07.01.14
14 H.B. Fuller Company
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
www.hbfuller.com
PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1887
REVENUE: $2.074 billion s (2012: $1.886 billion))
MARKETS SERVED
• Adhesives
KEY EXECUTIVES
Jim Owens, president and CEO; James Giertz, senior VP and CFO; Joan Schuller, VP, AsiaPacific; Steven Kenny, senior VP, EIMEA; Barry Snyder, VP and chief technology officer.
H.B. Fuller Company is a global manufacturer and marketer of adhesives and other specialty chemical products. The company is managed through four regional operating segments—North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The largest business component in each of the regional segments is adhesives. H.B. Fuller posted sales of $2.074 billion in 2013.
“We are pleased with our 2013 financial results which demonstrate solid operational improvement and another step towards our 2015 targets,” Jim Owens, H. B. Fuller president and chief executive officer stated in its end of year report. “In the midst of a major business integration and weaker than expected end-market conditions in some key markets, our team delivered solid results. We delivered record revenue and grew organically for the fourth year in a row with stronger organic growth at the end of the year.”
The company recently opened a new $10 million manufacturing facility to support the expansion of its business in the Andean Region of South America. The plant is located in Rionegro, approximately 36 kilometers east of Medellin, Colombia.
H.B. Fuller has had a strong presence in the Andean Region’s adhesives market, operating from a manufacturing facility in Itagui before moving to its new plant in Rionegro. The new site will provide increased production capacity, a new technical laboratory for hygienic products and better access to the country’s second largest airport. The Rionegro facility will supply hot melt and water-based adhesive technologies for the hygienic, packaging and corrugate and assembly markets. In addition to production, the facility houses administrative offices, labs, and receiving and dispatching.Rionegro is the most recent example of how H.B. Fuller is investing in its capabilities globally. In the past few years, the company has built manufacturing facilities in Nanjing, China, and Pune, India.
St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
www.hbfuller.com
PUBLIC COMPANY
YEAR ESTABLISHED: 1887
REVENUE: $2.074 billion s (2012: $1.886 billion))
MARKETS SERVED
• Adhesives
KEY EXECUTIVES
Jim Owens, president and CEO; James Giertz, senior VP and CFO; Joan Schuller, VP, AsiaPacific; Steven Kenny, senior VP, EIMEA; Barry Snyder, VP and chief technology officer.
H.B. Fuller Company is a global manufacturer and marketer of adhesives and other specialty chemical products. The company is managed through four regional operating segments—North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific. The largest business component in each of the regional segments is adhesives. H.B. Fuller posted sales of $2.074 billion in 2013.
“We are pleased with our 2013 financial results which demonstrate solid operational improvement and another step towards our 2015 targets,” Jim Owens, H. B. Fuller president and chief executive officer stated in its end of year report. “In the midst of a major business integration and weaker than expected end-market conditions in some key markets, our team delivered solid results. We delivered record revenue and grew organically for the fourth year in a row with stronger organic growth at the end of the year.”
The company recently opened a new $10 million manufacturing facility to support the expansion of its business in the Andean Region of South America. The plant is located in Rionegro, approximately 36 kilometers east of Medellin, Colombia.
H.B. Fuller has had a strong presence in the Andean Region’s adhesives market, operating from a manufacturing facility in Itagui before moving to its new plant in Rionegro. The new site will provide increased production capacity, a new technical laboratory for hygienic products and better access to the country’s second largest airport. The Rionegro facility will supply hot melt and water-based adhesive technologies for the hygienic, packaging and corrugate and assembly markets. In addition to production, the facility houses administrative offices, labs, and receiving and dispatching.Rionegro is the most recent example of how H.B. Fuller is investing in its capabilities globally. In the past few years, the company has built manufacturing facilities in Nanjing, China, and Pune, India.