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Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials
Mine-to-Market integration for today and tomorrow
Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials (OF&EM) is the trusted global leader in developing, manufacturing, and supplying high‑performance fluoroproducts that are essential to modern life — enabling safer, more efficient technologies today, while decisively advancing the transition to a more sustainable, circular economy.
With more than 38 years of experience, Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials provides products enabling a wide range of applications, including electric vehicles and energy storage, urban and rural infrastructure, indoor climate management, food and medicine refrigeration, and the treatment of respiratory conditions through the development of innovative low-global warming potential (GWP) propellants for metered-dose inhalers (MDI).
OF&EM at a glance
$958M
2025 revenues
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38
Over 38 years of experience
100%
Vertical integration
1.8K
Employees
Over 38 years of history and experience
1986
Mexichem acquires “Compañía Minera las Cuevas S.A. de C.V., Fluorite mines in San Luis Potosí, México.
2004
Mexichem acquires Química Flúor. Camesa (Mexichem) acquires a producer of hydrogen fluoride
2006
Química Flúor S.A. de C.V. and Mexichem Flúor S.A. de C.V. merged in Mexichem Flúor, S.A. de C.V.
2008
Mexichem acquiresfluorspar business Fluorita de Río Verde, production plants and two mining concessions for acid-grade fluorite.
2009
Mexichem BG, inaugurates the hydrogen fluoride II plant in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, with a capacity of 30,000 TPA.
2010
Mexichem acquires INEOS Group's fluorochemical business.
2012
Mexichem acquires Fluorita de México. With this acquisition, the company gains access to the purest fluorspar available worldwide.
2015
Mexichem acquires a license for pharmaceutical grade HFC-227ea/P from Dupont Fluorochemicals.
2019
Mexichem becomes Orbia. Mexichem Fluor becomes Koura. (Orbia Fluorinated Solutions Business).
2021
Koura acquires Battery Technology company Silatronix to meet growing global demand for Energy Storage.
2024–25
Orbia Announces Rebrand of Fluorinated Solutions Business and Koura to Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials.
1986
Mexichem acquires “Compañía Minera las Cuevas S.A. de C.V., Fluorite mines in San Luis Potosí, México.
2004
Mexichem acquires Química Flúor. Camesa (Mexichem) acquires a producer of hydrogen fluoride
2006
Química Flúor S.A. de C.V. and Mexichem Flúor S.A. de C.V. merged in Mexichem Flúor, S.A. de C.V.
2008
Mexichem acquiresfluorspar business Fluorita de Río Verde, production plants and two mining concessions for acid-grade fluorite.
2009
Mexichem BG, inaugurates the hydrogen fluoride II plant in the city of Matamoros, Tamaulipas, with a capacity of 30,000 TPA.
2010
Mexichem acquires INEOS Group's fluorochemical business.
2012
Mexichem acquires Fluorita de México. With this acquisition, the company gains access to the purest fluorspar available worldwide.
2015
Mexichem acquires a license for pharmaceutical grade HFC-227ea/P from Dupont Fluorochemicals.
2019
Mexichem becomes Orbia. Mexichem Fluor becomes Koura. (Orbia Fluorinated Solutions Business).
2021
Koura acquires Battery Technology company Silatronix to meet growing global demand for Energy Storage.
2024–25
Orbia Announces Rebrand of Fluorinated Solutions Business and Koura to Orbia Fluor & Energy Materials.
Driving change by solving customer needs and global challenges
Fluorine powers modern life—and is key to the transition to a low-carbon future. From advanced battery materials to low-GWP refrigerant gases and medical propellants, fluorine drives innovation in everyday applications and across critical decarbonization pathways.
Leading decarbonization innovation:
- Advancing the transition from traditional minerals to engineered raw materials to enable a circular economy.
- Developing low-GWP refrigerant gases and medical propellants.
- Building a localized, vertically integrated supply chain for lithium-ion batteries with a strong U.S. manufacturing presence.
- Driving technology development for battery recycling and custom electrolytes to enhance battery performance.
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Decarbonization
20.4%
rate the world must reach each year until 2050 to limit global warming to 1.5C
Battery growth
7x
growth is expected for the battery value by 2030 compared to 2022
Urbanization
5x
electric vehicles are five times more efficient than combustion engines
