Lignin & Lignosulfonates
Borregaard’s lignin-based biopolymers are renewable, wood-based alternatives to fossil-based chemicals and polymers used in a broad range of industries. Our products are tailor-made to obtain the optimal performance in your application.
With over 90 years experience in lignin and lignosulfonates, we are continuously developing our unique product offering. Our environmentally friendly products are used as:
These multi-functional properties are valuable in a vast range of applications. A global network of production facilities, sales offices and technical service centres assures the best local service and competence, where and when you need it.
Market driven innovation efforts are performed by our R&D centres in Norway, the USA and India, and through our global technical service teams. Our roots stem from the pioneering lignin chemicals businesses in the US and Sweden over 90 years ago, from which we have built unique competence in producing customised solutions together with our customers.
Our raw material is wood, a 2nd generation feedstock, thereby not competing with food production. Documentation of the sustainability of our products and processes is spearheaded by a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) approach providing Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs).
About lignin and lignosulfonates
Your guide to lignin and lignosulfonates
Lignin, the world's second most abundant biopolymer, binds wood fibres together. discover various topics related to lignin and lignosulfonates, such as their functional properties, typical applications, and sustainability.
Lignin functionalities
Functionalities include: binding, dispersing, crystal growth modification and emulsion stabilisation.
Lignin sustainability
Our lignin biopolymers are sustainable, environmentally friendly alternatives to oil-based chemicals.
Sustainability & certifications
Sustainably managed forests – an everlasting resource
The 2019 un special report on climate change and land shows that land use and forests play a vital role, serving three important purposes: climate: co2 uptake and storage biodiversity: provide the principal basis for important species renewable raw material: for sustainable products that can replace fossil-based alternatives
Products with documented low footprints
Our products have documented low climate footprints and provide better environmental performance than the alternatives in almost all environmental categories.
Certifications
Borregaard is certified in accordance with several standards.
Borregaard's contribution to the un's 2030 agenda
Borregaard has prioritised six of the seventeen sustainable development goals (sdgs) set out in the un 2030 agenda for sustainable development based on how we as a company can contribute to solving the global challenges through our activities and solutions.