SpecialChem offers seamless access to innovative plastic additives from Arkema
Last update on May 29, 2025
SpecialChem welcomes Arkema, a leading producer of plastic additives for the Polymer Additives market, to its digital sales platform. Customers can access technical data and request samples through SpecialChem online. This collaborative effort will enhance Arkema's brand visibility and streamline the market education process.
The strategic alignment between SpecialChem and Arkema is poised to improve Arkema’s connection with buyers, ensuring the company's offerings are both accessible and engaging to potential customers across the digital landscape.
Key Highlights:
Plastic additives play a key role in the applicative performance and durability of
For more than 40 years, Arkema Plastic Additives have been mainly sold to the
- Durastrength® 4000 Impact Modifier: a multifunctional, acrylic-based impact modifier. It represents the newest technology that imparts excellent impact properties to rigid
PVC products and offers outstanding processability. Plastistrength® 562 Processing Aid: a high molecular weight acrylic processing aid. It provides high melt strength combined with optimum
PVC fusion promotion effect.
- Ease to access samples: Members from North America can order samples of Arkema products, allowing our members with ease to select them for their selection journey.
- Contact Arkema: Users from North America can also leverage their membership at SpecialChem to contact Arkema for technical support and more details about Durastrength® 4000 and Plastistrength® 562.
What SpecialChem has to say about this collaboration:
“SpecialChem is pleased to collaborate with Arkema, who is paving the path for sustainability in polymer additives. Their processing aids are popular amongst buyers looking to improve flow properties, reduce die build-up in extrusion, and aid in metal release during molding. Their compliance with the Responsible Care® initiative indicates the responsibility they have taken for their stakeholders. We are proud to support them in this mission to deliver high performing polymers to various segments of the plastics industry.”
Christophe Cabarry, SpecialChem Founder and CEO
What Arkema has to say about this collaboration:
“This collaboration will help our customers in North America easily find the products they need and access information about sustainability attributes. These include improving the recyclability of
John Hiel, N.A. Business Manager & Global Product Manager Plastic Additives
About SpecialChem
SpecialChem streamlines material selection with extensive product data and deep knowledge resources. Over 175,000+ suppliers already benefit from their far-reaching exposure. Buyers rely on SpecialChem's platform to identify the right materials and request samples directly. This empowers them to pinpoint materials that meet their specific requirements.
About Arkema
Building on its unique set of expertise in materials science, Arkema offers a portfolio of first-class technologies to address ever-growing demand for new and more sustainable materials. With the ambition to become a pure player in Specialty Materials, the Group is structured into 3 complementary, resilient and highly innovative segments dedicated to Specialty Materials - Adhesive Solutions, Advanced Materials, and Coating Solutions - accounting for some 92% of Group sales in 2024, and a well-positioned and competitive Intermediates segment. Arkema offers cutting-edge technological solutions to meet the challenges of, among other things, new energies, access to water, recycling, urbanization and mobility, and fosters a permanent dialogue with all its stakeholders. The Group reported sales of around € 9.5 billion in 2024 and operates in some 55 countries with 21,150 employees worldwide.