分子筛是一种由硅、氧和铝构成的晶体材料，凭借其独特的孔道结构，分子筛成为催化活性金属的完美基材。它们还可选择性地吸附所需或不需要的分子。

作为全球最大的特种分子筛粉体生产商之一，科莱恩可提供从炼油到化工品生产，以及从废气净化到除味等多种应用的合成分子筛产品。

为全面支持您的需求，科莱恩的研究和生产专家在高度结构化的流程下通力合作，将研发构想转化为有效的实际工业应用。许多国际性公司与科莱恩建立起合作伙伴关系，共同研发或放大基于分子筛的催化剂和吸附剂，用于改善其运营。

Thanks to their microporous structure and versatile characteristics, Clariant’s standard zeolites are used as adsorbents, additives, and catalysts for numerous purposes in industrial production.

Reducing harmful emissions, providing sustainable fuels

Zeolites help to protect our environment:

• They support the transition from fossil-based to sustainably produced fuels, petrochemicals, and chemicals.
• Metal-exchanged zeolites convert NOX and N2O emissions from mobile and stationary engines into harmless substances.
• Highly hydrophobic zeolite materials effectively reduce VOC emissions.

Standard zeolites, tailored to suit your needs

Clariant’s technical team can tailor the chemical and physical properties of standard zeolite structures to ensure they suit your needs. This way, Clariant can support your industrial and R&D projects with standard zeolite products.

Clariant offers a wide technical portfolio to develop and commercially manufacture virtually any zeolite that meets your specific requirements. Special-grade zeolites have been developed to a scalable R&D recipe or can be produced on customer request. Please contact your Clariant sales representatives for further details.

The roots of Clariant’s zeolite business are in Germany and South Africa: In the 1980s, the Germany-based R&D team developed a custom catalyst which became Clariant’s first commercial zeolite product. It was then scaled up and produced at one of our production sites in South Africa.
Since then, Clariant technical teams at three R&D sites and multiple production locations have developed a toolset that allows for fundamental supportive work with our customers to bring an idea from R&D to commercial production.

© Clariant’s zeolite plant in Bitterfeld, Germany

© Clariant’s zeolite plant in Richards Bay, South Africa

Clariant’s offers:

• Free-of-charge “try-out” samples from commercial production
• Modifying our standard zeolite powders
• Scaling up your laboratory-scale zeolite recipe to commercial production
• Developing and producing zeolites that meet your needs for entirely new applications
• Applying Clariant’s forming technologies to select zeolite powders to suit commercial production processes

During a custom project, Clariant follows a rigorous protocol to maintain confidentiality and to protect our customers’ intellectual property. Internal firewalls make sure all project information remains confidential.

Clariant's global zeolite specialists provide comprehensive technical support in selecting, modifying, developing, and incorporating the optimal zeolite into a diverse range of applications.

Clariant’s zeolites are manufactured in state-of-the-art plants in Bitterfeld (Germany) and Richards Bay (South Africa). Both plants are dedicated exclusively to zeolites.

The zeolite production process is certified according to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001.

Rigorous quality control is a part of every production step: Advanced analytical equipment as well as modern laboratory and pilot-plant testing facilities are used for quality control. The dedicated testing equipment comprises continuous-flow fixed-bed reactors for once-through or recycle operation at isothermal or adiabatic conditions. This allows us to simulate almost every catalytic reaction.