We are a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in growing markets that serve billions of end users worldwide.
Since 2022, Synthomer has been delivering on our transformational strategy to become a more focused, stronger speciality chemicals business. Through strategic and operational transformation, and divestment of non-core businesses, we are becoming a speciality solutions platform for Coatings and Construction, Adhesives and Health and Protection market segments.
Key elements of the Synthomer investment case...
- Global speciality chemicals company with leading positions in its markets
- Attractive end-markets aligned to long-term growth megatrends
- Global manufacturing footprint supporting strong customer relationships with 'in region for region' production
- Impressive track record and pipeline of new product development through customer-focused innovation
- Commercially-led sustainability focus a tailwind for future growth, with a 'whole value chain' approach
- Considerable shareholder value creation opportunity as medium-term targets are delivered, through self-help cost and operating performance actions, strategic transformation and end-market demand recovery
...supported by clear medium-term financial targets...
- Organic revenue growth: mid-single-digit across the cycle
- EBITDA margins: 15%+
- Return on Invested Capital: mid-teens
- Reducing leverage further towards our 1-2x target range.
...delivered through our speciality solutions strategy
We are driving value and growth through the five core pillars of our strategy, underpinned by three critical enablers of end-market orientation, sustainability and innovation, in pursuit of our ambitious long-term value creation goals.
- Organic growth in attractive end markets
- Rigorous and consistent portfolio management to build focused, leading positions
- Operational and commercial excellence in how we run our business
- Differentiated steering in how we allocate capital and talent
- Diversity, equity & inclusion and holistic people development.
What we do
We are a business-to-business speciality chemicals producer. We create value for all our stakeholders by applying our expertise and innovation capabilities to provide high-performance water-based polymers and ingredients to a wide range of blue-chip customers in multiple attractive end markets. Our business is built around three end-customer focused divisions, covering a diverse range of products and markets.
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Our business model
Key strengths of our business model include our talented people, global footprint, agile supply chain, innovation and product development expertise and cash-generative business. We create products and solutions for 6,000+ long-standing customers in multiple attractive end markets, with innovation driving new product development in close collaboration with customers, and a focus on sustainability throughout our value chain.
Our strategic evolution in numbers
up from 50% in 2022 (targeting 70%+)
up from 45% in 2022 (targeting 60%+)
down from 43 in 2022 (targeting below 30)