Company

PERFORMANCE MATERIALS

Top performance is standard

When top performance is required, industries rely on products from the Performance Materials Segment. This trust has a long tradition—and a promising future.

The name of the Performance Materials Segment says it all. All over the world, this segment’s business lines are often ranked among the top three in their respective industries, and it’s not unusual to find them in first place. These market positions have been earned with long and hard work—but holding on to them is even harder. The recipe for success is: “Don’t simply sell products; instead, make offers that go beyond the criteria of price, quality, and availability.”

Performance Materials mainly produces polymer materials and intermediate products that offer special application options to industrial customers— for example, additives that give plastics the light-stability, flexibility, long life, and versatility that we are used to today. What’s more, many products in agricultural and rubber chemistry could not be produced at all without precursor and intermediate products from Performance Materials.

As a result, Performance Materials and its products are crucial elements in its customers’ value creation processes. Many of these relationships have existed for a long time. To make sure things stay this way, the segment generates unconventional ideas and solutions every day to keep its customers impressed. It develops new needs-oriented business models that become the starting points for the further development of its business operations. In the future, Performance Materials aims to excel with products, processes, and online and offline services and solutions that are tailored to customers’ needs.  

Markets and Business Lines

Performance Intermediates: Chemical intermediate products and additives for the rubber, plastics, and other industries.
Performance Intermediates: Chemical intermediate products and additives for the rubber, plastics, and other industries.
Agrochemicals & Polymer Additives: Intermediates, additives, and auxiliary materials for the plastics industry, fertilizers, and crop protection.
Agrochemicals & Polymer Additives: Intermediates, additives, and auxiliary materials for the plastics industry, fertilizers, and crop protection.
Functional Solutions: Chemicals and alkoxides for the production of biodiesel from vegetable oil, for example.
Functional Solutions: Chemicals and alkoxides for the production of biodiesel from vegetable oil, for example.
Acrylic Monomers: Customized precursor products for numerous coating, adhesive, and plastic applications.
Acrylic Monomers: Customized precursor products for numerous coating, adhesive, and plastic applications.
Acrylic Polymers: Molding compounds and semifi nished products for surfaces, glazing, façade elements, and much more.
Acrylic Polymers: Molding compounds and semifi nished products for surfaces, glazing, façade elements, and much more.
CyPlus: Cyanide plus know-how for precious-metal mining, the electrical industry, and chemicals production.
CyPlus: Cyanide plus know-how for precious-metal mining, the electrical industry, and chemicals production.
Support functions: For example, HR, accounting, controlling, and other processes.
Support functions: For example, HR, accounting, controlling, and other processes.

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