Akzo Nobel is a Global Fortune 500 company and is listed on both the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. The company is also the Chemical Industry leader on the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes and is included on the FTSE4Good Index. Based in the Netherlands, we are a multicultural organization serving customers throughout the world with coatings and chemicals. We employ around 43,000 people and conduct our activities in these two segments, with operating subsidiaries in more than 80 countries.

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Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, (USA), holds worldwide leading positions in the production, handling and supply of organic peroxides, metal alkyls and anti-fouling and suspending agents. These products are used primarily in the production of thermoplastic polymers and thermoset plastic materials, but find various other applications as well. In addition, Polymer Chemicals supplies customers throughout the world with polymer additives and high purity metalorganics. Our production is carried out at 14 plants/sites worldwide.

Akzo Nobel High Purity Metalorganics (AN-HPMO), part of Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals, was created in 2000 in order to better serve the semiconductor market. This allows AN-HPMO to focus on the specific needs of this market while leveraging Polymer Chemicals’ global distribution and service networks, manufacturing expertise, global R&D, and their expertise in safe handling of metalorganics. As such, AN-HPMO excels in quality, consistency and innovation.

Akzo Nobel High Purity Metalorganics is the only fully integrated high purity metalorganics supplier serving the semiconductor industry. We manufacture most of our raw materials, and therefore are able to tightly control their quality. We have an industry leading, systematic approach to quality control. We understand the risks involved in entrepreneurial product development and are continually improving the purity and consistency of our precursors to exceed the demands of the epitaxy community.

We use leading edge processes, purification, and transfilling techniques that ensure the repeatable and consistent delivery of the highest purity metalorganics in every cylinder that reaches our customers. Among our standard operating procedure is random sampling of materials filled in customer bubblers in order to ensure that the quality of the source has been preserved from its original batch.

In addition to our chemicals we offer several innovative services and products to our customers: