| Profile | The three businesses of the Textile, Leather and Paper Chemicals division are passionate about fashion, leather, and paper and provide functionality and aesthetics for more quality of life.
Our Textile Business supplies chemicals and dyes to enhance the properties of clothing and textiles in applications as diverse as high fashion, construction, and fabrics for the home.
Whether it's the high-tech material you choose for your car seats, shoes, bags, or fashionable clothes that define you as an individual, our Leather Business is dedicated to enhancing the comfort that this versatile natural product brings to your life.
With our broad range of innovative chemicals and colorants, Clariant's Paper Business gives strength to cardboard, texture to luxury packaging, whiteness to stationery, color to napkins and longer life to laminated paper. |  |
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| Businesses | Textile
Leather
Paper |
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| Markets | Textile
- Apparel such as casual wear, sportswear, denim, business and work wear
- Non-apparel such as towels, upholstery, fabrics, vertical blinds, mattress ticking
- Technical textiles such as medical garments, glass grid fabrics, textiles for cars, planes and ships
Leather
- Shoes, garments and clothing
- Automotive
- Furniture and upholstery
- Accessories and fancy goods
Paper
- Coated paper
- Uncoated wood-free, high-yield/recycled
- Tissue and toweling
- Packaging and board
- Specialties and non-wovens
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| Products & Services | Textile
Dyestuffs: Cellulosic dyes (e.g. DRIMAREN®), Polyester dyes (e.g. FORON®), Wool and Nylon dyes like NYLOSAN® or LANASYN®), Polyester/Wool dyes (e.g. FOROSYN®), Printing pigments (e.g. PRINTOFIX®).
Dye chemicals: Pretreatment (e.g. AFILAN® ), finishing such as PEKOFLAM® or NUVA®
Leather: Leather chemicals for tanning, dyeing and finishing such as MELIO®, DERMA®, MELIODERM® or AQUALEN®, as well as customized technical solutions. MELIO® Foam for upgrading of leather.
Paper: Anionic direct (CARTASOL® F and CARTA®) and cationic direct (Cartasol K) and modified basic (Cartasol M) liquid dyes, pigment products (CARTAREN®, FLEXONYL® LAP and HOSTATINT®), sulfur dyes (DIRESUL® P), optical brighteners (LEUCOPHOR®) with innovative solutions for urea-free coating applications, coating/impregnation binders (CARTACOAT® B), rheology modifiers (Cartacoat RM), grease resistance (CARTAFLUOR® CFI), barrier coating additives (CARTAPACK®, without fluorochemicals), deposit control agents (CARTAFIX®, CARTASPERS®), fiber activation & retention (CARTAFEN®, CARTARETIN®) |
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| Address | Textile, Leather & Paper Chemicals Division
Rothausstrasse 61
CH-4132 Muttenz
Switzerland |
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| Key Figures | |
Sales 2007
EBITDA 2007
EBITDA-margin | CHF 2 332 mn
CHF 213 mn
9.3% |
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| Contacts | Textile
www.textiles.clariant.com
Contact us
Paper:
www.paper.clariant.com
Contact us
Leather:
www.leather.clariant.com
Contact us |