
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.
US adhesives major H.B. Fuller plans to significantly reduce its global manufacturing footprint and streamline its North American planning and logistics structure.
H.B. Fuller Company, the largest pure-play adhesives company in the world, recently announced that it has signed agreements to acquire two leading medical adhesive technology companies, GEM S.r.l. and Medifill Ltd.
In a move to accelerate its expansion into the $15 billion global waterproofing tape market, US adhesives major H.B. Fuller has acquired HS Butyl, the UK’s largest manufacturer and distributor of butyl tapes for a wide variety of applications within the construction, infrastructure, automotive and renewable energy industries. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.
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.
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.
US adhesives major H.B. Fuller has acquired Beardow Adams, a UK-based family-owned industrial adhesives manufacturer with capacities in Europe and the US, with a global distribution network and customers in more than 70 countries. Neither terms nor the cost of the purchase have been disclosed.
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.