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title: "Specialties for specialists: How Haltermann Carless' early farsightedness results in success"
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# [Specialties for specialists: How Haltermann Carless' early farsightedness results in success](https://www.haltermann-carless.com/stories/specialties-for-specialists_how-haltermann-carless-early-farsightedness-results-in-success)

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Haltermann Carless is a specialty chemical company offering a wide range of high-quality products to selected markets and applications.

Our strong knowledge of the chemicals business combined with our expertise in petrochemicals have given us a unique position worldwide. Customers value our expertise and comprehensive technical application services as well as our solution-oriented approach.

Whereas big oil companies focus on high volumes and product standardisation, Haltermann Carless focuses on downstream and application services, such as:

- Tailor-made products - developed with and for customers
- Highly flexible production units
- Comprehensive application service support
- Dedicated supply chain per product

**Early focus on specialty products and services**

The foundations for todays’ specialties business were laid back in 1953. Haltermann realised that his company would be unable to withstand the competition of the major, multi-national organisations in the fuel sector over the long-term. Thus, he decided to focus on specialty products and services.

This was implemented using a systematic and gradual approach. At the production site Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg, Germany, the distillation columns for benzenes and tar acids were upgraded. Continuous refining equipment was built based on in-house designs and sodium was introduced as a reagent in the desulfurisation of white spirit. To meet the growing demands for aromatics he introduced a new process from the USA: aromatics produced in a petrochemical process providing high purity and low odour – important characteristics for the customers of such solvents.

With his farsightedness and strategic approach, Haltermann enabled a new business path and succeeded in developing a strong market position – which we still hold today. As an international leading company of hydrocarbon-based specialty products we can proudly say that we are continuing the successful story of our founding father(s).

**[Click here to learn more about Haltermann Carless.](https://www.haltermann-carless.com/about-us/haltermann-carless?hsLang=en)**

*(from the book “100 Years Haltermann – 1898-1998, p. 31)*

 

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