# Hexion Inc.

> Hexion is a Columbus-based global producer of industrial adhesives, resins and performance materials. Its wood-panel business now combines resin chemistry with Smartech’s AI and application systems to reduce manufacturing variability, waste and material consumption. It also supplies specialty monomers and solutions for coatings, agriculture and natural resources.

- **Founded:** 2005
- **Headquarters:** Columbus, United States
- **Products:** Engineered wood resins and EcoBind, Chemistry-as-a-Service, SmartMDI, SmartPF and SmartWax, SmartQuality, Smartech AI
- **Notable:** Built a global industrial adhesives and performance-materials business through the 2005 merger and predecessor operations., Introduced EcoBind low-emitting resin technology in 2006., Acquired Smartech in December 2024.

## Products & services

- **Engineered wood resins and EcoBind** — Adhesives and low-emitting resin technologies for plywood, OSB, MDF, particleboard and other engineered wood products. EcoBind was introduced in 2006.
- **Chemistry-as-a-Service** — A mill-focused model combining material intelligence, AI process optimization and adaptive resin formulations. The company describes its launch in 2026.
- **SmartMDI, SmartPF and SmartWax** — Smartech application systems for improving how resin and wax are prepared or applied in wood-panel production.
- **SmartQuality** — Real-time wood-panel quality insights launched at LIGNA 2025; the launch announcement claims potential line-speed improvement of up to 3%.
- **Smartech AI** — Process intelligence spanning moisture, curing and quality. Furnish IQ and Adhesive IQ are listed as roadmap modules for Q1 2027, rather than live modules.
- **VeoVa vinyl ester monomers, Versatic acids and Cardura glycidyl esters** — Specialty inputs used by formulators to adjust adhesive and coating performance.
- **Agriculture and natural-resource solutions** — Chemistries for slow-release fertilizers and oilfield applications, alongside other industrial performance materials.
- **Lignin-based adhesive development with Bloom** — Joint development toward commercializing fully plant-based adhesives using preserved lignin; announced as a development program, not established volume sales.
- **HexiTech fire-retardant wood venture** — Joint venture with CitroTech to develop and commercialize factory-applied fire protection for wood products.

## Achievements

- Built a global industrial adhesives and performance-materials business through the 2005 merger and predecessor operations.
- Introduced EcoBind low-emitting resin technology in 2006.
- Acquired Smartech in December 2024.
- Launched SmartQuality at LIGNA 2025.
- Ten sites received 2025 ACC Responsible Care Facility Safety Excellence Awards; two additional sites received Honor Awards.
- Reports a 26.61% Scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction against its stated baseline and attainment of its 2030 reduction goal in 2025; company-reported measure.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — CitroTech investor materials describe HexiTech commercialization as pending, targeting a commercial partner by year-end 2026 and initial JV revenue in early 2027; these are forward-looking targets.
- **2026-04** — CitroTech and Hexion entered the 50/50 HexiTech LLC joint-venture agreement on April 17.
- **2025-12** — Hexion sold its U.S. Gulf Coast formalin operations in Baytown, Luling and Geismar to Ancala; Hexion continues formalin supply outside that region.
- **2025-06** — Announced the Bloom Biorenewables lignin-adhesive development partnership.
- **2025-05** — Launched SmartQuality and announced its Kadant Carmanah collaboration.

## Links

- Website: https://www.hexion.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hexion-inc/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/hexion_inc
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HexionInc
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hexion_inc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HexionOfficial/

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Last updated: 2026-10-24