SPECIAL IN SILICONES CHT R Beitlich has built its reputation on textile chemicals but now it is also making a name for itself in silicone specialities. Abigail Saltmarsh reports.
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was about seven years now that CHT R Beitlich, headquarters of the CHT/ BEZEMA Group, added another area of speciality chemicals to its portfolio. Since then the German company, which for decades had been known as a textile auxiliaries and dyes specialist and focused production and promotion of silicones specialities. CHT has very successfully started now to develop further business activities in industrial fields like industrial laundries, building materials, paint & coating industry, paper industry and consumer goods industry. It prides itself on the success it is having in these areas,
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says managing director and CCO Uwe Halder, and it expects this part of its operation to become increasingly important. “It was in 2005 that we decided to adapt our strategy and move towards becoming a special chemical company. We decided to implement new fields of activity and to offer customers products to meet their needs,” he explained. “Over the next two or three years we will be moving even further from being a company that was completely depending on textile chemicals to one where speciality chemicals for other industrial fields
account for a larger percentage of our product and sales. Now about 70 per cent of our sales are related products for the textile industry that should change so the balance is 50/50 or even 60/40, with more sales in speciality chemicals.”
A history in textiles CHT R Beitlich was founded in 1953 and specialised in producing and distributing auxiliaries and dyes as worldwide leading partner of the textile industry. Today CHT/ BEZEMA Group is represented in all major textile countries worldwide and produces
