Products and Investments

Products, customers and applications

Division

Products

Customer industries and applications

Dispersions & Pigments

Polymer dispersions, resins, additives, pigments, electronic materials

Coatings, construction, paper, printing and packaging, adhesives and electronics industries

Performance Chemicals

Antioxidants, light stabilizers and flame retardants for plastic applications

Fuel and refinery additives, polyisobutene, brake fluids and engine coolants, lubricant additives and basestocks, components for metalworking fluids and compounded lubricants

Process chemicals for the extraction of oil, gas, metals and minerals; chemicals for enhanced oil recovery

Kaolin minerals

Chemicals, plastics, consumer goods, automotive and transportation industries, as well as energy and resources

Production capacities of significant productsa

 

Sites

 

Product

Europe

North America

Asia Pacific

South America, Africa, Middle East

Annual capacity (metric tons)

a

All capacities are included at 100%, including plants belonging to joint operations and joint ventures.

Acrylics dispersions

1,740,000

Formulation additives

 

57,000

Polyisobutene

 

 

265,000

Material investments

Location

Project

Startup

Cincinnati, Ohio

Construction: production plant for engine coolants

2020

Jurong, Singapore

Capacity expansion: antioxidants (Irganox®)

2021

Kaisten, Switzerland

Capacity expansion: antioxidants (Irganox®)

2019

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Capacity expansion: production plant for UV acrylic hotmelts

2019

Pasir Gudang, Malaysia

Capacity expansion: production plant for acrylics dispersions

2020

Pontecchio, Italy

Capacity expansion: light stabilizers (Tinuvin® NOR® 356)

2020

Shanghai, China

Construction: production plant for plastic additives

2019