Promerus is a technology-driven research and development (R&D) company that develops advanced material solutions for applications including advanced energy, electrolyzers, rechargeable batteries, semiconductor packaging, optoelectronics, electronic materials, polymer technology, and specialty chemical products.

Promerus is in Akron, Ohio, USA and is supported by the global resources of its parent company, Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd.

Yes. Promerus is a subsidiary of Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., a global company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with broad international operations and production capabilities.

Promerus specializes in advanced material solutions, with expertise in functionalized norbornene monomers, polymers, catalysts, and cyclic olefin polymer technologies tailored to customer applications. The company combines product development chemistry, chemical engineering, and analytical science to support projects from concept through development and production scale-up.

Promerus serves customers in semiconductor manufacturing, microelectronics, electronic packaging, optoelectronics, advanced energy, green hydrogen, rechargeable batteries, coatings, adhesives, and specialty materials industries.

Yes. Promerus develops customized monomers, polymers, formulations, and materials designed to meet specific customer requirements.

Promerus leverages proprietary functionalized norbornene monomers, catalysts, polymerization expertise, and formulation capabilities to tailor materials for customer-specific performance requirements and applications.

Promerus offers extensive R&D capabilities, including monomer and polymer systhesis, formulation development, catalyst development, and scale-up support, all used to develop new products for our customers.

Promerus has extensive analytical capabilities for its R&D activities including:

• Gel permeation chromatography (GPC)
• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
• Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)
• Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)
• Scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM/EDX)
• Ion chromatography (IC)
• Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC)
• Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA)
• Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA)
• Potentiometric Titration
• Instron Mechanical Testing 

Promerus combines expertise in norbornene chemistry, cyclic olefin polymers, catalyst development, electronic materials, advanced testing, and custom formulation development to create unique solutions for specialized applications.

Promerus has more than 30 years of research, development, and commercialization experience in polynorbornene chemistry, catalyst, monomer synthesis, polymerization, formulation development, and application validation.

Yes. Promerus has an ISO 9001-certified quality management system.

Promerus works collaboratively with customers to understand their application, performance targets, processing requirements, and testing needs. Our scientists and engineers use this information to develop and evaluate monomers, polymers, formulations, catalysts, and other material solutions tailored to the customer’s application.

Promerus works with organizations developing advanced materials and technologies for semiconductor manufacturing, microelectronics, electronic packaging, optoelectronics, energy storage, hydrogen production, membranes, coatings, adhesives, and other specialized applications.

Promerus’ role within Sumitomo Bakelite is to develop products with Sumitomo Bakelite making the products. Research and development samples are prepared at Promerus.

Promerus’ core expertise is in functionalized norbornene monomers, polynorbornene materials, polymerization catalyst, and related formulations. Sumitomo Bakelite develops materials using a wide range of chemistries. Potential customers are encouraged to share their material requirements so that we can discuss the technology fit.