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Arkem
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:
- Monomers
- Alcohols
- Aromatics & Aliphatics
- Esters
- Glycols
- Glycol Ethers
- Ketones
- Surfactants
Arkem is the 27th largest chemical distributor in its field(2010) according to "The Top 100 Chemical Distributors" by ICIS. 2009 sales $248m .
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
- 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