Clariant (Korea) Ltd. is a leading specialty chemicals company invested as a Korean subsidiary of Clariant Ltd., headquartered in Switzerland. Clariant Ltd. was launched as an independent company in 1995 through its spin-off from Sandoz group, and it is a publicly owned Specialty Chemicals company with shares traded on the Zurich stock exchange.In 1997, the Specialty Chemicals business of Hoechst, a renowned German company,merged into Clariant to form one of the largest specialty chemicals companies in the world.Clariant is a top global specialty chemicals company with around 30,000 employees and annual sales of about CHF 9.5 billion. Clariant operates worldwide with more than 100 group companies in five continents.
