SNF Floerger

SNF Floerger headquartered in France is the world leader in water-soluble polymers. The polyacrylamide manufacturer has a production capacity of 710 kt / year. There are products made ​​for the production of drinking water, sewage treatment, oil extraction, mining, paper manufacturing, agriculture, textiles and cosmetics.

The SNF group consists of branches and joint Venturees in more than 40 countries and has 23 factories in Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America. The company's headquarters is located in Andrézieux- Bouthéon approximately 25 km north of Saint- Etienne in the French Loire. SNF has customers in 130 countries and sells products in several industries. SNF is one of the largest chemical companies in France. However, the company is little known to the general public because it is a private company which is active in the business- to-business area. The end of 2013, the Group employed more than 4,100 employees and achieved a turnover of 2.0 billion euros.

Areas of activity

The products manufactured by the company products are used in many market segments. The growth engine of the company is the increasing scarcity of energy resources, water, oil and ores.

SNF produced organic coagulant as PolyDadmac, polyamine, and polyacrylamide flocculant for the treatment of waste water. The polyacrylamide flocculants are used for primary clarifiers and especially for sludge dewatering.

Also, the petroleum industry is supplied: the polyacrylamides are in the enhanced oil recovery (EOR ) is used to improve the speed and the amount of the extracted oil from the reservoir. Various techniques are used: the injection of polymers (PF, enhanced oil recovery), and surfactants ( SP) or the process polymers / surfactants / alkali metals ( ASP). With this technique, up to 90 percent of the original oil content are collected.

Products in gas production: Since the hydraulic splitting ( engl. hydraulic fracturing ) for the extraction of unconventional gas has become a safe and efficient technique to be used more frequently reducing agent ( engl. drag reducing agent ). Polyacrylamides are used because they can reduce the water pressure loss. So you can have a higher pressure at the bottom of the shaft and keep the same pump power.

For the mining industry is the subsidiary Flomin ago mining chemicals with xanthates and thiophosphates.

For the paper industry, the company sells under the brand Floret polyacrylamides, which are used either alone or in systems with several components in the constant part of the paper machine. Improving the quality of paper and board as well as the productivity in the retention and the drying of the paper. The coagulant produced by SNF act as a fixative for various additives such as coloring agents and sizing. They neutralize the charge and are a means of controlling the cationic demand.

The company also manufactures products for the agriculture and forestry: super absorber consisting of crosslinked polyacrylamides, up to 400 times their weight in water absorb. They are suitable for numerous applications: forestry, horticulture, landscape architecture and ornamentation. These products, which are marketed under the brand name Aquasorb, improve the water retention of the soil, reduce the watering time, water consumption and the water and nutrient loss by leaching. Soluble polyacrylamides are used to flocculate the soil and thus improve the penetration of water and the aeration of the soil, as well as to reduce soil erosion.

The company also supplies the textile industry: Floprint - thickeners are used for textile printing pigment printing, reactive printing and dispersion pressure. Thickener is available as a reversal emulsion dehydrated emulsion and as a powder. SNF generated textile aids, which serve as dispersants, antimigration agents, fixing agents and sizing agents.

The company provides products for the cosmetics industry: conditioning agents, rheology modifiers and the carbomer under the brands Flocare and Flogel. The first, known as Polyquaternium 6, 7, 11 and 22 ( Sheet conditioners ) and body shampoos is used for hair conditioning. They have an affinity for keratin; they protect and so repair the hair. Rheologiemodifizier are the thickeners in the form of an inverse emulsion which are suitable for skin care and hair care formulations, creams. Carbomer is prepared by precipitation, and are one of the thickening agents that are used most often by the cosmetics industry.

Building materials industry: The company produces specialty polymers such as Floset for the building materials industry, Flosperse and Flogel dispersant for household cleaning agents, chelates heavy metals and odor absorbent.

Function solutions

SNF produces specialty polymers such as FLOSET for the building materials industry, FLOSPERSE, FLOSET and flogel dispersant for household cleaners, METALSORB chelates heavy metals and ODORFLO odor absorbent.

Generation

From 2001-2011 SNSF everywhere invested more than one billion euros in manufacturing facilities in the world. Today SNF has 23 factories in Europe, North America, Asia and Africa. The main production facilities are located in Andrézieux (France), Riceboro ( GA, USA), Taixing (China), Ulsan ( South Korea) and Plaquemine (LA, USA). In January 2014, the global production capacity amounted to 710 kt / year of active polymers.

Locations

The SNF Group consists of subsidiaries and joint ventures in more than 40 countries and has 23 factories in Europe, Asia, Australia and North and South America. SNF has customers in 130 countries. The main production facilities are located in Andrézieux (France), Riceboro, Georgia, Taixing (China), Ulsan, South Korea, Plaquemine (LA, USA) and Vizag (India).

More about SNF ...

SNF is not an acronym. The three characters have no special meaning, but they have enabled the company to remain inconspicuous in its infancy.

History

1968 began SNF to Floerger to produce polyacrylamides in Saint- Etienne. 1978 SNF was established by the technical director Rene Pich and the sales manager Hubert Issaurat. In the following years the company developed new product lines. In 1987, SNF industrial location Chemtall in Riceboro, Georgia, United States. The market penetration was accelerated by it. SNF in 1993 by an oil company in Daqing with the construction of the largest factory in the world polyacrylamide (50 kt / year ) was commissioned in the northeast of the People 's Republic of China. In 1995, SNF Polypure, the American subsidiary for water treatment by Rhône- Poulenc. In the early 2000s, more than 30 subsidiaries were founded. 2007 the company won a contract for design and construction of Petroleum Development Oman ( PDO ) for enhanced oil recovery ( EOR) in Oman. 2011 started the construction of a factory in Plaquemine, Louisiana, USA, which specializes in products for enhanced oil recovery.

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