Hexion supported around 20 organizations across the country as part of Hexion Cares Day 2019 on October 4th.

The St. Romuald team made big savings and cut power consumption while providing a more consistent process and lowering risks. Keep reading to find out how they did it.

Late last year Hexion joined the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR program as a partner. By doing so we made a fundamental commitment to protecting the environment through the continuous improvement of the energy performance of our facilities and operations.

Every year our Barry, UK site welcomes some students to show them around the manufacturing plant and to help them understand how school work fits into real life as well as provide insight into difference career choices that may be available.

An extreme heat wave impacted most of the world for a few weeks during 2019. Hexion has a very strong motto of “Responsible Chemistry” and corporate citizenship, so the associates at the Iserlohn, Germany plant answered their city's call for help.

Hexion China has taken preventing and controlling measures, caring about the health and life safety of all associates, ensuring smooth production for customers’ orders fulfillment and minimizing the effects on logistics and supply chain.

Responsible chemistry is more than a catchphrase. Responsibility is a way of life, meaning the safety of our customers and associates is our first concern. The JEC Group shares this sense of responsibility.

Hexion employees have been supporting the work of the Balthasar children's hospice in Germany for many years.

NIO’s second SUV production model, the ES6, officially rolled off the production line using Hexion's epoxy material for the floor in this innovative car.

Hexion recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of first mention of the Kasseler Braun production process in 1868. The event was planned as a big community celebration with families and local associations joining together.

Hexion's launch of a new family of polyols into the polyurethane foams market is gaining attention.

This month, Hexion Inc. successfully completed REACH compliance with the European Chemical Agency (ECHA). By registering, Hexion can provide additional transparency into the safe handling and use of its specialty chemicals and performance materials – further demonstrating its global commitment to Responsible Chemistry.

Seventy-five years ago, in a small lab in Louisville, Kentucky, Dr. Sylvan O. Greenlee invented a material that may have seemed ordinary to most, but he knew that he had just discovered a material that would enable the future. That landmark discovery was liquid epoxy resin.

Hexion’s resin-coated proppants—proven in all major basins across North America—optimize well productivity to make the most of every well.

Thanks to a 900-1,000 liter capacity in a single Hexi-bag (that’s five times the volume of a standard barrel), Hexi-bag can result in residual resin of less than 1%, versus 5-10% in traditional packaging.

Increasingly stringent VOC regulations driven by air quality concerns demand creative measures. That’s why Hexion scientists developed the NextGen Epoxy™ Waterborne System – capable of less than 100 g/L VOC content in concrete and metal applications.

On the Fast Resin Transfer Molding (RTM) production platform in Porcelette France, we run trials generating net shape, glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) structural parts of 1m². “Net shape” refers to parts that are completely finished after the molding process with no need for further machining.

At our newly expanded technology center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada we have invested in a large project with Canadian government agency Alberta Innovates to accelerate the development of next-generation resin chemistries and engineered panel products—in which lignin and other bio-based raw materials replace phenol.

Hexion associates in Pernis, Netherlands donated PPE to a local hospital in response to the shortage caused by the COVID-19 health crisis.