Elkem Silicones News

Join our team in Chicago during the Global Release Liner Industry Conference & Exhibition 2021 from November 15-17 at the University Club of Chicago in Chicago.

Medical grade silicones utilized in life-saving and life-enhancing medical technologies

Skin Tech International Summit 2021 is an event organized by ABC the house of cosmetology, a non-profit organization with the objective of promoting the development of cosmetology in Brazil.

In November 2021, Abu Dhabi hosts the 23rd Abu Dhabi Petroleum Exhibition and Conference event of the Middle East petroleum industry and one of the crown jewels of international trade shows.

Our Elkem Silicones team is excited to meet you at the International Elastomer Conference October 4-7, 2021 held at the David L. Lawrence convention center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Elkem Silicones supports the CAP – Art Center of Saint-Fons city in France - and has responded favorably to the request of the center and the artist & filmmaker Samir Ramdani to participate in the manufacture of a sculptural work in silicones.

Join our team in Boston during BIOMEDevice Boston 2021 from September 21-22 at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Coming together virtually to network, learn, and share ideas during AWA’s 50th Anniversary year to which Elkem Silicones is also a proud sponsor.

Join our Elkem Silicones team at the LSR 2021 Conference in Schaumburg, IL September 13-16, 2021.

Open innovation is based on the power of collective intelligence to ease and accelerate innovation mechanisms to develop new products and processes with added value.

Elkem Silicones Brazil will participate in Painéis Setorias da Feiplar Composites & Feipur Virtual from September 20^th-24^th, 2021. The Sectorial Panels are technical seminars that target various industrial segments. In the 2021 panels, the latest raw material solutions, and technology highlights for manufacturing parts in composites will be featured.

Elkem Silicones will promote its range of agrochemical products at Specialty & Agro Chemicals America 2021, at the Belmont Hotel Charleston Place, booth 321, in Charleston, SC., September 8 ^th through 10^h . 

15 BILLION BEV miles driven and counting… protected by Elkem Silicones with zero failures.

In July 2021, Elkem Silicones attended EACC 2021 (Enmore Automotive Future Cockpit Conference) which hosted annually in Shanghai. 

Our Elkem Silicones team is excited to see you once again at Techtextil NA August 23-25, 2021 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Stop by booth #1206 to learn about our Textile Coating Silicone (TCS) Solutions.

We are back again at MDM West 2021 in Anaheim, CA! Join us August 10^th-12^th, booth # 2835 at the Anaheim Convention Center.

The 19th International Symposium on Silicon Chemistry - Online ISOS-2021 – was held on July 5^th to 7^th, 2021. This congress gathers international scientists on Silicon Chemistry & Catalysis, Elkem is proud to sponsor and co-organize this event.

Elkem Silicones announces the official opening of its new Research and Innovation Centre in Saint-Fons in Lyon’s “Chemical Valley”.

Elkem Silicones has entered the composite molding market, replacing disposable films, with the development of BLUESIL™ RTV 3723 in partnership with a French boat manufacturer to produce silicone reusable vacuum bags. 

Elkem Silicones will showcase our latest products and formulations

In March 2021, Elkem Silicones exhibited at PCHi China, a renowned show dedicated to the Personal Care industry, and hosted annually in Shanghai.

Coming together virtually to network, learn, and share ideas and to celebrate AWA’s 50th Anniversary year to which Elkem Silicones is also a proud sponsor.

Lyon, France, May 20, 2021 - 3Deus Dynamics, which has developed a unique and limitless 3D printing process, has just finalized a €700,000 seed financing round. The round of financing was led with the participation of Elkem Silicones, Gilles Grenier and 33 California. Thanks to this fundraising, the Deeptech startup will be able to develop its first products and services, based on an additive manufacturing solution by « Dynamic Molding ».

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The Gender Equality Index is one of several measures in the Professional Futures law of September 2018 the 5^th aimed at eliminating wage inequalities between women and men.

For nearly 40 years, RCMA has been leading the roof coatings industry to promote the benefits of various coating technologies, including silicone roof systems, and representing its members to the industry.

Elkem Silicones is proud to announce our membership and support to The Surfaces in Biomaterials Foundation. 

On March 30th 2021, we celebrate National Doctors' Day and say thank you to physicians around the world for their hard work and sacrifices while treating our families, friends, and colleagues over the past year. 

On March 9^th, the 2021 Ringier Technology Innovation Award for plastic industry, which has been spotlighted, was grandly held at the Longemont Hotel in Shanghai. Elkem Silicones BLUESIL™ HCR 5750 U silicone rubber for turbine application won the “Rubber/Elastomer  Material-Technology Innovation Award”.

Elkem Silicones’ Saint-Fons plant obtains ISO 14001 certification and demonstrates  its commitment to environmental management at the Saint-Fons site south of Lyon.

Shanghai, March 18, 2021 - Today, the worldwide leading integrated silicones provider, Elkem Silicones marked the start of construction of a new workshop producing low viscosity silicone fluids for the personal care and textile & leather markets in Asia Pacific. This new production workshop is located at its Xinghuo site, the largest silicones manufacturing site in China, and is scheduled to open in January 2022. The investment was announced on 10 February.

Material selection, supply chain integrity, and evolving regulatory requirements: three case studies addressing challenges faced by today's MedTech Designers.

Date: 25 May

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Elkem Silicones, a division of Elkem ASA and one of the world's leading fully integrated silicone suppliers, is proud to announce its participation in the CELAB consortium which shows that this engagement is part of a wider sustainability program within Elkem group.

Because we are an innovative company.

Because we are young thanks to our history.

Because we are professionals thanks to our expertise.

Because Silicones combine two great chemistries, that of solidity and that of organic.

Because we are a topical company, Elkem Silicones, through our president, was invited to talk about it.

Elkem Silicones participated to the 27th edition of WINDOOR Façade Expo, an opportunity for the Construction Team to showcase their latest development: STARSIL™ 3FC, a food contact grade silicone sealant which passed the US relevant FDA food contact migration test.

Elkem ASA presenting on Advanced Materials for Thermal Management

10 February 2021: Elkem has signed an agreement to acquire a brand-new plant near Lyon in France, custom-designed for producing highly specialised organo-functional silicones (OFS). The acquisition underpins Elkem’s strategy of growth and specialisation.

Safety and reliability in EV Battery Packs

Celebrate over 1M EVs on the road today protected by Elkem Silicones!

Basel Chemie is a Korean producer of specialty silicone gels for cosmetics and water repellents for the construction industry.

Elkem ASA has entered into an agreement to acquire all of the shares in Polysil, a leading Chinese silicone elastomer & resins material manufacturer

Our name has changed, but our strategy hasn't. Two years after Bluestar Silicones merged with Elkem, China National Bluestar's Norwegian subsidiary, the new entity has been united under a new name, Elkem Silicones.

Elkem announces the integration of two Chinese entities into the Elkem group, as well as the renaming of Bluestar Silicones to Elkem Silicones.