Akdeniz Kimya

Our story began in 1942 Cookson from Wallsend near Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Eng-land starts producing lead salts as stabilisers for flexible PVC. Shortly after, Cook-son opens a production plant in Sydney/Australia. In 1976, when Akdeniz Kimya was incorporated in Izmir, Turkey as a company to manufacture and market PVC stabilizers and other industrial chemicals. In 1986, the German stabiliser manufacturers Chemetall and the English Cookson Group merged their activities into a single joint venture as Chemson with he-adquarters in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company began operating from sites in Germany, England and Australia. In 2000 Chemson Polymer-Additive AG is founded in Arnoldstein/Austria as a part of a management buy-out. In 2012, Akdeniz Kimya joined Turkeys OYAK Group of companies. One-year later, the Chemson Group became part of the OYAK Group as well. With its robust corpo-rate structure, its dedication to transparency, its strong financial infrastructure and growth comm...