Company Name / Cognis UK Ltd
Street Address / Charleston Road
Hardley, Hythe
City / SOUTHAMTON
State / HAMPSHIRE
Post Code / SO45 3ZG
Country / GREAT BRITAIN
Phone / +44 23 8089 4666
Fax / +44 23 8024 3113
E-Mail
Website / http://www.cognis.com
Contact Details
Name / Dr Ramesh Iyer
Mobile / +1 215 272 7212
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Company Profile / Company portrait
Cognis is a worldwide supplier of innovative specialty chemicals and nutritional ingredients, with a particular focus on the areas of wellness and sustainability. The company employs about 8,000 people, and it operates production sites and service centers in 30 countries. Cognis has worldwide certification to both ISO9001 and ISO 1400, and is divided into three strategic business units – Care Chemicals, Nutrition & Health, and Functional Products.
Company Activities / Cognis UK Ltd
Cognis UK Ltd, an affiliate of the worldwide Cognis Group and one of the Functional Products manufacturing sites, is a world leading producer of (meth)acrylic hydroxy monomers. These reactive intermediates are sold globally and are used primarily in high performance automotive paints, high-gloss lacquers and in industrial finish applications. In addition, the company manufactures lubricants (polyalkylene glycols) and multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomers for coatings/adhesives/high performance polymers.
With this expertise in of (meth)acrylic hydroxy monomers and multifunctional (meth)acrylate monomers, Cognis UK also manufactures a range of high purity products for contact/intra ocular lenses and biomedical applications, as part of its Biomedical Polymers group.
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Products / Services / Cognis is able to offer arrange monomers and additives (Bisomer GMMA, Bisomer CL HEMA & HEMA ULTRA, Bisomer IMT Blue, etc.) for contact lenses hydrogels, developmental materials of novel silicone hydrogels, and hydrophilic/hydrophobic monomers of IOLs.
Partnership is an important factor to sustain competitive advantage and we provide various services to clients, from custom formulation / blending to tailored specifications, design of new monomers/oligomers for biomedical uses to contract manufacture. We help our partners realize the benefits of these new systems by developing practical processes, at pilot plant and commercial scale up under controlled air conditions in dedicated reactors and purification units, and globally delivery of these systems.