Company Research Report



Company Overview



Name


Omya International AG

Mission of the Company


"Making life better through our passion for minerals and chemistry."

Founding and History


  • Founded in: 1884

  • Founders: Emma Staufer and Gottfried Plüss

  • Initial focus: The company began by manufacturing high-quality window putty from chalk and linseed oil.


Key People


No information is available.

Headquarters


  • Location: Baslerstrasse 42, CH-4665 Oftringen, Switzerland


Number of Employees


  • Employees: 9,000


Revenue


  • Revenue: CHF 4 billion


Known For


Omya is known for being a leading global producer of essential minerals and a worldwide distributor of specialty materials. Its products can be found in various everyday items, improving their functionality, appearance, or sustainability.

Products



Adhesives and Sealants


  • High-level Description: Improve sustainability, optimize functionality, and increase profitability with calcium carbonate functional minerals.

  • Key Features:

  • Modify rheology

  • Improve mechanical performance

  • Reduce water usage in production, leading to energy savings and productivity gains


Agriculture


  • High-level Description: Improve agricultural productivity with natural minerals to maximize soil health, crop yields, and animal nutrition.

  • Key Features:

  • Soil conditioning for improved soil pH and structure

  • Essential plant nutrition with calcium, magnesium, and sulfur

  • Enhance plant health with mineral-based protection


Air Treatment


  • High-level Description: Reduce air pollution with natural minerals for a cleaner world.

  • Key Features:

  • Wet and dry scrubbers for acidic pollutants

  • Packed bed absorbers for HCl and SOx

  • Marine scrubbers for air pollution control in marine vessels


Building and Construction


  • High-level Description: Innovative raw materials to improve sustainability and performance.

  • Key Features:

  • Mineral admixtures for concrete to improve performance and reduce carbon footprint

  • Lightweight fillers for dry mortar to optimize properties

  • Calcium carbonate for engineered wood products to reduce costs


Engineered Materials


  • High-level Description: Technical and commercial solutions for various industries including automotive, electronics, industrial applications, and more.

  • Key Features:

  • Energy efficiency and weight reduction for automotive applications

  • Compatibility and performance improvements for electronics

  • Enhanced mechanical performance and flame retardancy for industrial uses


Food, Pharma, and Nutrition


  • High-level Description: High-quality minerals for food, supplements, and health applications.

  • Key Features:

  • Improve manufacturing processes

  • Enhance nutritional profile of finished products

  • Ultra-pure minerals for supplementation and acid neutralization


Packaging


  • High-level Description: Sustainable, functional, and profitable packaging solutions.

  • Key Features:

  • Extended portfolio for both fiber-based and polymer packaging

  • Enhanced performance across films, thermoformed, and molded products


Paints and Coatings


  • High-level Description: Enhance performance, reduce costs, and lower carbon footprint with functional minerals.

  • Key Features:

  • Improve coverage and reduce formulation costs

  • Lightweight fillers for higher coverage rates and thermal insulation

  • Compatibility with various coatings applications


Personal Care and Home Care


  • High-level Description: Natural mineral solutions for oral, personal, and home care formulas.

  • Key Features:

  • Natural ingredients for body care and cosmetics

  • Eco-friendly mineral-based ingredients for oral care

  • Innovative ingredients for home care


Polymers


  • High-level Description: Enhancing the plastics and rubbers industry with technically advanced materials.

  • Key Features:

  • Masterbatch and compounding expertise

  • New sustainable solutions to increase recycled content

  • Broad range of solutions for polymer packaging and other applications


Pulp and Paper


  • High-level Description: Contributing to circularity, functionality, and production process efficiency.

  • Key Features:

  • Smart coating pigments and mineral fillers for paperboard

  • Optimization of graphic papers' functionality and appearance

  • Efficient solutions for flexible packaging and specialty papers


Water Treatment


  • High-level Description: Optimize water treatment processes with natural minerals.

  • Key Features:

  • Replace conventional chemicals, improving safety and reducing costs

  • Caustic soda and lime replacements for wastewater treatment

  • Mineralization and pH adjustment solutions for drinking and wastewater


Recent Developments



Product Launches and Innovations


  • Omyabond 160 & 120: Sustainable calcium carbonate options for adhesives and sealants.

  • Omya Smartfill: Enhanced properties for polymer compatibility and performance.

  • Looptech: High-performance compound created from recycled polymers.


Partnerships and Collaborations


  • Everlight Chemical Industrial Corporation: Strategic collaboration to transform Pakistan's UV absorber market.

  • Burgess Pigment Company: Long-standing relationship for kaolin clay representation.

  • Celanese: Key partner for engineered materials in Europe.

  • Arkema: Collaboration to address the demand for innovative and sustainable materials.

  • EMS-GRIVORY: Expanded engineered materials business into North America.

  • BASF: Representing high-performance polymers in Asia Pacific.


Other Developments


No information is available.




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