The recent relocation of Degussa’s regional office from Sharjah to the Jebel Ali Free Zone is offering the company better access to key service providers such as warehousing and logistics firms, which is a further step to improving the support to customers, the company says.
Degussa Middle East is the regional office for the four divisions within the group, namely Fine & Industrial Chemicals, Performance Materials, Coatings & Advanced Fillers and Specialty Polymers.
“The strategic location of the Jebel Ali Free Zone, which is in close proximity to the regional markets, together with its ease of operations, makes it an ideal platform from where it can grow the business further,” a company spokesman said.
“Degussa is, besides other business activities, especially participating in the growth of the coatings industry and is successfully introducing its skin care programme to GCC markets,” he added.
Degussa is a multinational corporation consistently aligned to highly profitable specialty chemistry. In fiscal 2003, its 47,000 employees generated sales of €11.4 billion ($14.7 billion) and operating profits (EBIT) of €878 million, making it Germany’s third-largest chemical company and the global market leader in specialty chemicals.
Innovative products and system solutions enable Degussa to play a valuable and indispensable role in the success of its customers.
Degussa Middle East is a strong partner to different industries with a vide range of products. As the world’s leader in coating raw materials, Degussa develops solutions that assist its customers in formulating advanced paint and coating systems. For paints, coatings, inks, adhesives and sealants, Degussa’s ‘Smart’ formulating concept combines the technology and application know-how of crosslinkers, performance resins, polyesters, colourants, specialty acrylics, methacrylates, silanes, aerosil, matting agents, carbon blacks, performance silica, Tego coating & ink additives, Vestosint fine powders and performance products and intermediates.
Plexigas, the company’s brand name for acrylics, stands out by virtue of its extremely high weather resistance, great robustness, high transparency, outstanding brilliance and colourfulness, simple mouldability and low weight. Plexiglas is used in construction and greenhouse glazing, in trade fair and shop construction, in neon advertising and for displays and protective glazing as well as for aquariums and other applications.
As a manufacturer of specialty chemicals, Degussa is also a strong partner to the oil, gas and petrochemical industries with products such as potassium carbonate, catalysts and a variety of initiators, pigments, anti-blocking agents and antioxidants.
Degussa is a long established supplier to the detergent industry. With its persalts and cationic surfactants it has a leading world market position and offers high quality products combined with the highest degree of reliability. Degussa demonstrates a continued commitment to innovation and technology supported by its R&D and applied technology groups.
Degussa produces feed additives at six locations in five countries and is the only company in the world to supply from a single source all four of the important amino acids for animal nutrition - DL-methionine, L-lysine (biolys), L-threonine and L-tryptophan.
The company has an ongoing skin care programme under the family brand of Stoko.
