Value proposition

Michelman‘s environmentally conscious solutions protect and enhance the materials that shape our world.

Michelman is a global developer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing markets. The company’s surface additives and polymeric binders are used by leading manufacturers around the world to enhance performance attributes and add value in applications including wood and floor care products, metal and industrial coatings, paints, varnishes, inks, fibers and composites. Michelman is also well-known as an innovator in the development of barrier and functional coatings, as well as digital printing-press primers that are used in the production of consumer and industrial packaging, paper products, labels, and commercially printed materials. Michelman serves its customers with production facilities in North America, Europe and Asia, product development and technical service centers in several major global markets, and a worldwide team of highly trained business development personnel.

Water-Based Coatings for Paper, Corrugated, Flexible Film, Water-Based Surface Modifers, Additives and Polymers, Polymeric Dispersions and Emulsions used as Fiber Sizing, Carbon Fiber Sizing and Glass Fiber Sizing, and Primers and OPVs for Use on Digital Presses