Turnover: 250 million EUR (2023)

Country: France

  • Founded in 1838, Semin is a family-owned French manufacturer specializing in building materials for the construction industry
  • Manufacture of plaster for painters and plasterers.
  • Semin has 8 production sites in France, 4 production sites and 850 employees worldwide.
  • International sales account for 40% of total sales, in over 70 countries.

News

Caroline Semin recycles PET bottles in the building industry 03/03/2024

  • - Semin; plaster coating specialist
  • - Workforce: 900 employees
  • - ETI sales in 2023: 250 million euros
  • - SME workforce: 40
  • - Estimated percentage of sales for new insulation: 50% of total sales
  • - Number of bottles recycled to insulate a single-family home: 22,000 bottles.
  • - In 2023, acquisition of Buitex, 40 employees
  • - Buitex manufactures insulation from recycled PET bottles

Semin welcomes three investment funds as minority shareholders in its financing round 14/04/2023

  • Sales of Moselle-based building materials manufacturer: €240 million
  • Investors: GEI, Bpifrance and BNP Paribas Développement
  • Amount invested by the three investors: €25 million for the capital increase
  • GEI's ticket: €10 million
  • Contribution from Bpifrance and BNP Paribas: 7.5 M€ each
  • Share of capital held by the three investors: around 15%
  • Total amount including debt contributed by Bpifrance and BNP Paribas: over €25 million.

Building: Semin renovates its range of glues and coatings 07/10/2021

  • Semin company founded: 1838
  • - Location: Kédange-sur-Canner (Moselle)
  • - Sales from wholesalers: 60%
  • - Number of employees: 800, including 400 outside France
  • - Sales growth in 4 years: 32%
  • - Sales in 2020: 170 million euros - Sales breakdown: 40% export to 68 countries
  • - Number of factories in France: 8 (4 dedicated to its core business and 4 for the manufacture of accessories)
  • - Number of plants abroad: 4 (Barcelona, Moscow, Czech Republic for suspended ceilings, Germany for inspection hatches)

Studies mentioning this company

The paint market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • Cromology
  • Akzo Nobel
  • Axalta Coating Systems
  • Beckers
  • ONIP Omnium National Industriel des peintures
  • Théolaur Peintures (Actéo Groupe)
  • Bonglet
  • EGR Groupe
  • Leroy Merlin France (Adeo)
  • Castorama France (Kingfisher)
  • Resipoly Chrysor
  • Semin
  • Toupret
  • V33
  • Zolpan
  • Tollens
  • Seigneurie Gauthier
  • Ripolin
  • Ressource Peintures
  • Astral (Akzo Nobel)
  • Sherwin Williams
  • Sikkens (Akso Nobel)
  • Syntilor (Blanchon Groupe)
  • Hammerite
  • Diot PGM
  • Simab Peintures
  • Comus Peinture (Oceinde Groupe)
  • Savy Brosserie
  • Daw Caparol
  • Unikalo SCSO Société des colorants du Sud-Ouest
The building insulation market - France

Other companies mentioned:

  • Isover Saint-Gobain
  • Knauf
  • Actis Isolation
  • Rockwool
  • Etex France Siniat
  • Isoweck (Isocomble)
  • Soprema Groupe
  • Xella Group
  • Siplast
  • CETIH
  • Dow Chemical
  • CABETE Facades
  • STO Group
  • Saint-Gobain Distribution Bâtiment
  • Saint-Gobain Groupe
  • Acorus Groupe
  • Émaillerie Alsacienne Façade
  • Verlaine Groupe
  • Buitex (Semin groupe)
  • Semin
  • Vitage Isolant Technique VIT
  • Eurocomble Groupe ONPR
  • Aramis
  • Myral
  • Daussan