavors, food additives, fragrances, industrial gases, lubricants, polymers, surfactants, and textile auxiliaries.

Other industrial sectors such as automobile, aerospace, food, cosmetics, agriculture, manufacturing, textile industries are highly dependent on such products.

Fine chemicals are complex, single, pure chemical substances, produced in limited quantities in multipurpose plants by multistep batch chemical or biotechnological processes.

They are described by exacting specifications, used for further processing within the chemical industry and sold for more than $10/kg (see the comparison of fine chemicals, commodities and specialties).

The class of fine chemicals is subdivided either on the basis of the added value (building blocks, advanced intermediates or active ingredients), or the type of business transaction, namely standard or exclusive products.

Amp Energy (or simply Amp) is an energy drink brand produced and owned by PepsiCo. At the time of its introduction in 2001, Amp Energy was initially distributed under the Mountain Dew soft drink brand.

Since 2009, it has been produced and labeled under its own stand-alone trademark name.

The beverage is packaged in both 16-ounce and 24-ounce cans, and is sold in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

As of 2009, Amp Energy was the number four energy drink brand in the U.S. in terms of overall retail sales.

Catalysis is the increase in the rate of a chemical reaction due to the participation of an additional substance called a catalyst.

In most cases, reactions occur faster with a catalyst because they require less activation energy.

Furthermore, since they are not consumed in the catalyzed reaction, catalysts can continue to act repeatedly.

Often only tiny amounts are required in principle.