2020 annual and sustainable performance report

Innovative for designing the future

Numerous applications

With over 3,000 listed products, our resins and additives are used in the formulation of paints, inks and coatings intended for a wide range of applications, meeting extremely varied and exacting functional and regulatory specifications.

Interior decoration

Inkjet printing

Building and roadways

Rolling stock and equipment for railways

External panel protection

Protective marine surfacing

Industrial wood coatings (flooring, furniture)

Protection of electronic devices (smartphones)

Protection of metallic infrastructures and engineering works

Interior and exterior automobile surfaces, including optics

Functional surfaces (adhesives, textiles, flooring, leather, etc.)

Protective varnishes and inks for cosmetics and food packaging

Helping our markets find sustainable solutions

“The breadth of our offering of resins and additives, coupled with our expertise in all current technologies, allows us to help our clients, who formulate paints, inks and coatings, to find solutions that are more sustainable and environmentally friendly. In addition to eliminating volatile organic compounds, in which we go beyond regulatory requirements, we play a driving role in the major fundamental trends in our markets: the higher solidity of resins, lower curing temperatures and speed of implementation, which all help to improve energy efficiency. We are also at the cutting edge in developing formulations with a low level of fossil input thanks to the use of bio-based raw materials and a focus on the origin of the carbon used, both at our plants and at our suppliers.”

Jean-Christophe Leveugle,

Global Director, Strategic Marketing, Coating Resins

Key figures

  • 1.9 billion sales in 2020
  • 35 production sites
  • 9 application laboratories and technical expertise centers
  • 2.6% R&D spend (percentage of sales)
  • 3% average organic growth in 2020-2024

New capacity in 2020

Driven by average global growth of around 3.5% in the coating markets, especially in photocurable resins, high durability powder resins and waterborne resins, the Group is keeping pace with the rise in demand by means of regular investment. In 2020 alone, new capacity was launched at the acrylic monomers plant in Clear Lake (U.S.), the polyester powder plant in Navi Mumbai (India), the photocurable resins plant in Nansha (China) and the rheology additives plant in Chester (U.S.).