H.B. Fuller Co. announced that it has acquired XCHEM International LLC, a manufacturer in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that produces a wide range of specialty adhesives and coatings for industrial and infrastructure applications in the fast-growing construction markets of the Middle East and Northern Africa.
The acquisition provides H.B. Fuller’s Construction Adhesives (CA) global business unit with its first manufacturing presence outside the United States for its flagship Fosters® brand. This diversifies CA’s portfolio of highly specified applications, expands its market outside of the United States, and shifts CA towards infrastructure-oriented markets, including HVAC, waterproofing, flooring, commercial roofing, and other technologies across the company’s CA and Engineering Adhesives (EA) businesses.