High-Performance
Waxes
With over 140 years of expertise, we design and deliver performance-driven wax solutions tailored to your processes - supporting adhesives, coatings, packaging, asphalt, wood, rubber, and more.
Sasol Wax is now Hywax
Same proven quality, deep technical expertise, and global supply - now with increased flexibility in delivering wax solutions and enhanced product development.
Read the full storyR&D
State-of-the-art Research & Development focused on highest purity waxes and custom blends for all applications.
Tech
World leading specialist in innovative wax technology, offering a wide range of wax products of the highest quality.
Sustainability
Focused on renewable and green raw materials and technologies. Zero waste policy and upcycling of all production by-products.
Global Reach
Reliable worldwide distribution, ensuring fast delivery and local support for customers everywhere.
Our wax products
Fischer-Tropsch Waxes
Hywax is a world leader in the production and distribution of hydrotreated synthetic Fischer-Tropsch (FT) waxes. F-T waxes are made in a controlled environment using carbon monoxide and hydrogen as feedstock, producing saturated, straight-chain hydrocarbons of consistently high purity and quality.
The product range includes high-melt waxes used as performance additives in applications such as hot melt adhesives, inks and coatings, bitumen, polymers and textile, and medium-melt waxes used in similar applications to paraffin waxes.
Learn moreParaffin Waxes
The paraffin waxes produced by Hywax are of the highest purity. The highly refined grades meet the specifications for food contact, cosmetic and pharmaceutical applications.
Continuous quality controls ensure constant high quality standards across all product lines.
Learn moreMicrocrystalline Waxes
Hywax offers a full range of microcrystalline waxes. Typical applications include cosmetics, chewing gum, packaging, pharmaceuticals and technical applications.
These versatile waxes serve both consumer and industrial markets with consistent quality.
Learn morePetroleum Jellies
Hywax supplies white and yellow pharmaceutical petroleum jellies for use in cosmetic, personal care and pharma products, as well as technical jellies for numerous industrial applications.
Both product groups are subject to the highest quality requirements, with compliance strictly controlled.
Learn moreEmulsions & Dispersions
Hywax offers a comprehensive portfolio of state-of-the-art wax dispersions and oil emulsions designed to convey maximum hydrophobing to sophisticated construction materials.
Our performance additives enhance process performance on fast-running production lines with lubrication and dust-binding properties.
Learn moreWhere our waxes are used
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Our experts will be happy to find the right solution for your specific needs.
