cph Germany chemistry

Name

cph Germany chemistry

Legal name

CPH Adhesives GmbH

Website

https://cph-group.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1974

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Adhesives

NAICS

Adhesive Manufacturing (325520), Adhesive Manufacturing (32552)

SIC

Adhesives & Sealants (2891)

akta.pro primary industry

Adhesives (Structural & Assembly) (IMAEAGAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Tapes, Labels & Pressure-Sensitive Adhesives (IMAEAGAJ)

Keywords

• Industrial adhesives
• Water-based adhesives
• Hotmelt adhesives
• Packaging adhesives
• Labeling adhesives

Headquarters

HQ city

Essen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Adhesive product sales: Direct sales of high-performance adhesives including water-based, hotmelt, and specialty formulations to food and beverage manufacturers and packaging companies. Products are sold with expert consultation and technical support, with repeat orders driven by supply relationships and product performance.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

CPH Adhesives manufactures and distributes industrial adhesives—including water-based, hotmelt, and customized specialty adhesive formulations—for labeling, carton and tray gluing, and other packaging applications. The products are made in-house at the company's production facility in Essen, Germany, and serve food and beverage manufacturers and packaging-industry customers primarily across the EMEA economic area, with delivery to more than 50 countries.

Product overview

CPH Adhesives offers a core portfolio of high-performance adhesives tailored specifically for the food and beverage packaging industry. The product range consists of three main categories: Waterbased adhesives (environmentally friendly labeling adhesives for glass, PET, and recyclable materials including casein-based, hybrid, synthetic, and starch-based variants), Hotmelt adhesives and cleaners (for carton/tray gluing and high-speed PET labeling on EVA and PO basis), and Adhesive special solutions (customized solutions for special applications like cigarette production and egg carton labeling). The REGAIN starch-based labeling adhesive is a notable sustainable product that won a 2023 Sustainability Impact Award. All products are designed for maximum adhesion, efficiency, and reliability in packaging and filling processes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• REGAIN: Starch-based labeling adhesive that won second place in WirtschaftsWoche's 'Sustainable Impact Award' in the 'Impact of Product' category in 2023

Products and services

• Water-based adhesives

Quantifiable outcome

• Up to 40% adhesive savings without compromising performance
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Jowat SE: Jowat is a German family-owned industrial adhesives manufacturer producing hotmelt and dispersion-based adhesives for packaging, including food and beverage applications. Its German mid-sized positioning, specialty packaging focus, and ownership structure make it one of the closest direct comparables to CPH Adhesives.
• HB Fuller: HB Fuller is a global specialty adhesives manufacturer with a packaging adhesives segment directly serving F&B label, carton, and tray-gluing applications with water-based and hotmelt technologies. It is one of the closest direct competitors to CPH, operating at a similar functional level but with substantially broader geographic and segment reach.
• Beardow Adams: Beardow Adams is a UK-based specialist in hot melt adhesives with strong presence in packaging, labeling, and product assembly applications serving beverage and food customers. Its hot-melt specialty positioning and similar customer verticals make it a closely comparable peer.
• Paramelt: Paramelt is a specialty adhesives producer focused on packaging, labeling, and product assembly applications, including hotmelts and water-based adhesives for the food and beverage industry. Its narrower product focus and similar customer base position it as a direct mid-sized peer to CPH.

Broad incumbents

• Henkel (Adhesive Technologies): Henkel's Adhesive Technologies division is the largest global industrial adhesives supplier and serves the same food and beverage packaging end-markets as CPH with water-based, hotmelt, and specialty labeling adhesives. As a broad incumbent, Henkel competes on scale, global footprint, and bundled technology, but does not specialize exclusively in F&B labeling adhesives like CPH.
• Bostik (Arkema): Bostik, the adhesives arm of Arkema, offers industrial adhesives including labeling, hotmelt, and packaging solutions overlapping directly with CPH's product portfolio. As part of a specialty chemicals major, Bostik competes at greater scale and portfolio breadth than CPH but is not exclusively focused on F&B adhesives.
• Sika AG: Sika is a Swiss specialty chemicals company with a broad industrial adhesives portfolio that includes packaging and assembly applications overlapping with CPH's offering. Its scale and diversification place it as a broad incumbent rather than a focused F&B adhesive specialist.
• 3M (Industrial Adhesives & Tapes): 3M's industrial adhesives and tapes division produces pressure-sensitive and specialty adhesives used in packaging and labeling applications across multiple end-markets including food and beverage. As a massive diversified industrial conglomerate, it competes broadly but is not specialized in F&B labeling adhesives.

Emerging players

• Adhesives Research: Adhesives Research is a specialty pressure-sensitive adhesive formulator focused on niche packaging, labeling, and industrial applications. It overlaps with CPH in labeling adhesive technologies but serves a broader set of specialty niches and is positioned as an emerging specialty player.

Others

• Wacker Chemie (Wacker Polymers): Wacker supplies polymeric binders and raw materials (e.g., VAE dispersions, specialty polymers) that are common inputs into water-based packaging and labeling adhesives such as CPH's products. While not a direct competitor, Wacker is an ecosystem-relevant comparable as an upstream supplier and German specialty chemicals peer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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