RÜTGERS Snapshot
Calling it chemically dependent won't turn this knight scarlet. RÜTGERS Chemicals main operations include the manufacture of pitches from coal tar, napthalene, and industrial oils. Its downstream activities use those raw materials to make aromatic chemicals, performance products, and plasticizers. RÜTGERS' eight manufacturing sites are located in Europe and North America and serve makers of adhesives, aluminum, coatings, plastics, and tires. The company's subsidiaries include Canadian dispersants maker Handy Chemicals and VFT, which makes aromatics from plants in Belgium, Canada, and Poland. RÜTGERS had been a part of German industrial conglomerate Evonik until 2008, when investment group TRITON acquired it.