ADR - Adhesives and Sealants

Overview

ADR Sealants/Adhesives is a company that provides adhesives, sealants, and coatings for the manufacture of other, more familiar brand-name merchandise. We create various products that you’ve maybe never heard of, but that are used in the essentials you’d rather not live without.

Your day probably begins and ends with us. Your cereal box, refrigerator, laundry detergent box, automobile, your baby’s disposable diaper, all require products we manufacture. Just about everywhere you look, even the windows you look through and the magazines you read, you’ll find manufactured goods using adhesives, sealants, or coatings produced by ADR Sealants/Adhesives.

ADR Sealants/Adhesives manufactures and markets specialty chemicals used in thousands of formulations, and hundreds of thousands of applications worldwide. The company has direct operations in over 25 countries in North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

It was in 1960 when Alfred D. Riggins began dabbling in glue, figuring that the world needed a convenient, economical, strong adhesive, an adhesive so versatile that both homemakers and manufactures could use it. By 1965, Riggins had settled in Tree Hill, Michigan, founded the company that is his namesake, and continued to seek new opportunities for his adhesives. Alfred set the precedent for convenient, economical, effective, and versatile products. Almost 40 years later ADR Sealants/Adhesives is sticking with that philosophy and using today’s technology to leverage what we’ve learned.

ADR Sealants/Adhesives is now headquartered in Racerville, KY, and employs over 20,000 people. Global sales totaled $10.287 billion last year. Common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ADR.

Mission Statement

At ADR, we are committed to excellence in all our activities. We believe that best results are achieved through outstanding performance in every area, including quality, service, and the stewardship of natural resources and the management of our people. Dedication to excellence extends to the way we conduct business with our customers, suppliers, and among ourselves, as well as how we operate in our communities at home and abroad. Honesty, fairness, duty and integrity, as well as respect for the law, for individuals, and for the communities in which we operate are all traits of character that have and will in all future endeavors contribute to ADR’s success and superior reputation as a leading manufacturer of state of the art sealants and adhesives. Preserving and building upon these ideals are crucial to the future profitability of our organization.

Each of us a ADR and all it’s subsidiaries are expected to conduct his or her activities in accordance to the highest ethical standards as well as all legal and regulatory requirements. The importance of ADR’s reputation for ethical business behavior should never be taken for granted. The preservation of ADR’s reputation for integrity is fundamental to the continued well being of our business. ADR’s reputation provides us with distinct competitive strengths in an increasingly demanding business environment.

Each and every employee is a custodian of ADR’s good name. As members of the ADR organization, all of us have a personal obligation to make certain that our own conduct, as well as that of others for whom we have responsibility is consistent with the company’s ethical principles. Steadfast adherence to these standards is essential to our continuing success as a company.

Alfred D. Riggins in original Tree Hill Laboratory

Labor/Management Philosophy

ADR Sealants/Adhesives Corporation strives to exhaust all means by which to adhere and follow the Contract set forth and agreed upon by ADR Corporation and PACE International Union. ADR recognizes that this facility and all hourly employees shall be represented by PACE International Union. ADR Corporation shall honor the contract negotiated by both parties. The contract has set forth all terms and conditions of employment, such as wages, hours, and working conditions. In addition, the contract has provided the means for prompt, equitable adjustments of grievances and/or complaints in an effort to promote orderly and peaceful labor relations between the Company and the employees. Furthermore, the contract sets guidelines that eliminate work stoppages or interruptions of the operations of the Company, and to promote cooperation between the employees and the Company in an attempt for the profitable and efficient operations of business. As stated, it is the intent that both parties abide by the terms listed in the Agreement at all times.