Our offering
More about our capabilities in wax blends and wax emulsions:
Wax blends & wax emulsions
Unlock the value in our global sourcing and supply capabilities combined with our manufacturing presence and technical excellence to optimize your business.
Whether you need to secure your raw material stream, optimize your manufacturing process or consolidate your supply chain, we are able to help through our worldwide presence and expertise.
Developing waxes to fit your needs
Paramelt is the largest independent global wax blender and has access to an enormous range of waxes and additives. Build on our extensive knowledge and capabilities, we develop just the right blend to meet your technical, commercial and manufacturing requirements.
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In addition to providing fully tailored wax solutions, we also work with a number of partners where our unique experience, material portfolio and process capability offers a value added contribution to their business through bespoke developments or tolling.
expand_circle_right Rely on usThe world of wax includes an extremely broad range of wax types with different physical and chemical characteristics. Primary raw material sources only provide a finite product range within each family of specific waxes offering limited, well defined characteristics.
The formulator’s knowledge is key to translate these material features into the desired performance requirements. A large part of our activities are focused on using our knowledge and experience to select and blend components to supply functional and consistent grades of wax with targeted properties.
In addition, waxes are frequently combined with many different types of rosin and hydrocarbon based resins as well as olefinic polymers (e.g. EVA, PE, EMA) and other additives, such as stabilizers, fillers, pigments and dyes.
'This blending space represents the heart of Paramelt’s core business.'
We are able to select and combine the right balance of ingredients to consistently deliver the desired functionality, whilst also simplifying supply chain and manufacturing complexity for our customers. Buying pre-blended waxes from Paramelt brings our customers significant benefits to their business in aspects such as:
Global sourcing
- Security of supply
- Streamlined supply chain
- Cost savings
Manufacturing
- Simplify your process
- Materials handling
- Appropriate supply form
Expertise
- Quality & consistency
- Optimal performance
- Technical service
Many applications require the functionality of a wax into a water based formulation, such as water based flexible packaging coatings & inks, paints, lacquers and polishes, leather & textile treatments, fiber sizing agents, glass & ceramic bottle and jar treatments.
Paramelt has a comprehensive manufacturing capability for the production of wax emulsions and polymer dispersions, encompassing atmospheric and pressure emulsification, high-pressure homogenization, continuous mechanical dispersion and high shear mixing.
Through our activities in water based coatings and adhesives, we also have extensive mixing and blending facilities for water based systems, which enable us to incorporate our wax, and polymer, emulsions into formulated aqueous blends where required.
Although we are not strongly active in the mainstream wax emulsion market, we have developed and now supply an extensive range of wax emulsions to meet bespoke customer requirements. Within this range of products, we can offer anionic, cationic, nonionic and mixed surfactant systems across a broad range of wax families including:
- HDPE and LDPE wax emulsions (oxidized and non-oxidized)
- MA grafted PP wax emulsions
- Montan and carnauba wax emulsions
- Paraffin and microcrystalline wax emulsions
- EAA and EVA wax emulsions
- Fatty acid and vegetable wax emulsions
We produce in 
food safe facilities
Kristof Andrzejewski
Business Development Manager Packaging Adhesives & Food Contact Waxes
Food-safe production
FSSC 22000 certified facilities
Paramelt is involved in a number of critical industries where consumer safety is of utmost importance.
Our Paracera range for cosmetics & personal care, Paraflex products for direct food contact packaging as well as waxes used as food ingredients and our Paradip waxes for cheese coating all require their own specific, stringent manufacturing criteria in order to meet the necessary regulatory standards. Even for ‘end of line’ packaging hot melts, such as our Excelta and Plastomelt grades, food producers have ever increasing expectations for their regulatory compliance and food safety status.
As a result of these demanding product requirements, we have invested heavily in our operating facilities and procedures, using comprehensive standards of HACCP and GMP to achieve market leading levels.
To validate the suitability of these processes and take advantage of industry best practice, Paramelt has taken the step to go beyond general compliance with GMP and ISO 9001 to certify a number of their facilities to an internationally accredited standard. Whilst many standards, such as AIB and BRC are common in the food industry, the decision was taken to certify to the most demanding and globally recognised FSSC 22000 standard to ensure the widest possible acceptance across the diverse range of industries we serve.
What is FSSC 22000
The FSSC 22000 Food Safety System Certification provides a comprehensive framework for effectively managing an organization’s food safety responsibilities. The approach is built on existing ISO standards and is fully recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI).
The standard is built from the ground up based on a comprehensive risk assessment approach, to identify critical vulnerabilities throughout the entire production and supply chain and ensure effective control measures are implemented to minimise risk. As a result of this detailed analysis Paramelt has implemented a wide range of measures to guarantee the best product security, such as:
- site access control
- product reformulation
- line separation
- ‘closed’ factory environment
- personal hygiene measures & clothing
- pest control
- in-line detection
Ensuring food safety
Paramelt’s triple approach allows brand owners and retailers to make conscious choices about the components employed in their food packaging materials.
The 3 critical elements are:
- food grade facilities
- selected food contact materials
- controlled raw material streams
This combination provides customers the confidence that their products meet the highest possible standards of food safety.
Toll manufacturing, viable & reliable
Do you intend to focus on your core business and outsource part of your production? On a daily basis Paramelt has proven to many well known partners that contract manufacturing is a viable and reliable alternative. Want to know more about our approach and our capabilities in processing thermoplastic products?
Our DNA
Paramelt is a global leader in specialty waxes, adhesives and coatings. For more than 125 years we are essentially wax formulators and are an independent, privately owned company.
Paramelt heritage
Paramelt
Dutch, since 1898
revenue 2025: €267 mln
# employees 2025: 516
owned by Ter Group
TER Group
German, since 1908
revenue 2025: €935 mln
# employees 2025: 1146
owned by Westphal family
As the recognized wax specialists, we harbor industry experts and rank # 1 or 2 positions in our core markets. We continue to invest in process technology leadership and consolidation in these core wax markets and grow by offering ‘value for money’. Over time this position has enabled us to grow strongly in adhesives and dispersions markets. Value is our driver and custom-made products the norm.
Specialists (niche player)
top 3 reasons to
recommend Paramelt*)
– reliable supplier
– consistent quality
– value for money
*) Customers survey Europe and USA
# active formulas
~2750
We are specialists, but are always open to complementary opportunities. We have direct decision making and short communication lines, our people throughout the organization take ownership and with a can-do attitude we make it happen. The annual re-investment rate is high and the company’s financial mass can underpin substantial investments.
With an entrepreneurial attitude
annual re-investment rate
~10%
Technology drives our thinking. We combine long term strategic product and process research with flexible and responsive product development. We are inquisitive and challenge conventions which can result in ‘blue sky investments’. We are recognized by our knowledge leadership in core markets.
Driven by technology and innovation
# laboratory requests
> 1000 last year
# new commercial products
~ 110 last year
‘Batch-to-batch consistency is our constant goal’: this is our focus both for investment casting waxes used for aerospace parts and our food grade waxes and adhesives produced in our FSSC/ISO 22000 sites. This is why our customers rely on us.
Delivering security and consistency
financial stability
D&B rating 1
From our 8 manufacturing sites we can address regional differences and trends and provide product equivalence with local sourcing. We have our own regional sales and technical staff and have a specialized and knowledgeable distributor network for ‘selected market niches’.
With a global reach and local service
manufacturing sites
Europe : 3
USA : 3
China : 2
customers in
87 countries
At the core of our performance lies a team of experienced and knowledgeable employees. We build long-term partnerships and are responsive, flexible, committed and loyal.
Building on people and partnership
average employee retention
> 12 years
Paramelt = ‘knowledge & experience’
recognized by > 85% customers
(Customers survey Europe and USA)
Our locations
With 8 production facilities supplying to more than 80 countries, we truly combine a global perspective with local service.
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