Five months after announcing its intention to buy up specialist chemicals provider Cognis, BASF has been given the all clear for the acquisition from the European Commission.
Ingredients provider Cognis has announced a big rise in sales, driven mainly by its Care Chemicals division, a result that underlines the recovery in the global personal care segment.
Cognis claims to have steered a steady course through last year’s economic upheaval. But despite a return to profitability, the downturn took its toll on sales of its care, nutrition and health ingredients.
Specialty ingredients supplier, Cognis, has announced it now offers 63 products certified by the Natural Products Association (NPA) as natural ingredients.
Cognis Care Chemical has chosen the recent IFSCC congress in Barcelona to unveil a number of new ingredients, including natural, active and eco-friendly offerings.
Cognis Nutrition and Health is combining three of its ingredients
in a novel way to target the European skin care market with,
initially, functional beverages.
Following the growing consumer need for products that are both kind
to the environment and the user, Cognis, the global supplier of
chemicals and nutritional ingredients, has introduced a number of
new cosmetic ranges including Plantapon,...
Germany-based Cognis has acquired UK polymer specialist Cosmetic
Rheologies, a move that enhances its position as a full-range
specialties supplier to the cosmetics industry.
Cognis has unveiled two innovations aimed at the wellness trend for
the personal care category at the 52nd SEPAWA congress, held in
Germany last week. The new ideas focus on providing personal care
products that provide both sensorial...
Sales of care chemicals were up 3 per cent in the first half of
this year at German company Cognis, which said the increase to €577
million was driven largely by the skin care and fatty alcohol
businesses.
Speciality chemicals company Cognis has launched the next
generation of its product concept for skin care - the Polymoist
Mask based on the active ingredient collagen. Using a refined
technology, the company asserts that the new mask...
