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Arkema’s Coating Solutions segment is a leading supplier of advanced resins, additives, and specialty materials for paints, coatings, adhesives, and sealants. Through innovation, technical expertise, and close customer collaboration, Arkema helps formulators develop high-performance, durable, and more sustainable solutions for diverse end-use applications worldwide.
• What makes your company unique in this marketplace? Arkema's Coating Solutions segment brings together leading resin, additive, and UV-curing technologies under one organization, enabling faster innovation and tailored solutions for architectural, industrial, automotive, protective, and specialty coatings markets worldwide.
The supplier's updated certification adds chemical-industry guidance to an existing methodology used to provide customers with product-level emissions information.
The expansion supports coatings, adhesives and sealants formulators working to balance application performance with higher solids and reduced solvent content.
François Desné has joined Arkema as senior vice president of High Performance Polymers and Fluorogases and a member of the company’s executive committee.
The companies will collaborate on a bio-based pathway to low-carbon acrylic resins for coatings and adhesive applications, aiming to cut lifecycle emissions.
A new PCI webinar brings together leaders from Arkema, Omya, PPG, Beckers, AkzoNobel and Adeo to share strategies for cutting emissions and advancing coatings sustainability.
According to the announcement, this €130 million investment in a new purification process will lead to more energy-efficient and lower carbon-intensive operations, optimized resources, and waste management.
This lab will help accelerate research into photopolymerization, a future-oriented technology that improves energy savings and doesn’t require the use of solvents. It will also explore new and more sustainable UV-curable materials.
Arkema invested in the Navi Mumbai facility in early 2019 to expand the geographic coverage of its high-performance, more sustainable, low-VOC products, and to support its customers' demands. The site includes a manufacturing unit and a laboratory to provide application development and technical support in the region.
Arkema announces the mass-balance ISCC+ certification of a range of bio-attributed acrylic monomers, and specialty acrylic additives and resins, which are complimentary to the bio-based segregated polymers, resins, and additives Arkema is already offering.
Arkema, together with a consortium of companies, is exploring and advancing the recyclability of post-consumer PET (from bottles and other plastic items) to regain monomers for reuse as raw materials for more sustainable polyester powder resins for the coating market.
Arkema finalized the acquisition of Polimeros Especiales, strengthening the Group’s offering in solvent-free solutions and its position in this fast-growing region.
Arkema recently announced that Brenntag has been appointed as a distributor for Arkema waterborne resins in Mexico, covering the ENCOR®, CELOCOR® SNAP® and NEOCAR® brands of resins.
Arkema recently announced an investment in the construction of a brand new powder coating resins lab in Cary, North Carolina, the company’s headquarters for coating resins.
Arkema announced that its SYNAQUA® 4856 alkyd has been approved to carry the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Certified Biobased Product label.
Arkema received an ESG score of 67/100 from the Vigeo Eiris (V.E) rating agency in 2021, placing it at the top of the 42 chemicals companies assessed worldwide and in the top percentile of companies across all sectors.