The Oleochemicals Family

• Raw materials
• Manufacturing processes
• Applications
• Socially responsible
• Product Groups
  1. Fatty Acids & Glycerine (APAG Compendium of test methods - full sub-Web site)
  2. Alcohols
  3. Metallic soaps
  4. Fatty Nitriles and derivatives
  5. Fatty Esters

Within APAG Oleochemicals and Allied Products are defined as Fatty Acids, Glycerine, Alcohols, Metallic Soaps, Fatty Nitriles & their Derivatives and Fatty Esters.

Oleochemicals are made vegetable and animal oils and fats and/or petrochemicals feedstocks.

By applying chemical know-how these oleochemicals feedstocks are converted into a wide range of chemical products for use in lubricants, soaps and detergents, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, food additives, leather, paints and coatings, printing inks, rubber, plastics, metal-working and many other industries.