13 Facts About Kemira

Kemira Oyj is a global chemicals company serving customers in water intensive industries.

Kemira expanded strongly into various fields of chemistry through acquisitions and mergers.

The global fertilizer business began in the 1980s when Kemira acquired fertilizer plants in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Denmark.

Kemira Oyj was listed on the Helsinki stock exchange in November 1994.

Kemira's owners became active in 2002, when they set the goal of making Kemira the world's leading company in selected industries.

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Kemira acquired, among other things, the paper and pulp chemistry business.

In 2008 Kemira decided to concentrate on water chemistry, and the following year, 75 percent of the company's revenue came from water chemicals, water treatment and other water technologies.

In December 2013, Kemira announced that it would sell its entire formic acid business to Taminco in the United States.

Kemira sold parts of its ChemSolutions segment, which provided chemicals like formic acid to the food, feed, pharmaceutical and chemical industries to Taminco.

In March 2016, Kemira announced the construction of a new sodium chlorate production line and cell hall at its Joutseno plant.

Kemira's headquartered is in Salmisaari, Helsinki and it has research centers in Espoo, Shanghai and Atlanta.

Kemira is one of the largest companies in the water chemistry industry.

Kemira has a wide range of water chemicals and it is involved in the production of drinking water, the purification and reuse of industrial process water.