Element Solutions Inc (ESI) company profile

Element Solutions is a specialty chemicals technology company that formulates and supplies process chemistries and materials used to enhance and manufacture everyday products. The company operates through two primary divisions: Electronics and Specialties. Its Electronics business designs and produces wet chemical processes, metallization solutions, and electronic assembly materials—such as solder pastes, fluxes, coatings, and semiconductor packaging chemistries—for printed circuit boards, semiconductor chips, and hardware. Its Specialties business develops functional and decorative plating systems, corrosion-resistant surface coatings, boiler water treatments, and offshore subsea hydraulic control fluids. The company sells its proprietary consumables directly and through intermediaries to manufacturers across the consumer electronics, semiconductor, automotive, aerospace, industrial equipment, construction, and offshore energy industries.

The company operates an international footprint of small and medium-sized formulation and production facilities located across major economic regions, with primary research and development laboratories situated in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and India. It maintains a global workforce of approximately 5,200 full-time employees, with around 80% stationed outside the United States. Element Solutions was incorporated in Delaware, and the provided text does not identify its headquarters city.

Summary of the business section of Element Solutions's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“At December 31, 2025, we employed approximately 5,200 full-time employees, of which approximately 40% are research and development chemists and experienced technical service and technical sales personnel.”