Cytec Building Block Chemicals manufactures core chemicals that contribute to our major product lines and technologies.
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Cytec Building Block Chemicals manufactures core chemicals that contribute to our major product lines and technologies. This enables us to control and maintain the highest quality standards for the raw materials that support Cytec’s products. It also helps ensure dependable supply and cost-efficiency for our customers. At the Fortier Manufacturing Complex located outside of New Orleans, Louisiana, we have leveraged synergies between the product portfolio and process energy requirements to create a globally competitive business model to benefit Cytec and our partners located at the site.

For example, our melamine is fundamental to Cytec’s melamine-based resins used in high-technology coatings and binders for automotive and industrial products. While acrylonitrile produced at Fortier meets our internal demand for acrylic fiber and engineered plastics customers.

In addition to manufacturing sulfuric acid from burning sulfur, we also regenerate spent sulfuric acid for one of our partners at the Fortier site. This regeneration service is an important aspect of Cytec’s company-wide commitment to environmental responsibility. Cytec’s sulfuric acid regeneration facility at Fortier significantly reduces our waste disposal requirements. The majority of sulfuric acid production is sold to pulp and paper, catalyst manufacturers and other consumers.

Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM) is a global provider of technologically advanced materials for aerospace, high-performance automotive, launch, and other extreme-demand environments.
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Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM) is a global provider of technologically advanced materials for aerospace, high-performance automotive, launch, and other extreme-demand environments.

We produce pre-impregnated composites and adhesives, ablatives, carbon-carbon materials for high-temperature applications, high-temperature silicone-based sealants, a variety of specialty thermoplastic materials, and PAN and pitch-based carbon fibers. We also offer a range of vacuum-only-cure prepregs that enable the manufacture of large aerospace parts without the use of autoclaves.

CEM’s proprietary resin-infusion systems offer engineers greater design flexibility over traditional materials, as well as the option to use low-cost fabrication techniques for structural parts.

CEM’s innovative material science and process technologies enable commercial aerospace, military and automotive customers to replace metal with materials that offer greater strength and less weight. Compared with aluminum, specially formulated composites create new possibilities for lightweight structural components, facilitating simple fabrication and providing weight savings of 20 to 50 percent.

CEM offers an industry-leading product portfolio, superior customer service and unparalleled technical expertise. In fact, CEM is qualified on more specifications than any other supplier of aerospace composite and adhesive products. Our products can be found on nearly every modern commercial transport aircraft, military aircraft and helicopter in production today.

Cytec Specialty Chemicals is a complete solution provider for customers requiring high-value surface technologies in industries that include industrial coatings, automotive, architectural, wood and paper, graphics, adhesives and opto-electronics.
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From defining more efficient processes for mining customers to developing new additives for polymer-based alternatives to wood and metals, the product lines of Cytec Specialty Chemicals are unified in their dedication to customer-driven innovation.

Working closely with our customers, we develop revolutionary technologies that enable them to improve performance and productivity, enter new markets, and refine new applications. How to improve mine profitability or coatings efficiency in the face of important environmental concerns? How to develop polymers that really stand up to UV light? How to use phosphines to create better, safer biocides and fumigants for agriculture? Our technology and sales teams work on-site with customers every day to address today’s business challenges and troubleshoot tomorrow’s.

The applications are diverse, but the commitment is uniform: finding better solutions for customers through continual research, ongoing collaboration and a passion for innovation.

Cytec Specialty Chemicals is a complete solution provider for customers requiring high-value surface technologies in industries that include industrial coatings, automotive, architectural, wood and paper, graphics, adhesives and opto-electronics.

We offer our customers advanced and diverse products and technologies for surfaces with an emphasis on environmentally friendly products such as UV/EB curable resins and additives, powder coating resins and additives, as well as waterborne and solventborne liquid coatings resins and additives. We are committed to working with our customers to develop environmentally advanced solutions and we are dedicated to open communication concerning the safe handling, distribution, use and disposal of the products we make.