The “Engine” of Innovation

Clariant Mining sees innovation as going beyond product and being inclusive of process, service, organization, marketing and the business as a whole: our business and our customers' business.

Focusing on customer needs is where innovation begins. It's where we find the stimulus to seek new ways of satisfying ongoing customer needs in multiple dimensions. This means we strive to go beyond one-off isolated creativity for the new and better, and instead, seek innovation that brings real added value to customers in a broader sense.

Clariant Mining aims to make innovation happen internally and as our customers need it. This implemented strategy is called “Innovation Excellence.”

A Program for Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence is the central process by which Clariant Solutions ENCOURAGES, NURTURES, MANAGES and DRIVES INNOVATION across and throughout the organization with the goal of “rapid market-to-idea-to-market.” True to our vision, Innovation Excellence inspires invention that brings significant success to our customers in a systematic, sustainable way and makes a real impact on their businesses.

A key area of customer focus, and one that is of fundamental importance to our customers, is that of service delivery. Clariant Mining views service delivery as “process innovation in action.” Innovation Excellence drives the process of delivering customer benefits from innovation to where customers need them the most to grow and improve.

Innovation Excellence is therefore the “engine” of innovation within Clariant Mining. It has created a culture for us that stirs a passionate attitude for customer focus, and has empowered employees to pursue that passion.

By definition, it is a truly customer-focused organization that will drive innovation. Innovation is the means by which a company satisfies the unmet needs of its customers, and that is the way of Clariant Mining. As mining industry changes, we constantly adapt, re-engineer and evolve how we innovate and how we deliver sustainable value to our customers. Essentially, excellence in innovation happens when everyone shares the passion, is engaged with the customer and when everyone is part of the team.

• Environmental issues
• Water shortages
• Lower mineral concentrations
• Multiple target minerals
• Skilled manpower shortages
• Additional processing and handling needs

Clariant’s commitment to innovation means that Clariant Mining customers can count on “Performance and Value Delivered” today and into the future.

Responsible corporate management plays a key role in helping us to run our company. Our ability to treat customers, employees, neighbors and the environment in a responsible fashion is not only ethically correct, but also strengthens our partnerships with those stakeholders upon whom our success as a company ultimately depends.

Safety is a key priority in our operations

Clariant Mining defines safety as creating a climate where accidents and negative impacts on the environment, our employees and the communities we serve are minimized.

All levels of Clariant managers focus on integrating health, safety and environment into all activities to encourage a responsible safe environment. This is incorporated into the goal setting and planning process. Safety is even included in management evaluations.

We are committed to developing and promoting products, processes and services that reduce waste and increase sustainability. Recycling and other environmentally responsible policies and practices are strongly encouraged throughout all levels of operations to minimize our impact on the local and global communities we serve.

E-Lab provides development of reliable safe products

E-Lab is our GLP-accredited environmental laboratory in Norway. It is dedicated to testing and developing environmentally responsible products and provides rapid access to accurate test data so we can quickly deliver safe products to market with confidence. Our environmental chemists are available to consult with our customers on a wide range of regulatory and environmental topics that affect their own operations.

A Global Company with Strategic Local Resources

Clariant Mining is a global company with strategically located resources in the major mining regions of the world. This allows us to help our customers effectively meet their challenges and provide the best possible local support, including manufacturing, minerals testing laboratories and service personnel.

We rely on our employees with PhD and Master’s Degrees and significant plant operations experience to develop, manufacture, supply and service the specialized chemical needs of the mining industry. Our extensive experience allows us to formulate and supply customized solutions for your unique needs.

A brief look at the history and importance of mining

Mining has a long and proud history. Since prehistoric times we have been crushing and grinding ores by hand pounding them with a hard stone then progressing to using metallic hammers. The evolution of mining technology has paralleled human development.

The stamp mill was introduced in the middle ages to handle increasing operation levels. Later the grindstone was developed for more efficient grinding of ores. Many of today’s innovative separation technologies have grown from more ancient techniques such as panning for gold and hand sorting of minerals.

The discovery that organic compounds were effective floating agents in the 1920s led to the use of flotation using oils to collect mineral particles and float them on the surface of aqueous slurries.

Mining has played such an important role in the progress of civilization that many important cultural eras were associated with and identified by various minerals or their derivatives, e.g., the Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Steel Age and the Nuclear Age.

Minerals such as gold have played an important role in the exploration and creation of settlements in the New World, California, Alaska, South Africa, Australia and the Canadian Klondike.

Today surface mining continues to play an important role in providing the resources we need to keep civilization moving forward. We have become much more aware of the impact that mining activities can have on the environment. New techniques and processes are being developed constantly to minimize environmental impact while optimizing production levels.

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Clariant Corporation USA
2750 Technology Forest Blvd.
The Woodlands, TX 77381
USA