Krahn Chemie

Krahn Chemie is a chemical distribution company with a history spanning over 100 years. Krahn Chemie`s core competence is the sales, marketing and distribution of specialty chemicals.

The Krahn Chemie group offers its more than 5,000 customers an extensive and high-quality product range, technical services as well as in-house laboratory support.

Krahn Chemie works closely together with internationally operating chemical manufacturers. They benefit from the target-oriented and sustainable marketing of their products in Europe – based on KRAHN´s deep knowledge of the local markets.

Krahn Chemie supplies products to the following processing industries: coatings, construction, adhesives and sealants, plastics, rubber, technical ceramics, lubricants, cleaning and disinfection, personal care as well as all industrial sectors in which heating and cooling circuits are used.

In 2020, the Krahn Chemie achieved a turnover of approximately 232 million euros and currently employs a staff of 235. The company's headquarters are situated in Germany. Subsidiaries or local sales teams have been established in Benelux, France, Italy, Poland, Greece, Sweden, Great Britain, Spain, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary and China.

Krahn Chemie is part of the family-owned Otto Krahn Group, which also includes the plastics distributor ALBIS, the plastics compounder MOCOM and the recycling specialist WIPAG. The Otto Krahn Group is represented in more than 30 countries. In the 2020 financial year, the Otto Krahn Group employed a total of around 1,600 people and its global turnover was €1.1 billion.