Adhesives and sealants typically use a combination of binders, additives, fillers, pigments, and curing agents to achieve the desired bonding strength, flexibility, and durability.
Your global partner for adhesives and sealants
High-performance specialty materials and functional minerals for adhesive and sealants, designed to help manufacturers improve adhesion strength, flexibility, durability, moisture control and processing efficiency, across a wide range of applications including construction, automotive, packaging, and industrial assembly.
Omya is your trusted global partner, delivering innovative solutions for adhesive and sealants aplications to:
- Improve adhesion strength and durability
- Optimize rheology and application properties
- Reduce formulation costs and material usage
- Enhance durability, weather resistance and UV stability
- Accelerate lightweight and sustainable solutions
- Enable moisture control for SMP, Silicone, PU systems
- Enable higher recycled content
Comprehensive adhesive and sealants solutions
Omya partners with leading blue-chip manufacturers to provide a broad portfolio of specialty materials for adhesives and sealants applications, including:
- Functional additives
- Pigments and colorants
- Resins and binders
- Functional mineral solutions (UFPCC, GCC)
Customer benefits:
We offer a comprehensive portfolio of specialty materials and deep market insight, enabling customers to benefit from:
- Complete, end-to-end solutions for customers worldwide
- Streamlined supply chain
- Global sourcing and logistics network
- Global quality standards
- Specialist regulatory advice
- Exceptional customer service
- Technical services and formulaiton expertise
Explore our adhesive and sealants portfolio:
Minerals and specialty materials
High-quality functional mineral fillers for to optimize performance, cost-efficiency, and sustainability:
- Calcium carbonate (GCC, UFPCC)
- Closed cell expanded perlite
- Hollow glass microspheres
- Dolomite
- Mica
- Kaolin (calcined and hydrous)
Functional additives
Fine-tune rheology, stability, and performance:
- Stabilizers (antioxidants, UV stabilizers)
- Adhesion promoters
- Defoamers
- Dispersions
- Catalysts curing agents
- Plasticizers
- Moisture scavengers
- Silica (fumed and colloidal)
- Rheology modifiers (PA waxes, clays, fumed silica, natural phyllosilicates)
- Flame retardants (aluminum and magnesium hydroxide, phosphinate systems, melamine, zinc borate, zinc hydroxistannate)
Pigment and colorants
Achieve consistent color, opacity, and UV resistance:
- Titanium dioxide (TiO₂)
- Zinc sulfide
- Carbon black
- Organic pigments (phthalocyanines, azo, quinacridones)
- Inorganic pigments (iron oxides, chromium oxide, ultramarine)
Resins and binders
Build performance-driven formulations:
- Acrylic resins (pure, styrene-acrylic, vinyl-acrylic)
- Alkyd resins (short, medium, long oil)
- Epoxy resins
- Polyesters (saturated)
- Hotmelt based polymers
- Elastomers
- Polyurethanes (incl. PUD)
- Curing agents and hardeners
- UV-curable oligomers and monomers
- Silicone modifiers
- Tackifier resins (hydrocarbon resins, rosin, glycerol esters)
Applications we support
Our adhesives and sealants portfolio helps customers meet demanding performance, regulatory requirements and innovation across:
- Construction adhesives and sealants
- Automotive bonding systems
- Industrial assembly
- Packaging adhesives
- Sealants for infrastructure and building systems
FAQ - Adhesives and sealants
Additives enhance properties such as rheology, adhesion, curing behavior, stability, and resistance to environmental conditions.
Mineral fillers improve mechanical strength, control viscosity, reduce shrinkage, and optimize formulation costs.
Binders determine key properties such as adhesion strength, flexibility, chemical resistance, and long-term durability.
Industries include construction, automotive, packaging, electronics, and industrial manufacturing.
Formulations can include low-emission components, mineral fillers, and efficient systems that reduce environmental impact and improve product longevity.
Omya provides global supply, technical expertise, and tailored solutions to help customers optimize performance, meet regulatory requirements, and accelerate innovation.