Sasol Chemie GmbH & Co. KG

Sasol is an international integrated chemicals and energy company that leverages technologies and the expertise of our 31,270 people working in 32 countries.

With over 50 years of experience in the production and marketing of a range of chemicals, Sasol Chemicals is a trusted partner in the plastics industry.

Sasol’s polymers division markets HDPE, hLLDPE, LDPE, PP and PVC. We will have a have a combined global capacity of 2.3 mt/yr on completion of the Lake Charles Chemicals Project (LCCP) which includes a 1.5 mt/yr cracker. Our polymers are important raw materials to a wide range of industrial, consumer and packaging applications.

Sasol’s Wax division is the leading specialist in innovative wax technology offering customers wax products of the highest quality and purity in various industries around the world. The unique characteristics of Sasol’s Fischer-Tropsch hard waxes ensure the ideal lubricating properties during PVC and Polyolefin processing.

Sasol offers a broad range of solvents, industrial chemicals and mining reagents. Solvents products include C3, C4 alcohols and other mixed alcohols, esters, ketones, acrylate monomers, glycol ethers and acetates are manufactured in world-class plants situated in Secunda and Sasolburg (South Africa) and Marl (Germany), which have a combined production capacity of ~1.2 mt a year.
Products are supplied to customers in over 80 countries through a network of sales offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia and Sub Saharan Africa. Industries served include aerosols, agricultural chemicals, cosmetics, fragrances, packaging, paint and adhesives, pharmaceuticals, polishes, domestic disinfectants, printing, inks and mining (particularly in gold, copper and platinum extraction), pulp and paper, steel, textiles and the water treatment industries.

Apart from polymer, solvent and wax offerings, Sasol has a broad range of plasticisers, aluminas, TEAL, phenolics, alcohols, alkylates and surfactants as well as comonomers (1-hexene, 1-octene and 1-pentene) available.