Treasures
from the forest
Our story
Nordic forests are home for many precious substances. Crude tall oil, familiarly called CTO, is one of them. At Forchem, we refine CTO for its numerous modern-day purposes from paints to antibacterial animal feed and work everyday to make and find more applications to build a better and greener tomorrow for everyone.
CTO is part of our everyday life
Crude tall oil, thanks to its unique properties, can be further refined to various fractions. The intermediates – such as fatty acids, sterols and rosins – can be used in numerous applications, many of which are still to be discovered. At Forchem, we research CTO’s many valuable features that often offer a sustainable alternative for non-renewable raw materials in many products. CTO also has antibacterial qualities and nutritional, health-benefitting effects.
”CTO is a sustainable alternative for non-renewable ingredients in many products that serve us in our daily life.”
Our R&D work has been rewarded and Forchem has been recognized as one of the most promising cleantech companies in the world. The Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) selected Forchem to the Global Top 30 cleantech list among over 4,500 companies in 2012. In 2019, the Finnish Innovation Fund, Sitra, listed Forchem as One of the most interesting companies in the circular economy of Finland.