Azelis Americas expands relationship with Huntsman Advanced Materials (HAM) to cover the entire USA

Azelis Americas CASE, LLC has entered into an agreement with Huntsman Advanced Materials’ (HAM) for a territory expansion.  As of October 1, 2019 Azelis will provide its customers access to HAM products in the West Coast and Northeast, complementing its existing relationship in other regions.

Highlights & Rationale

• New agreement expands geographic coverage to include the West Coast and Northeast, covering now the entire USA.
• Azelis will provide customers with Huntsman Advanced Materials’ complete line up of leading brands.
• Azelis and Huntsman will create new efficiencies and increase growth.
• This mandate extension is consistent with Azelis’ corporate strategy of organic growth with selected strategic partners.

Azelis Americas CASE will distribute the Huntsman brands including ARALDITE®, ARADUR®, ARA® COOL, TACTIX®, KERIMID®, MATRIMID®, as well as HAM’s full line of matting agents and accelerators. The expanded product offering allows Azelis to deliver complete formulation services to their CASE customers across the entire United States. 

Customers have access to Huntsman's leading product line from any Azelis Americas CASE region and applications labs nationwide with faster response times, easier access to materials and a wider array of product choice to meet their needs. Azelis technical sales representatives are prepared to solve any challenges along with formulation development from the labs.

Jim Coneys, Distribution Manager, Huntsman Advanced Materials, said: “The expansion of our relationship with Azelis is a terrific opportunity to offer customers improved efficiencies and align our strategies for future growth. Their technical sales teams and application labs have delivered exceptional value to users of Huntsman products and we are excited to take this next step with Azelis.”

Dan Gruber, Managing Director, Azelis Americas CASE, commented: “We are thrilled to expand our relationship with Huntsman. The combination of HAM’s leading products and technologies with our technical expertise and market intelligence offers the best solutions for the needs of the high performance epoxy market across the country.”

Azelis has a long relationship with Huntsman establishing the foundation for this expansion. Azelis Americas  CASE (formerly Ribelin and GMZ) have been working with HAM for many decades.