Kulzer.

Kulzer's company history page says the business was founded in 1935 and that the first product was the heat-curing prosthetic resin Paladon. The same page says Kulzer has been part of Mitsui Chemicals since 2013, that headquarters are in Hanau, and that the group has 25 locations and about 1,400 employees. A Mitsui Chemicals Europe table lists Kulzer GmbH at Leipziger Str. 2, 63450 Hanau, and dates that entity to December 1934, a one-year difference from the 1935 founding line on Kulzer's own history page.

On 11 July 2017 Kulzer announced that the commercial register entry had changed the name from Heraeus Kulzer to Kulzer. The release says Mitsui Chemicals had taken the dental business from Heraeus four years earlier and that the name change separated the company from the previous owner. Customers were told the product range itself was not being replaced by the rename.

A 2024 US product showcase distributed by Kulzer, LLC, 4315 S. Lafayette Blvd., South Bend, Indiana 46614, telephone 800-431-1785, lists Venus composites, Flexitime and xantasil impression materials, iBOND bonding agents, GLUMA desensitizers, Venus White whitening, Pala teeth, and cara digital products. The manufacturing line on that showcase still reads Kulzer GmbH, Leipziger Strasse 2, 63450 Hanau.

The showcase also includes Ivory rubber dam items and Modern Materials stones, waxes, and related lab goods. Those names sit beside the restorative line. A buyer comparing only adhesives should start with iBOND and GLUMA, then confirm which SKU is a bonding agent and which is a desensitizer. Paladon, the 1935 heat-curing denture resin named on the history page, is the prosthetic ancestor of the Pala products in the current US showcase, not a chairside composite. Mitsui Chemicals' April 2013 announcement said it had agreed to buy the Heraeus dental business, which is the transaction the 2017 rename release looks back on. The Hanau address stayed the manufacturing line on the 2024 US showcase. South Bend is the US distributor address on that document, at 4315 S. Lafayette Blvd., with telephone 800-431-1785.

Kulzer fits clinics and labs that want a Mitsui Chemicals dental brand with both chairside restoratives and prosthetic materials. Adhesive comparisons belong on the adhesive guide.

Flowable composites and desensitizers are separate shelves. See the flowable composite guide and the desensitizer guide. Ivory dam clamps, if you buy that Kulzer line, sit with the rubber dam clamp guide.

Venus, iBOND, and GLUMA are chairside. Pala teeth, denture resins, and stones are lab products. cara is the digital name in the showcase. Ordering one Venus shade does not set up a denture workflow.

The July 2017 rename means older literature still says Heraeus Kulzer. Match the REF number, not the historic logo, when you reorder a cement or an impression material.

US distribution on the 2024 showcase is Kulzer, LLC, in South Bend, Indiana, at 800-431-1785. Manufacturing is attributed to Kulzer GmbH in Hanau. Ask which warehouse ships your SKU.

Impression materials such as Flexitime and xantasil need the matching tips and times on the IFU. Alginate substitutes are not alginate powders. The alginate guide covers conventional alginate if that is what the lab asked for.