The Bodo Möller Chemie Group is strengthening its offering for the production of composites through close cooperation with the French fiber and fabric specialist Porcher Industries. The partnership covers the DACH region, the Eastern European countries as well as Russia and India.
Porcher Industries is one of the world's leading providers of technical textile and thermoplastic solutions and supplies a comprehensive range of fabrics, scrims, mats and yarns. In addition to resins and additives, Bodo Möller Chemie can also offer fabrics, scrims, mats and prepregs made of glass fibers, carbon fibers and aramid in a package with the appropriate resins. Leading resin products such as ARALDITE® or LOCTITE® from Bodo Möller Chemie's range, together with the fiber materials from Porcher Industries, enable a broad spectrum of technical solutions. The focus is on innovative industries such as aerospace and the automotive industry with a focus on e-mobility and manufacturers of modern sports equipment made of ultra-light composites.
One-stop store for composite materials
Bodo Möller Chemie has been cooperating with manufacturers of high-quality resins and formulation systems for the production of composites and model and mold making for many years and has established strong customer relationships. "The partnership with Porcher Industries makes us a competent one-stop store in the growth area of state-of-the-art composite materials and their processing. In addition to the expanded product range, our customers benefit from the experience in the application of these components, which has also grown over the years," says Frank Haug, CEO of the Bodo Möller Chemie Group. The core applications of modern composite materials include reinforcements for aircraft interiors and primary structures of aircraft, reinforcements for protective equipment and protective fabrics, body and chassis parts in the automotive sector or ultra-light sports equipment such as skis, surfboards, helmets and bicycle frames and wheels.
Consulting expertise and application knowledge
"This partnership with Bodo Möller Chemie marks a new chapter in the history of Porcher Industries and will be an asset to our commercial growth strategy. By relying on a strong distribution network like Bodo Möller Chemie, Porcher Industries aims to expand its presence with new customers and new markets in European countries as well as Russia and India", says Jaime Fernandez, Global Strategic BU Leader Building & Industry / Sports & Leisure. Both Porcher Industries and Bodo Möller Chemie attach great importance to the highest quality, which is also tailored to the respective customer requirements. Frank Haug also sees this as the biggest change in his industry: "The raw material supplier of yesterday now provides application knowledge and the right products - often with laboratory and test bench trials, which used to be carried out exclusively by the manufacturer of the end product.
