Specialty Chemicals Your partner for innovative specialty chemicals, formulations and services

Santos Silva

Manager, Local Business Line, Specialty Chemicals

+351 229 397 363
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DKSH Portugal
Travessa Sá e Melo 161, Fração H
4470-116 Maia
Portugal
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DKSH innovative specialty chemicals

DKSH is your leading global distributor of innovative specialty chemicals and formulations. Our functional products enhance your product performance and have a wide range of applications across multiple market segments. For applications including paint, coating, ink, polymer, engineering plastic, adhesive, rubber, agrochemical, petrochemical, packaging, graphic, technical film and other specialties, you can benefit from our product portfolio.

Our range of tailored value-added services can support you to increase your market potential. From regulatory support and consulting to sourcing new and hard-to-find ingredients; from innovation and formulation capabilities to marketing intelligence solutions – you can gain from our integrated one-stop approach.

Products

Choose your market segment and explore our innovative specialty chemicals and formulations:

Paper & Bristles

Paper & Bristles

Pigments: 

  • TiO2
  • Pigments for special effects: fluorescent, photoluminescent, soft-touch 

Binders (waterborne, solvent-borne, solvent-free and UV technologies): 

  • Acrylics 
  • SBR (emulsions) 

Specialty additives: 

  • Biocides and fungicides 
  • Defoamers 
  • Dispersing and wetting agents 
  • Rheology modifiers

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Paints & Coatings

Paints & Coatings

Pigments:

  • TiO2
  • Carbon black
  • Synthetic iron oxide
  • Organic pigments
  • Cadmium Pigments
  • Complex inorganic pigments
  • Lead-chrome pigments
  • Metallic pigments
  • Pearlescent pigments
  • Pigments for security applications
  • Pigments for special effects: fluorescent, photoluminescent, soft-touch
  • Ultramarine blue and violet pigments
  • Anticorrosion pigments

Binders (waterborne, solvent-borne, solvent-free and UV technologies):

  • Acrylics
  • Alkyds
  • Amino resins
  • Catalysts, crosslinkers, curing agents and hardeners
  • Chlorinated rubber
  • Epoxy
  • Fluorinated resins
  • Gum rosin
  • Hydrocarbon
  • Nitrocellulose
  • Polyamide
  • Polyester
  • Polyurethanes
  • SBR (emulsions)
  • Silicon and silicate
  • Unsaturated polyester
  • Vinyl ester

Specialty additives:

  • Adhesion promoters
  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts
  • Coalescing agents
  • Corrosion inhibitors
  • Defoamers
  • Dispersing and wetting agents
  • Driers
  • Flame retardants
  • Matting agents
  • Plasticizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Surface tension modifiers
  • Technical fillers
  • UV absorbers
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Inks & Lamination

Inks & Lamination

Pigments: 

  • TiO2
  • Carbon black
  • Organic pigments
  • Metallic pigments
  • Pearlescent pigments
  • Pigments for security applications
  • Pigments for special effects: fluorescent, photoluminescent, soft-touch

Binders (waterborne, solvent-borne, solvent-free and UV technologies): 

  • Acrylics 
  • Catalysts, crosslinkers, curing agents and hardeners
  • Nitrocellulose
  • Polyamide
  • Polyurethanes
  • Vinyl ester

Specialty additives: 

  • Adhesion promoters
  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts
  • Coalescing agents
  • Corrosion inhibitors
  • Defoamers
  • Dispersing and wetting agents
  • Driers
  • Flame retardants
  • Matting agents
  • Plasticizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Surface tension modifiers
  • Technical fillers
  • UV absorbers
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Construction

Construction

Pigments:

  • TiO2
  • Synthetic iron oxide
  • Complex inorganic pigments
  • Lead-chrome pigments
  • Ultramarine blue and violet pigments

Binders (waterborne, solvent-borne, solvent-free and UV technologies):

  • Acrylics
  • Catalysts, crosslinkers, curing agents and hardeners
  • Chlorinated rubber
  • Epoxy
  • Polyurethanes
  • SBR (emulsions)
  • Silicon and silicate
  • Vinyl ester

Specialty additives:

  • Adhesion promoters
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Corrosion inhibitors
  • Defoamers
  • Dispersing and wetting agents
  • Plasticizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Surface tension modifiers
  • Technical fillers

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Adhesives & Sealants

Adhesives & Sealants

Pigments:

  • TiO2
  • Carbon black
  • Synthetic iron oxide
  • Pigments for special effects: fluorescent, photoluminescent, soft-touch

Binders (waterborne, solvent-borne, solvent-free and UV technologies):

  • Acrylics
  • Catalysts, crosslinkers, curing agents and hardeners
  • Chlorinated rubber
  • Epoxy
  • Gum resin
  • Hydrocarbon
  • Polyamide
  • Polyurethanes
  • SBR (emulsions)
  • Vinyl ester

Specialty additives:

  • Adhesion promoters
  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts
  • Defoamers
  • Flame retardants
  • Plasticizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Technical fillers
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Plastic, Composite , Rubber & Fibers

Plastic, Composite, Rubber & Fibers

Pigments:

  • TiO2
  • Carbon black
  • Synthetic iron oxide
  • Organic pigments
  • Complex inorganic pigments
  • Lead-chrome pigments
  • Metallic pigments
  • Pearlescent pigments
  • Pigments for security applications
  • Pigments for special effects: fluorescent, photoluminescent, texture
  • Ultramarine blue and violet pigments

Polymers:

  • ABS & SAN
  • Bio-polymers
  • EPDM
  • Epoxy
  • Fluoropolymers
  • LFT
  • PBT
  • Polyamide (6, 46, 66, 12)
  • POM
  • Polycarbonate
  • Polyester/unsaturated polyester
  • Polyolefins
  • PPE
  • PEEK, PEI, PEAK
  • SBR
  • UHMWPE

Specialty additives:

  • Antiblocking
  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts and crosslinkers
  • Chain extenders
  • Dispersing agents
  • Impact modifiers
  • Flame retardants
  • Flow modifiers
  • Lubricants
  • Monomers
  • Plasticizers
  • PVC stabilizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Specialty masterbatch
  • Surface tension modifiers
  • Technical fillers
  • UV absorbers
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Polymers

Polymers

Specialty additives:

  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts and crosslinkers
  • Chain extenders
  • Dispersing agents
  • Impact modifiers
  • Flame retardants
  • Flow modifiers
  • Lubricants
  • Monomers
  • Plasticizers
  • PVC stabilizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Specialty masterbatch
  • Surface tension modifiers
  • Technical fillers
  • UV absorbers
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Lubricants & Petrochemicals

Lubricants & Petrochemicals

Specialty additives:

  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Base oils
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts and crosslinkers
  • Corrosion inhibitors
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Scavengers
  • Stabilisers
  • Surface tension modifiers
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Agrochemicals

Agrochemicals

Pigments:

  • TiO2
  • Synthetic iron oxide
  • Organic pigments
  • Ultramarine blue and violet pigments

Binders (waterborne, solvent-borne, solvent-free and UV technologies):

  • Ligno-sulphonates

Specialty additives:

  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Coalescing agents
  • Defoamers
  • Dispersing and wetting agents
  • Fungicides and insecticides
  • Plasticizers
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Special solvents
  • Waxes

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

Electronics

Electronics

Pigments:

  • TiO2
  • Carbon black

Polymers:

  • Epoxy novolac resins
  • Photopolymers
  • Optical polymer materials
  • Fluoropolymers

Specialty additives:

  • Adhesion promoters
  • Antioxidants
  • Antistatic
  • Biocides and fungicides
  • Catalysts and crosslinkers
  • Corrosion inhibitors
  • Display (OLED, QLED)
  • Lithium secondary batteries electrolytes, anodes, cathodes and separators
  • Monomers, oligomers
  • Plasticizers
  • Photoacid generators
  • Photo-initiators
  • Rheology modifiers
  • Sensitizers
  • Stabilisers

Click here to explore more products at DKSH Discover - Your portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

DKSH Discover: Now available in Portugal!Innovative ingredients and specialty chemicals at your digital fingertips

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Are you looking for a more convenient and accessible solution to source your specialty chemicals and ingredients? Well now you can access the vast range of products from DKSH Performance Materials 24/7!

Explore our brand new customer portal: DKSH Discover, a digital platform for specialty chemicals and ingredients for the food and beverage, personal care, pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals industries!

Start searching for your raw materials by application, composition, function, claims and more! > Go to DKSH Discover portal

Services

As a leading Market Expansion Services provider, distribution and logistics are the essence of our business. We also provide financing, sales and marketing to complete our core service offering. You additionally benefit from a range of tailored value-added services to support your growing needs including:

Innovation & Formulation

Innovation & Formulation

Innovation & Formulation

We develop cutting-edge products and formulations from our network of 16 state-of-the-art specialty chemicals innovation centers. We generate ideas, ensure compliance and provide technical training to increase market coverage for our clients. Our business partners benefit from a range of tailor-made solutions that reduce time to market and increase competitive advantage. 

Learn more about our Innovation & Formulation services

Sourcing

Sourcing

Sourcing

We provide instant access to markets around the world, including the major chemical producing countries. Our comprehensive network of over 60 sourcing specialists procures hard-to-find ingredients and chemicals and identifies reliable alternative sources for specific quality, price, quantity and delivery needs. We also act as an early trend scout to share knowledge of latest developments and technologies, ensuring our business partners remain one step ahead.

Learn more about our Sourcing services

Regulatory

Regulatory

Regulatory

The regulatory landscape around the world is far from homogeneous. It is becoming increasingly complex as many countries introduce new systems and certification schemes to safeguard their economies. Keeping abreast of these changes can become very time-consuming for companies looking to expand in different markets. Our network of on-the-ground regulatory specialists have a deep understanding of regulatory environments and provide a range of support services to ensure our business partners are compliant. 

Learn more about our Regulatory services

Digital

Digital

Digital

Our Digital team supports you to drive business growth through digital transformation.

Through an integrated network of digital systems, DKSH embraces operational agility and applies advanced analytics to better understand industry trends and the needs of its customers.

DKSH supports its business partners to market and sell their products through an omni-channel approach involving digital marketing automation, industry-specialized marketplaces and DKSH Discover, a portal for specialty chemicals and ingredients.

All of these services combined enable DKSH’s business partners to stay ahead and remain competitive.

Learn more about our Digital services

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