Kerneos

As a key supplier, Kerneos produces a varied range of high-tech calcium aluminate binders with the brand names CIMENT FONDU®, SECAR®, TERNAL®, PERAMIN®, ALAG®, CALCOAT®, SEWPERCOAT®, LDSF® and OPTIMET™.

These products, with numerous properties, are designed for refractory, building chemistry and technical concrete applications, mining, pipes and wastewater and metallurgical flux.

In combination with other specialist mineral and organic products, including specifically Peramin® polymer powders, Kerneos’ product ranges offer innovative solutions and guarantee improved performances. Kerneos always acts as a partner to its customers, thereby opening up new areas of application, with the aim of best meeting the needs of its markets.

Kerneos has around twenty subsidiaries worldwide and its products are sold in more than one hundred countries.

In 2009, Kerneos generated a turnover of 290 million euros and currently employs 1,400 people around the world.

Kerneos is part of the MATERIS Group, one of the worldwide leaders in building construction specialty chemicals, whose majority shareholder is Wendel Investissement. With four divisions: aluminates, additives, mortars and paints, MATERIS generated a turnover of approximately € 1,700 million in 2009 and employs approximately 8,800 people in 50 countries around the world.