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H.B. Fuller Company

Company type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: FUL S&P 600 component
Industry	Adhesives coatings sealants
Founded	1887; 137 years ago (1887) in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Founder	Harvey Benjamin Fuller
Headquarters	St. Paul, Minnesota , USA
Number of locations	81 (2023)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Celeste B. Mastin (President and CEO) John J. Corkrean (CFO)
Revenue	US$3.51 billion (2023)
Net income	US$144.9 million (2023)
Total equity	US$1.76 billion (2023)
Number of employees	7,200 (2023)
Divisions	Hygiene, Health and Consumable Adhesives Engineering Adhesives Construction Adhesives
Website	hbfuller.com
Footnotes / references Financials as of December 2, 2023[update].[1]

H.B. Fuller Company is an American multinational adhesives manufacturing company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. H.B. Fuller manufactures more than 20,000 products for a variety of applications, including those used in construction, engineering, electronics, hygiene products, and food packaging. Its products are made at 81 manufacturing facilities in 26 countries. As of 2023, it was the fourth-largest manufacturer of adhesives and sealants in the world, employed approximately 7,200 people, and had revenues of US$3.5 billion. Celeste Mastin is the company's chief executive officer. In 2024, it ranked No. 781 on the Fortune 1000.

H.B. Fuller was founded in 1887 by Harvey Benjamin Fuller. It began as a one-man operation in St. Paul, Minnesota, becoming a supplier of adhesives with business throughout the United States by the 1890s. It was run by the Fuller family until 1941, when Elmer L. Andersen purchased a majority stake in the company and assumed leadership. Andersen expanded the company internationally and took it public in 1968. It became a member of the Fortune 500 in the 1980s. The company reorganized in the early 2000s to become a specialty chemical firm. It acquired companies and built plants in China and India in the 2010s.

In the 1990s, reports surfaced that children in Latin America were inhaling vapors from H.B. Fuller solvent-based adhesives used in the manufacture of footwear. In response, H.B. Fuller changed its formulation and ceased sale of the adhesive to the general public.