We believe this new partnership will strengthen our position in the UK market. Safic Alcan has an impressive track record, and its complementary portfolio and focus on sustainability make it an ideal fit. We look forward to working together to deliver more high-performance, natural-based ingredients to the market and a future of shared success and growth.
Safic-Alcan UK announces new partnership with AAK
Paris, La Défense, March 1st 2024 - Safic-Alcan UK is extremely pleased to announce that it has entered into a distribution agreement with AAK, effective March 1st, 2024. The extended distribution agreement will cover the AAK Personal Care range of products in the UK and Ireland.
AAK Personal Care has an advanced range of value-adding, natural-based beauty ingredients. The company is an award-winning pioneer of sustainable supply chains that protect biodiversity and ecosystems, improve livelihoods and safeguard labour and human rights. AAK Personal Care ensures that all their plant-based emollients are expertly processed to obtain the exact chemical profile needed to optimize the efficacy, functionality, and sensory of your personal care formulations.
‘We look forward to providing our customers with a stronger, more innovative, and sustainable portfolio of ingredients. The complementary ingredient portfolio of Safic-Alcan UK provides customers with exceptional choice combined with a team of technically trained industry specialists and an award-winning applications laboratory to assist our customers’ product developments.’ Barry McDonnell, Managing Director.
About Safic-Alcan
Safic-Alcan is a French independent distributor of specialty chemicals headquartered in Paris La Défense (France). The Company develops and provides wide ranges of polymers, materials and additives for the rubber, coatings, adhesives, thermoplastics, polyurethane, lubricants, detergency, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals industries. With a network of 35 offices strategically located in Europe, Turkey, Middle East, North America, Mexico, South America, China and South Africa, and 780 people worldwide, Safic-Alcan generated a turnover of 907 M€ in 2022. Learn More
About AAK
At AAK, everything we do is about Making Better Happen™ in close collaboration with customers and partners. AAK specializes in plant-based oils that are the value-adding ingredients in many of the products people love to consume. Our solutions enable our customers to be successful in a better way. Our AAK Personal Care division is one of the world's leading suppliers of sustainably sourced plant-based emollients for the beauty industry. Our technologically advanced solutions offer new opportunities for cosmetic formulators to help positively change perceptions and drive increased use of natural ingredients.Learn more
