Stepan’s research, product development, engineering and technical service teams work to strengthen the sustainability profile of our products, processes and solutions provided to our customers and society.
Advantageous Products
Bringing Science to Sustainability
Stepan remains firmly focused on delivering exceptional products through customer-centric partnerships and innovation. With deep technical expertise, extensive manufacturing capabilities, and a strong supply chain network, we continue to invest in more sustainable solutions across a range of global markets.
We offer a broad portfolio of readily available products while also driving strategic, multi-generational development of innovative, forward-looking solutions.
In recent years, our strategic investments have enabled us to:
• Tackle market challenges while improving safety for people and the environment;
• Expand biobased and fermentation-based product offerings;
• Enhance manufacturing capabilities for regional and local market efficiency; and
• Advance sustainability priorities, including food security, health and sanitation, resource conservation, and GHG emissions reduction
Stepan offers numerous chemistries to support consumer interest in naturally derived products. NINOL® CAA, a fragrance solubilizer and viscosity-builder, is coconut oil-derived and 100% active. With no added water, energy resources spent on transport are reduced. Also bio-based and high-active, STEPANQUAT® Soleil offers the additional benefit of having a regionally sourced raw material, allowing for lower transport-related emissions for raw material acquisition.
In 2024, we developed new intellectual property and scaled select biological solutions from lab to pilot scale. Over the past few years, we also launched two amino acid-based surfactants, MAPROSYL® 30-B and MAPROSYL® 25G-HP, to expand our sulfate free portfolio for consumer products. Our research efforts aim to expand our portfolio of high-performing, sustainable solutions for people and the environment, geared toward the consumer markets.
Stepan has also made significant investments in its Pasadena, Texas manufacturing facility to expand capacity and bring alkoxylation technology in-house. Our effort enables us to efficiently deliver custom solutions to a wide range of markets. Stepan’s expertise in innovation and production, combined with its broad product portfolio, allows us to serve agricultural markets with solutions that improve crop management. We also support industrial, institutional, and consumer markets with products that offer benefits such as disinfection and cleaning.
Within our Agricultural Solutions sector, Stepan continues to expand services and develop products that enhance soil health, crop productivity, and formulations. Our Advanced Formulation Services (AFS) team helps customers navigate regional regulations and optimize agricultural product development and registration. Our teams continue to research biological solutions to support sustainable crop production, mitigate resistance issues, and improve soil health.
Stepan’s technologies enable stronger and lighter gypsum wall boards, contributing to lower energy use in transport. Our new technologies going into rigid foam polyol insulation provide enhanced energy conservation.
The feedstock used to manufacture Stepan’s medium chain triglycerides (MCT's) come from coconut and palm kernel sources. These renewable feedstocks allow Stepan to produce a wide range of healthy oils which support our customers formulations in the infant nutrition, brain health and active life styles market segments.
Chemistries with Sustainable Advantage
Start your sustainability journey with products that are formulated with the environment in mind.
Navigating Safer Choice
Stepan’s Cleangredients® Guide offers a comprehensive list of our U.S. EPA Safer Choice-approved ingredients and a variety of HI&I formulations.
Biorenewable Alternatives
Stepan created an easy reference guide for our biorenewable products that includes key properties and environmental details.
RSPO-Certified Products
Are you looking to participate in the transformation of the palm industry? Stepan has products available across our regions of operation.
United Nations Global Compact
Like Stepan, are you embarking on a journey that supports the UN's Sustainable Development Goals? Our products and practices can make a difference.
