- CEO
- Magdalena Martullo-Blocher
- Full Time Employees
- 2,824
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- Address
- Via Innovativa 1 Domat/ems Switzerland 7013
- IPO Date
- Aug 3, 2012
- Business
- Ems-Chemie Holding AG Ems-Chemie Holding AG (EMSHF) is a Switzerland-based holding company that, through its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures and markets high-performance polymers and specialty chemicals worldwide. The group operates primarily in two business areas: High Performance Polymers, encompassing EMS-GRIVORY, which produces a wide range of polyamide materials including engineering plastics and high-temperature polyamides supplied as granules for applications in automotive engineering, electronics, consumer goods, packaging and medical devices; and EMS-EFTEC, which provides adhesives, sealants, coatings, plastisols and application engineering systems for the automotive industry, including gluing for body parts, densities for welding seams, vibration damping and protective coatings. The Specialty Chemicals segment, now focused solely on EMS-GRILTECH following the 2019 divestiture of EMS-PATVAG, specializes in technical fibers, fusible adhesives and adhesive yarns for textiles and technical applications, adhesion promoters for the tire industry, heat/UV/cold-resistant powder coatings for appliances and machinery, and reactive diluents.
Ems-Chemie Holding AG maintains 25 production sites across 16 countries and sales presence in over 20 nations, with key markets in Europe (notably Germany and Switzerland), Asia (China and Japan), and the Americas (USA); its primary production hub is in Domat/Ems, Switzerland, where the company traces its origins to 1940 under family ownership before evolving into its current structure. The company employs approximately 2,824 people globally as of December 2024.
In recent developments, Ems-Chemie Holding AG has intensified its focus on operational growth through innovative specialties amid economic uncertainty, significantly expanding its technical sales and development organization in key regions including Asia to secure new contracts totaling CHF 150 million in the first half of 2025, while investing CHF 33 million in 2024 primarily for production capacity renewal and rationalization. The group continues to prioritize performance polymers as its core business, fostering development partnerships for energy-efficient, low-CO2 solutions in automotive, electronics and industrial applications, and maintains a strategy of returning excess capital to shareholders.