A strategy focused on growth

Innovative chemistry is key to a sustainable future.

We partner with some of the world’s most-innovative companies to create essential solutions, including many with sustainable benefits. Over the course of our nearly 400-year journey, our close attention to customer needs and societal trends, alongside our ability to translate these into business opportunities, have earned us a place among the leading companies in our industry in terms of safety and sustainability. This has consistently resulted in strong financial performance and profitable growth.
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Success built on partnerships

We believe that collaboration is key to our success, and devote ourselves to understanding our partners’ needs. We collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, including customers, partner companies, universities, and startups that help us become more sustainable, more innovative, and deliver more value to our customers.
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Three-pronged strategy to drive growth

We will grow our leading position in specialty chemicals and exceed our customers’ expectations. We will do this by:

Delivering innovative and sustainable solutions that answer customers' needs - today and in the future
Focus on attractive and growing end-markets as well as emerging markets
Drive commercial and cost productivity

Our business segments – Performance Formulations and Technology Solutions – continually innovate to contribute to a more sustainable future in addressable end-markets by building on our customer offerings, regularly adding new, sustainable solutions to our existing portfolio.

Our plans include growth in new applications and geographies through: acquisitions and partnerships; further expansion of our sustainable product offering; and by maximizing the capacity, utilization, and flexibility of our production facilities to drive commercial and cost productivity.

Our innovation and reliability make us the partner of choice for customers worldwide

Business lines - Performance Formulations

Business line - Technology Solutions

A selection of our industry-leading brands

Partnering with customers to provide industry-leading solutions

“Our success has been built on strong partnerships and we believe that collaboration is key to future success. Nouryon works closely with customers and other partners to innovate, make strategic investments, and deliver sustainable solutions that answer society’s needs – today and in the future.”

How we work

We aim high

We drive growth by collaborating with customers and colleagues to become more focused, faster, efficient and better every day.

We own it

We are accountable and deliver on our commitments to customers, investors and each other.

We do it right

We support our people, customers and communities through strong ethics, and with safety, integrity and sustainability in mind.

About Nouryon

Nouryon is a global, specialty chemicals leader. Markets and consumers worldwide rely on our essential solutions to manufacture everyday products, such as personal care, cleaning goods, paints and coatings, agriculture and food, pharmaceuticals, and building products. Furthermore, the dedication of approximately 8,300 employees with a shared commitment to our customers, business growth, safety, sustainability and innovation has resulted in a consistently strong financial performance. We operate in over 80 countries around the world with a portfolio of industry-leading brands.

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Agriculture and food

Home and Personal care

Paints and coatings

Building and infrastructure

Polymer specialties

Oil, gas and mining

Pulp, paper and packaging

Transportation

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Bleaching and oxidizing chemicals and technologies

Specialty polymers

Surfactants and chelating agents

Polymer production and processing chemicals

Specialty chemicals and intermediates

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Sustainability approach

Improving safety and environment

Engaging people, partners, and society

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Strategy and values

Sustainability and innovation

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