Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals is a business unit of Akzo Nobel, a Global Fortune 500 company. Based in the Netherlands, we are a multicultural organization serving customers throughout the world with healthcare products, coatings and chemicals. We employ around 61,500 people in more than 80 countries. Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals is a world leader in manufacturing and distributing organometallic specialties and organic peroxides. Our metal alkyls have long been used in olefin polymerization as well as in chemical synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients. Our products are especially useful in stereoselective reactions of reduction, addition and alkylation.