Inline & offline digital printing primers certified for use with HP Indigo presses.
Water-based overprint coatings increase durability and enhance the look & feel of inkjet-printed materials.
High-performance primers for inkjet that improve print quality & ink adhesion on film & paper.
Advanced materials designed to enhance the performance and processing of agricultural products.
Recyclable water-based coatings that confer high barrier to paper-based packaging and wraps.
Enhancing composite performance through optimized fiber-polymer interface adhesion
Water-based sizing solutions designed to optimize interfacial adhesion in composites using carbon fiber.
2030 Goals
Michelman is committed to sustaining our planet by continually reducing our footprint and bringing planet-positive solutions to the marketplace.
Sustainable Packaging
Future proofing, problem solving, and above all, collaborating. Our people, our planet, shaping the circular economy of tomorrow.
Thinking Ahead
The packaging industry must adopt more sustainable practices to combat the significant and growing impact of packaging waste.
News (Thursday, 22 August 2024)
Assessed for our approach to the environment, labor & human rights, sustainability, & ethics, we improved our score vs. the previous year.
News (Tuesday, 13 August 2024)
Michelman’s PFAS-free Unyte® brand is growing to meet the form and function needs of technical textile manufacturers.
News (Tuesday, 7 May 2024)
Michelman showcases new DigiPrime® Vision inline primer and award-winning barrier coatings, enabling more sustainable labels and packaging.
Our corporate values are a testimony of our highest priorities as individuals and as a company.
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Michelman is a global company with offices in the Americas, Asia and Europe.
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CINCINNATI, OH (June 25, 2015) – Michelman is pleased to announce it has been named a 2015 Top Workplace by the Cincinnati Enquirer. 100 companies and organizations in Cincinnati are recognized each year as “Top Workplaces” based solely on surveys about the workplace completed by their employees.
Michelman, headquartered in Cincinnati, is a global developer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing markets. The fast growing company has production facilities in North America, Europe and Asia with laboratory facilities in Shanghai, Singapore, Luxembourg, Germany, India and the USA.
The company recently opened its new Advanced Materials Collaboration Center at its Blue Ash campus that includes six new laboratories with state-of-the art equipment, bright and accessible open space and meeting rooms designed to allow application teams to collaborate on projects, and office space for staff and associates. The building was designed physically and technologically so that Michelman’s teams of internal application specialists and chemists are able to seamlessly interact with customers, vendors, research universities and other R&D facilities engaged in activities related to the markets Michelman serves around the globe.
The Top Workplaces employee survey began in 2006 and is conducted by WorkplaceDynamics, LLP, a leading research firm on organizational health and employee engagement. In the past year, more than 2 million workers from approximately 6,000 organizations have taken the survey.
About Michelman
Michelman is a global developer and manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing markets. The company’s surface modifiers, additives and polymers are used by leading manufacturers around the world to enhance performance attributes and add value in applications including wood and floor care products, metal and industrial coatings, paints, varnishes, inks, fibers and composites. Michelman is also well-known as an innovator in the development of barrier and functional coatings, as well as digital printing press primers that are used in the production of consumer and industrial packaging and paper products, labels, and commercially printed materials. Michelman serves its customers with production facilities in North America, Europe and Asia, product development and technical service centers in several major global markets, and a worldwide team of highly trained business development personnel.