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KRAHN Chemie GmbH is a chemical distribution company with a history spanning over 100 years. Its core competences are sales, marketing and distribution of specialty chemicals and heat transfer fluids.


KRAHN offers its more than 5,000 customers an extensive and high-quality product range, technical services as well as in-house laboratory support, and works closely together with international chemical manufacturers. They benefit from its target-oriented product marketing — utilizing deep knowledge of local markets.

KRAHN supplies products to the following processing industries: coatings, construction, adhesives and sealants, plastics, rubber, lubricants, cleaning and disinfection, personal care, chemical intermediates as well as all industrial sectors in which heating and cooling circuits are used.


In 2022, KRAHN Chemie Group achieved a turnover of about EUR 340 million and currently employs 260 people. The headquarter is located in Hamburg, Germany. It has subsidiaries and local sales teams in Benelux, France, Italy, Poland, Greece, Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary and China.