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Performance Aligned with Sustainability: Polyethylene Wax in Metallocene-Based Hot-Melt Adhesives

The incorporation of a biobased component can simultaneously provide performance and promote sustainability.

December 17, 2025

A renewable raw material can be effectively incorporated into a hot-melt formulation with the objective of not only increasing the renewable content of the adhesive but also maintaining high performance standards.

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Henkel and Sasol Collaboration Helps Deliver Adhesives with Lower Carbon Footprint

May 19, 2025

Collaboration leverages Sasol’s advanced wax innovation to reduce carbon emissions across Henkel’s adhesive value chain.

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A New Tool to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Packaging Adhesives

ASI talked to Vernon Jansen van Rensburg, Head of Global Market Development for Sasol’s Wax business, to discuss SASOLWAX LC100 and how it can help adhesive manufacturers reduce their carbon footprint and reach their sustainability goals.

Karen Parker

November 13, 2024

An industrial-grade wax with a 35% lower carbon footprint is helping packaging-adhesive formulators reduce their Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions.

TER Chemicals Buys Modified Fischer-Tropsch Wax Business From Evonik

August 21, 2024

The acquisition adds to TER Chemicals' extensive portfolio of products for the coatings, adhesives, plastics, and other industries

SASOL CHEMICALS: Wax for Packaging Adhesives

August 2, 2024

An innovative production process delivers proprietary gas-to-liquid, Fischer-Tropsch wax with a 35% lower carbon footprint without compromising performance.

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ExxonMobil Launches New Wax Product Brand

April 9, 2024

Exxon Mobil Corp. is introducing a new product brand that allows for differentiation between waxes, creating a naming convention that is scalable for new offerings.

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Renewable Additives for Sustainable Adhesives

Adhesive formulators can replace existing additives with chemically-identical versions that offer increased levels of renewable organic carbon, no labeling changes, and no compromise in performance or composition.

Catherine Vitale

November 9, 2023

Choosing additives and other materials with renewable content is one simple approach to enhancing sustainability of your formulations.

Composition Adjustments to Drive Polyolefin-Wax Interactions in Hot-Melt Adhesives

The proper interaction between polymer and wax is required to achieve specific properties in hot-melt adhesives.

Juan Tuberquia Allan McLennaghan Kyle Anderson Jozef Van Dun

August 30, 2021

Hot-melt adhesives (HMA) are formulated systems with extensive use in packaged goods, particularly in the bonding of cardboard boxes.

Strong Growth Projected for Fischer-Tropsch Wax Market Through 2025

Fischer-Tropsch wax will continue to experience substantial growth in the North America region.

January 13, 2020

The global Fischer-Tropsch (FT) wax market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $750 million to over $1.2 billion by 2025.

Sasol Appoints Lintech International as Distributor

July 5, 2018

Sasol’s Performance Chemicals Division has signed an exclusive agreement with Lintech International LLC to manage its portfolio of industrial waxes.

In this webinar, Raphael Schaller, CTO of Collano, shares how his team envisioned their data to make it usable for AI-driven materials discovery. He reflects on what he would do differently if starting over, and how adopting the Citrine Platform has accelerated learning, collaboration, and innovation across the organization.