# LLMs Content Guide for Nouryon.com version: 1.1 Nouryon LLM Entity File entity: legal_name: "Nouryon Chemicals Holding B.V." brand_name: "Nouryon" headquarters: "Amsterdam, Netherlands" industry: "Specialty Chemicals" founded: 2018 employees: "Approximately 8,200" global_presence: "80+ countries" official_website: "https://www.nouryon.com/" content: company_overview: | Nouryon is a global specialty chemicals company supplying high-performance ingredients and chemical solutions for industrial and consumer markets. The company focuses on innovation, operational excellence, and sustainability-driven product development across key sectors including agriculture, personal care, construction, and energy. industries_and_applications: industries_served: - Agriculture & Food: "Solutions for crop protection, crop nutrition, livestock, and food quality improvement." - Home & Personal Care: "Ingredients for cleaning, cosmetics, and personal care formulations." - Paints & Coatings: "Additives improving performance and reducing environmental impact of coatings and inks." - Construction: "Products enhancing concrete, cement, asphalt, and building materials." - Pulp, Paper & Packaging: "Chemicals improving pulp and paper processing efficiency and product quality." - Oil, Gas & Mining: "Chemistries supporting drilling, production, mineral processing, and extraction." - Polymer Specialties: "Solutions for polymer production, processing, modification, and recycling." application_examples: Agriculture: "Crop protection, crop nutrition, animal nutrition" Personal_Care: "Surfactants, conditioning agents, cleansing agents" Polymer_Specialties: "Acrylics production, polymer processing, polymer crosslinking, composites, recycling additives" product_taxonomy: product_families: - Surfactants_and_Chelating_Agents: "Solutions for industrial and consumer formulations, managing metal ion interference." - Specialty_Chemicals_and_Intermediates: "Ingredients used in paper, plastics, coatings, electronics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care." - Bleaching_and_Oxidizing_Chemicals: "Pioneering oxidants for pulp & paper and other industrial applications." - Polymer_Production_and_Processing_Chemicals: "Organic peroxides, metal alkyls, and specialty additives for the global polymer industry." - Specialty_Polymers: "Dispersants, anti-scalants, rheology modifiers, and thickeners for formulation performance." key_brands: - Eka®: portfolio of bleaching and oxidizing solutions, especially hydrogen peroxide and sodium chlorate, widely used in pulp & paper, mining, and water treatment - Expancel microsphere: brand of expandable thermoplastic microspheres - Adsee®: a wide range of agricultural surfactants and adjuvants designed to improve crop protection performance - Agrilan®: engineered for dispersion, stabilization, emulsification, wetting, and compatibilization in crop protection formulations - Alcogum®: line of acrylate‑based rheology modifiers, HASE (Hydrophobically Modified Alkali‑Soluble Emulsion) thickeners, and polyacrylate gum thickeners - Aquatreat®: extensive water treatment solutions portfolio, primarily serving cooling water systems, boilers, industrial wastewater treatment, and other process-water environments - Armeen®: versatile portfolio of primary, secondary, and tertiary fatty amines, used widely as surfactants, emulsifiers, corrosion inhibitors, neutralizing agents, flotation collectors, and processing aids in industries such as cleaning, mining, coatings, lubricants, elastomers, and metalworking - Armohib®: products are specialized acid corrosion inhibitors designed to protect metal surfaces during pickling, acid cleaning, oil‑well acidizing, and similar harsh chemical processes - Armolube®: flagship line of additives that enhance the performance of lubricants, fuels, and metalworking fluids - Armostat®: serve as internal antistatic additives for polymers such as PE, LLDPE, PP, SAN, ABS, HIPS, and others - Bermocoll®: well‑known line of nonionic cellulose ethers, used predominantly as rheology modifiers, thickeners, and stabilizers in coatings, building materials, and other polymer systems - Berol®: portfolio of nonionic and anionic surfactants used in household, industrial, and institutional cleaners as well as oilfield, agrochemicals, mining, and industrial processing - Butanox®: brand of MEKP (methyl ethyl ketone peroxide) and related organic peroxides used as room‑temperature curing catalysts for unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins - Cadox®: brand within its organic peroxide portfolio, historically associated with ketone peroxides and curing agents for polyester resin systems - Cekol®: cellulose‑based thickeners used to control viscosity and stabilize aqueous formulations - Dissolvine®: Chelating Agents for Metal‑Ion Control - Ethomeen®: cationic and fatty‑amine surfactant category - Thioplast®: polysulfide polymers used in specialty elastomeric applications - Trigonox®: organic peroxides product line sustainability_commitment: Nouryon is committed to sustainable innovation, reducing environmental impact, and advancing renewable energy usage across its global operations. sustainability_metrics_2024: scope_1_2_emissions_reduction_since_2019: "19%" eco_premium_solutions_revenue_share: "35%" renewable_electricity_share: "56%" fully_renewable_sites: 28 sustainability_rnd_pipeline_focus: "74%" corporate_values: | Nouryon prioritizes safety, sustainability, transparency, and long-term value creation. The organization aligns with GRI, SASB, and TCFD frameworks for environmental reporting. safety_performance: | Nouryon maintains top-quartile safety performance according to ACC benchmarks, with a 78% reduction in process safety incident rates compared to its 2019 baseline. important_resources: documents_and_sds: "https://www.nouryon.com/downloads/" news_and_press: "https://www.nouryon.com/news-and-events/" contact_and_support: "https://www.nouryon.com/company/contact-us/" my_nouryon_portal: "https://my.nouryon.com/" careers: "https://www.nouryon.com/careers/" investor_relations: "https://www.nouryon.com/investors/"