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Emery Helps Create a More Sustainable Future with Renewable Products

For over 180 years, Emery Oleochemicals has been providing natural-based solutions before most companies even knew what sustainability meant. Today, we continue to provide our customers with best-in-class renewable solutions recognized for their ability to improve processing efficiencies, deliver outstanding technical performance and enhance environmental safety and sustainability. Our products, derived from renewable resources, are predominantly made from natural oils and fats. From commodity chemicals to semi-specialty to specialty chemicals, we are able to meet your specific application needs in a broad variety of sectors such as plastics, automotive, construction, lubricants, packaging, coatings and adhesives, urethanes, textiles, electrical and electronics,  agriculture and more.

Today, Emery Oleochemicals is the largest oleochemicals manufacturer in the Americas and the largest global manufacturer of azelaic acid. 

Additionally, through our focus on research and technological advancements, we provide differentiated, customizable and innovative solutions. Driven by our regional Technical Development Centers and Product & Application Development labs, Emery Oleochemicals is positioned to support both exclusive and joint solutions development efforts with our customers. We aim to continually bring our sustainable solutions to all sectors of the global marketplace, leveraging our pipeline of renewable resources, global operations, market insights, and technology expertise and capabilities.

Emery Oleochemicals’ solutions portfolio spans five business units, providing you with over 3,000 products and a continuously growing base of leading product brands. Today, our expanded portfolio includes products that are certified up to 100% biobased by the USDA BioPreferred® Program, that are on the European Ecolabel LuSC list, that are REACH registered and that are Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Supply Chain System Certified for Mass Balance (MB).

We remain committed to producing high quality, effective and sustainable products that contribute to the development of high performance and more environmentally-friendly end user goods and industrial products for our customers. Our high-performance and sustainable products are offered through the following business units:

Agro Green

Agro Green

 
Agro Green

Agro Green

Natural-based products for agriculture: sustainable solutions for weed control, insect control and plant health. 

 
Bio Lubricants

Bio-Lubricants

 
Bio Lubricants

Bio-Lubricants

Driving innovations in customizable, natural-based lubricant base stocks and lubricant additives for solutions that deliver outstanding performance and environmental safety.

 
Eco-Friendly Polyols

Eco-Friendly Polyols

 
Eco-Friendly Polyols

Eco-Friendly Polyols

Shaping tomorrow's comforts with proprietary technologies in renewable chemicals for use in the manufacture of coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers as well as flexible and rigid polyurethane foam applications.

 
Green Polymer Additives

Green Polymer Additives

 
Green Polymer Additives

Green Polymer Additives

Natural-based chemical solutions for polymers and plastics providing customizable products suited to the building and construction, automotive, packaging and toy industries.

 
Oleobasics

OleoBasics

 
Oleobasics

OleoBasics

Responsible solutions from renewable resources. Our oleochemical products are suited for basic to niche applications to meet the world's ever-growing needs for more natural-based products.

 
 
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