Connect Chemicals is a global producer, custom manufacturer, and traditional distributor of a wide range of specialty chemicals. Established in 1998, with headquarters in Ratingen, Germany, offices on 4 continents and an international network of partners, Connect Chemicals offers global coverage, serving both local and multinational organizations. To meet the ever-changing trends in the chemical industry, Connect Chemicals has evolved into a unique hybrid company. To catalyze this change, Connect Chemicals has developed a Modular Custom Manufacturing process.  Own resources are augmented by external cutting-edge technology to serve the specific customer requirements. Continuously & progressively the company invests in state-of-the-art facilities, R&D labs, advanced technology, analytical capabilities, and highly qualified technical team of experts.

Connect Chemicals UK Ltd in Cheshire, UK
Established in 2001, in the North West – the heart of the UK Chemical Industry, Connect Chemicals UK was one of the earlier additions to the European Connect Group. The business was started by an experienced sales person, in national and international business and has grown in both turnover and personnel. Originally financed with support from the German Parent company, Connect UK is now independently financed and self-sufficient, having experienced significant growth, over recent years. Key industries include Water Treatment, Lubricants, Coatings and Personal Care. The customer base has grown to over 100 regular customers, who are serviced through both direct and stock sales from three strategically located warehouses in the UK. The company anticipates continued further growth in Sales and Personnel. 

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Household & Industrial Care

Connect Chemicals has proven to be a competent partner for our customers in the household and industrial care industry. We serve small sized as well as global players of the I&I market. According to our customers needs we have continously developed and enlarged our product portfolio for this key market. Most of the products for this industry have include phosphonates, corrosion inhibitors, emulsifiers, chelating agents, biocides and surfactants.

Cosmetics & Personal Care

Applications include Baby Care, Hair Care, Make Up, Oral Care, Skin Care, Sun / UV Care, Toiletries 

Lubricants & Metal Working

Under the flag of metal working fluids we are supplying a comprehensive range of specialty products into following applications:

  • Automotive Motor and Gear Oils

  • Industrial Lubricants such cutting oils, drilling fluids and heat transfer oils

  • Greases

  • Metal Surface Treatment (cleaning and finishing)

The portfolio ranges from Group IV-Base Oils, Emulsifiers, Thickeners to Corrosion Inhibitors.

Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants

We are a manufacturer and distributor of raw materials used in various paint and coating applications, such as hyper-dispersants, surfactants, flame retardants, carbon nanomaterials, titanates, composite additives, thermal and carbonless coatings, vinyl ethers, waxes etc… 
We combine extensive know-how and industry expertise to assist our customers coating needs. 
The main task of a coating is to provide surface protection (against corrosion, stone chipping, scratches, abrasion or chemical attack…) and/or decorative finishes (such as colour, glass, opacity….)

Paints and coatings can generally fall into the following segments:

  • Architectural coatings – this is the largest sector of this market. These are often coloured paint products, anticorrosion coatings, fireproofing coatings…. these products tend to be decorative as well as functional.

  • Industrial coatings – these tend to be used in the automotive, aerospace, consumer products, original equipment manufacturing… these coatings can reduce friction, resist temperature extremes, guard against microbial contamination…

  • Specialty coatings – these are generally applied “in the field” rather than in the factory. Examples of these are traffic marking paints, marine paints…

Paper

Connect Chemicals is focusing on specialty products for paper production. We are active in 2 market segments: Color Change Technologies for thermal and carbonless papers as well as water based barrier coatings for packaging grades.

Thermal and Carbonless papers

Connect Chemicals is not only a world market leader in production and sales of color former products, we also continue expanding our range of sensitizers and developers for thermal paper. Our products are designed to meet challenging quality, performance and commercial requirements. In economy or top-coated thermal papers, for blue or black image carbonless paper, organic or inorganic carbonless paper CF materials we deliver the products you need to give you an edge in innovation and improve your image.

Thermal paper is used today in an ever increasing number of applications such as point of sales receipts, admission, transportation and lottery tickets, medical records, baggage tags, postage stamps, delivery and food retailing labels, to name but a few.

A thermal paper comprises a base paper and a coating comprising a layer of heat-sensitive chemicals known as the Thermal Layer.
In 2014 Connect Chemicals successfully started our new production plant in Penglai China, providing the largest capacity in the marked for color former products with more than 4’500t for the key products.

Water Based Barrier Coatings

Connect Chemicals serves the European Paper and Board Packaging market in cooperation with Spectra-Kote, our US based partner, developer and producer of water based barrier coatings.
These coatings have been specially developed to service the emerging wax replacement market, the polyethylene replacement market and the polyester replacement market. With its targeted performance grades, Spectra-Guard Coatings offer unprecedented design and reliability to the paper mills, coaters and to the box manufacturers.
We offer a wide array of different coatings to help meet your needs. Some of our most popular coatings are Grease Resistance, Water Resistance, Non Skid, Frozen Meat Box, Fire Retardant, Non Abrasive Coatings.

Plastics

Plastics and plastic materials represent one of the biggest markets in the chemical industry and have become a vital part of our daily life.

More than 300 Million tons of products are being produced every year world wide (2013). Plastic materials serve a variety of industries, such as packaging, automotive, 
building & construction, electrical & electronics and many more.

Continuous innovation over the last decades has created numerous new materials with unprecedented abilities and performance, with influences into all aspects of our lives.

Connect Chemicals is a partner to producers, processors, compounders and master batch manufacturers in all important plastic industry segments.

We serve users with both well-known materials such as flame retardants and lubricant waxes as well as range of highly innovative additives, such as Fullerenes. Matching the needs of our clients and partners, we offer an ever growing portfolio for this important market segment.

Water Treatment

From the very beginning Connect Chemicals defined the water treatment industry as one of the key ones for the group of companies.
Starting from our key copper corrosion inhibitors Benzotriazole and Tolyltriazole we have managed to build up an extensive package for our customers consisting in addition of Phosphonates and its salts, Polycarboxylic antiscalents and dispersants, other Polymers as well as Oxygen Scavengers. 
Our global coverage does enable us to supply this package to our multi-national customers helping them to streamline their supply chain.

Other Industries

We also serve the following industries (each links to specific product finder pages) :

Product Finder click here to search all market sectors 

Custom Manufacturing & R&D Facilities 

To meet the ever-changing trends in the chemical industry, Connect Chemicals has evolved into a unique hybrid company. To catalyze this change, Connect Chemicals has developed a modular custom manufacturing process. In-house resources are augmented with external state-of-the-art technology to meet specific customer requirements. The company continuously and progressively invests in state-of-the-art facilities, R&D labs, advanced technology, analytical capabilities, and highly skilled technical teams.

We source, manufacture, distribute, research, and develop globally

Company Principles & Regulatory

With it’s headquarters in Ratingen, Germany, Connect Chemicals is a globally operating manufacturer and distributor of specialty chemicals. In addition to the manufacture, sourcing and distribution of specialty chemicals, a further core competence of our company is custom manufacturing.

We have defined global principles and policies, which form the benchmark and guidelines for our actions. These cover the topics Corporate Culture, Compliance with Legislation and Regulations, customers, business partner and society.

Connect Chemicals ensures compliance with highest quality standard requirements for the company, production and products.

Depending on the Connect office, production site and products these standards include for example ISO 9001, ISO 14001 & ISO 18001, REACH requirements for products in Europe, EPA requirements in the US, the Global Harmonized System (GHS) as well as several local requirements.

Download here the document describing our company principles

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