Forchem

Nordic forests are home for many precious substances. Crude tall oil, familiarly called CTO, is one of them. A natural co-product of the kraft pulp industry, CTO is high-value biomass that already the Vikings used as coating in their boats hundreds of years ago. In our CTO refinery in Rauma, Finland, we continue the tradition and upgrade, refine and test CTO for its numerous modern-day purposes. As a forerunner in CTO research and development, Forchem has created CTO-based products to, for example to replace antibiotics in animal feed. The potential for other domains, too, is tremendous: CTO’s antibacterial qualities can be used as a part of new packaging solutions and could revolutionize the pharmaceutical industry. We believe there is still much more to discover. Next to these new innovations, CTO is a sustainable alternative for non-renewable ingredients in many products that serve us in our daily life. Paints, inks, adhesives, glues, lubricants, lipstick – all these can be enriched with bio-based CTO products. Forchem builds on the same values as the Finnish society: sustainability, reliability, respect and trust. Surrounded by our source of inspiration, Nordic pine forest, we make intelligent, innovative and sustainable use of natural resources and create solutions for a greener tomorrow.