- CEO
- Michael Willome
- Full Time Employees
- 4,000
- Sector
- Basic Materials
- Industry
- Chemicals - Specialty
- Address
- 45 Pall Mall London United Kingdom SW1Y 5JG
- IPO Date
- Oct 13, 2021
- Business
- Synthomer plc Synthomer plc (Ticker: SYHMY) operates as a world-leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that serve vital roles in key end-markets including adhesives; coatings; construction; health and protection; performance materials; energy solutions; and paper, carpet and foam products, with a strong emphasis on certified sustainable formulations that reduce emissions and support customer sustainability goals. The company manufactures a diverse portfolio encompassing performance elastomers, functional solutions, industrial specialities, acrylate monomers and adhesive technologies; specific offerings include PSA labels, packaging and specialty tapes, saturants, release coatings, woodworking and hygiene adhesives, hot melt adhesives, architectural and intumescent coatings, SYNTHOMER NX coalescing agents, SYNOLOX BEPF glycols, mortar modification and waterproofing additives, construction and asphalt products, medical and examination gloves, non-wovens, footwear hygiene products, well cementing and drilling fluid additives, and battery binders. Founded in 1863 and headquartered at Temple Fields in Harlow, Essex, United Kingdom, with registered offices also noting 45 Pall Mall in London, Synthomer plc employs approximately 3,900 to 4,200 people across five innovation centres in the UK, Germany, Malaysia, China and Ohio, USA, and 29 to 31 manufacturing sites spanning Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, serving over 6,000 customers worldwide in sectors driven by urbanisation, e-commerce and healthcare demands. In recent strategic developments, the company completed the divestment of its Compounds business in April 2025 as part of ongoing portfolio reallocation toward higher-margin specialities, reduced manufacturing sites from 43 to 31, exited its US Fitchburg facility to enhance footprint flexibility, signed a zero-capital partnership for nitrile latex licensing targeting the onshore US market, expanded APO production at its Longview, Texas facility, announced a technology licensing partnership with Lummus for acrylic acid esters, and entered a strategic supply agreement with Henkel in 2025 to reduce carbon emissions in Henkel's TECHNOMELT hot melt adhesives, while celebrating the 100th anniversary of its Ribécourt, France site; these actions align with its 2022 transformational strategy emphasising innovation, sustainability and capital efficiency, building on prior acquisitions such as OMNOVA Solutions in 2020 and Eastman's Adhesive Technologies in 2021.