The division serves consumer and industrial markets for which customer-oriented marketing and service as well as innovation are key drivers. The Group markets specialty products in more than 55 countries.

Rubber processing: Hutchinson

Hutchinson manufactures and markets products derived from rubber processing for the automotive and aerospace industries as well as for consumer markets.

Its products primarily serve the automotive industry, enabling carmakers to meet increasingly demanding safety and refinement requirements voiced by customers. Hutchinson manufactures solutions for the Antivibration, Body Sealing and Fluid Transfer activities (for air-conditioning, brake and engine cooling systems) as well as Transmission and Precision Sealing Systems (for shaft, wheel seals and ABS braking systems...).

An additional line of products -primarily marketed under the LJF®, Barry Controls® and Paulstra® brand names- serves the aerospace, rail, construction and defence industries, and encompasses antivibration and sealing systems, sealants, adhesives, dashboard control and display systems, run-flat and fluid transfer systems.

In the consumer market (babycare, health care and cleaning products), Hutchinson enjoys strong brand recognition with Mapa® rubber gloves, Spontex® sponges and Nuk® Tigex® babycare items.

Hutchinson's premium bicycle tires have reached the podiums of leading professional international races.

1. Hutchinson
2. Mapa Spontex

Resins: Cray Valley - Sartomer - Cook Composites & Polymers

Total produces and markets resins for adhesives, inks, paints, coatings and structural materials through its three subsidiaries Cray Valley, Sartomer and Cook Composites & Polymers.
Cray Valley, Cook Composites & Polymers and Sartomer offer a full range of coating and rubber products and technologies, including solvent-borne resins, rheological additives and surface modifiers, acrylic and vinyl resins, powder resins, colophane derivatives and resins for ink, hydrocarbon resins (sold worldwide under the high-profile Norsolène® brand), a unique line of monomers and oligomers that use UV and EB ray photocure technologies, and functional additives.
In the area of thermosetting compounds, a wide array of unsaturated polyester resins and gel coats are used to produce compounds offering combinations of shapes, colors, surface appearances, lightness, rigidity, flexibility, and temperature and corrosion resistance for construction, automotive, navigation, health care, transportation, power and household appliance applications.

1. Cray Valley
2. Sartomer
3. Cook Composites & Polymers

Electroplating: Atotech

Atotech is one of the world's leading suppliers of metallization production solutions including specialty chemicals, processes and equipment for general metal finishing, printed circuit board manufacturing, RFID, telephone cards and semiconductor applications.
Its main applications include PCB manufacturing, metallisation, electroplating, surface treatment, final finishes, electronics materials as well as decorative coatings (copper, nickel, chrome, precious metals), plating on plastics (pretreatment systems), wear resistant coatings (hard chrome and electroless nickel), corrosion resistant coating (zinc, zinc alloys, zinc flakes, post-treatments) and functional electronic coatings (precious metals and tin).
Electroplating chemicals have extensive applications in such fast-growing areas as electronics, automotive and aerospace.

1. Atotech

Adhesives: Bostik

Bostik is one of the worldwide leaders in its sector. Its broad range of bonding products and sealants, whose best-known brands are Bostik®, Sader®, Miplacol®, Quelyd® and Simson®, are designed for consumer, professional distribution, construction, industrial and nonwoven product markets.
Bostik is the world leader in adhesives for nonwoven products, used particularly in disposable hygiene products such as diapers

1. Bostik