Division Of Icl Halox®

HALOX® was established in 1972 to meet environmental regulatory requirements for lead and chromate-free coatings, but quickly evolved into a streamlined organization geared toward providing customized resolutions to our customers' wide and varied coatings needs. These resolutions, solidified through a corporate wide philosophy lie at the core of our day-to-day operations and our client relationships. Today, HALOX® offers the most extensive line of corrosion inhibiting products in the industry. We are more than just a pigment supplier; we are a custom solution provider to our customers. For manufacturers who rely on quality coatings with long term resistance to corrosion or tannin stain, HALOX® offers proven performance, proven corrosion and tannin stain protection and proven acceptability and protection of the world around us. BK Ladenburg GmbH as a 100% subsidiary of Hoechst and sold to the ICL Group in 1996. After the merger with Giulini Chemie in 1987 to form BK Giulini Chemie GmbH & Co. OHG, the company was renamed in 2003 to today's legal entity BK Giulini GmbH. Since 2013, the plant has appeared under the group name as ICL Ladenburg. This product line includes the brands LOPON® and POLYRON®. Our trademark LOPON® includes different groups of additives like dispersing agents, defoamers and stabilizers which are widely used in water-based paints and plasters. Our POLYRON® products are polyphosphates with a selected chain-length distribution. These products are extensively used as dispersing agents in pigmented water-based systems – primarily, in water-based paints. What started as a company designed to meet environmental regulatory requirements quickly evolved into a streamlined organization geared toward providing customized resolutions to our customers' wide and varied coatings needs. These resolutions, solidified through a corporate- wide philosophy lie at the core of our day-to-day operations and our client relationships.