Mission Our vision for a more sustainable world, Helping to shape the future with our specialty materials
Through our commitment to specialty materials and our technological know-how, we want to make our world a better place.
The world is experiencing a wave of profound and rapid change, and people have high hopes for the future.
Around the globe, actions are being taken to address social, environmental, climatic and economic challenges, to make our world a better place.
Leveraging their deep commitment to specialty materials, the women and men of Arkema are mobilized by their technological know-how and innovative spirit.
Materials science is our shared passion. It enables us to create new materials, develop promising solutions, and help shape the future we want:
- By addressing today’s and tomorrow’s challenges with high-performance, innovative materials; - By putting our expertise, our diversity, and the talent of our employees at the service of our partners and customers in their search for sustainable performance; - By acting as a responsible industry leader who places climate issues and natural resource management at the heart of its actions; and - By cultivating open dialogue with our stakeholders to better meet their expectations;
This is what unites us at Arkema. We reconcile social progress, environmental transition and economic development. And through our innovative materials, we’re riding this wave of change to create a more sustainable world.
Description Arkema, a leader in Specialty Materials
Building on its unique set of expertise in materials science, Arkema designs materials to address the ever-growing demand for innovative and sustainable materials, driven by the challenges of new energies, new technologies, the depletion of resources, mobility, and increasing urbanization.
The Group is structured into three coherent and complementary segments dedicated to Specialty Materials (Adhesive Solutions, Advanced Materials, and Coating Solutions) accounting for 91% of its sales, and an Intermediates segment leveraging competitive and global product lines.
Sustained by the collective energy of its 21,100 employees, Arkema operates in some 55 countries and reports sales of €11.5 billion.
Top Employer 2026 in Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United Kingdom), USA, China, Brazil, Philippines, Top Employers Institute, 2026
Europe’s Diversity Leaders for 2026, Financial Times, 2026
Since 1887, H.B. Fuller has been a leading global adhesives provider focusing on perfecting adhesives and sealants to improve products and lives. With fiscal 2023 net revenue of $3.51 billion, H.B. Fuller’s commitment to innovation and sustainable adhesive solutions brings together people, products and processes that answer and solve some of the world's biggest challenges. Our reliable, responsive service creates lasting, rewarding connections with customers in electronics, disposable hygiene, medical, transportation, aerospace, clean energy, packaging, construction, woodworking, general industries and other consumer businesses. And, our promise to our people connects them with opportunities to innovate and thrive.
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Arkema has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 448 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Arkema employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Manufacturing industry (3.5 stars).
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Overall, 81% of employees would recommend working at Arkema to a friend. This is based on 779 anonymously submitted reviews on Glassdoor.
61% of job seekers rate their interview experience at Arkema as positive. Candidates give an average difficulty score of 2.8 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) for their job interview at Arkema.