Treasures from the forest FORCHEM PRODUCTS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION INSIGHTS CONTACT EN FI 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. READ MORE 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. READ MORE OUR PRODUCTS TALL OIL FATTY ACID (TOFA) TALL OIL ROSIN (TOR) DISTILLED TALL OIL (DTO) FORTOP600 OTHER TALL OIL PRODUCTS CONTACT US Forchem Oyj P.O. Box 16. FI-26101 RAUMA FINLAND info@forchem.com tel +358 2 478 4400 Visiting address Maanpääntie 3 FI-26820 RAUMA FINLAND Home Forchem Products Sustainability Innovation Insights Contact Forchem general terms and conditions of sale Generic Inquery Sales Inquery