Oxea

Oxea is a global manufacturer of Oxo Intermediates and Oxo Performance Chemicals such as alcohols, polyols, carboxylic acids, specialty esters, and amines. These are used to produce high-quality coatings, lubricants, cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, flavors and fragrances, printing inks, and plastics. Oxea employs more than 1,200 people worldwide and markets its chemicals in more than 60 countries.

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Strategic Value Partners and Blantyre Capital Acquire OQ Chemicals

10.04.2025 -

Strategic Value Partners (SVP) and Blantyre Capital Limited (Blantyre) recently announced the acquisition of OQ Chemicals (Oxea), a leading global producer and merchant...

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OQ Chemicals Sells Dutch Ester Plant to Perstorp

13.12.2024 -

OQ Chemicals has sold its ester plant in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, to Swedish specialty chemicals group Perstorp.

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OQ Chemicals Completes US Propionaldehyde Expansion

16.04.2024 -

As part of its strategy to expand the company's application portfolio, Germany-based OQ Chemicals has mechanically completed the expansion of its US plant in Bay City...

Markets & Companies

Pairing Experience with New Ideas

15.03.2022 -

Interview with Oliver Borgmeier, Managing Director and CEO of OQ Chemicals

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Röhm and OQ Chemicals Plan US MMA Project

25.02.2021 -

Germany’s Röhm and compatriot company OQ Chemicals have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a 250,000 t/y methyl methacrylate (MMA) plant in the US.

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Burkhard Quellenberg is new Global Director HR at Oxea

04.03.2015 - Burkhard Quellenberg (47) is Oxea's new Global Director Human Resources. His previous career has included management positions at IT multinational Bull and mechanical engineers...

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Oman Oil Company acquires Oxea from Advent International

25.11.2013 - Advent International announced its divestment from Oxea, one of the largest global manufacturers of oxo chemicals. Oman Oil Company (OOC), a commercial company wholly owned by the...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

75 Years of Oxo Synthesis

25.11.2013 - Kohlechemie AG, a company collectively founded by a consortium of mining companies in 1927, was renamed Ruhrchemie in April 1928, and began production of fertilizer in 1929 at its...

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Oxea

Rheinpromenade 4a
40789 Monheim am Rhein
Germany

+49 2173 9993 3009