Imerys Performance Minerals expands distribution partnership with Bang & Bonsomer

  • Our customers will benefit from streamlined regional access to IMERYS’ extensive speciality minerals portfolio backed by BANG & BONSOMER’s technical expertise and local market knowledge. 
  • The agreement builds on a long-standing partnership between the two companies, now to include Paint & Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants, Rubber, and Plastic Markets. This long established cooperation will per 1.1.2022 be further extended to new product groups and countries to include Russia (excluding the Plastic Market), Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland. 

IMERYS, a world leader in mineral-based speciality solutions for industry, and BANG & BONSOMER, a Market Leader in Speciality Chemicals Distribution with a strong local presence in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Baltic States, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Kazakhstan, are pleased to announce the extension of their distribution agreement. BANG & BONSOMER will now represent IMERYS Performance Minerals as its Preferred Distributor for the Paint & Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants, Rubber, and Plastic Markets

Strengthening the partnership is expected to provide customers with a consolidated point of contact, ready to provide access to IMERYS’ extensive multi-mineral product portfolio, supported by BANG & BONSOMER´s technical sales expertise and extensive footprint in the region.

BANG & BONSOMER will represent the Paint & Coatings, Adhesives & Sealants, Rubber, and Plastic Markets the following IMERYS`s minerals:

  • Talc
  • Kaolin
  • Ball Clays
  • Carbonate
  • Precipitated Calcium Carbonate (PCC)
  • Diatomite Earth
  • Perlite
  • Mica
  • Wollastonite


ABOUT IMERYS

The world leader in mineral-based speciality solutions for industry, with €4.6 billion revenue and 18,000 employees, IMERYS delivers high value-added, functional solutions to diversified set of industrial sectors, from processing industries to consumer goods. The Group draws on its knowledge of applications, technological expertise and its material science know-how to deliver solutions based on beneficiation of its mineral resources, synthetic minerals, and formulations. These contribute essential properties to customers’ products and performance, including refractoriness, hardness, conductivity, opacity, durability, purity, lightness, filtration, absorption, and repellency. Imerys is determined to develop responsibly, in particular by fostering the emergence of environmentally-friendly products and processes. For additional information, please visit: www.imerys.com or www.imerys-performance-minerals.com


ABOUT BANG & BONSOMER

Bang & Bonsomer is a material technology company and a distributor for a wide range of industrial raw materials and additives in Finland, Scandinavia, CIS-countries, the Baltic States, and Poland. Bang & Bonsomer has six industry-oriented business units that specialise in sales and services for various industry focused applications and expand the portfolio of own products and brands. In 2020, the Group sales were 170 M€ and the number of employees over 300.



CONTACTS

Philippe Reygnier
Distribution Manager
Imerys Performance Minerals PARP EMEA
43 quai de Grenelle 
Paris, France
philippe.reygnier@imerys.com

Patrik Gallen
Coatings & Constructions Business Unit Director
Bang & Bonsomer Group Oy
Itälahdenkatu 18 A
00210 Helsinki, Finland
patrik.gallen@bangbonsomer.com

Tom Stenberg
Polymers & Packaging Business Unit Director
Bang & Bonsomer Group Oy
Itälahdenkatu 18 A
00210 Helsinki, Finland
tom.stenberg@bangbonsomer.com

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