Textile Chemical Giant Archroma Moves Its Headquarters To The New Haus Der Wirtschaft Building In Pratteln
Reinach, Switzerland, 9 December 2021 - Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, today announced the relocation of its headquarters to the Haus der Wirtschaft (HDW) building in Pratteln, a satellite town of Basel, Switzerland.
The HDW building is a business hub hosting under one roof the Economic Chamber Baselland with other companies, as well as a fully-serviced conference and event center.
Archroma will focus its other site and current headquarters, located in the nearby town of Reinach, to laboratory and application development activities.
“With our new corporate headquarters in HDW, we are joining a dynamic business place”, comments Heike van de Kerkhof, CEO at Archroma. She adds: “Our Reinach site will be refocused as a ‘tech hub’ and will continue to develop leading innovations and sustainable system solutions to serve our markets. With this, we are strongly reaffirming our deep commitment to our Swiss roots and presence.”
Christoph Buser, Director of the Economic Chamber Baselland, adds: “We are very excited to welcome Archroma in the HDW offices. This successful and innovative company is an enrichment for this location, which stands for inspiration and a modern working community.”
About Archroma
Archroma is a global, diversified provider of specialty chemicals serving the branded and performance textiles, packaging and paper, and coatings, adhesives and sealants markets.
Headquartered in Pratteln, Switzerland, the company operates a highly integrated, customer-focused platform that delivers specialized performance and color solutions in over 100 countries.
Archroma works with 3,000 employees over 35 countries and with 26 production sites.
Archroma’s heritage traces back to when Kern & Sandoz was established in 1886 in Basel to produce textile dyes. In 1995 Clariant was formed, as a spin-off from Sandoz, and in 1997 acquired the specialty chemicals business of Hoechst.
SK Capital acquired the then Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties, and Emulsions businesses from Clariant Corporation in September 2013. The three divisions were combined into an integrated, market-focused, and collaborative company and renamed Archroma upon becoming an independent entity.
Through this direct lineage, Archroma has knowledge and experience of chemistry and industry spanning more than 130 years.
Archroma is a member of the SK Capital Partners group.
We continue to grow with additional acquisitions.
In July 2015 we acquired the global textile chemicals business of BASF, and between 2014 and 2018, we acquired M. Dohmen, an international group specializing in the production of textile dyes and chemicals for the automotive, carpet and apparel sectors.
