Evonik Industries AG

Evonik Industries AG operates as a chemicals company across the Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas. The company is structured into three main segments: Advanced Technologies, Custom Solutions, and Infrastructure. The Advanced Technologies segment offers a range of products including polymers for medical applications, crosslinkers, and hydrogen peroxide, which serves as a sterilizing agent for cleaning silicon wafers and a bleaching agent for the paper and textile industries. This segment also provides fumed and precipitated silicas and silanes, used in the automotive, tire, electronics, and cosmetics industries, along with D-/L-methionine and lysine for animal nutrition. The Custom Solutions segment focuses on providing additives for various applications, such as coatings, adhesives, sealants, polyurethane foams, and lubricants, catering to the cosmetic, cleaning, and pharmaceutical industries. The Infrastructure segment is involved in infrastructure activities and supplies chemicals like butadiene, MTBE, butene-1, isononanol, and DINP. These products are utilized in the plastic and packaging industries, for the production of rubber and fuels, and as plasticizers in the construction and automotive sectors. Evonik Industries AG was founded in 1847 and is headquartered in Essen, Germany.