Operations
Element Solutions manufactures and supplies specialty chemicals for a broad range of solutions, including mobile phones, consumer electronics, communication infrastructure, automobile, industrial surface finishing, consumer packaging and offshore oil production and drilling.[10][11]
Element Solutions operates in two segments: Electronics and Industrial & Specialty.
The Electronics segment researches, formulates and sells specialty chemicals and material process technologies for all types of electronics hardware, including complex printed circuit board designs and advanced semiconductor packaging. The Company’s wet chemistries for metallization, surface treatments and solderable finishes are leveraged in the electronics manufacturing process in mobile communications, computers, automobiles and aerospace equipment.
The Industrial & Specialty segment researches, formulates and sells specialty chemicals and material process technologies that enhance surfaces or improve industrial processes. The products include chemical systems that protect and decorate metal and plastic surfaces, and chemistries used in water-based hydraulic control fluids for offshore energy productions.
The Company owns a number of subsidiaries, which go to market under different brands, including MacDermid Enthone, MacDermid Offshore Solutions, MacDermid Alpha Electronics Solutions, Compugraphics, Fernox, Electrolube and Kester.
Element Solutions has 63 manufacturing and R&D sites in 18 countries.[12]
