Founded in 1979 and acquired by Union Carbide in 1990, NuSil returned to employee ownership in 1992 to focus exclusively on silicone technology and related process development. NuSil is not an old-line chemicals giant or a new-wave industrial conglomerate. It is an independent, international organization of scientists and professionals building its reputation - and its customers' success - on silicone technology. Wholly owned and controlled by its employees, NuSil has been extremely stable over the years. Current management has been in place since the early 1980s. With consistent leadership and the cumulative support of thousands of satisfied customers, the company has enjoyed a compound annual growth rate of 20% in recent years.
Headquartered near Santa Barbara, Calif., the company's principal facilities comprise a multi-building campus with over 180,000 square feet of modern laboratory and manufacturing space. In Europe, NuSil is based in Ciboure, France, with a 1,200-square-meter Technical Service Center located in Sophia Antipolis, near Nice, France. NuSil's U.S. and European laboratories are admirably staffed and equipped to be the genesis and exodus points of the world's most advanced silicones. All materials manufactured by NuSil are either developed or qualified in the company's own labs, and every production batch is tested for quality and consistency before shipment. The company gains much of its competitive advantage by designing and building its own facilities and equipment specifically for formulating silicones. An example is continuous viscosity measurements in polymerizations, which maximizes efficiency while assuring exceptional product consistency.