About Mercene
Creating value together
Our mission is to remove adhesion as a constraint in modern manufacturing, unlocking reliable bonding on demanding surfaces for better performance, higher yield, and simplified coating processes. Our vision is to let product designers and process engineers think beyond traditional limits—creating new product innovations across furniture, flooring, foils and edgebands.
"When adhesion just works, we can focus on performance, sustainability and growth."
Swedish Innovation with German Quality
Mercene is a Stockholm-based coatings company that combines the latest cutting-edge surface science with decades of practical industrial experience. Our R&D is built on close collaboration with leading academic labs, turning advanced materials research into robust, factory-ready solutions. Production and warehousing are handled by specialized, fully certified partners in Germany, giving us reliable quality, modern manufacturing technology, and fast delivery across Europe.
The Team
A team of entrepreneurs, scientists and industry professionals with 25+ years of photochemistry experience—focused on turning new science into scalable industrial solutions.
Executive Team
Team Leads
Our History
From academic research to industrial scale: a decade of innovation.
- 2012
KTH Research Origins
Research by the founders at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology lays the scientific foundation.
- 2013
Spin-off Company
Mercene is born with a focus on heterogenous material integration in industrial manufacturing processes.
- 2016
Industrial surfaces
Focuses on solving adhesion challenges on industrial surfaces in the coatings industry, building processes for reliability and scale; raised investment to scale up.
- 2020
Melamine surface activators
After many iterations and refinments with pilot customers, the first commercial melamine surface activator is launched into production, delivering reliable adhesion on exlusive high wear surfaces.
- 2022
System distributor partners
Our melamin surface activator is marketed and sold by our first distributor, enabling a one-stop-shop for complete optimized surface finishes, from super-matte to high gloss.
- 2023
First 15M square meters adhesion
Our melamine surface activator is increasing in popularity and had now been used on 15 million sqm decorative panels.
- 2024
Expansion into PP & PET Primers
UV activated primers for PP edgebands and PET foils is developed.