Distribution
Azelis: innovative service provider on a global basis
Specialty chemicals and food ingredients distributor Azelis has been expanding its business geographically in recent years and has already concluded a number of significant new acquisitions and mandates this year. In addition, the company is enhancing its innovative service to customers through an extensive digitalization programme aimed at enabling customers to generate value and shorten their time to market.
zelis is a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients present in more than 50 countries across the globe with about 2,200 employees. The company says that through employing knowledgeable teams of industry, market and technical experts, each dedicated to a specific market within life sciences and industrial chemicals, it offers a lateral value chain of complementary products to about 40,000 customers, creating a turnover of €2.15 billion in 2019. In the US, Azelis operates under a number of renowned co-brands that cater to the various markets in the region.
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New distribution agreements
As part of its business expansion programme, in June this year Azelis established a new distribution agreement with Stepan Company, one of the largest surfactant manufacturers in the world, in which Azelis will take over distribution activities for all of Stepan Company surfactants in Scandinavia and thereby adding to Azelis’ long-lasting distribution partnership with Stepan in other European countries. Stepan Company offers a broad range of products, including a full line of anionic, cationic, nonionic and amphoteric surfactants, as well as surfactant blends and speciality esters. The company also creates custom surfactants and formulated blends to meet unique customer demands for tailor-made solutions. In another recent development,
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in May of this year, Azelis formed a partnership with OCSiAl, the world’s largest single-wall carbon nanotube manufacturer for CASE and R&PA markets. This new agreement sees Azelis distribute OCSiAl’s high-end TUBALL range of single-wall carbon nanotubes in France and the UK. These nanotubes are an advanced additive that improve the properties of base materials and have highly desirable properties such as superior conductivity,
high-temperature resistance, strength and flexibility, allowing customers to produce non-black finished products with antistatic properties. In addition, in June, Megafarma,
an Azelis company, strengthened its CASE presence in Mexico through an agreement with Celanese for the distribution of its emulsion polymers products in that country. Also in June, Roquette, a global leader in plant-based ingredients for food,
nutrition and health markets, and Azelis signed a distribution partnership for animal nutrition. The two companies already have an agreement in food and nutrition markets and this new partnership extends this to cover a number of countries in Northern and Eastern Europe.
Brand promise: ‘Innovation through formulation’ Last year, Azelis revealed its new brand promise and
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