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Bostik (Arkema)
Arkema adhesives division; EVA/PUR hot-melt for bookbinding and assembly.
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Industrial Adhesives
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Did you know2024
Bostik is the adhesives arm of Arkema, a large French specialty-chemicals group spun out of oil major Total in 2006 — and a sibling division of Bostik sits squarely in the electric-vehicle and solar supply chains. Arkema is one of the world's leading makers of PVDF (sold as Kynar), a fluoropolymer that is a critical binder holding together the electrodes inside lithium-ion batteries, and is also used in solar-panel backsheets and chemically aggressive piping. So the corporate parent behind ordinary glue is simultaneously a key supplier of a material without which EV battery cells and many solar modules can't be built. The everyday adhesives business and a strategic clean-energy material live inside the same French chemical company — an unexpected bridge from the glue in a diaper to the binder in an EV battery.
Arkema ↗Concentration2024
The industrial-adhesives market is more concentrated than its mundane image suggests: a Big Three of Henkel (Germany), H.B. Fuller (US) and Bostik/Arkema (France) supplies a large share of the engineered hot-melt and structural adhesives that hold modern manufactured goods together — packaging, automotive interiors, hygiene products, bookbinding, mattresses, footwear and more. Because adhesive formulations are application-specific and qualified into customers' production lines, switching suppliers is slow and sticky (literally), which entrenches the incumbents. The result is that the glue layer of global manufacturing — almost never specified on a product's label — rests on a handful of chemical companies, making adhesives a quiet, cross-industry chokepoint that shows up only when a specific formulation goes short.
Bostik / Arkema ↗