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“I am pleased with our 2020 results as they reflect our responsiveness to customer needs and a strategic investment in high-growth and resilient end markets,” said Nouryon Chairman and CEO Charlie Shaver.

Nouryon today announced that its India operations has been Great Place To Work® Certified™ for the year 2025.

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has launched a next-generation multifunctional additive, Ethylan EF-60, which enables formulators to ensure low temperature storage stability of VOC-free water-borne latex paint products.

BeautyCreations™ is a revolutionary digital portal that enables personal care formulators to quickly and easily search through Nouryon’s vast repository of creative and innovative hair and skin care formulations. Launched at in-cosmetics Global in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Powered by Albert Invent, the BeautyCreations™ formulation discovery tool leverages AI to help formulators supercharge their beauty formulation development. Using natural language, formulators can describe their formulation requirements and desired consumer product claims to the BeautyCreations™ tool, which is trained specifically for personal care formulation chemistry.

Introducing Berol® Nexus surfactant, a next-generation multifunctional hydrotrope, at the 2024 ACI Annual Meeting and Industry Convention. The latest innovation, designed for the North American cleaning market, is a next-generation, multifunctional hydrotrope.

Launching two new innovative products at the annual SEPAWA Congress and Exhibition, hosted in Berlin, Germany. The new innovations include Berol® Nexxt, a next-generation surfactant and multifunctional hydrotrope, and Dissolvine® GL Premium, the industry’s most concentrated GLDA-based chelating agent.

Introducing LumaTreat™, a global patent-pending smart-tagged polymer line of products that is revolutionary in the water management industry. LumaTreat products are fluorescent monomers that attach on a deposit control agent. The combination of the fluorescent monomer and deposit control polymer provide a Smart Tag that accurately measures the ‘free’ or unused polymer in the water treatment system.

Nouryon (formerly AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals) has introduced a new dibenzoyl peroxide (BPO) formulation, Perkadox GB-50, to customers in the composites market. GB-50 will replace Perkadox CH-50, a peroxide that is desensitized (or “phlegmatized”) with dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP), which the European Union recently reclassified as a category 1B Reproductive Toxin.

A groundbreaking product concept for expandable microspheres marks a significant advancement in Nouryon’s innovation portfolio, providing a partially biobased and high-performance lightweight filler and blowing agent that addresses the evolving needs of the market.

Nouryon has begun the first deliveries of AkuPure™, a carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) polymer targeted specifically for the fast-growing lithium-ion battery market. AkuPure is an ultra-high-purity CMC that improves the electrode coating process, making the battery more efficient by helping it to retain and deliver power more effectively.

Nouryon has introduced a range of demulsifiers that provide oil producers with a more sustainable option to separate crude oil from natural gas and water. The Witbreak NEO range is inherently biodegradable in seawater and has a better cost-to-performance ratio compared to conventional demulsifiers currently available on the market.

Nouryon has introduced a natural film-forming polymer for use in high sun protection factor (SPF) emulsion sunscreens.

Nouryon introduces its Expancel® 081 microspheres grade at the Pulp and Beyond 2026 event in Helsinki, Finland, from April 15—16, 2026. An innovative bulking agent, Expancel 081 addresses two of the biggest cost and sustainability drivers in paperboard production – fiber use and energy consumption. Specifically, Expancel 081 microspheres uniquely address the rising pressure faced by paperboard mills to increase the use of recycled fiber or fillers without losing key sheet properties like stiffness, bulk and thickness, and keep energy use in check.

This patent-pending, high-efficiency chromatography media is used for the purification of novel peptide-based pharmaceuticals in the GLP-1 agonist class including type 2 diabetes and obesity treatments. The announcement was made during the CPHI & PMEC China show in Shanghai, China.

Nouryon has introduced a new version of its Kromasil® silica-based chromatography material targeting the purification and analysis of pharmaceutical samples.