P&G Chemicals has been supplying products to the oleochemical industry since the beginning of P&G in 1837. Our oldest brand is Star Glycerin, first produced in 1858.

Besides our longevity, P&G Chemicals focuses on creating solutions and delivering value to our customers and suppliers. We do this via:

• Expertise. Our people are our strength. We develop people with the expertise to identify opportunities and connections for our stakeholders.
• Quality Assurance. We use the highest quality assurance standards in the industry to meet our customers’ needs.
• Supply Dependability. We work to give extreme supply assurance to P&G, and carry that philosophy over to our external customers.
• Global Network. We provide a global supply network and financial backing of a Fortune 50 company. This enables local manufacturing capabilities in NA, Asia, and Europe.
• Joint Value Creation with P&G. Our link with P&G serves as a unique point of access for suppliers to build their business and create joint value.
• Commercial Innovation. We optimize our supply network by linking with others to leverage mutual strengths and capabilities.
• P&G Purpose, Values, and Principles. We work to embody P&G’s Purpose, Values, and Principles in all that we doing, ensuring ethical dealings and good business practices across all our businesses.

P&G Chemicals is a global organization, and we supply products to North and South America, Europe, and Asia.

Yes, please contact the P&G Chemicals Regional office closest to your location to discuss joint business development opportunities:

• Americas: Phone: 1-800-477-8899; Email: chemicalsinfo.im@pg.com
• Europe: Phone: +41-58-004-5544; Email: chemicalsinfo.eu@pg.com
• P&G Chemicals Asia/Middle East/Africa/Aus-NZ: Phone: +65-6824 5571; Email: chemicalsinfo.asia@pg.com

Samples can be ordered via our website on our Samples page.

The most current MSDS sheets can be found within our Oleochemical Products page. Please select category to locate product specific MSDS.

Sefose is a unique molecule derived from vegetable oil and sugar that enables sustainable innovation with compelling consumer product/commercial applications. It is versatile, renewable, and non-persistent. In layman’s terms, that means that this material actively breaks down and does not remain in the environment. It is also non-toxic and 100% biodegradable. Sefose performs like a high-grade organic solvent and it is eco-friendly. It enables sustainable innovation in consumer and commercial products that don’t traditionally fall in the sustainability category, such as paints, coatings and lubricants. For more information, please go to www.pgsefose.com

Olean is the brand name of olestra, a safe, FDA-approved, zero-calorie fat substitute used in low-fat snacks and baked goods. Foods with olestra taste great, but have fewer calories and fat than full-fat foods. For more information, please go to www.olean.com.

Since the beginning, P&G’s Purpose, Values and Principles (PVP) have been guiding the way we do business. We’ve conducted our business with a focus on personal and professional ethics and principle-based management.  Integrated into our PVP is the promise to “improve the lives of the world’s consumers, now and for generations to come.” 

To fulfill that promise, we take a holistic approach to sustainability, working on multiple aspects of sustainability across products, operations, and social responsibility.  We have now set some of the most ambitious goals among major companies, with the long term vision of:

• Using 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging
• Having ZERO consumer waste go to landfills
• Powering our plants with 100% renewable energy
• Emitting ZERO carbon dioxide or toxic emissions
• Delivering effluent water as good or better than influent water quality, with no contribution to water scarcity
• Having ZERO manufacturing waste go to landfills
• Designing products to delight consumers while maximizing conservation of resources

This vision is stretching, and we believe it will take us decades to achieve. We have therefore set strategies in Products and Operations that help us deliver against our vision. To ensure we are holding ourselves accountable, we have two sets of goals, for 2012 and 2020.  The 2012 goals are below; for 2020 please see the section on P&G’s New Sustainability Vision.
For products, we will continue to innovate to delight our consumers with sustainable innovations that improve our products, with a goal of $50 Billion in sales of such products by 2012.  As of the end of 2011, we’ve reached the $40 B mark.

For operations, we’ve set a worldwide goal to deliver a 50% reduction vs. 2002, per unit of production, in energy use, water use, CO2, and waste by 2012.  That means that a bottle of Tide in 2012 will be produced with 50% less of these resources than in 2002.  As of the end of 2011, we’ve already exceeded the 50% mark vs. the 2002 benchmark.

In social responsibility, we are working to improve the lives of children around the world through our Live, Learn and Thrive program.  Our global activities include: opening 200 Hope Schools in developing countries, helping children in poverty-stricken areas gain access to education; delivering 4 Billion liters of clean drinking water to kids via our Children’s Safe Drinking Water program; and partnering with the UN and other agencies to deliver 300 million doses of vaccine to help prevent maternal and neonatal tetanus in the developing world. 

Throughout our history, we’ve focused on doing what’s right, and our approach to sustainability is fully consistent with this basic Company principle. We are accountable for delivering our goals year on year, and committed to improving P&G’s sustainability results consistently and reliably over the long term.  To learn more, please see our online sustainability report, prepared using the Global Reporting Initiative’s G3 guidelines, at www.pg.com/sustainability.

P&G has a strong history of sustainability work, going back decades. 

In the 1950s, we developed one of the first environmental safety publications in the industry, focusing on measuring levels of surfactants in rivers.  In the 1960s, we created our first Water Quality Laboratory, and made the switch to safer anionic surfactants for cleaning.  In the 1970s we founded our Corporate Environmental Safety Department, both in the US and Europe.  In the 1980s, we co-founded the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, to further advance the development of environmental risk science. 

In the 90s, we phased out elemental chlorine use in our pulp paper and committed to sustainable forestry for sourcing pulp in our paper products.  We were among the first to phase out alkyl phenol ethoxylates (APEOs) in our industry, and by 1999 began publishing annual sustainability reports.

In the 2000s, we founded the Children’s Safe Drinking water program, developed new laboratory standards for assessing biodegradability that were adopted by the OECD, and introduced Tide and Ariel cold water cleaning formulas, promoting energy savings via low temperature washing.  We also led the laundry industry to introduce 2x compacted detergents, allowing consumers to do the same number of loads of laundry with fewer products.

Going forward, we will continue to innovate in our products and processes, and work to help the lives of children around the world through our corporate philanthropy.

P&G is the largest consumer packaged goods company in the world today. This fact coupled with our Purpose-inspired Growth Strategy—improving the lives of more consumers, in more parts of the world, more completely—requires us to continue to grow responsibly. And it also requires us to accelerate our commitment to helping solve some of the world’s sustainability challenges.  Consequently, we have developed a new longer term vision for the company.

Long term vision:

• Using 100% renewable or recycled materials for all products and packaging
• Having ZERO consumer waste go to landfills
• Designing products to delight consumers while maximizing conservation of resources
• Powering our plants with 100% renewable energy
• Emitting ZERO carbon dioxide or toxic emissions
• Delivering effluent water as good or better than influent water quality, with no contribution to water scarcity
• Having ZERO manufacturing waste go to landfills

As this vision will take decades to achieve, we have also announced new 10-year goals, which we will reach by 2020, that will set us on an incremental path toward our long-term vision. These goals will help us focus on efforts where we can make the most meaningful difference in environmental sustainability. The 2020 sustainability goals are in addition to our existing 2012 goals.

2020 goals:

• Replace 25% of petroleum based materials with sustainably sourced materials
• Move 70% of laundry loads globally to using cold water wash
• Reduce packaging 20% (per consumer use)
• Pilot studies to understand how to eliminate consumer solid waste in landfills
• Have 30% of our plants’ energy needs met via renewable energy sources
• Reduce manufacturing waste so that less than half a percent is disposed of in landfills
• Reduce truck transportation by 20%

P&G carefully evaluates the safety of our products and ingredients before they go to the market, using well established risk assessment methods to understand both the hazards and potential exposures. These risk assessments are a mandatory part of the company’s product development process and begin during the early stages of a product’s design. These safety standards are used everywhere we sell or make products.

Beyond establishing the human and environmental safety of our products, P&G fully complies with applicable legal requirements in its markets around the world including appropriate use and precautionary first aid information.

We develop and use state-of-the-art science and product life cycle assessments from raw materials through disposal to assess environmental safety.  We literally have hundreds of scientists world-wide focused on environmental health and human safety.

P&G has been recognized by many external groups on numerous occasions for its sustainability work.  Below are just a few of the most recent:

• 2008 – Named member of the Global 100 Annual Sustainability List
• 2008 – Ranked 12th of 541 on the Covalence Ethical Rankings
• 2008 – Champion Status, US EPA’s Design for Environment Safer Detergents Stewardship Initiative
• 2008 – Member, UK Financial Times and Stock Exchange (FTSE) 4Good and Dow Jones Sustainability Index
• 2009 – Ranked 14th on Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine’s Annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List
• 2009 – Winner, Social Innovation award, Financial Times and Just Means
• 2009 – Ranked 26th of 500 companies on Newsweek Magazine’s 500 Greenest Large Companies Ranking
• 2010 – P&G named as STEVIE® AWARD WINNER – Corporate Social Responsibility Program of the Year in Asia
• 2011:
• Procter & Gamble continues to be a leading member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.  P&G is the Sector leader for the Nondurable Household Products (HOU) sector – Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America and Dow Jones Sustainability Index United States.  We have maintained our membership of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index since it was first developed in 1999.
• P&G India recognized as the ‘Best US Company operating in India under the FMCG Sector’ by the 7th Indo-American Corporate Excellence Awards organized by the IACC (Indo-American Chamber of Commerce).  This prestigious award recognizes P&G India’s achievements on not just financial excellence, but also sustainability, employee practices and corporate social responsibility.
• P&G China wins China Sustainability Award 2011 from Sohu.com & AT Kearney, a popular and influential news portal in China, and this is the second year that they’ve run the award.  P&G China wins for two consecutive years.
• Procter & Gamble UK was voted the second ‘Most Admired Corporate-NGO Partnership 2011’ in the C&E Corporate-NGO Partnerships Barometer. The survey asked respondents (over 150 leading corporate and NGO practitioners responded to the survey) which corporate-NGO partnerships (and partnering organizations) they most admired. The P&G (Pampers)/UNICEF collaboration came in second behind M&S/Oxfam.

P&G is committed to the Sustainable sourcing of palm oil. By 2015, we intend to purchase and use palm oil that we can confirm to have originated from responsible and sustainable sources.

We share our sustainability guidelines with our suppliers (www.pg.com/company/sustainability). We encourage our suppliers to follow sustainable practices and support the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

We are already working with our suppliers to share and reinforce our expectations around the sustainable production of palm oil, and encouraging them to certify their operations according to RSPO criteria. From 2011 onwards we will be reporting our progress in ensuring confirmed sustainable palm oil sourcing in our annual sustainability report.

P&G buys its palm oil from a variety of reputable and responsible sources with the majority of these products originating in Malaysia and Indonesia, which together account for approximately 80% of the world’s palm oil production.  The majority of suppliers and groups of suppliers from which we source palm and palm by-products are members of the RSPO.

Oil palms are extremely productive, producing one of the highest yields of oil per hectare of any crop. Palm oil and palm kernel oil can be used to replace oils and other derivatives from petroleum, so reducing reliance on limited fossil fuel resources. Palm oil production has also contributed significantly to rural economic development in countries such as Malaysia and Indonesia. Responsible palm suppliers contribute to the local economies and provide employees and their families with safe housing, modern health care and other benefits. The challenge is to ensure that these environmental and social sustainability advantages do not result in illegal or irresponsible deforestation and associated loss of biodiversity and increased greenhouse gas emissions. The key is to ensure sustainable palm oil production and use, rather than to reduce overall palm oil use. P&G is a member of the RSPO and the Sustainable Palm Oil Coalition, both of which seek to support sustainable palm oil production and use, and prevent irresponsible and illegal deforestation and associated greenhouse gas emissions.

Palm oil comes from the crushed fruit of the oil palm tree. Once the fruit is crushed, the kernels (or stones) from the fruit that are left can be further crushed to yield another oil, palm kernel oil (PKO). As such, some people consider the PKO as a by-product of palm oil production. Recovering the PKO from the kernels increases the productivity of oil palm plantations. While palm oil is used as a food ingredient, the chain length of the oils in PKO make it an ideal raw material for producing surfactants used in detergents and other products. As palm oil and PKO come from the same fruit on the same tree, their environmental profiles in the growing stage are similar.

P&G is committed to the Sustainable sourcing of palm oil. By 2015, we intend to purchase and use palm oil that we can confirm to have originated from responsible and sustainable sources. We share our sustainability guidelines with our suppliers (www.pg.com/company/sustainability). We encourage our suppliers to follow sustainable practices and support the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

The RSPO is the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil, an industry consortium created in 2004 to help develop criteria and standards in support of ensuring “sustainable” palm oil products and production.  These criteria, published in November of 2005, are intended to help guide producers, suppliers and end-users.

P&G is a member of the RSPO and we are also members of the RSPO working group on sustainable palm oil derivatives.

We believe that “naturals” will play an increasingly important role in our overall supply base. We are exploring all options to provide the best possible value and solutions to our consumers, consistent with our principles, values and commitment to sustainability.

P&G uses about 1% of worldwide production of palm and its derivatives.

We use very little actual palm oil, but derivatives and by-products of palm oil are found in a variety of our beauty and household care products such as detergents, shampoos, hand and body cleansers, bar soaps and color cosmetic products.

There is concern about the replacement of tropical forests in Asia with palm plantations. P&G encourages the sustainable development of the palm industry and encourages our partners to follow our sustainability guidelines available on our website at http://pg.com/company/our_commitment/sustainability.jhtml.

Although the vast majority of palm oil is produced in a sustainable way, there are some instances where tropical rain forests are being cleared for palm plantations. P&G is strongly opposed to irresponsible and/or illegal deforestation practices, and our position on the sustainable sourcing of palm oil is consistent with our Corporate Sustainability principles and guidelines.  We will continue to support efforts to eliminate irresponsible and/or illegal deforestation of land for use in the planting and harvesting of palm plantations, as well as efforts to help ensure the appropriate selection and designation of land for such uses. We are working aggressively to ensure our palm oil comes from sustainable sources. P&G supports the commitment made by the Board of the Consumer Goods Forum in Cancun in December 2010, to help ensure zero net deforestation by 2020.

P&G has a detailed list of sustainability guidelines which apply to all our suppliers worldwide. These expectations can be found on our website at http://pg.com/company/our_commitment/sustainability.jhtml.

P&G’s supply chains are in the process of being certified by the RSPO approved certification body. P&G already has RSPO Supply Chain Certification (SCC) for several of its supply chains.

P&G is using the RSPO Mass Balanced (MB) Supply Chain model for palm oil and palm kernel oil.

P&G is aiming to ensure that its palm-derived materials will be certified by 2015.

P&G Chemicals announced its Cincinnati Refined Glycerin plant has been awarded the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Food Safety certification, a Global Food Safety Initiative benchmarked safety standard recognizing companies and facilities for superior quality assurance measures. The Cincinnati plant, which produces North America glycerin products, including Superol KPO, Superol NK, and MOON-OU, received a grade A from the BRC committee for demonstrated commitment to food safety and improvement through food safety plans and quality management systems, site stands, product and process control and personnel.

“BRC certification is an important achievement and recognition for P&G Chemicals, validating our approach to quality control and the production and manufacturing of glycerin in North America,” said Tom Nelson, Director, Customer Business Development, P&G Chemicals. “We take safety and quality assurance very seriously at P&G Chemicals, and have extensive measures in place to ensure that we offer only the highest quality ingredients and solutions that not only meet but exceed global safety standards.”

P&G Chemicals is a leading global oleochemical manufacturer, and we continually invest in and expand our network to meet the changing needs of our customer base. Many milestones in the history of P&G Chemicals have been implemented to support P&G consumer product innovation and growth (e.g., C12-C14 alcohols for Tide, Tertiary Amines for hand dish, AGS, LS9), in turn we are able to offer this capability to our external customer base. This process continues as we hone our supply network to meet P&G’s needs to offer consumer products in fast growing emerging markets and we look to a more sustainable future forging partnerships with companies like LS9. We look forward to understanding your needs and proposing how we can meet them now and in the future.

P&G Chemicals is an active participant in the REACH process. All the products we sell in Europe comply with the REACH regulations either via direct registration by P&G Chemicals, declaration of compliance from our suppliers or are exempted from registration.