Arkem

Arkem Chemicals

Type	Private
Industry	Chemicals, petrochemicals, fuels and oils
Founded	1991
Founder	Levend Kokuludağ
Headquarters	Istanbul, Turkey
Area served	Europe, Middle East, USA, Far East
Key people	Levend Kokuludağ (President) , Tezel Kökdemir (VP)
Products	Solvents, Monomers, Alcohols, Aromatics, Aliphatics, Esters, Glycols, Glycol Ethers, Ketones, Surfactants, Acrylics, Acetyls, Ethanols, Isocyanates, Phosphates, Amines, Titanium dioxide
Revenue	US$380 million (2011)^[1]^[2]
Website	http://www.arkem.com

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:

Arkem is the 27th largest chemical distributor in its field(2010) according to "The Top 100 Chemical Distributors" by ICIS.^[3]^[4] 2009 sales $248m .^[5]

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

External links

Arkem

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