Acquisitions, disposals and reconfigurations
2007: Arkema sells its agrochemical business (Cerexagri) to United Phosphorus[14] and its urea-formaldehyde activities to Hexion.[15]
2007: acquires Coatex company (specialty acrylic polymers)
2010: acquires acrylic Dow assets in the US [16]
2011: acquires Total coating resins (Cray Valley and Sartomer)[17]
2012: acquires Chinese Company Hipro Polymers (producer of bio-Polyamides) and Casda Biomaterials (producer of plant raw materials)[18]
In July 2012, Arkema sold for 1 symbolic euro its vinyl products business segment to the Klesch group for reasons of profitability,[19] but also to re-center its operations exclusively on specialty chemicals. As part of this divestment, Arkema made a 100 million euro cash payment to the Klesch group and took on debts amounting to 470 million euros to help revive the activity. In response to fears of redundancy and to protests from employees at a number of production sites, the trade unions negotiated, with the Arkema management, industrial and social guarantees as well as support measures designed to protect the rights of employees should the Klesch group implement redundancies following their take-over of the vinyl products activities. Hence two trust funds of €20 M were set up to secure compensation payments and the rights of employees of the companies that were sold off.[20] Following the sale, Arkema reorganized its activities into three business segments: High Performance Materials, Industrial Specialties and Coating Solutions. Each represented about one third of Group turnover.[21]
2015 : Purchase of Bostik from Total S.A.[22][23] The company also joined CJ Group of South Korea to invest in the manufacture of L-methionine in Malaysia.[24]
In 2019 Sartomer won an Adhesives and Sealants Council (ASC) Innovation Award for "An electron Beam curable Resealable Adhesive that only sticks to itself."[25]
2020 : Plexiglas business sold to the American group Trinseo for $1.1 billion.[26]
2021 : Acquisition of Ashland's Performance Adhesives business for $1.65 billion.[27]
2022 : Acquisition of Permoseal, an adhesive solutions company in South Africa.[28]
