In 1997, Henkel Corporation acquired Loctite. Henkel, a global Fortune 500 company, operates in three strategic areas of competence – Home Care, Personal Care, and Adhesives, Sealants and Surface Treatment. Today, the Engineering Adhesives group of Henkel offers the broadest line of acrylics, anaerobics, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, hot melts, silicones, urethanes and UV/light curing adhesives.