Clariant is a Swiss speciality chemical company which was formed in 1995 as a spin off from Sandoz. The company expanded by the incorporation of the speciality chemicals business of Hoechst (Germany) in 1997 and the acquisition of BTP plc (UK) in 2000.
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The company is a world leader in the supply of chemicals and colours for the textile, leather, paper, plastics, printing, oil & gas, detergent, mining, personal care, metalworking and life science industries.
It has a turnover of around US$7 billion and is headquartered in Muttenz, near Basel, Switzerland. Location within Switzerland Basel (British English traditionally: Basle and more recently Basel , German: Basel , French: Bâle , Italian: Basilea ) is Switzerlands third most populous city (166,563 inhabitants (2004); 690,000 inhabitants in the conurbation stretching across the immediate cantonal and national boundaries made Basel Switzerlands second-largest...
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