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Huntsman Corporation (Advanced Materials / Epoxy)
American specialty chemicals company (NYSE: HUN, HQ The Woodlands TX; ~$6B revenue); Advanced Materials division produces Araldite epoxy resins for industrial coatings, aerospace composites, wind turbine blades, and construction applications. Huntsman is simultaneously the world's 3rd-largest MDI polyurethane producer (for OSB and insulation) AND a major epoxy resin supplier for protective coatings and aerospace composites. The same Huntsman that supplies MDI for OSB building panels also makes the Araldite epoxy resin in marine coatings on container ships and in aerospace composite aircraft structures. Huntsman was founded by Jon Huntsman Sr. (Utah industrialist; US Ambassador to Russia under George W. Bush), who was also the subject of a famous 1993 leveraged buyout thriller that influenced US private equity law; the company's founder died in 2018. Huntsman Corporation is controlled by the Huntsman family.
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Polyurethanes (MDI)
40%Advanced Materials (Araldite Epoxy)
25%Performance Products (Amines & Surfactants)
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Did you know2024
Huntsman Corporation's Araldite epoxy brand serves two energy industries that are more often positioned as opposites than supply chain partners: (1) fossil fuel infrastructure — Araldite industrial coatings protect oil tankers, offshore platforms, pipelines, and petroleum storage tanks from corrosion; and (2) renewable energy — Araldite structural adhesive systems and infusion epoxies are the dominant resin system bonding glass fiber and carbon fiber in wind turbine blades. The same Huntsman Araldite that keeps offshore oil platforms from corroding also holds together the blades of the wind turbines displacing offshore oil's market share. Araldite's wind turbine blade position specifically (used by Vestas, Siemens Gamesa, LM Wind Power as a primary structural adhesive) represents a significant and growing share of Huntsman's advanced materials revenue — making Huntsman simultaneously embedded in the fossil fuel maintenance supply chain and the renewable energy manufacturing supply chain.
Huntsman Corporation ↗Origin2023
Huntsman Corporation was founded by Jon Huntsman Sr. in Salt Lake City in 1970, initially producing polystyrene egg carton and food packaging. Huntsman's critical early contract was with McDonald's for the first plastic clamshell hamburger container — supplying the packaging that changed fast food presentation globally in the 1970s. Huntsman reinvested packaging profits into petrochemicals, acquiring MDI polyurethane and specialty chemical plants through the 1980s-2000s. The 1994 acquisition of Shell Chemical's Huntsman Petrochemicals (UK) and multiple specialty chemical acquisitions built Huntsman into one of the world's largest privately controlled specialty chemical companies. The 2016 IPO (NYSE: HUN) converted the family-controlled conglomerate to a public company. The founder Jon Huntsman Sr. died in 2018; the Huntsman family retains significant shareholding and board representation.
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