What is Clariant Specialty Chemicals?

Clariant is a global specialty chemical company that develops and supplies innovative, sustainable solutions to customers across many industries. Its stated focus areas are Care Chemicals, Natural Resources, Catalysis & Energy, and Plastics & Coatings. If you are trying to understand what the company does, whether it sells something relevant to your industry, or where to find products, news, and careers, the clariant.com homepage is the starting point — it organizes the site around "Find a product," "Find your industry," company performance, and open positions.

What Clariant does

Clariant describes itself as "one of the world's leading specialty chemical companies" contributing to value creation with innovative and sustainable solutions for customers from many industries. The business is grouped into four focus areas:

• Care Chemicals — includes personal care, home care, and health care topics (for example, preservation in baby care, wet wipes preservation, and excipients for medicine).
• Natural Resources — covers areas such as oil services, oil & gas, and mining (for example, hydrate management, corrosion in production environments, and copper supply for the energy transition).
• Catalysis & Energy — includes catalyst innovation and blue hydrogen.
• Plastics & Coatings — includes additives, flame retardants, and circular plastics.

What you can find on the website

The homepage is structured as a set of entry points rather than a single product catalog. The main navigation options shown are:

Featured topics

The homepage highlights a rotating set of themes and announcements, including:

• Flame retardants — "From e-mobility to data centers: Exolit™ OP flame retardants."
• Personal care preservation — formulation complexity in wet wipes and why cosmetic preservation has become a formulation game-changer.
• Health care — why excipients are described as "the unsung heroes of modern medicine."
• Oil services — redefining hydrate management with HYTREAT ECO.
• Oil & gas — corrosion in complex production environments.
• Additives — switching from fossil to renewable carbon in hot melt polymers, and why antimony no longer works for modern adhesives.
• Sustainability — enabling circular plastics, blue hydrogen as a route to a low-carbon economy, and A-List recognition from CDP.
• Events — for example, meeting Clariant at SEPAWA 2026 and beauty innovations at in-cosmetics.

Company performance and careers

The "How do we perform?" section links to financial results — the homepage references Q2 2026 results and describes Clariant as delivering "continued strong results in volatile operating environment" — and displays a share price widget with last refresh time, value, currency, and change. The "How can I join?" section links to open positions, filterable by country, and to a careers page describing a culture of possibilities.

When this page is useful to you

• You want a quick orientation to Clariant's business areas before searching for a specific product.
• You work in one of the served industries (personal care, home care, health care, oil & gas, mining, plastics, coatings, adhesives) and want to see whether Clariant addresses your problem.
• You are looking for company news, sustainability positioning, or financial results.
• You are researching the company as a potential employer.

Note that the homepage is a gateway, not a full catalog: to evaluate a specific product you will need to go through "Find a product" or "Find your industry." Pricing and purchasing details are not shown on the homepage, so treat it as an information and navigation entry point rather than a storefront.