Glycerin
Glycerin is a sweet-tasting humectant utilized in a wide range of products. Leveraging our global reach, extensive asset network and upstream integration, LDC provides a reliable service to deliver high-quality ingredients to consumers worldwide.
Our Products
Our glycerin, derived from plant-based sources, benefits from an integrated value chain right from its origin, ensuring product traceability. This colorless and odorless humectant is versatile, with applications ranging from gel capsules to body lotions, making everyday life more enjoyable.
LDC’s commitment to quality not only involves producing high-purity products that meet our customers’ expectations but also includes our capability to meet global demand through glycerin production facilities on four continents.
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| GMO | Soy | USP/EP, Kosher, Halal | Rail car, Bulk Truck, Isotank, IBC, Drum, Corrugated Totes |
| Non-GMO | Rapeseed | USP/EP, Kosher, Halal | Bulk Truck, Isotank, IBC, Drum |
| Coconut | USP/EP, Kosher for Passover, Halal, Organic | Isotank, IBC, Drum | |
| Palm (2025 forward) | USP/EP, Kosher for Passover, Halal | Bulk Truck, Isotank, IBC, Drum | |
Our Offering
As your trusted partner for plant-based ingredient solutions, we are strategically positioned to meet the needs of our customers wherever they are.
- Glycerin 100% vegetable-based, harvested and crushed in different parts of the world.
- Glycerin with a minimum purity specification of 99.7%, making it suitable for applications ranging from food grade to cosmetics.
- Superior logistics that enable the efficient distribution of large volumes of products, ensuring timely and reliable deliveries.
- Consistent product quality and food safety standards through fully integrated plants, with a long-term commitment to creating fair and sustainable value.
Coming Soon: New palm derived glycerin refinery under construction in Indonesia (commences 2025).
Product Applications
Animal Nutrition, Petfood and Petcare
Glycerin Applications:
Mainly used in livestock feed for cattle, pigs, and poultry, as well as in petfood, treats and hygiene.
Functionalities:
- Helps retain moisture in the feed and in the pet food pellets, maintaining its freshness.
- Improves the digestibility of dry matter in dairy cow feed.
- Makes the feed more appealing to animals, encouraging better feed intake.
- Serves as a valuable energy source for animals.
- Acts as a humectant in pet hygiene products.
Product performance may not be suitable for the intended use depending on the application. For more information, please get in touch.
Food & Beverages
Glycerin Applications:
Present in meat casings, dried fruits and baked goods, as well as soft drinks and flavored waters.
Functionalities:
- Works as a humectant in food, preventing drying in baked goods and fruit candies.
- Serves as a sweetener in low sugar confectionary and diet drinks.
- Functions as an edible plasticizer in food casings.
Product performance may not be suitable for the intended use depending on the application. For more information, please get in touch.
Industrial
Glycerin Applications:
Mainly used in paints and varnishes, dyeing textiles, chemicals and plastics, and explosives.
Functionalities:
- Works as a softener for rubber tubes.
- Used in sizing and softening of fabrics.
- Functions as a refrigerant agent.
- Enables the production of polyglycerols for use in shale stabilization.
- Used in drilling muds.
- Applied in surface coatings and paints.
- Performs the role of lubricant in paper manufacturing.
- Included in Anti-freeze fluids.
- Added in de-icing fluids.
- Forms polyols for flexible foam.
- Creates Polyurethane products.
- Serves as a softener and plasticizer.
Product performance may not be suitable for the intended use depending on the application. For more information, please get in touch.
Pharmaceuticals
Glycerin Applications:
Contained in a variety of pharmaceutical applications, such as soft gel capsules.
Functionalities:
- Maintains the efficacy and shelf life of medicines.
- Used as catheter lubricant.
- Increases stability, solubility, and viscosity in excipients.
- Acts as a sweetener, improving the taste of oral medications.
Product performance may not be suitable for the intended use depending on the application. For more information, please get in touch.
Personal Care & Cosmetics
Glycerin Applications:
From skincare products, such as creams and solutions, to hygiene lines including shampoos, soaps, and toothpaste.
Functionalities:
- Improves skin hydration by attracting moisture from the air.
- Serves as a substitute for sorbitol.
- Works as a solvent in hygiene products.
- Acts as a lubricant, preventing dryness and flakiness in hair.
Product performance may not be suitable for the intended use depending on the application. For more information, please get in touch.
Certifications
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