Personal Care & Hygiene
Superabsorbent Polymers EMEA
Superabsorbent polymers - The Key to Locking in Liquids
Superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) may look like simple white particles, but their performance is extraordinary. They absorb and retain large quantities of liquid - such as urine. Even under pressure, the liquid not only continues to be absorbed but also locked up inside these particles.
Engineered for High Performance:
BASF´s Superabsorbents are designed with different primary properties:
- Capacity: ensuring the ability to absorb large amounts of fluid
- Absorption against pressure: retaining fluid under load
- Absorption speed: for fast liquid uptake
- Permeability: allowing liquid transfer through a swollen layer of gel
SAPs are a key component of Absorbent Hygiene Products (AHPs) like Baby Diapers or Adult Incontinence Products, ensuring that urine is locked up safely, keeping the skin and clothes dry and clean. Today’s AHPs are high-tech products, which have become even more comfortable, thinner and absorbent over the years - thanks to innovations like HySorb® and SAVIVA® from BASF.
Our Product Portfolio
BASF offers two advanced product lines that enable manufacturers to create high-preformance hygiene articles with versatile designs. Our HySorb® and SAVIVA® brands provide a diverse range of options specifically designed for manufacturers of AHPs, ensuring they have the flexibility and innovation needed to meet the demands of the market. Does the design of your AHP have a high fluff ratio? Is it fluff-less? Does it have channels? Do you need an SAP with odour control? We’ve got a solution for you.
Product Safety Commitment
Safety and reliability are our top priorities. Every product undergoes a comprehensive safety assessment that exceeds the requirements of applicable regulatory standards. Our SAPs are selected based on stringent quality criteria, and the manufacturing process is governed by rigorous quality control systems to uphold exceptional hygiene standards. Our production is ISO certified with three different standards: ISO 90001 (Quality), ISO 50001 (Energy) and ISO 14001 (Environment).
Our commitment ensures high-performance solutions that our customers can trust.
HySorb® - Proven Performance
HySorb® provides tailored superabsorbent solutions for your diaper needs from our global production network.
Different diapers require different absorbent cores, and the materials are tailored toward the respective applications like Baby Diapers, Adult Incontinence Products and Feminine Care Products.
With the right balance of primary properties, HySorb® Superabsorbents help to reduce the risk of leakage by effectively absorbing, distributing and retaining urine in the diaper core, even under pressure. This ensures the skin stays dry and healthy.
From high-fluff to fluff-free diapers, our HySorb® portfolio offers the right solution for all kinds of designs.
SAVIVA® - Setting New Standards
SAVIVA® is a unique innovation for Superabsorbents based on our pioneering droplet polymerization technology. This process results in a round-shaped product providing superior capacity in combination with high gel strength and acquisition speed. It creates a new standard for today’s diaper performance with high SAP dosing reduction potential, optimal wearer comfort and excellent long-term skin dryness.
Hygiene applications
Learn more about our products in your hygiene applications.
They are true high-tech products that, over the years, have become more comfortable, thinner and more absorbent. The main reason lies in the use of innovative Superabsorbent polymers. With their help it has been possible to develop thinner diapers that not only keep babies dry for a longer time, offer more freedom of movement and due to material savings even contribute to sustainability.
We offer optimized products for a wide range of diaper cores, from high to low fluff content with a high absorption capacity, absorbency under load, speed and permeability.
As life expectancy rises and societies age, one crucial question emerges: how can we help people maintain a high quality of life as they grow older? For many, incontinence presents a sensitive challenge - one that can lead to feelings of embarrassment, reluctance to socialize, and lifestyle restrictions out of fear of leaks or unpleasant odours. Recognizing these needs, BASF offers advanced solutions through its HySorb® and SAVIVA® Product lines.
Our superabsorbents incorporate two proven odour reduction approaches to meet diverse requirements: for basic odour minimization our Olfasense label certifies scientifically validated odour reduction.
For fundamental odour control we developed our HySorb® advanced Odour Control technology.
HySorb® Advanced Odour Control
Specifically designed to support active, confident living, HySorb® Advanced Odour Control empowers individuals to participate fully in daily life, free from worries about leakage and odour.
Why Choose HySorb® Advanced Odour Control?
- Long-term odour protection: Enjoy lasting freshness and security, thanks to superior ammonia and urine odour prevention - proven to outperform current market solutions.
- Healthy, Dry Skin: High absorption capacity keeps skin comfortably dry and maintains its natural pH balance for optimum well-being.
- Innovative technology: Our advanced formula effectively delays the development of ammonia odour, offering a new standard in confidence for adult incontinence care.
Leading an active life without constraints – day after day: Superabsorbents are the secret behind today's trend towards smaller and thinner sanitary napkins, improving wellbeing so one can always feel at their best. Modern Feminine Care products consist of thin cores that are manufactured directly or use airlaid technology and are low-loaded with SAPs. For Feminine Care products the absorption of blood is an important requirement and BASF SAPs provide this feature.
Sustainability
Absorbing Sustainability, Transforming Tomorrow.
BASF is committed to driving sustainability in the hygiene industry. Through renewable energy and our biomass balance approach in our production process, we help customers to meet their sustainability goals and contribute to a greener future.
HySorb® Biomass Balanced is the innovative, certified superabsorbent that helps save fossil resources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions - without sacrificing quality or performance.
As ready-to-use drop-in solution it requires no adaptation of diaper production lines and supports our customers in achieving their sustainability goals.
Powered by renewable feedstocks like biomethane and bio-naphtha, HySorb® Biomass Balanced offers:
- Use of renewables for a more sustainable product
- Reduction of environmental footprint and saving of fossil resources
- Third-party certification
- Identical quality and processability
Choose HySorb® Biomass Balanced for high-performance, sustainable hygiene solutions - ready to help your brand stand out.
For our high-performance superabsorbent polymers, we source renewable raw materials that are certified according to recognized sustainability certification systems such as ISCC PLUS or REDcert2.
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