INNOVATION MEETS SUSTAINABILITY Next year, the RAHN Group, an international family business based in Switzerland, will celebrate 80 years of successful development and expansion. With focus on innovations, RAHN combines high-quality products, in-depth expertise and comprehensive services to offer its customers tailor-made integrated solutions. Romana Moares reports.
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AHN Group has come a long way since its beginnings as a oneman business founded by Hans Rahn, trading in chemicals, in 1940. Today, as a technology-oriented company, the Group provides customers in around 50 countries all over the world with natural and synthetic raw materials together with services to be applied in industries including paints and coatings, cosmetics and foodstuffs. The Group’s operation is underpinned by two business lines - Energy Curing, where RAHN is a worldwide active supplier of additives, oligomers, reactive diluents and photoinitiators; and Cosmetics, built on the combination a modern, high-quality specialities portfolio and customer support for developing successful cosmetic concepts. With four laboratories in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, China and the USA, RAHN can provide local customised solutions and expertise in various application fields. “RAHN’s philosophy is based on a high level of customer support with cutting edge technical data combined with up-to-date health, safety and regulatory information. In the product development and product application areas, RAHN supports its clients with more than 35 years of experience in radiation curing,” affirms Roger Küng, Head of Operations EnergyCuring. 74 Industry Europe
Technology innovator Mr. Küng continues; “RAHN is a premier worldwide supplier of additives, oligomers, monomers, photoinitiators and other customised specialty chemicals. Our products are used in ultraviolet, LED and electron beam cure technologies and are essential components of high-performance inks, coatings, adhesives, medical, rapid prototyping and other applications. The range of products are established under the trademarks GENOMER*, GENORAD*, GENOCURE* and GENOPOL* and are widely used industry standards.” Innovations have always played a prominent role in the company’s development. Today, RAHN brings its global support for UV systems to the rapidly developing 3D printing market. Whatever the client’s needs, RAHN has proven materials, extensive experience and world class technical and regulatory support. “The core focus of RAHN EnergyCuring is on materials for photopolymer systems. The primary 3D printing technologies utilising photo-curing are Vat photopolym-
