Kemira

Kemira Oyj is a founded in 1920, Finnish chemical company based in Helsinki.

Business

It is divided into four business segments:

• Pulp & paper industries
• Oil & gas industries
• Mining industry
• Water treatment

It is partly due to technical paper supplier products, in particular sizing agents, dyes and biocides specialized. As part of the restructuring Kemira acquired the entire paper chemical division of Lanxess, which was a few months earlier part of Bayer. In addition to the reduced number of employees, the company also acquired a number of patents, such as carbonless copy paper. Through this acquisition, Kemira was for a time the world's leading companies in this field.

Since 2008, the company's focus is on the water segment, in which it offers chemicals and services for water treatment.

Seat of Germany 's Central Park in the innovation Leverkusen. In Austria, the company is located in Krems an der Donau.