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19.03.2025 • News

Arkema Launches Acrylic Acid Purification Project

Arkema has announced the launch of its Carat Project at its Carling site in France. This initiative aims to enhance the capabilities and sustainability of the facility, which specializes in producing acrylic monomers and superabsorbent polymers.

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01.08.2024 • News

Arkema Opens Innovation Lab for Light-Curable Specialties in Japan

French specialty materials manufacturer Arkema has opened its new technologies innovation lab for ultraviolet-light-cured (UV-cured), light emitting diode (LED-cured) and electron-beam-cured (EB-cured) curable resins and additives for specialty coating and adhesive applications at the company’s Kyoto Technical Center (KTC).

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02.05.2024 • News

Arkema Acquires Dow’s Packaging Adhesives Business

Arkema agreed to acquire Dow’s flexible packaging laminating adhesives business, a leading producer in this market with annual sales of approximately $250 million (€233 million). This acquisition will expand Arkema’s flexible packaging solutions portfolio, positioning the group as a key player in the industry.

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18.04.2024 • News

Arkema Acquires Majority Stake in Proionic for Next-Gen Batteries

Arkema is set to acquire a 78% stake in Proionic, a start-up specializing in ionic liquids production. These components are crucial for future lithium-ion batteries. This acquisition expands Arkema’s solutions and strengthens its position in the materials sector across various battery technologies.

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26.02.2024 • News

Arkema Signs Green Energy Supply Deals for US Sites

Arkema has signed long term renewable energy agreements for its US sites in Calvert City, Kentucky, Beaumont, Texas, Chatham, Virginia, and West Chester, Pennsylvania, as well as for all Bostik sites in the United States. The company said that these agreements are part of its climate plan.

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12.01.2024 • News

Arkema Acquires a Stake in Battery Start-up Tiamat

French chemical producer Arkema announced that it will become a shareholder of Tiamat, a start-up that designs, develops, industrializes and markets sodium-ion batteries, a new lithium-free technology. Tiamat was spun off from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in 2017.

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01.12.2023 • News

Arkema Closes Acquisition of 54% Stake in PI Advanced Materials

On Dec. 1, 2023, French chemicals and materials company Arkema has finalized the acquisition of Glenwood Private Equity’s 54% – based on a €728 million enterprise value – stake in South Korean company PI Advanced Materials (PIAM). Arkema said in a statement that this acquisition acquisition – first announced last June – complements its portfolio of high-performance technologies for the high-growth markets of advanced electronics and electric mobility.

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09.11.2023 • News

Arkema to Extend Thierry Le Hénaff’s Contract as Chairman and CEO

Arkema board of directors has unanimously expressed its confidence in the company’s chairman and CEO Thierry Le Hénaff to execute the strategy announced during Arkema’s capital markets day on Sep. 27 and proposed the renewal of his term of office for four years at the company’s next annual shareholders meeting in May 2024.

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27.09.2023 • News

Arkema to Expand Capacity for Organic Peroxides in China

Arkema plans a two-and-a-half-fold increase of its organic peroxide production capacities at the Changshu site in China. This investment of around €50 million, the company said, will enable it to support its Asian customers in fast-growing markets, particularly in renewable energies.

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30.06.2023 • News

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.

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23.05.2023 • News

Arkema Boosts Battery Offering with Polytec PT Buy

Arkema is acquiring Polytec PT, a German company specializing in developing and manufacturing specialty adhesives and thermal interface materials for the electronic, electrical and automotive industries. The transaction is expected to close during Q2 2023.

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06.01.2023 • News

Arkema Completes Divestment of Febex

Arkema has finalized the divestment of Febex, a company specialized in phosphorus-based chemistry, as a further step in what it calls its ”dynamic portfolio management strategy.” Buyer is Belgian group Prayon; the acquisition price was not disclosed.

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23.12.2022 • News

Arkema Doubles Polyester Resin Output in India

Arkema has doubled capacity for its Reafree-branded powder polyester resins at its Navi Mumbai facility in India. The French chemical producer said the upgrade reinforces its leadership position in the global powder coatings market and its commitment to developing very low-VOC technologies.

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31.10.2022 • News

Arkema Divests Phosphorous Business

As part of its “dynamic portfolio management,” French specialty chemicals producer Arkema said it has agreed to sell its subsidiary Febex, a global player in phosphorus derivatives, to Belgian group Prayon.

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30.09.2022 • News

Arkema Ups Expansion Plans for Pebax Elastomers

Arkema has boosted its previously announced expansion plans for Pebax elastomer at its Serquigny site in France. The company will now increase capacity by 40% rather than the 25% it announced in January this year.

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27.09.2022 • News

Arkema Joins PET Recycling Project

French chemicals and materials company Arkema is participating in a Spanish consortium to explore and advance the recyclability of post-consumer polyester resin (PET from bottles and other items) in order to regain monomers for use in more sustainable powder coatings.

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25.07.2022 • News

Arkema to Buy Mexico’s Polimeros Especiales

French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has announced it will acquire privately owned Mexican company Polimeros Especiales, a producer of high performance waterborne resins for applications in architectural and decorative paints, textiles, pressure sensitive adhesives and construction.

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05.07.2022 • News

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.

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23.02.2022 • News

Arkema Boosts Adhesives with China Buy

Arkema is buying Shanghai Zhiguan Polymer Materials (PMP), a Chinese company that specializes in reactive hot-melt polyurethane (HMPUR) adhesives for the consumer electronics market. Financial terms of the deal, which is scheduled to close this quarter, were not disclosed.

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07.02.2022 • News

Solvay Lifts European PVDF Capacity for EV Batteries

Reacting to the comet-like rise in demand for lithium oxide batteries used as separators and cathode binders in electric and hybrid vehicles, Solvay is expanding production of its Solef-branded polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) at its site in Tavaux, France.

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31.01.2022 • News

Arkema to Produce even more PVDF at Changshu

Citing strong demand for lithium-ion batteries, as well as from other important markets, Arkema said it is now planning to increase its fluoropolymer capacity at Changshu, China by 50%, rather than 35% as announced earlier. The expected start-up date at the end of 2022 remains unchanged.

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26.01.2022 • News

Arkema Widening Specialty Elastomers in France

Arkema is lifting global capacity for its Pebax elastomers at its plant in Serquigny, France. The specialty chemicals manufacturer said the investment will benefit both the bio-circular Pebax Rnew and the traditional Pebax ranges. The expansion will be in place by mid-2023.

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21.12.2021 • News

Arkema Hikes China Resins Capacity

Arkema is to double capacity for its Sartomer UV curable resins at its Nansha plant in China. The French multinational chemical company said the expansion will support fast-growing demand in Asia for cutting-edge solutions in electronics, driven by 5G technology, and in renewable energies.

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13.10.2021 • News

Arkema to Build PA Powder Plant in China

French chemical producer Arkema has announced it will build a new plant for bio-based polyamide 11 powder at Changsu, China, with start-up planned for 2023. The investment runs parallel to the company’s €350 million mega project taking shape on Singapore’s Jurong Island, the latter encompassing both a PA resins unit and a plant to produce its feedstock, 11-aminoundecanoic acid.

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29.09.2021 • News

Arkema to Sell Epoxides Business to Cargill

Arkema has announced it is selling its epoxides business for $38.8 million to US agriculture giant Cargill. The agreed price for the activities with sales of around $40 million and some 45 employees is equivalent to around 10 times EBITDA.

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27.05.2021 • News

Arkema to Acquire Plastics Compounder Agiplast

As it sheds more commodity-oriented products in its plastics portfolio, French specialty chemicals producer Arkema has announced plans to acquire Agiplast, an Italian compounder regarded as a leader in the regeneration of high performance polymers, in particular specialty polyamides and fluoropolymers. The deal is expected to close next month.

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20.05.2021 • News

Arkema to Acquire Edge Adhesives Texas

French specialty chemicals producer Arkema said it plans to acquire Edge Adhesives Texas, as “a complementary asset” that will boost subsidiary Bostik’s offerings in high performance adhesives in the US. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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06.05.2021 • News

Arkema Closes Sale of PMMA Business to Trinseo

Arkema has completed the sale of its PMMA business to US plastics and rubber producer Trinseo, a deal announced in December 2020. The French chemical company said the divestment is “fully in line” with its ambition to become a pure specialty materials player by 2024, with the three complementary segments of Adhesive Solutions, Advanced Materials and Coating Solutions.

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28.04.2021 • News

Arkema to Start Singapore PA 11 Plant in 2022

Arkema has confirmed it is on track to begin production of its polyamide 11 high performance polymer and feedstock aminoundecanoic acid at a new plant on Singapore’s Jurong Island in the first half of 2022. The project announced in 2017 calls for a 50% increase in its global PA 11 capacity. Starting material for the biopolymer is castor oil.

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