Founding of Heubach do Brazil in Sao Paulo. Later the company becomes part of "Syntechrom-Heubach", a 50/50 joint venture between Heubach and the pigment division of "Bunge and Bourne".
In 1995 the company is sold and replaced by a state of the art pigment complex in India (see 1995 and 1999 in Diversification).

Start-up of Heubach Engineering, which installs turnkey plants for metal oxides.

 

Heubach & Lindgens GmbH is founded by merging the metal chemical activities of the two old family operations Heubach & Lindgens.

Founding of Heubach Inc. after the purchase of the pigment business of E.I.duPont de Nemours in Newark, New Jersey (USA). The Heubach group is now active in Europe and both Americas. In less than 4 years sales are doubled and profits increase by more than ten fold before 1988. Heubach sells the Newark operations to the Cookson group and creates the financial basis for further expansions.

 

Heubach's presence in North America is continued by a new US company, Heucotech Ltd., which is founded in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. This company specializes in coloured pigments and high quality pigment preparations for paints, printing inks and plastics.

 

Heucotech's 80.000 sq. ft. complex in Fairless Hills, PA., is expanded by a second 60.000 sq. ft. operation.

 

Formation of Penarroya Oxide S.A., headquartered in Paris, with manufacturing operations in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and, since 1996, also in Mexico. This 50/50 joint venture combines the metal chemical business of Heubach & Lindgens with that of Metaleurop S.A.. Today Penarroya S.A. is a world leader in its field.

 

Gotz-Georg Wehling becomes President of Heubach Europe. He restructures the European activities and positions Heubach for the strong growth which emerges in 1995.

 

Heubach expands to Asia by founding Heubach Colour Ltd.. In the Gujarat province of India, a 25 acre site is acquired to build one of the largest organic pigment color complexes worldwide over a 7 year period. It is the largest single project in Heubach's history and is realized under Kiron Shah and Ravi Kapoor in close cooperation with Heubach Europe.