adhesives

Henkel and Sasol Partner to Create Low-Carbon Adhesive Solutions

The collaboration is based on Sasol's advanced wax technology to reduce CO2 emissions along Henkel's adhesive value chain.

Covestro to Launch Automated Lab for Coatings and Adhesives Development

New facility will focus on crosslinkers and binders, with the potential to test tens of thousands of formulations per year. Digitalization and automation enable data-driven research and development, while networked robotics allow more efficient data generation for segment-specific application testing.

Henkel Opens New Application Center in South Korea

Henkel recently announced the opening of its new Application Center in Busan, South Korea, marking a significant investment in the global sports & fashion industry.

H.B. Fuller to Reduce Manufacturing and Logistics Footprint

US adhesives major H.B. Fuller plans to significantly reduce its global manufacturing footprint and streamline its North American planning and logistics structure.

Arkema Acquires Dow's Flexible Packaging Laminating Adhesives Business

Arkema recently finalized the acquisition of Dow’s flexible packaging laminating adhesives business. This acquisition will significantly expand Arkema's portfolio of solutions for flexible packaging, positioning the company as a key player in this attractive market.

H.B. Fuller Acquires ND Industries

H.B. Fuller Company, the biggest pureplay adhesives company in the world, has acquired ND Industries, a leading provider of specialty adhesives and fastener locking and sealing solutions serving customers in the automotive, electronics, aerospace, and other industries.

DuPont Opens New Adhesives Facility in China

DuPont officially opened its new adhesives production facility in Zhangjiagang (ZJG), eastern China, on Wednesday. The new facility will produce adhesives to serve customers in the transportation industry, primarily in lightweighting and fast-growing vehicle electrification applications, the company said.

Arkema Takes Majority Stake in PI Advanced Materials

French specialty chemicals company Arkema plans to acquire the 54% majority stake held by Glenwood Private Equity in South Korea-listed PI Advanced Materials (PIAM) for €728 million and fully consolidate the holding. The remaining 46% of equity will continue to be listed in South Korea.

H.B. Fuller Completes Two Strategic Acquisitions

H.B. Fuller, which bills itself as the world’s largest pure-play adhesives provider, has announced the completion of two strategic acquisitions that it said will accelerate the transformation of the US company’s portfolio toward more highly specified applications and enhance diversification of its Construction Adhesives (CA) business.

Canlak Coatings Expands US Presence with Ceram-Traz Buy

Canlak Coatings, owned by private equity group SK Capital Partners, has acquired Ceram-Traz, also known as Ceramic Industrial Coatings, for an undisclosed sum.

Barentz Buys Brazil’s Metachem

Together with its Brazilian joint venture partner Tovani Benzaquen Ingredientes, Dutch distributor Barentz International has bought Metachem Industrial e Comercial and associate Chemtra Comercial Importação e Exportação.

Univar Expands in Central America with ChemSol Buy

Univar has acquired ChemSol, a leading ingredients and specialty chemicals distributor operating in Costa Rica, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama, and Honduras. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Lotte Ineos to Build Third VAM Plant in Korea

Lotte Ineos Chemical, a joint venture of South Korea’s Lotte Chemical and UK-managed Ineos, has announced plans to increase overall production capacity for vinyl acetate monomer (VAM) to 700,000 t/y from 450,000 t/y currently.

Bodo Möller Buys Spain’s General Adhesivos

German chemical distribution group Bodo Möller Chemie has expanded its business in the Iberian Peninsula with the acquisition of General Adhesivos, an adhesives specialist located not far from the industrial centers of Tarragona and Barcelona in Spain.

PPG Expands in Mexico and USA

PPG has announced separate projects in Mexico and the US to expand capacity for powder coatings and adhesives and sealants respectively.

Arkema Completes Permoseal Acquisition

Arkema has closed its acquisition of South Africa’s Permoseal, a move designed to strengthen and complete the portfolio of its adhesives subsidiary Bostik.

H.B. Fuller Boosts Adhesives with Apollo Buy

US adhesives maker H.B. Fuller has purchased Apollo, the UK’s largest independent manufacturer of liquid adhesives, coatings and primers for the commercial roofing, industrial and construction markets.

Sun Chemical Boosts Adhesives with Sapici Buy

Italy’s Sun Chemical, a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s DIC Corp., has bought compatriot adhesives and polymers manufacturer Sapici and its holding company Finape. Financial terms were not disclosed. The companies formed a strategic alliance in 2017 to market Sapici’s lamination adhesives under Sun Chemical’s brand name.

DuPont Builds China Car Adhesives Plant

DuPont is investing approximately $30 million in a new car adhesives plant in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu province, China. Construction on the facility at the Yangtze River International Chemical Industrial Park in the Zhangjiagang Free Trade Zone will start in Q3 2021, with start-up scheduled for early 2023.

Huntsman Sells Consumer Adhesives to Pidilite

Huntsman has agreed to sell its India-based Do-it-Yourself (DIY) consumer adhesives business, part of its Advanced Materials division, to Mumbai-based Pidilite Industries.

Reshaping Adhesion - and the Industry

Hybrid assemblies, joints of dissimilar materials, are everywhere - in our smartphones, cars, TVs, dishwashers, in planes and so on. However, in modern products we increasingly rely on plastics, which are intrinsically hard to bond to other types of material — and by using industrial glue for the bonding the parts cannot be recy­cled easily. Solving this monumental challenge inspired the foun­dation of the Danish start-up company RadiSurf five years ago.

US Firms Benefit from Trump China Trade Visit

Liveris Joins US Trade Mission to China

Caldic Buys Elastomerics in the UK

Bodo Möller Chemie Expands in Americas

Arkema Outlines Forward-looking Goals

SK Capital Acquires D.B. Western

Azelis Signs Two Distribution Deals

Avalon and Bern University Research Formaldehyde Alternative

Azelis Americas Merges CASE Businesses

Covestro Expands Coating Raw Materials

ANGUS Selects Univar to Distribute Nitroalkanes

Henkel Opens Composite Lab in Heidelberg

Stepan Expands Polyols Production in Poland

Arkema Arm Opens Malaysian Adhesives Plant