Synthomer Deutschland GmbH

An evolving company

Our roots stretch back to 1863, but we have never stopped evolving. In that time, we have transformed from a diversified chemical company to a specialised polymer solutions provider, and we continue to work to become ever more focused, specialised and global. Our values help us achieve our purpose: creating innovative and sustainable solutions for the benefit of customers and society. We are proud to employ 4,200 people working across Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and Asia from more than 30 manufacturing sites and four innovation centres of excellence. We are headquartered and listed in London, U.K., and have been in the FTSE4Good index for 10 years. In 2023, our revenues were £2.0 billion and EBITDA £142 million.

Binding the world together

We produce high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that bind the modern world together through the broadest range of everyday applications. Working with over 6,000 customers, we help bring thousands of products to life – from adhesives to coatings, construction, and specialty healthcare applications. Our chemistry is all around you. On your walls, under your feet, even wrapped around your lunch. It’s in the hygiene products that protect us and the infrastructure that supports our economy.

Our Adhesive Solutions division offers a diverse portfolio of water-based polymers for tape saturation, release coatings and pressure sensitive adhesives together with a broad range of specialty resins from different feedstocks to support your product development for PSA packaging and specialty adhesive tapes. At our innovation centres of excellence in the U.K., Germany, Malaysia and the USA, we collaborate closely with our customers to develop new products and enhance existing ones tailored to their needs, with an increasing range of sustainability benefits.

Innovation and sustainability inside

We are here to create innovative, sustainable solutions for the benefit of customers and society. It is this purpose that is helping us to grow, by turning ambitious ideas and technology into material reality every day. Through our specialty polymers and ingredients for coatings, construction, adhesives, and healthcare & protection end markets, we help to meet essential consumer needs and deliver solutions that are better for the planet.

As the demand for more sustainable products grows stronger, so does our drive to be more agile, ingenious and forward-looking. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent-protected products, with 64% of our new products launched in 2023 having defined sustainability benefits.

Our 2030 decarbonisation targets have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) as being in line with what the latest climate science says is necessary to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Besides, we hold a CDP climate score rating of A- and are certified with the EcoVadis CSR Silver Recognition Level. Synthomer is certified according to ISO 9001, ISO 1400, ISO 50001 (UK, GER, CZ, FR) and holds sustainability certifications by ISCC Plus.