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Arkem

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Type
  
Private

Founder
  
Levend Kokuludağ

Founded
  
1991

Headquarters
  
Istanbul, Turkey

Industry
  
Chemicals, petrochemicals, fuels and oils

Area served
  
Europe, Middle East, United States, Far East

Arkem Chemicals (Arkem Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.) is a family-owned chemical distribution company based in Turkey. It was established in 1992 in Istanbul. The company sells approximately 230,000 metric tons of chemicals(2009) in various chemical product lines including:

  • Monomers
  • Alcohols
  • Aromatics & Aliphatics
  • Esters
  • Glycols
  • Glycol Ethers
  • Ketones
  • Surfactants
  • Arkem is the 27th largest chemical distributor in its field(2010) according to "The Top 100 Chemical Distributors" by ICIS. 2009 sales $248m .

    The company owns the Altintel Port and Tank Terminal, with a capacity of 60,000 cubic meters of storage area in Kocaeli/Gebze, Dilovası area. It is supplied by international chemical producing companies such as ;

  • Millenium Petrochemicals USA ( a Lyondell Company )
  • BP Chemicals Ltd., UK
  • Eastman Chemicals USA
  • Arkema, France
  • Petrogal S.A., Portugal
  • Sasol Solvents, South Africa
  • Sasol Surfactants, Germany & Italy
  • Shell Chemicals, Europe
  • Ineos, UK
  • Kuraray, Japan
  • Related companies
  • Altintel Port and Tank Terminal ( Altıntel Liman ve Terminal İşletmeleri A.Ş.)
  • Gökbil Logistics (Gökbil Nakliyat ve Depolama)
  • Gökbil Tank Container
  • Arkem Industrial
  • Arkem Europe
  • Arkem China
  • Arkem USA
  • References

    Arkem Wikipedia