Leading specialty chemical companies in Singapore

The companies

1. Nordmann Singapore Featured

   Nordmann Singapore manufactures high-purity acrylate and methacrylate speciality monomers for contact-lens and intraocular-lens makers at a purpose-built plant in the JTC Chemicals Hub at Tuas South, with purification, blending, re-packing, toll manufacturing and a local warehouse. ISO 9001:2015 certified, it is the production facility of Nordmann, the family-owned Hamburg chemical-distribution group with 2024 turnover of about €517 million.

   • Specialty chemicals
   • ISO 9001
   • 4 Tuas South Drive, #04-27, JTC Chemicals Hub @ Tuas South, 637048 Singapore

2. Afton Chemical

   Runs a Jurong Island chemical-additive manufacturing facility (Phases I and II) producing calcium sulfonate, ashless dispersant and a zinc-based anti-wear component for its engine-oil additive packages; described as scalable for regional demand growth.

   • Specialty chemicals

3. Arkema (Singapore)

   Produces bio-circular materials on Jurong Island, including Rilsan polyamide-11 and Oleris oleochemicals derived from renewable castor beans.

   • Specialty chemicals

4. Asia Paint (S)

   A homegrown Singapore paint manufacturer (ACRA-classified "Manufacture of Paints") at Tuas Avenue 8, focused on custom industrial coating formulation; an SME100 Award winner.

   • Coatings

5. Cariflex

   Manufactures polyisoprene latex on Jurong Island for medical and protective-glove applications; a specialty synthetic-rubber independent.

   • Specialty chemicals

6. Celanese (Singapore VAE)

   A Jurong Island vinyl acetate-ethylene (VAE) emulsions unit serving paints, coatings, adhesives and construction.

   • Coatings

7. Croda (Singapore)

   Manufactures palm-based specialty ingredients at its Seraya Avenue, Jurong Island site, RSPO Mass Balance certified and selling into 30-plus markets across personal care, life sciences and industrial specialties. Site holds ISO 9001/14001/45001.

   • Specialty chemicals
   • RSPO
   • ISO 9001
   • ISO 14001

8. Evonik (Singapore)

   Runs two Jurong Island facilities: an alkoxides plant (around 100,000 t/yr, its first Asian specialty-chemical alkoxide site) and a MetAMINO DL-methionine amino-acids plant (around 340,000 t/yr) for animal nutrition.

   • Specialty chemicals

9. ExxonMobil (Singapore)

   Runs Singapore's largest refining-and-chemicals complex on Jurong Island (Pioneer Road and Pulau Ayer Chawan) at 592,000 barrels a day, integrated with a 1.9-million-tonne-a-year ethylene steam cracker, the world's largest lubricant base-oil plant (about 51,900 barrels a day of Group II) and around 440 MW of cogeneration, plus a large fuels-and-feedstocks supply-and-trading function and a resid-upgrade facility making specialty base stocks.

   • Specialty chemicals

10. Kuraray (Singapore)

    Produces EVAL EVOH barrier resin in Singapore for sustainable, lightweight and recyclable packaging applications.

    • Specialty chemicals

11. Lanxess (Singapore)

    Opened what it calls Asia's most modern butyl rubber plant in Singapore, its largest single investment at the time, supplying tyre and specialty-rubber markets across the region.

    • Specialty chemicals

12. Long Quan Paint

    A homegrown Singapore paint producer with its own "Dragon Paint" brand plus residential, industrial, specialty and fluorescent coatings and custom colour-mixing; ISO 9001/14001, with many products marine-certified.

    • Coatings
    • ISO 9001
    • ISO 14001

13. Nouryon (Singapore)

    Operates a Surface Chemistry plant at 40 Jurong Island Highway, part of its global alkoxylation network, serving agriculture, cleaning and industrial specialty markets.

    • Specialty chemicals

14. Sika (Singapore)

    A leading manufacturer of construction chemicals at Tuas South Avenue 8 — concrete admixtures, specialty mortars, sealants and adhesives (Sikaflex), structural strengthening, flooring, roofing and waterproofing — having absorbed the former BASF/MBCC Master Builders business in Asia-Pacific.

    • Coatings

15. SPC-HELM

    Operates a sulphur-processing plant on Jurong Island; a feedstock and intermediate specialty producer.

    • Specialty chemicals

16. Sumitomo Seika Chemicals

    Manufactures super-absorbent polymers on Jurong Island and has expanded capacity by around 70,000 t/yr to address South-East Asia's growing hygiene and diaper demand.

    • Specialty chemicals