page_title: Arkema
section_title: High Performance Materials
hierarchical_section_title: Arkema / Organization / High Performance Materials
caption_attribution_description: L'usine Arkema de Pierre-Bénite, à la limite nord de la commune
context_page_description: Arkema S.A. is a specialty chemicals and advanced materials company headquartered in Colombes, near Paris, France.
  Created in 2004, when French oil major Total restructured its chemicals business, Arkema was introduced at the Paris stock exchange in May 2006. With a turnover of 8.8 billion €, Arkema has 20,000 employees in more than 55 countries, 13 research centers worldwide, and a total of 136 production plants in Europe, North America and Asia and the rest of the world.
  Arkema is organized into three business segments: Coating Solutions, Industrial Chemicals, and Performance Products.
context_section_description: High Performance Materials segment gathers four high value added product lines: Specialty polyamides, Fluoropolymers (PVDF), molecular sieves for filtration and adsorption and organic peroxides.
  Its flagship brands are Rilsan (polyamide 11), Luperox(Organic Peroxide), Kynar (PVDF), Siliporite (Molecular Sieves).
caption: Usine Arkema de Pierre Bénite
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