Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping chemicals and materials in Italy. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
No company example met every recorded classification, independence and public-profile gate in this snapshot. The live directory may have newer qualifying companies.
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16 of 783 tracked companies have open roles.
17 of 783 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 22 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 81.0% of disclosed capital, while 97.8% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $2.19M | 7 | 2 |
| 2017 | $227.71K | 5 | 2 |
| 2018 | $4.84M | 9 | 5 |
| 2019 | $1.4M | 8 | 4 |
| 2020 | $987.96K | 8 | 3 |
| 2021 | $262.8K | 4 | 2 |
| 2022 | $499.35K | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | $0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | $12.04M | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | $0 | 0 | 0 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
23 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in chemicals and materials company rounds since 2016.
Backed by CDP Venture Capital.
No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Italy; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.; No reviewed exact national-ID connector has yet been qualified for Italy; this is a checked implementation boundary, not evidence that filings are absent.
How the Italy companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
12 of these companies (1.5%) publish at least one Android app — 18 apps in all, carrying 198.9K installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| COROB EASYTINTCOROB | 61.3K | — | Tools |
| Mapei APPMapei | 53.2K | 3 | Business |
| MAPEI GroutsMapei | 38.1K | — | Productivity |
| COROB TOUCH&TINTCOROB | 30.7K | — | Productivity |
| APPLICATION BOOK by ICA GroupICA Group | 13.9K | — | Lifestyle |
| Employee Benefits At MAPEIMapei | 582 | — | Business |
| MapeheatMapei | 410 | — | Lifestyle |
| OdorprepLabService | 311 | — | Productivity |
| CariaggiCARIAGGI | 142 | — | Productivity |
| Barchemicals WorldBarchemicals | 53 | — | Business |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2023Q1–2025Q3).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paints And Coatings | 3 | 105.9K | COROB EASYTINT 61.3K | |
| Diversified Chemicals | 6 | 92.3K | Mapei APP 53.2K | |
| Adhesives And Sealants | 4 | 92.3K | MAPEI Grouts 38.1K | |
| Chemical Equipment Manufacturers | 2 | 328 | Odorprep 311 | |
| Chemicals Research And Training Services | 2 | 37 | LabAnalysis Tracking 23 |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Lone Star Funds announced that an affiliate of Lone Star Fund XII, L.P. has completed the acquisition of RadiciGroup, with its High Performance Polymers and Specialty Chemicals business areas.
One Equity Partners has agreed to acquire Bozzetto Group
The COMESA Competition Commission (CCC) has formally opened a merger inquiry into the proposed acquisition of Metal Crowns Limited (Kenya) by Italian packaging firm Guala Closures S.P.A.
The acquisition of Thermoseal Group by Fenzi Group has opened doors that previously took years to unlock.
Lucart SpA, a prominent multinational paper group encompassing the Lucart Professional, Tenderly, and Tutto brands, has finalized a binding agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Cartindustria Eurocarta Srl, a leading independent European converter of tissue products for the Away From Home (AFH) market.
Dorf Ketal, a global manufacturer and supplier of specialty chemicals, is in advanced negotiations to acquire Italmatch Chemicals SpA of Italy for $1.6 billion.
LBO France, through its Italian platform Polis SGR, has signed an agreement to sell Bluclad, an Italian leader in the development of galvanic solutions for luxury goods, to Japan’s YKK Group, the global leader in fastening solutions and accessories for fashion and leather goods.
In 2022, Siegwerk acquired La Sorgente, one of the most important ink suppliers for flexographic printing in Italy—especially for flexible packaging as well as paper and board applications.
ITALY – IMCD, a global leader in the distribution and formulation of specialty chemicals and ingredients, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Tillmanns S.p.A.
Italian plantmaker Danieli has announced that it has acquired a 30 percent stake in Novastilmec, an Italian company specializing in high-performance processing lines.
Top 10 categories among 121 recorded events in the 24-month window.
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Coated Recycled Cartonboard
Polymer production technology
Packaging Board
26 recorded customer wins
Customer: marcegagliaSteel Manufacturing
Customer: maireAviation
Customer:
Customer: Siam Glass Industry Co.
Customer:
Customer: UvbizPrinting & Packaging
1 companies with reported reductions
174 rolesclosure of office paper business
4 recorded events
Comesa Competition Commission (CCC)
technology licensing awarded
licensing and Process Design Package grantedBinh Son Refining and Petrochemical Joint Stock Company (BSR)
licensed for new hydrogen production unit
1 tracked suits
environmental damageCivil · Appeal
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| lone star funds→RadiciGroup ↗ | Completed | 2026-05-04 | Not stated in snapshot |
| sun chemical→SAPICI ↗ | 2026-03-05 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| one equity partners→Bozzetto group ↗ | Announced | 2026-02-10 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Guala Closures→metal crowns | Announced | 2026-01-16 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Fedrigoni→Divipa | Announced | 2026-01-12 | Not stated in snapshot |
| Fenzi→thermoseal group | 2025-12-12 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
Recorded hiring and workforce signals from the available source snapshot.
No repeated job title is supported by this snapshot.
0 tracked postings mention remote work.
| Company | Open roles |
|---|---|
| Mapei ↗ | 11 |
| Omicron ↗ | 3 |
| Radici Products ↗ | 3 |
| RadiciGroup ↗ | 2 |
| slim aluminium ↗ | 2 |
| Tecnimont ↗ | 2 |
| Fibertech Group ↗ | 1 |
| Ultrabatch ↗ | 1 |
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Mapei ↗ | 11,000 |
| Versalis ↗ | 5,001 |
| cogne acciai speciali ↗ | 1,413 |
| Beontag ↗ | 698 |
| Biesse Manufacturing ↗ | 501 |
| slim aluminium ↗ | 400 |
| COROB ↗ | 375 |
| Guala Closures ↗ | 375 |
146 founders and chief executives across 123 companies.
Co-Founder & CEO SQIM, Moffu Labs, ex-Smart Oil, Futuris, Agroils. University of Florence BE 2006
Ex- Co-Founder Subcoal International, DSM, Inpaqt. Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences BEng 1999, Rotterdam School of Management…
INNO.VA.MI, President Valentini, Football Como, Welth.
CEO CTC Groupe.
Ex-CEO FLUORSID, Fluorides Alchemy, FluorsidGroup. Bocconi University MSc, Columbia Business School MBA 2014
Ex-ALPLA Group, Servizi Italia, Stampiquattro. Tor Vergata School of Business Administration 2021
Lanxess, ex-Azelis, ex-Clariant, University of California, Los Angeles, 1989
University of Milan 1998, University of Insubria PhD 2002
Ex-Progold. CUOA Business School 2012
CEO & Co-Founder-CHEMTEC S.r.l.
Co-Founder Figli di Guido Lapi.
University of Kansas MBA 2006
2 profiles with education records.
0 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
447,708 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Chemicals and Materials coverage across Italy · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 63,499 |
| 2021Q3 | 78,222 |
| 2021Q4 | 62,190 |
| 2022Q1 | 67,225 |
| 2022Q2 | 69,658 |
| 2022Q3 | 70,546 |
| 2022Q4 | 82,527 |
| 2023Q1 | 83,554 |
| 2023Q2 | 89,859 |
| 2023Q3 | 94,140 |
| 2023Q4 | 74,514 |
| 2024Q1 | 96,266 |
| 2024Q2 | 106,191 |
| 2024Q3 | 105,755 |
| 2024Q4 | 109,964 |
| 2025Q1 | 140,767 |
| 2025Q2 | 102,516 |
| 2025Q3 | 184,140 |
| 2025Q4 | 77,499 |
| 2026Q1 | 94,969 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
61 recorded company events across 19 companies; percentages use that event total.
Chemicals and Materials coverage across Italy · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Chemicals and Materials coverage across Italy
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| countries | 3,908 | 1,435 | 172% |
| avant-garde composition | 2,385 | 560 | 326% |
| ski competitions | 1,044 | 398 | 162% |
| olympic venues | 871 | 613 | 42% |
| international cups | 715 | 504 | 42% |
| cannoli siciliani | 648 | 413 | 57% |
| ice sports | 642 | 96 | 569% |
| solar electricity generation | 618 | 399 | 55% |
| curling winter games | 554 | 126 | 340% |
| luge olympic sport | 538 | 112 | 380% |
| historic nba games | 80 | 3,113 | -97% |
| nba team legends | 255 | 2,707 | -91% |
| nba expansion teams | 186 | 1,784 | -90% |
| europa league | 498 | 1,658 | -70% |
| lakers celtics rivalry | 56 | 1,489 | -96% |
Chemicals and Materials coverage across Italy
territories, disputed islands, countries
16.6% critical · 14.9% positiveclub valuation, budget motel, motel
29.6% critical · 41.4% positivenba expansion teams, nba team legends, historic nba games
24.5% critical · 46.3% positiveChemicals and Materials coverage across Italy. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
10,510 papers in the recorded worldwide scope.
Tone counts: 9,963 positive · 502 neutral · 45 negative.
Landmark: Covalent adaptable networks: smart, reconfigurable and responsive network systems
Landmark: Amorphous polyphosphate, a smart bioinspired nano-/bio-material for bone and cartilage regeneration: towards a new paradigm in tissue engine
Landmark: A review of stimuli-responsive shape memory polymer composites
Common problems researchers identify · 0125.5% of this theme group
Smart environment (18) · Smart material (69) · Building automation (11) · Architectural engineering (14)
Smart structures and material technologies in architecture applications
Smart Materials and Structures: State of the Art and Applications
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.7 |
| 2023 | 26.7 |
| 2024 | 21.0 |
| 2025 | 30.8 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0219.3% of this theme group
Piezoelectricity (18) · Carbon nanotube (8) · Nonlinear system (5) · Structural health monitoring (7)
Advanced Materials for Energy Harvesting and Soft Robotics: Emerging Frontiers to Enhance Piezoelectric Performance and Functionality
An investigation into size‐dependent dynamic thermo‐electromechanical response of piezoelectric‐laminated sandwich smart nanocomposites
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 567.0 |
| 2023 | 542.9 |
| 2024 | 434.7 |
| 2025 | 506.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0315.1% of this theme group
Magnetorheological fluid (10) · Actuator (21) · Self-healing hydrogels (13) · Artificial muscle (7)
Multifunctional soft machines based on stimuli-responsive hydrogels: from freestanding hydrogels to smart integrated systems
Hydrogels in Soft Robotics: Past, Present, and Future
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 515.7 |
| 2023 | 514.0 |
| 2024 | 470.1 |
| 2025 | 585.1 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0413.8% of this theme group
Smart polymer (17) · Polymer (19) · Smart material (42) · Nanotechnology (19)
Polymer-based smart materials by printing technologies: Improving application and integration
Smart polymer brushes and their emerging applications
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 864.8 |
| 2023 | 844.3 |
| 2024 | 729.8 |
| 2025 | 614.3 |
Common problems researchers identify · 0513.3% of this theme group
Nanotechnology (47) · Smart material (48) · Nanometre (4) · Nanomaterials (5)
Smart Materials for Microrobots
Responsive principles and applications of smart materials in biosensing
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6017.8 |
| 2023 | 6037.6 |
| 2024 | 6407.6 |
| 2025 | 5059.3 |
Common problems researchers identify · 067.3% of this theme group
3D printing (18) · Morphing (8) · Biofabrication (5) · Polymer (6)
Developments in 4D-printing: a review on current smart materials, technologies, and applications
4D printing: Fundamentals, materials, applications and challenges
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 330.6 |
| 2023 | 357.2 |
| 2024 | 405.8 |
| 2025 | 481.6 |
Common problems researchers identify · 075.7% of this theme group
Shape-memory alloy (24) · SMA* (11) · Shape-memory polymer (9) · Nickel titanium (4)
Application and Development of Shape Memory Micro/Nano Patterns
Micromechanics and Modelling of Adaptive Shape Memory Composites
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 188.9 |
| 2023 | 195.6 |
| 2024 | 215.0 |
| 2025 | 202.7 |
Cautions · 0149.4% of this theme group
Smart material (27) · Nanotechnology (9) · Nanomaterials (6) · Tissue engineering (3)
Green Nanomaterials for Smart Textiles Dedicated to Environmental and Biomedical Applications
Dental Smart Materials
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6023.0 |
| 2023 | 6043.2 |
| 2024 | 6414.6 |
| 2025 | 5079.5 |
Cautions · 0222.4% of this theme group
Piezoelectricity (8) · Actuator (9) · Composite material (6) · Hysteresis (4)
An experimental investigation on the health monitoring of concrete structures using piezoelectric transducers at various environmental tempe
Electrical and electromechanical characteristics of LTCC embedded piezoelectric bulk actuators
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3685.0 |
| 2023 | 3604.8 |
| 2024 | 3287.4 |
| 2025 | 2458.5 |
Cautions · 0314.1% of this theme group
Shape-memory polymer (4) · Viscoelasticity (2) · Morphing (2) · Magnetorheological fluid (2)
Advances in additive manufacturing of shape memory polymer composites
Thermomechanical and shape memory properties of thermosetting shape memory polymer under compressive loadings
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 96.3 |
| 2023 | 88.3 |
| 2024 | 78.3 |
| 2025 | 103.4 |
Cautions · 0414.1% of this theme group
Shape-memory alloy (11) · SMA* (6) · Nickel titanium (3) · Damper (3)
Sensitivity of Seismic Applications to Different Shape Memory Alloy Models
Investigation on The Seismic Behavior of Steel MRF with Shape Memory Alloy Equipped Connections
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 186.3 |
| 2023 | 192.5 |
| 2024 | 211.1 |
| 2025 | 199.6 |
Opportunities · 0124.8% of this theme group
Smart material (955) · Nanotechnology (295) · Architectural engineering (48) · Internet of Things (41)
Magnetically responsive intelligent fibers: nano-engineered materials and multifunctional integration for advanced applications
Advanced Smart and Multifunctional Polymer Materials
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6023.4 |
| 2023 | 6045.2 |
| 2024 | 6419.5 |
| 2025 | 5065.6 |
Opportunities · 0224.5% of this theme group
Polymer (182) · Composite number (132) · Photochromism (48) · Fabrication (113)
Photoplastic\nTransformation Based on Dynamic Covalent\nChemistry
Graphene/Phase\nChange Material Nanocomposites: Light-Driven,\nReversible Electrical Resistivity Regulation via Form-Stable Phase\nTransitio
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1847.4 |
| 2023 | 1847.2 |
| 2024 | 1769.8 |
| 2025 | 1842.9 |
Opportunities · 0315.4% of this theme group
Shape-memory alloy (766) · Shape-memory polymer (338) · SMA* (232) · Nickel titanium (55)
Shape Memory Polymer Composite Actuator: Modeling Approach for Preliminary Design and Validation
Shaping shape‐memory
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 188.9 |
| 2023 | 195.6 |
| 2024 | 215.0 |
| 2025 | 202.7 |
Opportunities · 0411.5% of this theme group
Actuator (565) · Soft robotics (127) · Artificial muscle (78) · Elastomer (136)
Scalable functionalized liquid crystal elastomer fiber soft actuators with multi-stimulus responses and photoelectric conversion
Smart Bioinspired Actuators: Crawling, Linear, and Bending Motions through a Multilayer Design
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 306.3 |
| 2023 | 295.7 |
| 2024 | 243.0 |
| 2025 | 303.3 |
Opportunities · 0510.1% of this theme group
Piezoelectricity (446) · Piezoelectric sensor (59) · Piezoresistive effect (52) · Energy harvesting (67)
Piezoelectric composite cements: Towards the development of self-powered and self-diagnostic materials
Effective mechanical properties of piezoelectric–piezomagnetic hybrid smart composites
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 168.3 |
| 2023 | 171.8 |
| 2024 | 160.4 |
| 2025 | 198.2 |
Opportunities · 068.9% of this theme group
Self-healing hydrogels (370) · Self-healing (71) · Nanotechnology (142) · Smart material (148)
Smart/stimuli-responsive hydrogels: Cutting-edge platforms for tissue engineering and other biomedical applications
Eco-Friendly, Self-Healing Hydrogels for Adhesive and Elastic Strain Sensors, Circuit Repairing, and Flexible Electronic Devices
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 6142.9 |
| 2023 | 6168.3 |
| 2024 | 6553.4 |
| 2025 | 5274.8 |
Opportunities · 074.8% of this theme group
Magnetorheological fluid (234) · Magnetorheological elastomer (93) · Damper (60) · Elastomer (96)
Research and Applications of MR Elastomers
Combined magnetic and mechanical sensing of magnetorheological elastomers
| Year | Share index |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 53.8 |
| 2023 | 47.1 |
| 2024 | 35.3 |
| 2025 | 45.5 |
Orientation shares compared with 25,000 papers in the reference sample.
| Research orientation | This field | Reference sample |
|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough | 41.4% | 26.3% |
| Promising | 34.9% | 37.8% |
| Descriptive | 16.3% | 17.2% |
| Problem-identifying | 4.2% | 9.4% |
| Comparative | 2.1% | 3.9% |
| Cautionary | 0.9% | 4.4% |
| Critical | 0.2% | 1.0% |
Counts and shares refer to the stated research pool. A low count describes how much of that research is recorded here, not the absence of a real-world concern.
| Concern / example paper | Papers | Share | Raised as a problem | Worldwide share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy & surveillanceMaking Smart Regions Smarter: Smart Specialization and the Role of Universities in Regional Innovation Ecosystems | 7 | 0.08% | 2 (28.6%) | 0.08% |
| Bias & fairnessA simple smart composite using fiber Bragg grating sensors for strain and temperature discrimination | 2 | 0.02% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.02% |
| Energy & datacenter footprintEnergy-Saving Smart Windows with HPC/PAA Hybrid Hydrogels\nas Thermochromic Materials | 1 | 0.01% | 0 (0.0%) | 0.01% |
| Water use | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Carbon & emissions of compute | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Hardware, e-waste & supply chain | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Labour & data work | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Safety & misuse | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
| Concentration of compute power | 0 | 0.0% | 0 (%) | 0.0% |
Institution and researcher rankings use citations to their covered work. Research scope: worldwide. This may be broader than the company geography.
Published patent filings in the recorded source window.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
31.8% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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15.9% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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15.9% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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12.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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6.8% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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5.7% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Genoa ↗
5.7% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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5.7% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $1.6M disclosed funding
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It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 1 September 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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