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Turning challenges into opportunities for circular growth.
While others might hesitate to act on the complexities of circularity, we support you to lead the way. Our proven approach transforms uncertainty into actionable strategies, profitable growth, and collaborative innovation.
Circular innovation is the key.
The circular economy is not just a trend. It’s a transformation that demands new systems.
Like the internet or AI, it’s reshaping industries, revolutionising business models and opening doors to innovation.
Together, we shape a future where circular innovation is a competitive edge.
Stay ahead. Stand apart. Capture the value.
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Adopt faster. Win sooner.
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See the benefits. Capture the value.
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Differentiate beyond price wars.
Trust five generations of transformation
For five generations, since 1855, our family-owned company has embraced transformation. Finding new ways in times of challenges and changed needs. This spirit of Grow New is at the heart of who we are.
Products that drive innovation
Additives are the salt in the soup when it comes to coating formulations. Whether you need an adhesion promoter, accelerator, defoamer or any other additive to enhance the performance of your formulation – Grolman can offer a wide range of additives that help you solve your formulation challenges. Contact us and let us know how we can help you.
High quality products require Performance!
Either you look for
- Mechanical strength
- Barrier properties
- Heat transfer
- Thermal Insulation
- Electrical & thermal conductivity
- Electrical insulation
- Durability
- Resilience
- Ageing stability
- Dimensional stability
- Light reflectance
- Matting effects
- Rheology improvers
- Ease of processing
- Sound deadening
and many other features including a synergistic combination of multiple of them.
You’ll find your topmost performing solutions in our portfolio of performance materials and functional fillers. High quality products also require sustainability! If you are interested in combining performance with effective circularity and efficient energy use, please reach out to us!
Creating cutting-edge personal care products starts with the finest ingredients. Grolman’s extensive portfolio includes active ingredients, functional ingredients, pigments and additives that enhance product stability, texture, effectiveness and aesthetics. Whether for skin care, hair care, toiletries or decorative cosmetics, our ingredients enable manufacturers to develop innovative, sustainable solutions that stand out in the market.
Get in touch with us to see how our ingredients can help your personal care products succeed.
Imagine a world without colours. From a soft grey to a powerful red, from bright white to intensive black and every brilliant shade you can think of: Colour is everywhere. Within our Pigments & Dyes division we offer an extensive portfolio of different colourant groups: Black and white pigments, organic and inorganic colour pigments and dyes as well as all kinds of effect pigments and dyes. Find out how we can support your coloration challenges.
Resins and hardeners are an integral part of formulations across various applications. Grolman offers a portfolio of specialty resins and hardeners that enable our customers to formulate products for different purposes – like the varnish on your garden fence, the wall paint in your living room, polymers for the caulk in your bathroom or curing agents for the epoxy adhesive in your brand new electrical vehicle. Contact us and find out which solutions we can offer you.
Applications:
Building & Construction, Transportation, Paper, board and related products, Footwear & leather, Woodworking & joinery, Consumer/DIY, Assembly operations, Adhesives tapes, Medical adhesives
Adhesives are used to bond different substrates in various environments. This results in a huge number of formulations to meet the requirements of the specific application. The adhesives industry is always striving to improve technologies in order to offer their customers the best solution and meeting the highest quality standards. To achieve this, it is crucial to have a deep understanding of how different raw materials interact, affect the formulation and the performance of an adhesive. Here you can trust our technical expertise in the formulation of tailor-made solutions for a diverse range of applications.
Our resins, additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for adhesives offer the following functionalities:
- Defoaming
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Viscosity & rheology modification
- Flame Retardancy
- Heat Management
- Colour & effect pigmentation
- Adhesion
- Durability
- UV Protection
- Renewable raw materials
- Circularity
Applications:
Electrical Properties, Specialized concrete admixtures, Concrete prefabrication & Ready mix concrete, Dry and wet cement mortars, Specialised paints and sealing coats, Road asphalt modifiers, Innovative nano-additive
We support you in developing applications in the construction market such as architectural and construction concretes, concrete prefabricated paving stones, large-size concrete prefabricates, dry and wet cement mortars, floors, insulation, roofs, walls, facades, composites and more. With the help of our raw materials buildings can be more durable and require fewer resources for maintenance. Our specialty chemicals also make buildings more energy efficient, thus protecting our environment. Grolman offers a portfolio of speciality raw materials for different construction requirements.
Our additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for construction offer the following functionalities:
- Colours & effects
- IR-reflective
- Anti-corrosion
- Electrical & thermal conductivity
- Defoaming
- Air Entraining Agent
- Shrinkage control
- Viscosity modification
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Longer lifetime
Applications:
- Battery cells: lead acid, lithium ion, nickel based, primary (alkaline, zinc-carbon, Zi-MnO2), sodium based
- Battery modules & energy storage devices: lead acid, lithium ion, nickel based, sodium-based
- Battery raw materials: anode materials, case & current collector, cathode materials, separators
- Fuel cells: bipolar plate (coated metal, compound / composite)
- Adjacent markets: Plastics, Adhesives, Sealants, Paints & Coatings
The Energy Storage industry is at the core of an epochal transformation allowing a low carbon future, hence contributing to overcome climate change.
The Battery and the e-Vehicles sectors are growing, driven by China where demand rises surrounded by a cost-effective competitive environment.
Such sectors can get stronger in Europe too, by means of incentivizing robust domestic demand which allows the development of strong local industrial ecosystems, the improvement of producers’ processes, and the reduction of investment risks.
Grolman’s technical specialists work closely with our customers on providing advanced raw materials, enhancing product features, exploring new application possibilities, and lowering risk in the supply chains.
Our connections and expertise span from Energy Storage to all its related industries, applications and functionalities like Thermoplastics, Thermosets, Composites, Paints and Coatings, Adhesives, Sealants, thermal management, EMI-shieling, reinforcement, e-conductivity, and flame retardancy just to mention a few.
Applications:
Decorative Coatings, Wood Coatings, Industrial Coatings, ACE Coatings, Coil- and Can Coatings, Powder Coatings, Automotive Coatings, Marine Coatings, Protective Coatings, Aerospace Coatings and Artists’ Colours, Heavy Duty Coatings, Anti Corrosion Coatings, Road Marking Paints, Specialty Coatings
The ability of coating engineers to respond quickly to the needs of their customers has become a key success factor in the industry. With our innovative and more sustainable solutions for paints and coatings formulations we support our customers in developing smarter solutions across diverse end-use industries. Grolman offers a portfolio of speciality raw materials from first class suppliers to serve the industry’s needs. Our resins, additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for paints and coatings offer the following functionalities:
- Barrier properties
- Colours & effects
- Increased visibility
- IR-reflective
- Anti-corrosion
- Electrical & thermal conductivity
- Renewable raw materials
- Defoaming
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Levelling and Slip
- Viscosity modification
- Adhesion
- Light protection
- Longer lifetime
- Thermal Insulation
- Ageing stability
- Matting effects
- Light reflectance
- Circularity
- Flame Retardancy
- Tribology
Applications:
Coated Graphic Paper, Specialty paper, Decor Paper (pre-impregnated), Paper for Technical Laminates, Banknote & Security Paper, Carbon Paper, Friction Paper, Technical paper for the industry
We support producers of paper in meeting today’s requirements.
Our innovative solutions help with increasing productivity and sustainability while reducing total cost of operation and ensuring quality demands.
Our resins & additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials address the needs of the pulp and paper industry.
Products & Properties:
- Colours & Pigments for special effects
- Functional fillers & Extenders
- Laminating adhesives
- Optical brighteners
- Thickeners
- Defoamers
- Electrical conductivity and insulation
- Flame Retardancy
Applications: Skin Care, Hair Care, Toiletries, Decorative Cosmetics
The personal care industry is constantly evolving, with trends focused on sustainability, effectiveness, and aesthetic appeal. Grolman provides a wide selection of ingredients tailored to meet these demands. Our portfolio of active ingredients, functional ingredients, pigments and additives empowers manufacturers to create premium formulations for decorative cosmetics as well as skin, hair and body care. Whether you’re developing a luxurious moisturiser or a vibrant colour cosmetic, our ingredients will help you stand out in a competitive market.
Our personal care ingredients offer the following functionalities:
- Active Ingredients / Plant Extracts
- Bulking Agents
- Emollients
- Emulsifiers / Surfactants
- Exfoliating Agents
- Fatty Alcohol
- Glitters
- Opacifiers
- Pigments (Fluorescent, Iron Oxides, Manganese, Metallic, Pearlescents, Ultramarine)
- Precious Metals
- Preservatives
- Thickeners / Stabilisers / Film Formers
Applications:
Thermoplastic Compound / Extrusion, Thermoplastic Masterbatch, Thermoplastic Composites, Thermoset, Thermoset Composites, Elastomers
Avoiding plastic waste, using environment-friendly materials, making efficient use of resources and energy and improving the quality of life: In a time of continuous change the plastics industry is constantly challenged to come up with the next innovation. As consumers and communities demand more and more, new sustainable high-performance materials will be key.
At Grolman, we support you with material expertise and extraordinary market insight to design, develop and produce the specialty plastics that fulfil your customers‘ needs. Our resins, additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for plastics offer the following functionalities:
- Renewable raw materials
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Temperature Resistance
- Flame Retardancy
- Mechanical Improvement
- Defoaming
- Enhanced Electrical Properties
- Rheology modification
- Abrasion and scratch resistance
- Surface improvement
- Weight reduction
- IR-reflective
- Colours & effects
- Laser marking
- Tribology
- Light protection
- Thermal conductivity
- Crosslinking properties
Market Segments:
Digital inks, flexographic inks, gravure inks, lithographic inks, offset inks, screen inks, security inks, UV inks, writing products.
Printing inks have different requirements than paints and varnish coatings as they are applied in the form of a very thin layer. The visual characteristics of the ink depend on three main factors: its colour, transparency and gloss. Our team will be happy to support you in finding the optimal raw materials and the best composition for your ink formulations. Our resins, additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for printing inks and graphic arts offer the following functionalities:
- Colours & effects
- Viscosity & rheology modification
- Renewable raw materials
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Defoaming
Applications:
Rubber compounds used for extrusion, calandering, coating, moulding and casting
By using tailored specialty chemicals, the raw material rubber is turned into a high-performance product. With the selection of the respective rubber type as well as the crosslinking chemicals and additives, the final product obtains the desired technical properties – whether you want to improve the endurance, fuel efficiency properties, performance, etc.
Grolman offers individual and innovative product solutions for the rubber industry. Our resins, additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for rubber offer the following functionalities:
- Renewable raw materials
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Heat Management
- Flame Retardancy
- Mechanical Improvement
- Durability
- Defoaming
- Electrical Properties
Applications:
Construction, Transportation, Consumer/DIY, Assembly operations
Sealants are soft, elastic materials that seal cracks or joints to prevent penetration of liquids, gases, substances or airborne particles. This purpose requires some adhesive and cohesive properties but also long-term functionality. These are only three topics of large number of very different requirements which call for special solutions to meet the individual needs. Grolman’s technical experts are eager to help you to identify the best raw materials for your specific application. Our resins, additives, pigments and dyes, fillers and performance materials for sealants offer the following functionalities:
- Defoaming
- Wetting and Dispersing
- Viscosity & rheology modification
- Flame Retardancy
- Heat Management
- Colour & effect pigmentation
- Adhesion
- Durability
- UV Protection
- Renewable raw materials
- Circularity
At Grolman, we are working to bring circular innovation into the chemical industry. In addition to the many markets we already serve, we’re always ready to support our customers in new and specialised applications such as:
- Abrasives
- Ceramics
- Electronics
- Feed
- Friction
- Glass
- Household
- Lubricants
- Metallurgical
- Purification
- Textile & Leather
- and many other
Whether you’re looking for the right raw materials, expert technical advice or a partner who truly understands your needs, we’re here for you. Let’s connect and find the right solutions together.
Application Laboratories for our Core Industries
Technical Sales Managers
Branch Offices
Northern Africa
Türkiye
China
India
Countries
We’re the 1st SME globally in the chemical industry to commit to Net-Zero by 2050 with SBTi. We’re also the 1st distributor to provide a CO₂ footprint for every product. And our entire team is trained in circularity.
Meet our diverse team of dedicated experts commited to your success in circular innovation
Be part of the transformation.
We’re not just selling specialty chemicals – we’re driving the future of circular innovation. Our vision „We sell chemicals to save the planet“ is the foundation for everything we do. Unlike in traditional hierarchies, we empower self-responsible teams to take fast, efficient decisions and work closely together to make an impact – trustful, respectful and entrepreneurial.
If you’re ready to shape the future of a prosperous sustainable business, let’s Grow New together!
