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 in:

- Protection, durability and stability

- Coloration

- Brightening and whitening

- Curing and imaging

- Freshness, comfort, hygiene and cleaning

- Water treatment, paper processing and coating

- Surface properties

- Functional materials and polymers