Solvents: chemical
Shell chemicals companies produce a wide range of chemical solvents with different performance properties for industrial processes and product formulations.
Inside Solvents: Chemical
Alcohols - oxygenated chemical solvents
Alcohols are versatile high purity oxygenated chemical solvents that provide unique combinations of solvency and solubility.
Glycol ethers and acetates
Glycol ethers are high performance chemical solvents designed to meet increasing technical and environmental demands of low aromatic, high solid and waterborne formulation technologies.
Ketones - oxygenated chemical solvents
Ketones are chemically stable solvents with the ability to dissolve a wide range of synthetic and natural resins, making them well suited to low viscosity and high solids formulations.
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About Shell chemicals
Shell companies first entered the chemicals industry in 1929, via a partnership in the Netherlands called NV Mekog, which manufactured ammonia from coke-oven gas.
Doing business with us
Shell chemicals companies are major suppliers of bulk petrochemicals to large industrial customers. In this section you will find essential information on how to do business with us.
Safe product handling and transportation
Transportation and Safety options and requirements.