Producing effects - Ciba is dedicated to producing high-value effects for its customers’ products. We create effects that improve the quality of life by adding performance, protection, color and strength to plastics, paper, automobiles, buildings, home and personal care products and much more.

A global leader - Ciba is represented in more than 120 countries. Our operations are conducted in three business segments: Plastic Additives, Coating Effects and Water & Paper Treatment. Ciba employs over 13000 people around the world. In 2007, the company generated sales of CHF 6.5 billion and invested CHF 270 million in R&D.

Bringing innovation from the lab to life - We conduct innovative research and offer a wide range of knowledge-based services and consulting. Ciba brings creative thought to the processes and products of our customers. Ciba has set up its core competencies based on a broad technology inventory of active technologies, which have been developed in R&D for years. A first class expertise in many fields can therefore be offered to the customer for providing solutions to technical problems.

Ciba’s Technical Core Competencies serve as a leveraged platform to build new product platforms quickly:

• Protection & Stabilization
• Color
• Interface & Rheology
• Polymerization & Curing Agents
• Paper Strength & Coating
• Solid-Liquid Separation

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