Making a good resin is the result of blending together ingredients of the
right type and quality. This is how DSM Composite Resins was formed: acquiring
the best companies with the best technology and know-how and the most skilled
people - together providing an ideal recipe for success.
2003 DSM Composite Resins purchases Resinous Chemicals Ltd (RCL), a UK
structural resin producer, from Akzo Nobel.
2001 The headquarters of DSM Composite Resins are relocated to
Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
1999 DSM Resins is split into DSM Industrial Resins (composite resins,
plasticizers and sizings & binders) and DSM Coating Resins (wet coating
resins, powder coating resins and state-of-the-art UV-curable resins).
1998 Divestment of the moulding business. Compound and moulding
companies are spun off to concentrate on the core business of resin and
gelcoat manufacture
1997 The big bang: the merger of two leaders in Europe, DSM Resins and
BASF's resins division, results in the biggest supplier in Europe, and DSM
also sets foot in China.
1996 DSM Resins forms a joint venture with Sinopec in China thus
forming Jinling-DSM Resins (JDR).
1995 The acquisition of the Hüls business (Vestopal resins) provides
the basis for offering a complete product portfolio.
1992 RE Brain, a UK composites distributor and Vitroplast, Spain, a
producer of moulding compounds, are added to the business.
1991 DSM Resins continues to build up its compounds business by
acquiring a 50% stake in MD Composites, Japan, and by acquiring BWR, a German
compounder and moulder.
1990 Acquisition of Autopress Composites, UK, a compound moulding
company.
1989 Bayer's SMC/BMC resin business is acquired, as well as Fiberpachs,
Spain, a compound moulding company.
1988 Acquisition of Freeman Chemicals, UK, a UP resin company that also
includes distribution and compound businesses.
1987 DSM Resins acquires Savid, Italy, a UP resin producer who adds
Sizings & Binders and Gelcoats to the product range.
1983 DSM Resins is formed through the merger of the Synres business and
Unilever's Unichema/Scado UP resin and coating resin businesses. The new
company is headquartered in Zwolle (Netherlands) and has production sites in
the Netherlands, Germany and Sweden. DSM also acquires distributor Frencken de
Bruyn (later to become Euroresins Benelux).
1971 DSM acquires Synres, a producer of UP resins and coating resins
with plants in Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Mexico and France. Synres was
founded in 1947 near Rotterdam.
