Arkema is a materials science company addressing the demands for innovative and sustainable materials, established in 2006, and headquartered in Colombes, France. Arkema’s additives, monomers, and resins provide good gloss, gloss retention, improved flexibility, and hardness.
Arkema places sustainable solutions at the heart of its product offering. The company has a clear objective to replace existing materials based on crude oil with bio-based and fully recyclable materials. Their products are certified by US FDA regulations. Arkema’s offerings for paints and coatings include additives like crosslinking agents, waxes, solvents, rheology modifiers, catalysts, and scratch resistance agents, monomers like polyols, diols, and acrylates, and resins like polyamides, alkyds, acrylic copolymers, polyurethanes, and polyesters.
Key brands of Arkema include:
- REAFREE® range of acrylic copolymers, polyesters, and flow agents
- CHEMPOL® range of alkyd resins, acrylic copolymers, and polyesters
- Rilsan® range of polyamide resins
- Encor® range of acrylic copolymers, styrenes, and vinyls
- Synolac® range of resins based on alkyds, polyurethanes, polyesters, epoxies
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