Kiilto

Kiilto is a family-owned Finnish chemical-industry group founded on 27 October 1919 in the Pispala district of Tampere, Finland (originally Teknokemiallinen Tehdas O/Y Santalahti; renamed Kiilto Oy in 1924). Headquartered in Lempäälä near Tampere, Kiilto develops, produces and sells solutions across four business areas — construction, industrial adhesives and fireproofing, professional hygiene, and consumer goods — with around 700 employees in 9 countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland) and net sales of €217 million in 2025. The Industrial Adhesives business serves the woodworking and furniture, CLT and glulam, parquet, window and exterior-door, transportation, marine, sandwich-panel, prefabricated-building-element, filter, food, paper and cardboard, corrugated-board, graphics and foundry industries, with PUR hotmelts, PVAc, EPI, polyurethane and flame-retardant systems.