Chief Executive Officer
CurrentPolyblend is Europe’s leading manufacturer of specialist PVC and Acrylic plastisol’s, Colourants, Flame Retardants and Blowing Agents. Core customer sectors include Coated Technical Textiles, Polymer Flooring, Transport Filters, Dip and Rotational Mouldings, PVC Wallpapers and Industrial Coatings. Polyblend offers toll chemical processing with a range of mixing, blending, grinding and filling capabilities including waterborne products. Polyblend distributes a range of raw materials to the PVC plastisol and adjacent chemistry markets including resins and plasticisers and are the UK and Ireland distributor of the Valtris range of polymer and coatings additivesFounded as Acrol Ltd, in Widnes, UK in 1984, the business was sold to US Corporation PolyOne in 1999 returning to private ownership in 2009 In 2022 the business was acquired by Longacre Group. Longacre employ 800 people in 16 locations with a 2023 revenue of £200M, in core sectors of Technical Manufacturing, Business Services, Specialty Chemicals, Healthcare Products and Services