Creating the future of polymer additives

Vegetable oils from palm seeds, sunflower, and rapeseed are renewable sources of lipids and acids that can be used to develop functional additives. At Palsgaard, we apply over a century of experience in working with these raw materials to create vegetable-based solutions for the polymer industry under the Einar® brand. These products are tested and optimised in our polymer pilot facilities, where we can produce masterbatches and evaluate performance in real-world applications.

Market-driven, scientific development

The R&D effort at Palsgaard is a collaboration between hard market intelligence and pure scientific endeavour.

We have decades of experience in dealing with the polymer industry, and through a close dialogue with our customers and partners, we are often capable of pinpointing the need for a specific solution to problems that have beset the industry for years.

Sometimes we enter into a development programme with our customers to discover solutions for new applications, but more often than not we are simply driven by curiosity. Here, our unique ownership status comes as a fantastic benefit to us.

We have the financial and corporate stability to think in long-term solutions and to develop answers to questions few have yet begun to ask - financial gain here and now is all well and good, but market leadership and a deeper understanding of our products and their applications, in the long run, is far more desirable to us.

Often, our research shows us new possibilities which we explore and develop into viable solutions to problems facing the industry. Such basic research regularly leads us in entirely new directions - and to new products, all based on the inexhaustible wealth of natural ingredients. Read more about Nexus, the independent R&D facility within Palsgaard, here.

A history of innovation

For decades, Palsgaard’s food-grade emulsifiers and stabilisers have contributed to safer products in the food industry. Building on this expertise, we now apply similar technology to develop plant-based functional additives for polymers, offering alternatives to additives of concern such as amides and amines.

These solutions are designed to support manufacturers seeking to reduce fossil-based content while maintaining functionality and cost-performance.

When manufacturers need to balance environmental considerations, functionality, product safety and cost-performance, Einar® products offer plant-based alternatives for applications such as anti-static or anti-fogging in polyolefins, commonly used in sensitive areas like food packaging.