Industrial Specialities

Croda's Industrial Specialities sector consists of: Home Care, and the additive businesses of: Lubricants, Polymers, and Coatings.

Croda Home Care is a world leader providing natural speciality ingredients for home care and tissue, car care, and industrial and institutional (I&I) applications. From powerful wetting, dispersing and foaming performance, to gentle cleaning and skin mildness. Our products are based largely on natural and renewable resources.

Croda Process Additives offers fatty acids, and glycerine, as well as more specialised oleochemical products to a diverse range of markets including home care, surfactants, rubber, paper, and other industrial applications.

Croda Lubricant Additives offers a unique global range of speciality products designed to deliver superior performance to formulators in the automotive and industrial lubricant markets.

Croda Geo Technologies encompasses the business sectors of oilfield, mining and water treatment. By applying our extensive knowledge of emulsification and demulsification we are able to create novel solutions for our customers across all three market areas.

Croda Polymer Additives is a world leader providing effects to a wide range of polymers used in today's plastics & packaging market. Our products are manufactured from natural and renewable raw materials with diverse applications in polyolefins, PVC, styrenics, polyamides and biopolymers.

Croda Coatings and Polymers offers environmental solutions to the resin manufacturers, formulators and additive producers through its range of natural, high performance oleochemicals and speciality surfactants.

Croda Textile and Fibre Finish offers total solutions for the manufacture & processing of all major fibres and popular textile substrates like cotton (including organic cotton), polyester, wool, acrylic, lycra, nylon & viscose yarn, knits, woven, terry towelling and technical textiles.

Croda Printing Inks includes products suitable for a wide range of printing ink types. Plasticisers, emulsiers and dispersion aids are vital adjuncts to any printing ink formula aiding flexibility, adhesion and consistency of the ink. Additives to aid fountain solutions and cleaning of screens, plates and rollers.

Croda technology delivers highly controlled product chemistry and fine particle size distributions to give the best possible processing and application performance in Thermal Paper coatings.