adhäsion KLEBEN&DICHTEN is the only German language trade magazine for industrial adhesive and sealing technology. It is geared to manufacturers and users of adhesives and sealants and creates cross-industry synergies. The reader receives practical information regarding raw materials, adhesives and sealants, instrument and plant engineering, applications as well as research and development.
The English language adhesion – ADHESIVES+SEALANTS is geared to international manufacturers and users of adhesives and sealants and achieves cross-industry synergies. The reader receives diverse, practical information. The Connecting Materials sector index as well as information on the most important trade fairs and events round off our reporting.
Contact: Ingo Rosenstock
Springer Fachmedien, Abraham-Lincoln-Straße 46, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany
+49 (0) 611 787878 146 ingo.rosenstock@springernature.com
Adhesives & Sealants Industry provides quality and up-to-date content covering all aspects of using adhesives and sealants, formulating, and manufacturing. Adhesives & Sealants Industry presents real-world solutions to processing, manufacturing, and application problems, and covers key issues such as environmental regulation, legislative concerns, and global trade.
Contact: Tom Fowler, Publisher
Adhesives & Sealants Industry, 2401 W. Big Beaver Rd. Suite 700, 48084 Troy, USA
+1 248 786 1717 fowlert@bnpmedia.com
Acquired by the LINDAL Group in 2011, Altachem specialise in the manufacturing of high delivery valves and guns.
Originally founded in 1992 and home to 30 dedicated employees, Altachem is the world’s leader in the development and production of valves, application tools and accessories for 1K-PU foam (1 component PU foam) in pressurised cannisters. With a turnover of more than 25 million euros and a continued focus on further growth and innovation, Altachem retains a strong position in the world of 1K-PU foam, adhesives and sealants.
The site in Harelbeke utilises technology throughout the plant, ranging from the latest ERP system to ensure a paperless shop floor to testing and implenting AGV’s (Automated Guided Vehicles) to improve efficiency in production. There is also a strong workplace culture at Altachem with the ‘Be The Change’ programme focusing on training employees to improve their individual skill sets. Altafit! is also another important internal initiative that focuses on employee wellbeing to create a healthier and happier workplace.
Contact: Thom Meerschman, International Sales Manager
Altachem N.V., Generaal Deprezstraat 2, 8530 Harelbeke, Belgium
+32 472 960548 thom.meerschman@lindalgroup.com
ARLANXEO is a world-leading synthetic rubber company with about 4,000 employees and a presence in over 10 countries with more than 20 production sites. ARLANXEO was established in April 2016 as a joint venture of LANXESS and Saudi Aramco. Since December 31st, 2018 ARLANXEO is a 100% subsidiary of Saudi Aramco.
Headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, the company’s core business is the development, manufacturing and marketing of synthetic high-performance polymers.
Special grades from the product lines Baypren® (chloroprene rubber), Perbunan®, Krynac® and Baymod® N (nitrile rubber), Levamelt® (ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers) and X_Butyl® (butyl rubber) are tailor-made for use in adhesive applications. The synthetic rubbers offer unique properties regarding elasticity, polarity and tackiness, making them particularly suitable for versatile applications in the adhesive and sealant industry:
– Baypren®: First choice for solvent-borne contact adhesives.
– Perbunan®, Krynac® and Baymod® N: Base polymer for solvent-borne contact adhesive and modifier for structural adhesives.
– Levamelt®: Base polymer for pressure sensitive adhesives and modifier for structural adhesives and hot melts.
– X_Butyl®: Base polymer with unique properties for tapes, adhesives and sealants.
Contact: Dr. Martin Schneider, Head of Adhesive Development
ARLANXEO Deutschland GmbH, Chempark Dormagen, Alte Heerstraße 2, 41540 Dormagen, Germany
+49 221 65033413 martin.schneider@arlanxeo.com
About BASF
At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. More than 110,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio is organized into six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions. BASF generated sales of €59 billion in 2020.
BASF’s Dispersions & Resins division
The Dispersions & Resins division of BASF develops, produces and markets a range of high-quality polymer dispersions, resins, additives and electronic materials worldwide. These raw materials are used in formulations for a number of industries, including coatings, construction, adhesives, printing and packaging, electronics and paper. With its comprehensive product portfolio and its extensive knowledge of the industry, the Dispersions & Resins division offers its customers innovative and sustainable solutions and helps them advance their formulations.
Contact: Anna Eugenia Nieding, Senior Segment Manager Sealants
BASF SE, E-EDE/BM, Carl-Bosch-Str. 38, 67056 Ludwigshafen, Germany
+49 173 3797910 anna-eugenia.nieding@basf.com
For decades, BCD Chemie has focused on the marketing of industrial and specialty chemicals and is one of the leading suppliers in this segment. Profound market knowledge, competent product, and application development as well as comprehensive expertise in chemical-technical and market-analytical contexts form the basis of our philosophy of modern chemical distribution.
As an experienced chemical distributor from Hamburg, we know how to provide the right chemicals for a wide range of requirements and industries and how to guarantee a reliable supply of the products. In addition, we are at your disposal with services such as logistics, contract filling and the industrial treatment of surfaces.
For your adhesive formulation we offer a wide range of raw materials like resins for waterborne and solvent-based systems, additives like adhesion promoter, rheological additives, dispersing agents, wetting agents, and a lot more. A broad range of different solvents completes our product portfolio.
Our experienced technical service together with the team in our Innovation Centre will support you to choose the right raw materials for your formulation for innovative new products.
Contact: Simone Jöhnk, Head of Product and Marketing Management
BCD Chemie GmbH, Schellerdamm 16, 21079 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40 771732528 simone.joehnk@bcd-chemie.de
Biesterfeld Spezialchemie is a leading distributor of products & solutions in the world of specialty chemicals. We maintain cooperations with global suppliers. Extensive application expertise, formulation know-how and a product portfolio tailored to the needs of selected industries characterize our services e.g. in the fields of polyurethanes, coatings, adhesives & sealants and construction chemicals.
Contact: Robert Geffken, Market Manager Adhesives & Construction
Biesterfeld Spezialchemie GmbH, Ferdinandstraße 41, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40 32008 222 r.geffken@biesterfeld.com
Oriented towards people and sustainability, Braskem is engaged in contributing to the value chain in order to strengthen the Circular Economy. Its 8,000 team members dedicate themselves every day to improving people’s lives through sustainable solutions in chemicals and plastics. With its corporate DNA rooted in innovation, Braskem offers a comprehensive portfolio of plastic resins and chemical products for diverse industries, specially the adhesive market, including hydrocarbon resins (HCR’s), Polyisobutylene (PIB) and Bio-based PE Wax.
Contact: Eduardo Perez, Commercial Leader
Braskem, Rua Lemos Monteiro, 120, 05501-050 São Paulo, Brazil
+55 (11) 971671503 eduardo.perez@braskem.com
BUSS ChemTech, a member of the Desmet Ballestra Group since 2021, is a Swiss technology and engineering company with a history that spans more than 130 years. Since it invented the Buss-Loop® Reactor in 1950, Buss ChemTech has been delivering high performance, reliable and safe process design solutions for catalysed gas/liquid reactions to chemical companies around the globe. Our expertise extends to the HHCR market: Buss ChemTech is the only provider of slurry-based process technology for the continuous production of water-white resins.
In addition to the hydrogenation of resins, a multitude of reactions across the chemical industry value chain can be successfully executed in the Buss-Loop® Reactor. Products include non-ionic surfactants, API intermediates, crop protection chemicals and many others. For the largest multi-nationals to the smallest specialty chemicals producers, Buss ChemTech has become a key process and plant engineering partner thanks to its distinguished reaction technology portfolio, wide ranging know-how, process development resources and flexibility for tailor-made project engineering and management services.
Contact: Thomas Blocher, Business Manager Reaction Technology
Buss ChemTech AG, Hohenrainstrasse 12A, 4133 Pratteln, Switzerland
+41 61 825 6317 thomas.blocher@buss-ct.com
BYK is a leading global supplier of specialty chemicals. The company’s innovative additives and differentiated solutions optimize product and material properties as well as production and application processes. Amongst other things, BYK additives improve scratch resistance and surface gloss, the mechanical strength or flow behavior of materials, and properties such as UV- and light stability or flame retardancy. In the field of quality assurance, BYK’s measuring and testing instruments serve to effectively assess appearance and physical properties.
The company’s customers include manufacturers of coatings and printing inks, plastics, adhesives and sealants, as well as cleaners, floor coatings, and lubricants. BYK additives are also successfully used in the construction chemistry, oil and gas, and foundry industries.
BYK has a global network of subsidiaries and operates production sites in Germany (Wesel, Kempen, Moosburg, Schkopau), the Netherlands (Deventer, Nijverdal), and the UK (Widnes), in the USA (Wallingford, Chester, Gonzales, Louisville, Earth City and Pompano Beach), and in China (Tongling).
The company is part of the ALTANA Group and employs a workforce of more than 2,400 people worldwide.
Contact: Tobias Austermann, Global Head of Enduse Adhesives & Sealants
BYK-Chemie GMBh, Abelstraße 45, 46483 Wesel, Germany
+49 281 670-0 tobias.austermann@altana.com
The former Smart Materials business of Croda is excited to first time exhibit at Feica 2022 under the Cargill brand.
Cargill provides food, agriculture, financial and industrial products and services to the world. Together with farmers, customers, governments and communities, we help people thrive by applying our insights and 150 years of experience. We have 155,000 employees in 70 countries / regions who are committed to feeding the world in a responsible way, reducing environmental impact and improving the communities where we live and work.
Smart Materials offers innovative technologies to support our customers in developing lighter, miniaturized, durable and multifunctional solutions. All this whilst offering a pathway to low carbon solutions.
Bio-based building blocks (monomers and polyols) are key to our business. Recognized by the market as experts in this field, we developed an extensive range of products that includes specialty dimer fatty acids, dimer diamines and diols, toughening agents and bio-based polyester polyols. These are designed to bring enhanced performance properties in adhesive applications, such as: moisture and chemical resistance, versatile adhesion, low temperature performance and thermo-oxidative stability, improved environmental profile.
Contact: Angela Smits, Technology Development Manager
Cargill, Buurtje 1, 2802 BE Gouda, The Netherlands
For more than 40 years, Chromaflo has supplied quality colorants for thermosets. With a full range of high-quality colorants, chemical pigment dispersions and additive technologies, we work with our partners to develop high performing and innovative composites products in the thermoset plastics industry. As experts in color development and technology, we consider unique color space, performance and cost specifications. We match our customers with products and solutions that meet their exact requirements, helping them produce durable, effective and cost efficient composites materials.
Contact: Ron van der Leeuw
Chromaflo Technologies BV, Ankerkade 101, 6222 Maastricht, The Netherlands
+316 42 48 00 49 vanderleeuw@chromaflo.com
Chromatech offers a wide range of colorants for many industries and applications including (but not limited to): ADHESIVES, seed coating, fertilizers, pesticides, non-woven textiles, leak detection, soaps & detergents, pond dyes, turf paint, water tracing, antifreeze & coolants, car wash soaps & waxes, windshield washer fluid, and de-icing materials.
In addition to high quality dyes, Chromatech has laboratories across the globe that can help our customers by testing colorants, dyes, pigments, and pigment dispersions in customer applications and conditions.
Contact: Edward Schuller, Technical Sales Representative
Chromatech Europe, B.V., Dijkweg 159, 2675 AD Honselersdijk, The Netherlands
+31 174 272 291 e.schuller@chromatecheurope.eu
Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end-markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive and diverse company, Eastman employs approximately 14,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2021 revenues of approximately $10.5 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA.
Contact: Michael Hartman, Sales manager
Eastman Plasticizers, Watermanweg 70, 3067 GG Rotterdam, The Netherlands
+49 2173 9935148 mhartman@eastman.com
Partnership is the key to success.
Emerell operates as an independent and pure production partner supporting a broad variety of companies with toll-manufacturing of speciality chemicals (emulsion polymerization, solution polymerization, mixing technology, special technologies).
Contact: Marco Montagner, Key Account Manager
Emerell AG, Neulandstrasse 3, 6203 Sempach Station, Switzerland
+41 79 538 09 26 marco.montagner@emerell.com
The fitech AG develops and builds machines and plants for the production of low to highly viscous sealants and adhesives such as PUs, hybrids, silicone, plastisols and thermal conductive paste.
We construct and manufacture intelligent and ressource-friendly plants for you, from the first tests up to delivery and transfer – Made in Switzerland. The machinery and plants produced by fitech AG are manufactured and tested in our own production halls in Amriswil, Switzerland.
Process automation is one of our core competencies. We show you how to increase efficiency and stabilize production processes. This improves reproducibility, optimizes the environmental footprint and increases employee satisfaction.
The fitech AG is your sought-after plant constructor and engineering service provider and delivers your talyor-made plant on demand.
Contact: Patrik Thoma, CEO
fitech ag, Buchenhölzlistrasse 3, 8580 Amriswil, Switzerland
+41 71 414 72 10 info@fitech.ch
IBC totes for logistics that make sense
Flexible container systems for handling and transporting bulk liquids
Fluid-Bag 1000 or 900 litre flexible IBC totes are an efficient container solution for liquid and semi-solid products.
We work closely with our customers to find ways in which the Fluid-Bag IBC totes can improve and bring added value to daily manufacturing and logistics processes. Our technical team has solid experience in handling very challenging products and viscosities.
The Fluid-Bag provides excellent protection for air and moisture sensitive products such as polyurethane glues, adhesives, sealants, and silicones. Water based coatings and paints are also easily handled in Fluid-Bags. Its flexibility provides the unique possibility to fill the packaging without the need of empty space for temperature changes. This, for example, can help avoid the risk of skinning.
We can help you find the right equipment and setup for your application and manufacturing environment. We check and guarantee the quality of each of our liquid totes, ensuring that a product packed in a Fluid-Bag IBC tote will reach its destination with the same quality as when it was first packed in the factory.
Contact: Henrik Kass, Sales Manager
Fluid-Bag Ltd., Bottenviksvägen 54-56, 68600 Jakobstad, Finland
+358 20 779 0444 office@fluid-bag.com
Haltermann Carless is a leading international provider of high-value hydrocarbon solutions. Our products are used in the most diverse industry sectors – from automotive to pharmaceutical to the construction market. Established in 1859, we are proud to celebrate our 160th anniversary. Over many generations, we have succeeded in continuously reinventing ourselves and meeting changing customer requirements. Today, many of our products hold market-leading positions and respond to a wide range of market demands such as saving energy, improving engine efficiency and higher quality performance.
For the silicon sealants industry we offer our range of low viscosity base oils. Excellent compatibility and solvency properties as well as UV- and long-term storage stability make our Pilot® Oils the ideal candidate for the manufacture of high-quality silicone sealants (acetoxy and alkoxy applications).
In 2020, with the opening of our new hydrogenation plant in Speyer, Germany, we are in the position to offer new product types and products with a high degree of purity and low aromatic content.
Contact: Jan Boerrigter, Commercial Manager Middle Distillates
Haltermann Carless, Schlengendeich 17, 21107 Hamburg, Germany
+31 620 449 092 jboerrigter@h-c-s-group.com
Hauschild presents its bladeless mixing technology, which is mainly used for R&D, formulation, and QA/QC purposes. The Hauschild SpeedMixer® product line can be divided in three major groups, depending on the maximum nominal gross weight a machine can mix: small, medium, and large machines. Small and medium equipment are generally better suited for laboratory work, large equipment can also be utilized in a production setting where the batch size is up to 10kg.
Mixing is taking place bladeless by using centrifugal forces that work in a rotation/counter-rotation. This technology requires no further cleaning, thus saving time and money.
The Hauschild SpeedMixer® can be used to mix different fluids and pastes, pastes with powders, powders with powders and other fluids/powders combinations, also materials with different chemical and physical properties can be mixed.
The mixer is used in every industry and field where mixing is an essential part of the development or production process. The mixing of adhesives and sealants requires precision and repeatability. Multi-component reactive systems with various viscosity resins and cutting-edge additives are used across aerospace, industrial, medical, manufacturing, electronic, semiconductor, automotive industries. The Hauschild SpeedMixer® easily overcomes the unique formulation and processing needs of these materials.
Contact: MAREIKE BOCCOLA, OWNER / MARKETING
HAUSCHILD GMBH & CO. KG, WATERKAMP 1, 59075 HAMM, Germany
+49 (0) 2381 48205-0 m.boccola@hauschild-speedmixer.com
March 1st 2022 – Sasol Wax joins the AWAX Group and changes name into Hywax GmbH. Hywax is leading specialist in innovative wax technology, offering customers all over the world a wide range of wax products of the highest quality and purity. Hywax has the biggest Hydrogenation unit in Europe and this permit to offer an extensive portfolio of products featuring paraffin, microcrystalline and synthetic Fischer-Tropsch waxes, petroleum jellies as well as tailor-made blends and emulsions.
Contact: Luca Gianzini, Global Manager Hard wax & Specialties
Hywax GmbH, Worthdamm 13-27, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
+49 1733205865 luca.gianzini@hywax.com
IMCD is a global leader in the distribution and formulation of speciality chemicals and ingredients, providing solutions to its partners, with a footprint in over 50 countries in six continents. At IMCD Coatings & Construction we offer speciality raw materials to drive performance of adhesives, paints, coatings, construction, printing inks, textile and leather and paper formulations. For the adhesives market we are offering raw materials that enable to get the most out of formulations, whether these are solvent-based, water-based, hot melt or based on natural polymers.
Our skilled team of product, technical and sales experts work to anticipate future needs and use their innovative thinking to drive formulation evolution. Combining the know-how of our people with the best-in-class raw materials of our principal supplier is what allows IMCD to provide the best solution.
For further information, please visit www.imcdgroup.com
Contact: Sergio Cremonesi, Director Adhesives
IMCD Group, Centro Leoni – Edificio A, Via Giovanni Spadolini 5, 20141 Milano MI, Italy
+39 3487262208 sergio.cremonesi@imcd.it
Imerys, the world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, delivers high-value-added functional solutions to a great number of sectors, from processing industries to consumer goods. Our Performance Minerals segment serves different markets: Adhesive, Caulks, Sealant, Rubber, and Plastics. We engineer the right mineral solutions for your application, weither it is building & construction, automotive, industrial assembly, or packaging. These mineral solutions include a large range of minerals such as Ground and Precipitated Calcium Carbonate, Kaolin, Wollastonite, Talc, Mica, and Diatomaceous Earth.
Contact: Erik van Dijnen, Technical Manager Adhesive-Plastisol-Sealant EMEA
Imerys, 43 Quai de Grenelle, 75015 Paris, France
+32 476 415 086 erik.vandijnen@imerys.com
Ingevity provides products and technologies that purify, protect, and enhance the world around us. Through a team of talented and experienced people, we develop, manufacture and bring to market solutions that help customers solve complex problems and make the world more sustainable. We’re a leading supplier of bio-based tackifying resins and engineered polymers for adhesives. Our global manufacturing capabilities, logistic services and regional technical support allow us to create innovative adhesive solutions for a broad array of applications. From product innovation to formulation recommendations, our team of expertise provide a market-focused approach to help solve your adhesion challenges.
Contact: Patty Jazwiecki, Senior Marketing Communications Manager
Ingevity, 4920 O’Hear Ave. Ste. 400, North Charleston, S.C. 29405, USA
+1 843 740 2300 patty.jazwiecki@ingevity.com
JHT has been manufacturing innovative machines and components for the paper-, film- and foil-converting-industry for 20 years. The product range includes coating-, laminating- and impregnating-lines, pilot-lines, applicators, winding machines and retrofit-equipment. Furthermore, the company supplies machines individually tailored to customer requirements, which convince through high quality.
JHT stands for future-oriented plant solutions and focusses on the integration of new technologies in terms of Industry 4.0. Innovation is not limited to machines and components. It’s integrated throughout – from development and production to plant solutions and after-sales.
One example is the additively manufactured vacuum roller “VacuFL3X”. The stainless-steel roller features an optimized double-shell-concept for temperature control of the web and symmetrically interconnected vacuum-zones. Their separate control enables energy-efficient operation with different web-widths. The sealing can be replaced toolless and allows a flexible wrap angle.
Another example is the FIPAGO-Tester: within its modernization, it was equipped with a high-precision incremental-encoder and a PLC to precisely evaluate the adhesive strength of tapes. The PLC controls the process automatically and ensures reproducibility and comparability of the results. Testing a variety of adhesive tapes on paper, foil, metal or glass and ensuring quality – we would be pleased to present the FIPAGO tester at our table.
Contact: Alexander Houben, Managing Director
Jakobs-Houben Technologie GmbH, Gutenbergstraße 35, 52511 Geilenkirchen, Germany
+49 2451 911 511 20 alexander.houben@jht.eu
JPB INDUSTRY, World Expert & Leader in Systems for the packaging of HM PSAs & Tacky Products in pillows are now launching their:
DUAL PROCESS SYSTEM: small or medium pillows and large chubs are produced by the same system!
Very high versatility by combining 2 Technologies.
Choose your Process from the Touch Screen HMI= Co-Extrusion (pillows) or Bagging (chubs FF&S). Just select/set your process, no change of heavy equipment required.
One single machine can produce small 30-40 gr or medium pillows (150 à 400 gr), as well as large chubs of 1.000 gr. Highly Efficient, fully integrated processes, cost saving (2 in 1), reduced footprint.
DUAL PROCESS SYSTEM currently available in 500 kg/hr and 1.000 kg/hr.
JPB INDUSTRY always offer : Pillow packaging systems from 30-40 gr to 1.000 gr pillows // 8 Models from 500 kg/hr to 2.500 kg/hr // Melt Cooler // Screen Changer // Fully Integrated Turnkey Lines including Reactors & Holding Tanks.
Contact: F.X. de Thezy, CEO
JPB Industry, 1-3 rue de l’Innovation, ZI Sud-Est, 85150 Les Achards, France
+33 2 5121 5151 fx.dethezy@jpbindustry.com
Keyser & Mackay is an experienced agent and distributor of specialty chemicals and equipment with an extensive network throughout the heart of Europe. Situated in the historic city of Amsterdam by one of the most beautiful 17th century canals, Leidsegracht 19 is the headquarters of a pan-European operating agent and distributor in chemical raw materials.
We represent over 100 suppliers producing a wide range of products including additives, pigments, fillers, polymers, surfactants, resins, silicas, wax emulsions, epoxy hardeners, silanes and many more.
We serve over 1000 customers with a full range of functional and synergetic products for many industries including coatings and printing inks, adhesives and sealants, plastics, construction, basic chemicals, food and feed, pharmaceuticals, personal care and many others.
Keyser & Mackay has 150 employees and offices in 7 countries in Europe, each having its own storage facilities. We work on an industry segmented basis with dedicated and experienced technically educated industry managers acting as problem solvers, supported by commercial inside sales teams. We take care of market investigation, sales promotion, logistic matters, warehousing, sampling and technical support to customers.
Adding value to your products is our goal in life. We are committed to giving support and quick response to our customers’ needs, ensuring quality and transparency in all our services.
Contact: Robert Woizenko, Sales Director
Keyser & Mackay KG, Ettore-Bugatti-Str. 6-14, 51149 Köln, Germany
+49 2203 20301-14 r.woizenko@keymac.com
LANXESS is a leading global specialty chemicals company based in Cologne. With around 14,900 employees in 33 countries, we are an established company on the global market. Our primary expertise lies in producing, developing and marketing chemical intermediates, additives, specialty chemicals and plastics. We are also driving leadership in sustainability – becoming climate neutral by 2040.
The LANXESS Polymer Additives Unit offers tailored solutions for leading-edge adhesives and sealants, including polymer additives, biocides, and intermediates. Our application experts and innovative chemistries enhance performance characteristics, preservation, HS&E profile, ease of use, and manufacturing efficiency / economy, as well as provide opportunities to reduce expensive copolymer levels.
In 2021, LANXESS completed the acquisition of Emerald Kalama Chemical and expanded its portfolio of plasticizers, modifiers, and benzoates. This includes the K-FLEX® and Kalama® Vitroflex® ranges of non-phthalate plasticizers as well as the Modulast® range of novel dibenzoate modifier solutions.
Contact: Max Siebenbrock, Head of Global Marketing Plasticizer & Specialty Additives
LANXESS Deutschland GmbH / Polymer Additives, Kennedyplatz 1, 50569 Köln, Germany
+49 221 8885 6891 max.siebenbrock@lanxess.com
ADHESIVES AND SEALANTS SOLUTIONS
LANXESS offer a full low monomer approach for flexible and customized “label-free” adhesives and sealants, especially important for reactive hot melts. We tailor the properties of the LF prepolymer to the needs of the application while delivering reduced complexity and improved industrial hygiene by avoiding handling of free monomeric isocyanate during formulation and final use. LANXESS Urethane Systems drives development of powerful low monomer prepolymers used as flexible formulation platform for adhesives and sealants and one component foams. The focus is on innovative LF (Low Free) monomer technology creates prepolymers with less than 0.1 wt.% free diisocyanate content for excellent adhesive performance, improved processing and unsurpassed industrial hygiene. High NCO and higher functionality, this advanced functionality prepolymers with customized properties in terms of reactivity, NCO content and viscosity lead to improved crosslinking and increased strength and rigidity in adhesive formulations. Adiprene® LF prepolymers have a highly structured morphology to provide superior adhesive performance, including excellent toughness, fatigue resistance, and longer lifetimes when exposed to extreme conditions of temperature.
Contact: Jessica Spandick, Product Manager
LANXESS Deutschland GmbH, Building B, 108, 51369 Leverkusen, Germany
+49 221 8885 3027 jessica.spandick@lanxess.com
As a leader in the global chemical industry, LyondellBasell strives every day to be the safest, best operated and most valued company in our industry. The company’s products, materials and technologies are advancing sustainable solutions for food safety, access to clean water, healthcare and fuel efficiency in more than 100 international markets. LyondellBasell places high priority on diversity, equity and inclusion and is Advancing Good with an emphasis on our planet, the communities where we operate and our future workforce. The company takes great pride in its world-class technology and customer focus. LyondellBasell has stepped up its circularity and climate ambitions and actions to address the global challenges of plastic waste and decarbonization. In 2022, LyondellBasell was named as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” for the fifth consecutive year. For more information, please visit www.lyondellbasell.com or follow @LyondellBasell on LinkedIn.
Contact: Patrick van Beek, Marketing Manager PB-1
Basell Sales & Marketing Company BV, Delftseplein 27E, 3013AA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
+31 10 275 5756 patrick.vanbeek@lyb.com
medmix is a global leader in high-precision delivery devices. We occupy leading positions in healthcare, consumer and industrial end-markets. Our customers benefit from a dedication to innovation and technological advancement that has resulted in over 900 active patents. Our 12 production sites worldwide together with our highly motivated and experienced team of 1’900 employees provide our customers with uncompromising quality, proximity and agility. medmix
medmix Industry delivers the world’s leading hand-held mixing and dispensing systems for adhesives and sealants. Through our well-known brands MIXPAC™, COX™ and MK™ we specialize in the mixing and hand-held dispensing of adhesives and sealants.
We have strong partnerships with industrial manufacturing, production, coating, and construction leaders that have lasted for close to 100 years.
Contact: Marco Frei, Head Sales Industry EMIRA
medmix / Sulzer Mixpac AG, Ruetistrasse 7, 9469 Haag, Switzerland
+41 81 772 21 60 marco.frei@medmix.com
NETZSCH continually responds to the demands of the chemicals industry and makes a significant contribution to the cutting-edge production of high-quality paints, coatings, printing inks, high-performance ceramics, adhesives, sealants, pesticides and battery compounds.
Decisive factors for global success include the extensive product range, the pilot-plant and production-scale machines and the complete production facilities. NETZSCH stands for efficient processes, maximum production capacity and reproducible product quality, as well as modern, user-friendly and innovative machine design.
From our various technology centers in Europe, Asia and North and South America, we support our customers in all phases of investment and production with our know-how and numerous services The Business Field “Chemicals“ unites the most advanced production plants and technology leadership and guarantees outstanding performance for customer-oriented process solutions.
Contact: Helmut Eichenmüller, Sales Director
NETZSCH-Feinmahltechnik GmbH, Sedanstraße 70, 95100 Selb, Germany
+49 9287 797126 helmut.eichenmueller@netzsch.com
NITTO KASEI was established in 1947 and is the first manufacturer to start industrial production by using the Grignard reaction in Japan in 1958. Since then, for more than half a century, we have been developing technologies and applications for various of kinds of tin compounds such as crosslinking catalysts NEOSTANN™ for MS POLYMER™, silicone and polyurethane.
At present, as the biggest comprehensive manufacturer of tin compounds in Japan, considering environmental safety and compliance, we constantly supply numerous high quality and high performance chemical products to the market.
Based upon our accumulated best practices and know-how during longer than 70 years, we have developed non-Tin catalysts with high performance used for sealant & adhesive applications.
Product line-up of catalysts
- Organotin catalysts for MS POLYMER™, silicone and polyurethane
- Tin free catalysts for MS POLYMER™
- Inorganic metal catalysts
For more information, please visit our website, www.nittokasei.co.jp/product02_e/ .
Contact: Manabu Eto, General Manager of Overseas Business unit
NITTO KASEI CO., LTD., 3-17-14 Nishi Awaji, Higashi Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, 533-0031, Japan
+81 6 6322 4357 meto@nittokasei.co.jp
Nynas process oils are available in many different applications. Areas of application include plasticizers in polymer-based formulations, rheology modifier in printing inks and silicone sealants and carrier oil in antifoam. The relatively high polarity and high density of the oils also help to create more stable emulsions than with paraffinic counterparts. Nynas has around 1,000 employees, in-house production facilities, depots all over the world and representation in over 30 countries
For more information, visit www.nynas.com
Contact: Anna Eriksson, Technical Manager
Nynas, Lindetorpsvägen 7, 12163 Johanneshov, Sweden
+468 602 12 00 anna.eriksson@nynas.com
Omya is a leading global producer of industrial minerals – mainly derived from calcium carbonate, dolomite and perlite – and a worldwide distributor of specialty chemicals.
The company provides a wealth of innovative product solutions that contribute to its customers’ competitiveness and productivity in multiple industries such as Construction, Paper & Board, Polymers, Food and Personal & Home Care. Omya further provides Environmental Solutions targeting the agriculture, water and energy markets. Founded in 1884 in Switzerland, Omya has a global presence extending to more than 160 locations in over 50 countries with 9,000 employees. Committed to implementing the principles of sustainability at all company levels, Omya provides added value products and services from responsibly sourced materials to meet the essential needs of current and future generations.
Contact: Hendrik Pretzsch, Sales Manager Construction Germany & Austria
Omya, Siegburger Strasse 229c, 50679 Köln, Germany
+49 174 7798064 hendrik.pretzsch@omya.com
Poly-clip System is the world leader in sustainable clipping solutions and stands for excellence in clipping as well as maximum efficiency. The product and service system includes a large number of innovative solutions for clipping machines, packaging machines and automation thereof, as well as matching consumables such as the clip. Efficient packaging of pasty material in tube-shaped bags is coupled with cost savings and a high sustainability due to the flat roll stock film that leads to comparably low transportation and disposal volumes. All liquid, pasty and highly viscous products (sealants, adhesives, etc.) can be packed as clip-pak® via a pumping system and an automatic clipping machine. clip-pak® is a tubular bag packaging which is closed at both ends with a high-quality aluminium clip. Inexpensive flat roll stock film is formed into a ready-to-fill film tube, filled and securely closed with the double clipping process in the integrated clip unit – free of air. In addition, the product shelf life can frequently be extended considerably. For specific products it can even be doubled. Longer shelf lives lead to less dried-out products and less contaminated waste volumes.
Contact: Björn Arndt, Head of Viscopac
Poly-clip System GmbH & Co. KG, Niedeckerstraße 1, 65795 Hattersheim a. M., Germany
+49 175 1973903 b.arndt@polyclip.de
Rain Carbon is a global leader and innovator in the production of chemical feedstock and advanced materials critical to industries around the globe.
At 15 production sites in North America and Europe we turn by-products of the steel and petrochemicals industry into top-quality products, including our Novares® resins and Ruetasolv® modifiers, for manufacturers of aluminum, steel, titanium dioxide, adhesives, coatings, tires and technical rubber goods.
Novares® resins:
Novares resins are thermoplastic hydrocarbon resins based on petrochemical feedstock. The Novares resin portfolio includes a wide range of different monomers, viscosities, modification possibilities and softening points, and has been complemented by hydrogenated Novares® pure resins since 2021.
With state-of-the-art technology, a production site located in the center of Europe and excellent product quality, Rain Carbon entered the market with hydrogenated resins, that are:
– colorless and odorless
– highly compatible with different polymers (hotmelt and waterborne)
– VOC free
– appropriate for food and skin contact
– available in solid and molten form
This comprehensive portfolio makes Rain Carbon a reliable partner for a wide variety of application fields. With innovative product solutions and logistical concepts we can adapt to a large range of individual customer needs.
Contact: Stefan Knau
Rain Carbon Germany GmbH, Varziner Straße 49, 47138 Duisburg, Germany
+49 203 4296 02 stefan.knau@raincarbon.com
Reaxis is a manufacturer of a metal-based catalysts for silicone and polyurethane adhesive and sealant formulations. We offer a wide selection of metal-based catalysts from the traditional organotins to the newer organotin alternatives based on inorganic tins, bismuth, and zinc and bio-based carbon derived ligands. We offer technical support for selecting the optimum catalyst for a wide range of formulation chemistries including, 1 and 2K moisture cured polyurethanes, waterborne polyurethanes, STP silicone hybrids and more traditional acetoxy/alkoxy/oxime functional RTVs.
With over 55 years of manufacturing experience, our goal is to provide increasing value to our customers with an emphasis on new product development.
With ISO9001 and ISO14000 certifications, and an EcoVadis Gold sustainability rating, all manufacturing and product development activities carried out at Reaxis have a strict adherence to quality, environmental and social standards. We have sales offices and warehousing facilities both within the EU and the US, enabling a fast and reliable supply to our customers.
Contact: Mark Smit, Business Development Manager – Europe
Reaxis B.V., Siriusdreef 17-27, 2132 WT Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
+31 (0) 641 16 86 46 mark.smit@reaxis.com
Understanding the tremendous global growth in olefin adhesive demand, and to ensure supply security, REXtac, LLC is proud to announce the formation of a joint venture company with DL Chemical, Seoul, South Korea: D-REX Polymer. D-REX Polymer and REXtac are building a state of the art, 40 KTA, APAO (Amorphous Poly Alpha Olefin) plant in Yeosu, South Korea. The D-REX Polymer plant will be operational in January of 2023. D-REX Polymer will produce the full slate of REXtac polymers and adhesives. REXtac/D-REX will be the only two production plant supplier of APAO polymers in the world.
REXtac and D-REX Polymer are focused on one thing: providing turnkey APAO solutions for the global market. REXtac’s plant in Odessa, TX USA and the D-REX facility in Yeosu, South Korea produce homopolymer propylene, copolymer propylene/ethylene, copolymer propylene/butene and terpolymer propylene/ethylene/butene polymers.
REXtac and D-REX are also the only olefin polymer producers in the world that provide the value-added capability to produce formulated, private labeled, finished adhesive products for hygiene, automotive, product assembly, wood working, packaging, and many other industrial applications.
Supply security is more important today than ever before. REXtac and D-REX Polymer ensure global APAO polymer and adhesive supply security.
Contact: Scot Wakefield, Director, Sales and Marketing
REXtac, LLC, 2501 South Grandview Ave, 79766 Odessa, TX, USA
+1 432 332 0058
S.A.P.I.C.I. S.p.A. is a global innovation and full-quality driven developer and manufacturer of advanced and high-performance polyurethane products for such applications as Coating, Flexible Packaging, Industrial Adhesives, Prepolymers, Inks, and more. SAPICI combines its product offering with direct and tailored services to its customers worldwide including continued technical assistance, research and development, and industrialization.
Since 2022, SAPICI is now part of Sun Chemical, a member of DIC group, leading producer of packaging and graphic solutions, color and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries. Together with DIC, Sun Chemical is continuously working to promote and develop sustainable solutions to exceed customer expectations and better the world around us. With combined annual sales of more than $8.5 billion and 22,000+ employees worldwide, the DIC Group companies support a diverse collection of global customers.
Contact: Guglielmo Catel, Technical Development Manager
Sapici S.p.A., Via Bergamo 2, 20063 Cernusco sul Naviglio – MI, Italy
+39 3470155 010 guglielmo.catel@sapici.it
Sasol Chemicals is a global producer of innovative and environmentally friendly high-performance products for the Inks, Paints, Coatings and Adhesives (IPCA) market. Our broad product portfolio includes fatty alcohols, wetting agents and ethoxylated surfactants, Fischer-Tropsch waxes, polyethylene glycols, solvents, acrylate monomers and alumina. Our products are used in a variety of applications such as emulsion polymerization, architectural and wood coatings, pigment dispersions, printing inks, adhesives, and surface modification.
We serve our global customers through offices operating in 18 countries, supported by an extensive supply chain network. Ongoing innovation and R&D activities result in a continuous stream of value-adding product concepts which help our customers position themselves successfully for the future. Every day, our unique chemistry touches the lives of millions of people around the world.
Brands: NAFOL NACOL, ISOFOL, SAFOL, NOVELUTION, SASOLWAX
Contact: Katharina von Dufving, Manager Europe, IPCA Sales
Sasol Germany GmbH, Anckelmannsplatz 1, 20537 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40 636 841 198 katharina.v.dufving@de.sasol.com
Commissioned in 1993, Shell MDS Malaysia is the world’s very first, one-of-its kind commercial GTL plant. Backed by 20 years of research, Shell pioneered the GTL plant’s technology that saw it convert liquefied natural gas (LNG) to ultra-pure liquid fuels, chemicals and solid waxes, which are virtually free from sulphur and aromatics, and highly biodegradable.
The wax produced at Shell MDS Malaysia – SARAWAX, named in honour of the state it is produced in, is an important component utilised in various industries including the manufacturing of everyday products such as hot melt adhesives, PVC lubricants, printing inks, rubber and tyre to candles, personal care and packaging material. The unique opaque white appearance of Shell GTL waxes produces true colour brilliance with minimum colouring agents, whilst the high purity and consistent properties are ideal for automated and precision industrial applications.
Specifically, in hot melt adhesives application, Shell GTL Sarawax:
1) Reduces viscosity to ensure efficient mixing
2) Regulates open and set times
3) Reduces surface tackiness for better transport and storage stability. Today, Shell MDS Malaysia boasts an output capacity of 500,000 tonnes of GTL Products per annum and exports its products to over 50 countries internationally.
For more information about us, log on to www.shell.com.my/smds
Contact: Shawn Holloway, Product Manager, GTL Wax (Americas & European Markets)
Shell Exploration & Production Company, 150 North Dairy Ashford Rd, Houston, 77079 Texas, USA
+12814609528 shawn.holloway@shell.com
Showa Denko Group is a diversified chemical company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with 8 subsidiaries and more than 26,000 employees around the world.
For the European market, we serve customers from our sales office in Munich, Germany.
The high-quality and unique grades of Showa Denko Chloroprene Latex are well established in the adhesives industry for the production of water-borne products.
We are continuously improving and developing new liquid dispersion grades and provide technical service to our customer for the development of safe and environmentally friendly, 1- or 2-component water-based adhesives.
As a result, nowadays we can offer a large variety of grades in our product range, enabling solutions for applications such as construction, car interior, furniture, high pressure laminate, pressure sensitive adhesives, foam bonding, etc.
Contact us to learn about the latest developments.
Contact: Raffaele Torre, Group Leader, Elastomer Group
Showa Denko Europe GmbH, Konrad Zuse Platz 3, 81829 Munich, Germany
+49 176 19 39 96 21 torre.raffaele.xmzrm@showadenko.com
SI Group is a global leader in the innovative technology of performance additives, process solutions, active pharmaceutical ingredients, and chemical intermediates. SI Group solutions are essential to enhancing the quality and performance of countless industrial and consumer goods within the plastics, rubber & adhesives, fuels & lubricants, oilfield, pharmaceutical, and industrial resins industries. SI Group’s global manufacturing footprint includes 24 facilities on five continents, serving customers in 90 countries with 2,800 employees worldwide. SI Group innovates and drives change to create value with a passion for safety, chemistry, sustainability and extraordinary results. Learn more at siigroup.com
Contact: Ken Lauffer, Adhesives Market Development Director
SI Group, 1790 Hughes Landing Blvd., 77380 The Woodlands, TX, USA
+1 724 600 6472 ken.lauffer@siigroup.com
Stepan is a global leader in the manufacturing and marketing of polyester polyols and surfactants. With production sites in Europe, The Americas, and Asia, Stepan can meet the needs of our customers around the world utilizing our global supply chain network with support from locally based customer service teams.
In Europe, Stepan manufactures C.A.S.E. and Rigid polyester polyols with plants in Germany, Poland, and The Netherlands. The European R&D and Technical Center is in Wroclaw, Poland.
Stepan‘s range of STEPANPOL® aliphatic and aromatic polyester polyols serving the C.A.S.E. industries continues to expand. The major end uses for STEPANPOL products include liquid and hot melt urethane adhesives, cast elastomers, thermoplastic polyurethanes, energy and conventional cure surface coatings, and polyurethane dispersions.
Stepan is focused on supporting the evolving industry and customer challenges around a Circular Economy with an emphasis on renewable and sustainable raw material sourcing and manufacturing.
The full line of STEPANPOL products highlights Stepan’s commitment to being a global leader in esterification chemistry. We are looking forward to meeting you at FEICA in Hamburg in September 2022!
Contact: Gary Conkling, Business Manager
Stepan Europe Ltd
+44 7769 990779 gary.conkling@stepan.com
Synthomer is one of the world’s foremost suppliers of aqueous polymers and has leadership positions in many markets. Our polymers help customers create new products and enhance the performance of existing products in key industries such as coatings, construction, textiles, paper and synthetic latex gloves. With the acquisition of Omnova Solutions in 2020, Synthomer grew its global manufacturing network, expanded its product portfolio and boosted its geographical presence, allowing it to better serve new and existing customers around the world. Discover how our products enhance our customers’ products and processes.
With the acquisition of Eastman’s Adhesive Resins business on 1st April 2022 Synthomer adds an exciting new growth dimension in more specialised, more global and higher growth segments. The integration of this very complementary business with its leading position in the adhesive industry creates a £2.8bn enterprise and allows Synthomer to enhance its offerings to a broader global customer base, serving diversified end-markets and geographies with the combined product portfolio and increased R&D capability.
Contact: Nadjet Suedmeyer, Market Development Manager
Synthomer, Herculesweg 35, 4338 PL Middelburg, The Netherlands
+41 41 726 62 33 nadjet-synthomer.suedmeyer@eastman.com
The Special Fluids division of TotalEnergies is a leader in the design, production and sale of high purity, biodegradable hydrocarbon solvents. These special fluids are used in wide-ranging applications, including cosmetics, animal vaccines, water treatment, crop protection products, drilling fluids, tires, inks, marine dispersants, paints and sealants.
Our products are manufactured at the plants in Oudalle, France; and Bayport, USA; and marketed in over 70 countries via a network of dedicated experts in our local subsidiaries.
Contact: Christophe Hein, Marketing Manager
TotalEnergies Fluids, , 92069 Courbevoie, France
+33 (0)6 12 22 22 86 christophe.hein@totalenergies.com
Valtris Specialty Chemicals is a leading global polymer additive company with a diverse product offering. Our product portfolio contains polymer additives, heat stabilizers, biocides, lubricants and advanced organics intermediates. Valtris provides specialty chemicals which serve a diverse set of end markets including building and construction, packaging, consumer goods, transportation, agriculture, flavor and fragrance, and oilfield additives.
Headquartered in Independence, Ohio, USA and with nine production facilities operating globally, Valtris offers and unmatched range of complimentary products for the specific needs of our diverse customer base.
Valtris team of world class, customer focused employees are committed to bringing value to our customers via quality materials, customer service excellence, superior technology, and innovative solutions.
Contact: Dr Martin Stimpson, Market Development Manager
Valtris Specialty Chemicals Ltd, Lankro Way, Eccles, M30 0LX Manchester, United Kingdom
+44 7786 938737 martin.stimpson@valtris.com
Vermee is your partner for individualised packaging technology for pumpable products – with an expertise of more than 40 years.
We provide state-of-the-art adhesive packaging solutions for continuous and automated production systems – from piloting lines to mass-production lines.
Your product requirements set our starting point: Our broad variety of individualised concepts include among others Hotmelt (PSA), PUR Hotmelt, cold-flowing adhesives, continuous polymerisation process technology, 2-component CHUBs (1:10), Sealants, Explosives, etc.
An outstanding Vermee technology reference is the typical hotmelt (PSA) pouch/ CHUB with meltable flat film! This is our expertise of more than 30 years continuous development. Our fully automated hotmelt system includes standardised hotmelt pouches made of meltable flat film, weight accurate units (up to 1.200g) and exclusion of air-bubbles and water-inclusions with a capacity of 600kg/h – 2.500kg/h.
Our solutions are based on packaging modules with clip (not preformed) or sealed pouches (CHUBs), continuously produced and individualised by a vertical Form-, Fill- and Seal-System (VFFS). Designed either for a single- or complete automated turn-key system.
With Vermee, you are one step ahead! Vermee is partnership with a German family-owned expert, passionate about delivering individualised packaging technology. Multinational corporations as well as international mid-sized companies trust in us.
Contact: Dirka Vermee, Managing Director / CEO
Frans Vermee GmbH, Dieselstrasse 8, 53424 Remagen, Germany
+49 2642 93 03 10 dirka.vermee@vermee.com
As a supplier, refiner and producer, Worlée supplies customers all over the world with high-quality chemical raw materials. The range comprises water- and solvent-based acrylic and alkyd resins, polyesters, polyester polyols, polyether polyols, epoxy esters and numerous additives for a variety of different applications. With over 170 years of experience in the industry along with countless product innovations Worlée tirelessly strives to optimise existing products and processes.
The drive for increased sustainability, innovative strength and creativity in finding individual solutions is what sets Worlée apart from the rest. The highest quality standards, comprehensive technical expertise and an intuitive feel for trends and market developments make us a trustworthy and reliable partner for your success. Sustainable thinking and action is a fundamental focus area for Worlée with already producing many of their binders on the basis of renewable raw materials.
Contact:
Worlée-Chemie GmbH, Grusonstraße 26, 22113 Hamburg, Germany
+49 40 733 33 0 service@worlee.de