Business Units

Arkema Inc. comprises more than seven individual business units, ranging from Acrylic Monomers to Thiochemicals. Each business unit includes some of the best-known brands in the industry:

Acrylic Monomers:
Arkema's specialty acrylic/methacrylic monomers, such as the Norsocryl^® acrylic monomers 100 series, offer enhanced adhesion in water and solvent-based architectural coatings.

Arkema Coating Resins:
Arkema's Coating Resins group offers a comprehensive raw materials resource for architecutral coatings,including powder coatings; traffic paints; transportation, marine and maintenance coatings; pressure senstive adhesives; building and construction products; inks and graphic arts; coatings for glass, textiles, non-wovens and leather; and curing agents. 

Fluorochemicals:
Arkema is one of the world's top producers of Fluorochemicals, including both refrigerants and foams, solvents, and aerosols, under the brand Forane^® fluorochemicals.

Functional Additives:
Arkema manufactures a comprehensive line of high-quality, high-performance additives for a wide variety of applications – including catalysts, coatings, epoxides and plastic additives. Under the Luperox^® brand name, Arkema has introduced more new organic peroxides than the rest of the industry combined, including the first peroxide for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) -- which quickly became the major initiator used in manufacturing PVC resin.

Hydrogen Peroxide:
Globally, Arkema is the world's third largest producer of hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) used for bleaching wood pulp for paper, bleaching textiles, treating wastewater, sanitizing for food production and cleaning circuit boards.

PMMA (Altuglas International):
Altuglas International, www.altuglasint.com, is a leader in polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) technology worldwide.

Sartomer Specialty Chemicals:
The Sartomer Business Unit is structured into two main product lines: (meth)acrylate monomers  and (meth)acrylate oligomers.

Sartomer's acrylate and methacrylate monomer lines includes monofunctional, difunctional, trifunctional and higher functionality products. Sartomer also offers a wide variety of ethoxylated and propoxylated monomers that offer higher molecular weights for lower skin irritation, better flexibility and faster cure speeds. Sartomer monomers can also be tailored for water-dispersible, adhesion-promoting and pigment-dispersing applications.

The oligomer product line includes epoxy acrylates, urethane acrylates, Sarbox™, carboxylic acid half esters, polyester acrylates, acrylated acrylics, and low viscosity oligomers.  Sartomer's epoxy acrylate oligomers are fast-curing and form hard, solvent-resistant films. Sartomer's diverse line of urethane acrylate oligomers offer a wide range of properties which formulators can use to optimize the performance of coatings or inks.

Technical Polymers:
Our technical polymers product line includes some of the most versatile and popular products in the industry including: Pebax^® resins, Platamid^® resins, Rilsan^® nylon 11 & 12, Rilsan^® nylon powder coatings, Kynar 500^® architectural coatings, Kynar^® high performance plastics, and Kynar^® PVDF resins.

Thiochemicals:
The Thiochemicals business unit of Arkema is the global leader in thiochemicals and a major producer of oxygenated solvents.