Advanced Intermediates

Evonik's Advanced Intermediates Business Unit is the leading supplier of industrial chemicals, such as butene-1, DINP, alkoxides, cyanuric chloride, isononanol and hydrogen peroxide, as well as a preferred supplier of butadiene, alkyl chlorides, anhydrides, caustic potash solution, potassium carbonate, peracetic acid, triacetoneamine and special synthetic building blocks.

Our custom-made or standardized solutions improve the products of daily life or lend them specific properties. They are used, for example, in the biodiesel, chemicals, fuel, plastics, agricultural, petrochemical, environmental protection and pulp markets.

Our activities are divided among the four business lines Performance Intermediates, Active Oxygens, Functional Solutions, and Agrochemicals & Polymer Additives. The business unit is present in a total of 30 sites in Europe, North and South America, South Africa and Asia. With over 4,500 employees, the Advanced Intermediates Business Unit generated sales of more than €2.4 billion in 2010.