MOSCOW (MRC) -- DKSH Business Unit Performance Materials, a provider of market expansion services for performance materials and a distributor of specialty chemicals, has entered into a collaborative agreement with Synthomer, said Chemical-technologies.
Under the agreement, DKSH will distribute Synthomer's emulsion polymers products in Asia, covering India, the Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand.
This distribution will exclude products for coatings and adhesives in Vietnam, for adhesives and technical textiles in Cambodia and Laos and technical textiles products in India. "Under the agreement, DKSH will distribute Synthomer's emulsion polymers products in Asia."
DKSH performance materials business unit head and group management member Mario Preissler said the company has established a strong customer base in Asia during the past 150 years.
As MRC wrote earlier, DKSH and Clariant have entered into a strategic alliance by signing a distribution agreement, under which DKSH will supply Clariant's paints and coatings products to Asia, namely, India, the Philippines and Vietnam.
"The partnership with Synthomer clearly enhances our existing portfolio with one of the broadest and innovative product ranges for emulsion polymers for many applications," Preissler added.
Synthomer COO Derick Whyte said: "We are convinced that the result will deliver improved technical services through local distribution networks to provide our current and future customers with real added value."
Synthomer also offers various binders based around acrylics, styrene-butadiene and vinyl acetate chemistries, for use in various applications, including weather-resistant wood coatings, crack-bridging facade paints for cool roofing applications and plaster, as well as binders for PSA tapes, labels and technical textiles.
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