Industry ingredients
The best of nature
Plant-based. Bio-sourced. Renewable. Together with our customers, we're formulating a more sustainable future for ingredients – powered by our 2020 acquisition of Les Dérivés Résiniques et Terpéniques (DRT).
DRT is a world leader in plant chemistry, developing renewable pine-based ingredients that enable the design of sustainable solutions with no compromise on performance. Now, with DRT's incredible capabilities on board at dsm-firmenich Perfumery & Beauty, we're right at the forefront of renewable and naturally derived ingredients. In turn, we're not only reinforcing our leadership in perfumery, but also adding new strengths in health, nutrition, and industrial markets.
Enhancing well-being, naturally
Day in, day out, we're working to support the development of beauty, health, and nutrition products that meet consumers' growing demand for healthier lifestyles.
Beverages
From fruit drinks and sodas to energy drinks and beyond, our high-quality wood rosin resins are used as weighting and opacifying agents to enhance the texture and stability of all kinds of beverages – while complying with all food safety standards and health regulations.
Health and beauty
Our natural, highly purified pine-bark and grape-seed extracts bring proven cardiovascular, venotonic, antioxidant, and anti-aging properties – ideal for applications across health, well-being, nutricosmetics, dermocosmetics, and more.
Personal care
Many leading brands choose our non-allergenic plant-based resins to design premium personal care products, particularly for topical use. In fact, plenty of our high-performance solutions have their origins in our long-term partnerships with customers' R&D teams.
Chewing gum
We offer the widest range of plant-based resins for use in gum base formulations, helping to improve the all-important mouthfeel, chewability, and taste. Suitable for sugar-free formulations, our solutions comply with the highest safety and quality standards.
Supporting green industry initiatives
Using bio-sourced ingredients designed in a responsible way, we empower industrial customers to practice a more sustainable chemistry and reduce their environmental footprint.
Adhesives
We develop a wide range of tackifying resins to address emerging challenges in the adhesives industry. All our ingredients are high performing, safe, and sustainable – and suitable for today's increasingly specialized applications and technologies.
Tires
Our bio-sourced tackifying resins are designed to enhance tire performance: optimizing and improving grip and tread performance while also reducing vehicle fuel consumption.
Coatings and construction
Sustainability is a major challenge in the construction industry. And that's where our proven, highly efficient, green solutions come in. Designed for applications including air-entrained concrete and mortar, our ingredients offer exceptional properties as anionic emulsifiers for asphalt and bitumen for road and roof repairs.
Elastomers and plastics modification
Our exclusive bio-sourced rosin resins and soaps offer sustainable alternatives to hydrocarbon, whether in modifying plastics and rubbers or in creating polymers for other uses.
Agriculture
We develop eco-friendly solutions to support sustainable agriculture, such as by enhancing film forming and adjuvant retention for more effective crop treatments – all compatible with organic farming practices.
Energy
Our bioliquids provide renewable alternatives to heavy fuel or mineral oils. Proven to reduce fossil resource consumption and related combustion emissions across many applications, they're stable, compatible, and miscible with most oils.
“Our bio-sourced ingredients enable industries to design high-quality products, driving sustainable growth and innovation for a lasting positive impact on the planet and people.”
Loïc Mourey, Senior Director Sales Industry, Ingredients, P&B
Technology platforms
Green roads
Our experts develop sustainable, high-performance industrial products that help mitigate the environmental impacts of road infrastructure while also improving user safety and comfort. Together with our customers, we create tailored solutions for innovative asphalts and road markings.
New technologies
Using our extensive experience in bio-sourced ingredients, we focus on delivering innovative, eco-friendly solutions for new technologies that can make electronics greener.
Homes of the future
As the construction industry increasingly turns to green building materials, we're accelerating the transition – by developing sustainable solutions for paints, waterproofing, insulation, and concrete. In turn, we're helping reduce building's environmental footprint and energy consumption.
Fragrances and health
We develop plant-based terpenes with natural optical activity that's hard to obtain through conventional synthesis. By achieving specific olfactive performance across a wide range of pharmaceutical applications, our unique ingredients enable customer innovation and improve consumer well-being.