Henkel Corporation
Henkel, a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany, was started in 1923, and has grown to over 52,000 employees worldwide. People in approximately 125 countries around the world trust in brands and technologies from Henkel. Henkel brands include Dial® soaps, Purex® laundry detergents, göt2b® hair styling products, Right Guard® antiperspirants, and Loctite® adhesives.
The Henkel Group operates in three strategic business areas: Home Care; Personal Care; and Adhesives, Sealants and Surface Treatments, which serves the transportation, electronics, aerospace, metal, durable goods, consumer goods, maintenance and repair and packaging industries, and offers a broad range of products for the craftsman and consumer.
Henkel Adhesive Technologies and the Loctite® brand
Henkel Adhesive Technologies is the world's leading supplier of adhesives, sealants and surface treatments. In 1997, Henkel acquired the Loctite Corporation, and the Loctite brand remains a primary brand to this day.
Loctite® history
Loctite Corporation began in the Trinity College basement laboratory of Dr. Vernon Krieble of Hartford, Connecticut in 1953. This entrepreneurial chemistry professor developed a cure inhibition system for a unique bonding resin that hardened in the absence of air, an anaerobic sealant.
Loctite made its official public debut at a press conference at the University Club in New York on July 26, 1956. The promise of solving the age-old problem of loose nuts and bolts in machines and appliances, a problem that customers had long ago accepted as unsolvable, led to an incredible flow of inquiries. In the 1960s, the Cyanoacrylate or CA (“Superglue”), a very fast one-part, room-temperature industrial adhesive, had been developed under the Loctite® brand. The development of further generations of Loctite anaerobics and cyanoacrylate technology and products soon followed.
Throughout its history, Loctite has continuously created markets by discovering opportunities. From its founding, based on a product that solved an "unsolvable" problem, Loctite has achieved success through innovation.
Loctite® Adhesives
A wide range of adhesive technologies has been developed under the Loctite® brand, including more than 1,400 Loctite® adhesive, sealant, coating, cleaner, and lubricant products, as well as dispensing and curing equipment.
This website details the full line of Loctite® Instant Adhesives (brochure).
To view the complete line of Loctite® brand products, please go to www.loctite.com.