Syensqo (formerly Cytec)

Syensqo is a specialty materials and chemicals group listed on Euronext Brussels. Its aerospace business develops composites, structural adhesives, surfacing films and specialty polymers for aircraft and space programs, and says it has worked with aerospace customers for over 50 years. It supports customers from design and certification through to production industrialization. Its aerospace product range includes Cycom and FM brands.

Aerospace products

• Composite prepregs and materials, including Cycom, Avimid and PRISM
• Structural adhesives and pastes, including FM, BR and AeroPaste
• Surfacing products such as SURFACE MASTER and FusePly
• Specialty polymers: Torlon PAI, AvaSpire PAEK and KetaSpire PEEK

Markets served

• Fixed wing aircraft: primary and secondary structures, interiors, propulsion components, electrical and fluid systems
• Aircraft propulsion and systems
• Rotorcraft
• Space and launch; Syensqo materials are used in the solid rocket boosters of NASA's Space Launch System for Artemis II
• Advanced air mobility
• Defense

Outside aerospace the group serves automotive, batteries, electronics, healthcare, agriculture, building and other markets.

Company facts

• More than 13,000 employees in 30 countries
• 54 industrial sites and 12 major research and innovation centers
• Listed on Euronext Brussels as Syensqo SA
• Main technology partner of Climate Impulse, the hydrogen aircraft project led by Bertrand Piccard