"I am proud to pay tribute to our company's rich history and to recognize the role that innovation has played in enabling Bostik to become a leader in the adhesives industry," said Bostik’s Chairman & CEO, Bernard Pinatel. "We continue to pursue innovation just as vigorously as our predecessors, and look forward with confidence to the next 125 years."

Bostik's activities today are remarkably different from those of the Boston Blacking Company's leather treatment business for the shoemaking industry. What has remained throughout the years is the pursuit of innovation and applying the latest advances in technology to develop smart adhesive solutions for customers and end-users. Bostik's archives contain many examples of how its adhesive technologies have changed their respective markets, including the introduction of potato starch-based wallpaper adhesive in 1922, new packaging and application techniques for hot melt adhesives in 1960, the first elastic attachment adhesive for disposable diapers in 1975 and the first silyl-modified polymer-based grab adhesives in 2001.