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ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors We rank the global players by sales and also break out regional leaders in North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East & Africa and Latin America

Sarah Creswell loNdon President and CEO: David C Jukes Helm joseph chang new york Products: Additives; aviation fuel additives; 4 2018 Sales: $5.85bn (€5.11bn) Will Beacham Barcelona chelates; hydrocarbons; inorganics; monomers; oils; oleochemicals; pigments; plasticiz- Hamburg, Germany Brenntag ers; polymers/resins; silica; silicones; solvent www.helmag.com 1 2018 sales: $14.4bn (€12.6bn) blends; solvents; surfactants CEO: Hans-Christian Sievers Services: Technical support; ChemPoint e- Products: Feedstocks; methanol; organic and Essen, Germany distribution; custom blending; custom packag- inorganic chemicals; acids and lyes; active www.brenntag.com ing and private label services; laboratory and pharmaceutical ingredients; pharmaceuticals; CEO: Steven Holland formulation services; minibulk; sustainable ser- fertilizers; crop protection ingredients Products: Full-line range of more than 10,000 vices; telemetry services; transportation; ware- Services: International marketing; logistics; products; industrial chemicals; adhesives; housing; delivery to more than 130 countries production; project development; scientific paints; oil and gas chemicals; food and nutri- Assets: More than 3,500 tractors, trailers and and technical services tion ingredients; water treatment chemicals; tankers; global network of 24 formulation Assets: More than 100 subsidiaries; sales of- personal care ingredients; pharmaceutical in- labs, development kitchens and research cen- fices and participation in over 30 countries gredients; cleaning chemicals; coatings and tres; nearly 10,600 employees in 31 countries; construction chemicals; animal nutrition over 1,300 suppliers IMCD products; pulp and paper chemicals 5 2018 Sales: $3.16bn (€2.68bn) Services: Tailor-made distribution solutions TRICON Energy for industrial and specialty chemicals; one- 3 2018 Sales: $7.81bn Rotterdam, Netherlands stop-shop solutions; specific application tech- www.imcdgroup.com nology; extensive technical support and val- Houston, Texas, US CEO: Piet van der Slikke ue-added services such as just-in-time www.Triconenergy.com Products: Specialty chemicals and ingredi- delivery, product mixing, formulation, re- President and CEO: Ignacio Torras ents; pharmaceutical ingredients; coatings, packaging, inventory management and drum Products: Chlor-alkalis; aromatics; glycols; adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE); return handlingApril-June 2019 fibre intermediates; solvents; olefins; poly- personal care ingredients; advanced materi- Assets: More than 580 locations in 73 coun- mers; fertilizers als; food and nutrition ingredients; animal tries; more than 16,600 employees Services: Marketing; pre-export financing; nutrition ingredients; nutraceuticals; lubri- shipping; logistics; packaging; blending; stor- cants; synthesis chemicals; HI&I chemicals; Univar Solutions age; just-in-time delivery; repackaging; inven- oil and gas chemicals 2 2018 Sales: $8.63bn tory management; risk management for com- Services: Technical sales; marketing of spe- modity price and foreign exchange; global cialty chemicals and food ingredients; appli- Downers Grove, Illinois, US presence with sales into over 100 countries cation laboratory services; local and central

www.univarsolutions.com Assets: 28+ offices; more than 450 employees stock holding; drumming; repackaging; Shutterstock

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blending; sampling room pharmaceuticals facilities; integrated Bielefeld, Germany Assets: 45 market-focused application labora- supply chain; sampling www.stockmeier.de tories; 2,799 employees; 74 offices and 94 ware- Assets: 60 application laboratories; offices CEO: Peter Stockmeier houses throughout all operating companies in and access to warehouses across EMEA, Products: Industrial chemicals (acids, caus- Europe, Turkey, Africa (EMEA), Australia, New Americas and Asia Pacific; technically tic, solvents, solids); specialty chemicals for Zealand, India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, trained sales force industrial and home care, coating, construc- Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, tion; cleaning products; peracetic acid; polyu- Japan (Asia-Pacific); US, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Pluschem EEIG rethane chemicals; flavours and spices; print- Rico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay (Americas) 8 2018 Sales: $1.5bn ing inks; textile auxiliaries; AdBlue; water treatment chemicals Sinochem Plastics Dublin, Ireland Services: Warehousing; blending; toll manu- 6 2018 Sales: $3.08bn www.pluschem.com facture; specialised laboratories; logistics President: Alan Looney; CEO: David Salter Assets: More than 40 locations in Europe, Beijing, China Products: Specialty chemicals; fine chemicals; 200 trucks www.sinochemplastics.com commodity chemicals; pharmaceutical/synthe- General Manager: Zhang Xiaolei sis chemicals; food/feed/agro chemicals; cos- Snetor Products: Engineering plastics; plastics metics ingredients; general industrial chemicals 11 2018 Sales: $1.36bn (ABS, AS, PS, PMMA, MS, PC, PA, POM, PC/ Services: Bulk storage; logistics/trucking; re- ABS, ASA, POE, PVC, EVA, Q-resin and packing; blending; warehousing including Courbevoie, France ABSHR); high performance plastics (modified food products and hazardous/dangerous goods www.snetor.com nylon, modified PBT, modified polyformalde- Assets: Multiple wholly owned warehouses President: Emmanuel Aubourg hyde, polysulfone and PES); plastics addi- in various countries (Spain, Portugal, France, Products: PE; PP; PVC; PET; PS; ABS; engi- tives; epoxy resin; BPA; crude glycerine; UPR; Italy, Canada, South Africa); logistics/trans- neering polymers; polyol-TDI; industrial coatings (organic silicon, emulsion, coating port assets; bulk liquid storage tank farms chemicals agent, surfactants); fluff pulp and SAP; syn- Trading sales: 20% Services: Trading; distribution; packaging thetic rubber (IIR, SSBR, EPDM, SBCs, TPE); Assets: 15 warehouses; technical support automotive plastics (PE, modified PP); fine Biesterfeld Trading sales: 75% chemicals; polyurethanes; vulcan chemicals; 9 2018 Sales: $1.43bn specialty chemicals; agricultural products; Manuchar food ingredients; textile and leather chemi- Hamburg, Germany 12 2018 Sales: $1.35bn cals; dyestuffs and pigments; coatings materi- www.biesterfeld.com als; intermediates; solvents; oleochemicals; CEO: Thomas Arnold Antwerp, Belgium pine chemicals Products: High performance polymers; engi- www.manuchar.com Services: Raw material marketing services; neering polymers; thermoplastic elastomers; CEO: Philippe Huybrechs diversified product solutions; one-stop pro- styrenic polymers; acrylic polymers; stand- Products: Sodium sulphate; soda ash; STPP; curement; supply chain management; techni- ard polymers and additives; raw materials for zeolite; caustic soda; sodium bicarbonate; cal support; commissioned processing; brand cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, organic synthe- calcium chloride; sodium lauryl ether sul- maintenance; information consultation sis, household cleaning, food and beverage; phate (SLES); linear alkyl benzene sulphonic Assets: Four warehouses with gross area of coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers acid (LABSA); glycerine; surfactants and 82,833 square metres and total construction (CASE); synthetic rubbers; silicone and fluo- oleochemicals; silicones; emulsifiers; resins area of 57,984 square metres; two office build- rosilicone rubber compounds; carbon black; and monomers; homecare and detergent ings with gross area of 9,939 square metres. industrial and agricultural chemicals; plant chemicals; textile chemicals; personal care Trading sales: 46% protection products and fertilizers; pharma- and cosmetics ingredients; paints and coat- ceutical raw materials; animal nutrition and ings chemicals; construction chemicals; AZELIS health care chemicals mining chemicals; oilfield chemicals; food 7 2018 Sales: $2.22bn (€1.94bn) Services: Individual solutions; technical ex- and feed additives pertise and consulting; active application de- Services: Diversified product portfolio in Luxembourg velopment and product specification; direct chemicals; local know-how and technical www.azelis.com and warehouse distribution; blending; stor- support in emerging markets; tailor-made CEO: Dr Hans Joachim Mueller ing; formulation and technical assistance; warehousing; logistics/supply chain services; Products: Animal nutrition ingredients; food laboratory support of specialty chemicals; financial solutions and health ingredients; personal care ingredi- less-than-truckload (LTL) quantities; custom- Assets: 50+ affiliates worldwide across 35+ ents; homecare and industrial cleaning chem- ised logistical solutions; marketing; consul- countries; 140+ locations; 450,000+ square icals; pharmaceutical ingredients; specialty tancy and advisory services for Europe’s metres of warehouse space agriculture/horticulture chemicals; CASE; REACH regulation; legal compliance; silicone Trading sales: 36% electronic chemicals; essential chemicals; fine rubber compounding chemicals; lubricants and metal-working flu- Assets: Subsidiaries in more than 30 coun- Omya ids; rubber and plastic additives; textile, tries; application laboratories; blending and 13 2018 Sales: $1.30bn leather and paper chemicals storage facilities for solid and liquid chemicals (Swfr1.28bn) Services: Laboratory analysis; formulation Trading sales: 10% development and blending, expert technical Oftringen, Switzerland and regulatory support; repackaging; flexible Stockmeier Holding www.omya.com pack sizes; local stockholding; market re- 10 2018 Sales: $1.38bn (€1.20BN) Vice president: Peter Bigler search and trend analysis; GMP and clean- Products: Minerals and specialty chemicals

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ASIA PACIFIC CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION LEADERS (2018 SALES) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) 1 Sinochem Plastics 3,040.0 29 Ravago Chemicals 68.7 56 WISTEMA 7.0 2 Tricon Energy 2,931.0 30 Connect Chemicals Group 51.9 57 2M Holdings 6.4 3 Brenntag 1,584.9 31 Ramcharan 49.0 58 Prakash Chemicals International 6.1 4 Helm 945.1 32 Nordmann, Rassmann 40.1 59 Indukern 5.9 5 Behn Meyer Group 803.0 33 LEHVOSS Group 35.5 60 Shamrock Shipping & Trading 5.7 * 6 DKSH Holding 618.6 34 Aceto 35.0 61 Cornelius Group 4.6 7 Redox 517.0 35 McKinn International 34.2 62 Noahs Ark Chemicals 4.6 8 IMCD 415.8 36 Eigenmann & Veronelli 32.1 63 Wego Chemical Group 4.0 9 Univar Solutions 393.0 37 Norkem Holdings 30.5 64 Taj Al Mulook 3.3 10 ICC Chemical 372.4 38 Caldic 28.6 65 LBB Specialties (includes Charkit 3.0 11 Pluschem EEIG 350.0 39 Biesterfeld 27.0 Chemical Company & AIC) 12 Jebsen & Jessen Group 332.2 40 MONACHEM Group 24.5 66 Group Barcelonesa 3.0 13 Manuchar 329.0 41 ECEM European Chemical 22.6 67 Solventis 3.0 14 Pon Pure Chemicals Group 328.4 Marketing 68 Arkem Kimya 2.6 15 TOP Solvent 305.0 42 Neo Chemical 21.4 69 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 2.3 16 Petrochem Middle East 254.9 43 SAFIC-ALCAN 17.2 70 EMSA Tecnologia Quimica 2.3 17 Azelis 254.3 44 CellMark Chemicals 16.7 71 Quimdis 2.3 18 KPL International 249.8 45 EQUILEX 16.3 72 Metafrax Trading International 2.1 19 WWRC Holding 208.0 46 Saiper Chemicals 15.4 73 M. Cassab 2.1 20 Omya 183.1 47 Penpet Petrochemical Trading 13.7 74 Audiche Trading 2.0 21 Union Petrochemical 99.0 48 Novasol Chemicals Group 13.0 75 Hawkins 2.0 22 Transmare Chemie 92.9 49 PHT International 12.3 76 The Chemical Company 1.2 23 Barentz International 86.4 50 Bodo Moller Chemie 10.2 77 A. + E. Fischer-Chemie 1.1 24 TER GROUP 85.9 51 Algol Chemicals 10.0 78 Astro Chemicals 1.0 25 RAI Rakha Al Khaleej International 80.0 52 Marubeni Specialty Chemicals 10.0 79 Haeffner 1.0 26 Megachem 75.2 53 Arpadis Benelux 9.8 80 Harwick Standard Distribution 1.0 27 Vikudha Overseas 75.0 54 Joss Elastomers 8.0 81 Hubbard-Hall 1.0 28 Maha Chemicals 73.0 55 Rahn Group 8.0 82 Solvadis Group 1.0 *DKSH figures are based on industry estimates NOTE: Sales are by region and may differ from the total sales figure in the main Top 100 listing. Table excludes companies that do not break out sales by geography Shutterstock

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for polymers; decorative paints; industrial www.iccchem.com offices, warehouses, production facilities, coatings; printing inks; adhesives and seal- President: Naveen Chandra laboratories and innovation centres; blending; ants; plasters and renders; construction chem- Products: PVC resin; acrylonitrile; alpha mixing, repacking icals; water and energy chemicals; agriculture olefins; styrene; mixed xylene; acetone; iso- and forestry chemicals; alu-finishing chemi- propyl alcohol; MMA, n-paraffin; acetic Jebsen & Jessen Group cals; printing and writing chemicals; packag- acid; pygas; chloroform; 2-ethylhexanol; sol- 19 2018 Sales $968m (€845m) ing and ingredients for consumer goods vent C-9 Services: Global marketing and sourcing; Services: Packaging Bangkok, Thailand, and Hamburg, Germany global supply chain management (logistics Assets: 25 offices and representatives www.ingredients.jjsea.com infrastructure, customer service); regulatory worldwide www.jebsen-jessen.de affairs management and services; R&D; tech- Trading sales: 84% Regional managing director/CEO, Jebsen & nical service Jessen Ingredients: Marc Deschamps Assets: R&D centre for surface science, min- Quimidroga Managing partner, Jebsen & Jessen Ham- eral pigment, chemical engineering, microbi- 17 2018 Sales: $1.06bn (€929m) burg: Fritz von der Schulenburg ology and consumer goods; technical applica- Products: Plastics and rubber; food & nutrition service hubs in Europe, Americas and Barcelona, Spain tion health; feed additives; oil and gas; oil de- Asia Pacific; sales affiliates in more than 50 www.quimidroga.com rivatives; bioethanol; pharmaceutical and countries; global network of 70+ warehouses CEO: Vicente Munoz personal care ingredients; home care special- Products: Solvents; monomers; glycols and ties; adhesives; water treatment specialties; Barentz International intermediates; fine chemicals and specialties; mining components; agrochemicals; modified 14 2018 Sales: $1.29bn food and feed ingredients; agrochemicals and starches; collagen and sweetener fertilizers; pharmaceutical ingredients; cos- Services: Sales & marketing; R&D applica- Amsterdam, Netherlands metics ingredients; detergents chemicals; tion lab; import/export; regulatory affairs; www.barentz.com coatings materials; adhesives; paper chemi- warehousing; distribution; sourcing; factory CEO: Hidde van der Wal cals; water treatment chemicals; resins; plas- audit; credit report; local currency financing Products: Starches; proteins; enzymes; hydr- tics; elastomers Assets: 24 offices worldwide; 15 warehous- ocolloids; vitamins; antioxidants; preserva- Services: Storage of liquid and packed prod- es; six laboratories; three regional innovation tives; emulsifiers; excipients; active ingredi- ucts; blending; standard and tailor-made centres ents; lanolin packaging; dissolutions Services: Blending; spray drying; mixing; en- Assets: One logistics complex at the Port of TER GROUP capsulating; testing; formulating Barcelona with capacity of 30,000 tonnes of 20 2018 Sales: $960.0m (€838m) Assets: Spray dryers; liquid and powder packaged products and 12,000 cubic metres mixers of liquids in 155 tanks; two regional sites for Hamburg, Germany Trading sales: 10% liquids and packaged solids; seven distribu- www.tergroup.com tion centres; fully equipped quality control Managing shareholder: Christian A Westphal PETROCHEM MIDDLE EAST laboratory Products: Waxes; gum rosin; thermoplastic 15 2018 Sales: $1.25bn Trading sales: 5% and thermoset polymers; adhesives; hot- melts; additives; polybutenes; SIS/SBS block Dubai, UAE Caldic copolymers; IIR rubber; caseine; amorphous www.petrocheme.com 18 2018 Sales: $973.7m (€850m) polyalphaolefins; hydrocarbon resins; pig- CEO: Yogesh Mehta ments; dyes; polyvinyl alcohol; food ingredi- Products: Aromatics; alcohols; aldehydes; Rotterdam, Netherlands ents; fiberglass;vaseline ketones; phenol; glycols; monomers; esters; www.caldic.com Services: Blending; packaging; storage; methanol; caustic soda; plasticizers; poly- CEO: Olav C. van Caldenborgh production mers; pentaerythritol; phthalic anhydride Products: Food - bakery, savoury, sweet, nu- Assets: Numerous office buildings; ware- Services: Storage of bulk and drum chemi- trition, beverages; dairy ingredients such as houses; trucks cals; blending; trading commodities; packag- hydrocolloids; creative sensory products; vita- Trading sales: 25% ing; providing tanks for leasing; logistics mins, minerals and nutraceuticals; preserva- Assets: Large state of the art terminal in Jebel tives, antioxidants and acids; processing aids; DKSH Holding Ali, Dubai, UAE, with 41 bulk chemical stor- health and personal care ingredients such as 21 2018 Sales: $951.7m (€830.8m age tanks, including drum storage for 25,000 specialty solvents, excipients, APIs; acids and for Performance Materials) drums and four drumming lines; modern tank alkalyes; pigments; surfactants; industrial – terminal in Adabiya, Egypt storing bulk specialty chemicals for coatings, construc- Zurich, Switzerland chemicals; 26 trailer trucks; 14 road tankers; tions, plastics, water treatment; rubber mar- www.dksh.com/pm storage and logistics terminal in Dammam, kets such as specialty solvents; specialty CEO: Stefan P Butz Saudi Arabia in partnership with Hoyer; of- polymers; pigments and dyes; hydrocarbon Products: Food and beverage ingredients; fices in Singapore, Taiwan, China, India, and water-based resins; emulsifiers; silicone personal care and cosmetics ingredients; phar- Egypt, UK and Holland; head office in Dubai. water repellents and anti-foams; adsorbents maceutical ingredients; specialty chemicals Trading sales: 43% and ion exchange resins; preservatives; plant- Services: Marketing and sales; logistics; based solutions; elastomers and plasticizers blending and repackaging; after-sales services; ICC Chemical Services: Sourcing and procurement; pro- sourcing services; innovation and formula- 16 2018 Sales: $1.06bn duction; supply chain; technical and formulation services; regulatory services tion; regulatory Assets: 40 innovation centres; 100 business New York City, New York, US Assets: 23 entities with 45 sites comprising locations; 35 distribution centres

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OQEMA icals; ingredients for food, personal care, Services: Technical expertise; warehous- 22 2018 Sales: $939.3m (€820m) home care and pharmaceuticals; feed addi- ing; logistics; blending; repackaging; labora- tives; specialties for rubber and plastics; so- tory services Korschenbroich, Germany lutions for water treatment; petrochemicals; Assets: Network of warehouses (own and www.oqema.com coatings ingredients; leather and textile third party); blending facilities; laboratory CEO: Peter Overlack; Co-CEO: Heinrich Eick- chemicals; chemicals for process industries facilities; feed premix plant mann; CFO: Sabine Moritz Services: Technical sales and marketing; Trading sales: 10% Products: Adhesives and sealants; automo- customer service; regulatory and risk man- tive and machinery chemicals; synthesis agement; innovation and formulation; labo- SAFIC-ALCAN chemicals; construction chemicals; energy ratory testing; blending, tailoring and pack- 25 2018 Sales: $687m and electronics chemicals; personal care aging; warehousing and logistics; supply and industrial cleaning chemicals; lubri- chain management; omni-channel support; Paris, France cants; metal and surface treatment chemi- business development www.safic-alcan.com cals; paints and coatings materials; plastics Assets: Over 1,230 employees; offices CEO: Philippe Combette; CEO of Myrtil and rubber chemicals; surface technology and warehouses in 13 countries; 38 ware- (holding co): Martial Lecat chemicals; print, packaging and paper house locations; production facilities in Products: Cosmetics ingredients; pharmachemicals; textile and leather chemicals; Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Italy, ceutical ingredients; nutraceuticals; rubber; cosmetics and personal care ingredients; Netherlands and US; laboratories in Malay- plastics; coatings; industrial specialties feed and food ingredients; flavours and fra- sia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy Services: Blending; packaging grances; AdBlue; agricultural chemicals; and Netherlands Assets: Nine state-of-the-art laboratories for water treatment chemicals cosmetics, coatings, rubber, pharmaceuticals Services: Tailored logistics solutions; tech- Ravago Chemicals and water treatment in France, UK, Nether- nical support; filling and repackaging; blend- 24 2018 Sales: $859.2m (€750m) lands, Italy, Turkey and China ing; dilution and mixing; distillation and recycling; tail end spend solutions Arendonk, Belgium Hydrite Chemical Assets: 40 locations; 50 warehouses; trucks; www.ravagochemicals.com 26 2018 Sales: $686m laboratories; workforce of 1,200 Europe-wide General manager, EMEA: Filip Van Camfort; Trading sales: 5% General manager, US: Kevin Wettstein Brookfield, Wisconsin, US Products: Industrial chemicals; coatings www.hydrite.com Behn Meyer Group materials; PU and polymers; construction CEO: Paul Honkamp 23 2018 Sales: $882.1m (€770m) chemicals; asphalt chemicals; specialty Products: Chlor-alkali; foam control chemi- chemicals; care chemicals; life science cals; food processing chemicals; liquid Hamburg, Germany chemicals; performance chemicals; water sulfites; pulp and paper chemicals; organics; www.behnmeyer.com treatment chemicals; base chemicals; sol- inorganics; metal finishing chemicals; per- Products: Fertilizers; crop protection chem- vents; inorganics; intermediates; plasticizers acetic acid (PAA); solvents and wastewater Shutterstock

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treatment chemicals President and CEO: Patrick Hawkins Indukern Services: Blending; manufacturing; solvent Products: Caustic soda; bleach; minerals; lac- 32 2018 Sales: $508.3m (€443.7m) reclamation; hazardous waste removal; tech- tates, sulphuric acid; hydrochloric acid; sodi- nical training and customer product research um citrate; vitamins; ferric/ferrous chloride; Barcelona, Spain Assets: 12 locations; bulk storage of urea; chlorine www.indukern.com 15m gal; private fleet of trucks and profes- Services: Manufacturing; custom blending; www.grupoindukern.com sional drivers packaging; private label; delivery CEO: Daniel Diaz-Varela Assets: Seven industrial manufacturing fa- Products: Food ingredients; pharmaceutical Solvadis Group cilities; 29 water treatment distribution ware- ingredients; pharmaceutical APIs; flavour and 27 2018 Sales: $674.9m houses; 125+ trucks; one nutraceutical manu- fragrance ingredients; industrial chemicals; facturing plant veterinary and animal nutrition ingredients Frankfurt, Germany Trading sales: 10% Services: Blending; packaging; storage; www.solvadis.com sales; handing of chemical products CEO: Andreas Weimann Nordmann, Rassmann Assets: 11 warehouses in Spain; subsidiaries Products: Sulphur, sulpuric acid; methanol; 30 2018 Sales: $527m (€460m) Trading sales: 8% petrochemicals; solvents; industrial chemicals; industrial minerals; Hamburg, Germany CG Chemikalien pharmaceutical raw materials; synthetic lu- www.nordmann.global 33 2018 Sales: $482.2m bricants; laboratory chemicals; coatings; ferti- Chairman and managing director: Gerd lizers; packaging materials; personal protec- Bergmann; Managing directors: Carsten Laatzen, Germany tive equipment Guntner, Felix Kruse www.cg-chemikalien.de Services: Marketing; storage; transport; logis- Products: Adhesives and sealants; compos- CEO: Uwe Klass tics; packaging; supply chain management; ites materials; construction and coatings Products: Organic and inorganic chemi- processing; remanufacturing; regeneration chemicals; contact lens, dental and medical cals; solid matters; acid/alkaline solutions; Assets: 10 tank farms; two storage facilities/ materials; flame retardants; food additives; solvents; specialities; food and feed ingredi- warehouses; one production facility industrial chemicals and intermediates; ents; intermediates; pharmaceutical ingre- Trading sales: < 5 % lubricant additives; monomers; oleochemi- dients; cosmetics ingredients; paints and cals; personal care additives; pharmaceuti- varnishes; water chemistry GTM Holdings cal and nutraceutical ingredients; polyure- Services: Storage; packaging; filling; blend- 28 2018 Sales: $642m thane chemicals; synthetic rubber and ing; single sourcing; toll manufacturing; rubber chemicals; thermoplastics and poly- tank monitoring; application engineering Sao Paulo, Brazil mer additives consulting, manufacturing of paints/var- www.gtmchemicals.com Services: Laboratory services; studies and nishes; GMP certification CEO: Jose Manuel Berges R&D; chemical synthesis and compound- Assets: Six warehouses; 100 trucks Products: Specialty, performance and in- ing; marketing and market intelligence; leg- Trading sales: 40% dustrial chemicals; oilfield chemicals; coat- islative and regulatory support; quality ings, inks, adhesives and sealants; elasto- management and safety; global supply Quadra Chemicals mers; cosmetics ingredients; personal care chain management; repackaging and refill- 34 2018 Sales: $473.2m ingredients; fragrances and flavours; phar- ing; sample service maceutical ingredients; agricultural chemi- Assets: Warehouses located all over Europe, Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada cals; water treatment chemicals; food ingre- Asia and North America www.quadrachemicals.com dients; animal feed ingredients; pulp and www.quadraingredients.com paper chemicals; mining chemicals; lubri- Redox CEO: Tony Infilise cants; household and industrial cleaning 31 2018 Sales: $527m Products: Performance adhesives; flexible chemicals packaging; household, industrial and institu- Services: Product mixing and blending; for- Sydney, Australia tional cleaning chemicals; water treatment mulation services; packaging; storage (bulk www.redox.com chemicals; mining and smelting chemicals; and packed warehousing); preparation of sam- Managing director and chairman: Robert soluble fertilizer; pulp and paper chemicals; ples; chemical analysis; production of lubri- Coneliano metal treatment and galvanizing chemicals; cants (automotive and industrial); labelling; Products: More than 1,000 products serv- construction chemicals; coatings, adhesives, stock control; logistics; just-in-time delivery; ing over 140 industries; commodity and sealants and elastomers; pool and spa chemi- drum return handling; inventory manage- specialty chemicals; food ingredients; agri- cals; oilfield chemicals; food and beverage in- ment; technical support; waste management cultural chemicals; household and personal gredients; nutrition and nutraceutical ingredi- Assets: 50 facilities throughout Latin Ameri- care chemicals; mining chemicals; surface ents; animal nutrition ingredients; health and ca, including four owned maritime terminals; coatings; plastics additives; grease and lu- wellness ingredients; pharmaceutical ingredi- tank farms and blending units in all countries; bricants; water treatment chemicals; build- ents; cosmetics and fragrances ingredients; 19 laboratories (product development, appli- ing and construction chemicals; pharma- personal care ingredients cation technology, quality control) ceutical ingredients Services: Storage; packaging; blending Services: Custom blending; dilutions; re- Assets: 16 locations including warehouses Hawkins packaging; bulk storage of powders, solvents, and tank farms 29 2018 Sales: $550m acids, alkalis; palletised storage; delivery Assets: 12 regional sales offices; two manu- LEHVOSS Group Roseville, Minnesota, US facturing sites; seven owned and operated 35 2018 Sales: $438.7m (€383m) www.hawkinsinc.com warehouses; more than 50 stock locations

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NORTH AMERICA CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION LEADERS (2018 SALES) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) 1 Univar Solutions 6,260.0 47 TER Group 76.8 93 Seeler Industries 26.1 2 Brenntag 5,311.8 48 Callahan Chemical 75.0 94 JNS-Smithchem 25.0 3 Tricon Energy 1,202.5 49 Chemical Solvents 75.0 95 Barentz International 24.9 4 IMCD 1,092.9 50 George S. Coyne Chemical 75.0 96 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 24.1 5 Helm 1,063.3 51 Connection Chemical 73.0 97 Seacole 22.0 6 Azelis 882.1 52 Tennants Distribution 70.2 98 ECEM European Chemical 21.4 Marketing 7 Hydrite Chemical 686.0 53 Chemisphere 70.0 99 Connect Chemicals Group 21.2 8 Hawkins 543.0 54 Buckley Oil 67.0 100 DAXX 21.0 9 Quadra Chemicals 473.2 55 Skyhawk Chemicals 66.9 101 Eagle Alcohol 18.7 10 Maroon Group 425.0 56 SolvChem 66.2 102 Biesterfeld 18.0 11 EMCO Chemical Distributors 376.0 57 Brainerd Chemical 66.0 103 Schibley Solvents and Chemicals 17.5 12 PVS Distribution Group 305.0 58 Astro Chemicals 62.0 104 EMCO-Inortech 14.7 13 Wego Chemical Group 292.0 59 Walsh & Associates 60.6 105 LEHVOSS Group 13.7 14 ICC Chemical 264.2 60 Petrochem Middle East 60.2 106 American Chemie 13.2 15 Interstate Chemical 249.0 61 Dien 59.5 107 Classic Distributing Company 11.0 16 Superior Oil 234.0 62 Safic-Alcan 58.4 108 Custom Chemical Services 11.0 17 Ksolv Group 230.0 63 Hubbard-Hall 55.2 109 Brisco do Brasil 10.5 18 Aceto 225.0 64 TRInternational 53.5 110 Novasol Chemicals Group 10.0 19 Marubeni Specialty Chemicals 215.0 65 Cambrian Solutions 53.5 66 Valudor Products 53.0 111 Redox 10.0 20 Caldic 206.2 67 Chem One 50.1 112 ChemCeed 9.8 21 LBB Specialties (includes Charkit 206.0 Chemical Company & AIC) 68 PHT International 48.8 113 Audiche Trading 9.6 22 ChemGroup 200.0 69 McCullough & Associates 48.5 114 Nordmann, Rassmann 9.2 23 Special Materials Company 192.0 70 Ideal Chemical & Supply 45.8 115 SMA Collaboratives 8.4 24 Barton Solvents 176.8 71 FBC Chemical 45.5 116 Norkem Holdings 8.1 25 The Plaza Group 176.0 72 Coast Southwest 43.3 117 Manuchar 8.0 26 Pride Chemical Solutions 130.0 73 Van Horn, Metz & Co 43.0 118 Snetor 8.0 27 Haviland Enterprises 122.3 74 Chemical Distributors Inc (Buffalo, 42.2 119 KH Chemicals 7.0 NY) 28 Omya 122.0 120 Faravelli 6.7 75 Rahn Group 42.0 29 Sea-Land Chemical 117.5 121 Solventis 6.5 76 Vivion 39.0 30 Essential Ingredients 114.4 122 Behn Meyer Group 5.7 77 GJ Chemical 38.0 31 Ravago Chemicals 112.3 123 Sinochem Plastics 5.7 78 Research Solutions Group 36.5 32 Tilley Chemical 109.0 124 A. S. Paterson 5.5 79 Jebsen & Jessen Group 35.5 33 Harwick Standard Distribution 103.0 125 DutCH2 4.6 80 BUFA Chemikalien Group 35.0 34 Tanner Industries 102.7 126 Arpadis Benelux 3.7 81 Independent Chemical 35.0 35 Chemsolv 102.0 127 ProChema 3.5 82 Northspec Chemicals 35.0 36 ClearTech Industries 100.0 128 Quimdis 3.4 83 Acid Products 34.1 37 TRiiSO 93.0 129 Prakash Chemicals International 3.3 84 R.E. Carroll 33.0 38 Mays Chemical 91.3 130 Airedale Chemical 2.3 85 Veckridge Chemical 33.0 39 TCR Industries 88.0 131 HARKE Group 2.2 86 Radchem Products 32.1 40 Greenchem Industries 84.5 132 Bodo Moller Chemie 2.1 87 T.Z Group (including TZ Trading, 30.6 41 Rowell Chemical 82.0 Tau Chemicals Inc, Quimica Treza) 133 Arkem Kimya 2.0 42 The Chemical Company 81.5 88 Industrial Chemicals Corp 30.2 134 KPL International 1.9 43 Miles Chemical 80.5 89 SAL Chemical 29.8 135 Indukern 1.3 44 Pluschem EEIG 80.0 90 Joss Elastomers 28.1 136 Monachem Group 1.2 45 Webb Chemical Service 80.0 91 Metafrax Trading International 27.1 137 Cornelius Group 1.2 46 CellMark Chemicals 78.0 92 Gulf Coast Chemical 26.3 138 Penpet Petrochemical Trading 1.1 NOTE: Sales are by region and may differ from the total sales figure in the main Top 100 listing. Table excludes companies that do not break out sales by geography

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Hamburg, Germany lithium battery materials and electrolytes; sonal care ingredients; detergents and home www.lehvoss.de lubricants and greases; pharmaceutical care chemicals; food and beverage ingredients; Managing partners: Knut Breede, Soenke ingredients and fine chemicals; HI&I mining, oil and gas chemicals; paint and coat- Thomsen, Thomas Oehmichen chemicals; flame retardants; food and bever- ings ingredients; plastics additives; polyure- Products: Customised polymer materials; age ingredients; metal working chemicals; thanes; rubber and paper chemicals; textiles and masterbatches; pastes; magnesia; carbon finishing and flux chemicals; oilfield -ser leather chemicals; water treatment chemicals black; rare earths; rheology modifiers; diato- vices chemicals; plastics additives; resins Services: Mixing; blending; formulation; maceous earths; cosmetics raw materials; and rubber additives; pulp and paper chem- product sourcing; market development; crea- nutraceutical ingredients; functional fluids; icals; water treatment and pool chemicals tive financial solutions; market intelligence; filter cartridges;rubber chemicals Services: Supply chain solutions; logistics; logistics expertise; shipping advisory and Services: Repackaging; production of com- warehousing; outsourcing documentation pounds, masterbatches, pastes and other; Assets: 100+ worldwide professionals; 14 Assets: 18 offices worldwide; 300+ employ- warehousing; logistics international offices; global distribution ees globally; multiple warehouses world- Assets: Five production sites; seven own network of 50+ warehouses wide; formulation facility in Malaysia warehouses and several external warehouses; Trading sales: 20% Trading sales: 70% six laboratories Trading sales: 30% EMCO Chemical Distributors Pon Pure Chemicals 39 2018 Sales: $376m 42 2018 Sales: $345.9m Maroon Group 36 2018 Sales: $425m Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, US Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India www.emcochem.com www.pure-chemical.com Avon, Ohio, US President: Edward Polen CEO: M Ponnuswami www.maroongroupllc.com Products: Acids and alkalis; additives; ali- Products: Acids and derivatives; aromatics; CEO: Terry Hill; President phatic and aromatic hydrocarbons; amines; ketones; esters; ethers; chlorinated solvents; COO: Mike McKenna carbonates; chelating agents; ester and ether alcohols; aliphatic solvents; hydrocarbons; Products: Specialty additives; specialty res- esters; glycols; ketones; pigments; plasticiz- monomers; specialty chemicals; coatings and ins; specialty pigments; specialty intermedi- ers; resins; silicones; surfactants; terpene inks; plastics and composites; textile chemi- ates; specialty ingredients and packaging and citrus solvents cals; leather and paper chemicals; sugar chemi- Services: Custom blending; repackaging; Services: Blending and packaging; waste cals; water treatment chemicals; lubricants micronisation; drumming; public ware- services; application laboratory services; Services: Small packaging; underground housing; FDA and SQF storage; laboratory warehousing; order fulfilment; USP and storage; technical service; custom blending; services; technical and formulary assis- food grade packaging; private fleet delivery just-in-time delivery; transportation tance; R&D Assets: three production facilities; six Assets: 25 branches in India; five overseas Assets: 130,000 square foot headquarters warehouses; 5,000 square foot CASE appli- branches; 23 warehouses across India (in- facility in Avon, Ohio; 170,000 square foot cations lab; 40 trucks; 85 trailers cluding seven explosive repackaging ware- facility in Lincoln, Rhode Island and 37,000 houses); leased terminal facilities square foot facility in Newark, New Jersey; Quimica Anastacio additional 35 total warehouses in North 40 2018 Sales: $374.9m Eigenmann & Veronelli America; seven company owned and oper- 43 2018 Sales: $343.7m (€300m) ated trucks; six customer service centres Sao Paulo, Brazil www.quimicanastacio.com.br Rho, Milan, Italy Aceto CEO: Jan Felix Krueder www.eigver.com 37 2018 Sales: $415m Products: Cosmetics and personal care in- CEO: Ludovico Balbo di Vinadio gredients; pharmaceutical ingredients; fla- Products: Speciality chemicals for adhe- Port Washington, New York, US vours; animal health ingredients; agricultur- sives and sealants; animal nutrition and www.aceto.com al chemicals; rubber; household and auto health ingredients; building chemicals; ecol- CEO: William Kennally care chemicals; lubricants; plastics; polyure- ogy and water treatment chemicals; food in- Products: Specialty chemicals; generic ag- thanes; paints and coatings; resins and adhe- gredients; home and industrial care chemi- ricultural formulations; pharmaceutical in- sives; food ingredients; feed ingredients; cals; leather chemicals; lubricants and termediates; active pharmaceutical ingredi- sports nutrition ingredients industrial auxiliaries; organic synthesis ents; nutritional products Services: Storage; blending; packaging; bulk chemicals; paper chemicals; personal care Services: International sourcing; logistics distribution; trading; cargo consolidation; chemicals; pharmaceutical ingredients; plas- and handling dedicated procurement tic additives; polyurethanes; rubber chemi- Trading sales: 60% Assets: Six warehouses cals; surface coatings; textile chemicals Trading sales: 14% Services: Production including toll and third- Wego Chemical Group party manufacturing; repackaging; warehousing 38 2018 Sales: $395.5m VIKUDHA OVERSEAS Assets: Two production plants; three ware- 41 2018 Sales: $357m houses Great Neck, New York, US Trading sales: 15% www.wegochem.com Hong Kong, China Principal and president: Bert Eshaghpour www.vikudha.com Pochteca Materias Primas Products: Agricultural chemicals; animal CEOs: Vikash Adukia, Deap Adukia 44 2018 Sales: $336.5m nutrition and feed ingredients; antifreeze Products: Petrochemicals and polymers; agri- and coolants; CASE; corrosion inhibitors; cultural and feed chemicals; cosmetics and per- Mexico City, Mexico

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www.pochteca.com.mx M. Cassab coatings and solvents including adhesives www.pochteca-english.com 46 2018 Sales: $318.8m and sealants; polymers and elastomers; indus- Executive director: Eugenio Manzano trial acids; oil and gas industry commodities Products: Inorganic chemicals; solvents and Sao Paulo, Brazil and additives; water treatment commodities blends; food ingredients; chemical special- www.mcassab.com.br and specialties; chlor-alkali products includ- ties; lubricants CEO: Victor Cutait Neto ing caustic soda and chlorine liquid gas; per- Services: Blending; packaging, storage and Products: Performance and specialty chem- sonal care and pharmaceutical chemicals; logistics solutions; product application; prod- icals; polyurethane chemicals; paints and base oils and specialty additives. uct development; quality control resins materials; construction chemicals; Services: Break bulk; warehousing and dis- Assets: More than 299,000 square metres of polymers additives; solvents; additives; sili- tribution in South Africa and neighbouring logistics capacity; capacity to store 21.5m li- cones; pigments; monomers; emulsifiers; territories; packaging to required smaller pack tres of liquids polyols; isocyanates; biocides; APIs and sizes; blending to proprietary recipe/formula- pharmaceutical excipients; home and per- tion; manufacture of specific water treatment CellMark Chemicals sonal care ingredients; veterinary products; chemicals; emergency response; effluent 45 2018 Sales: $333.9m feed and food premixes and ingredients; vi- treatment and safe disposal; customer facility tamins; amino acids installations and management of full supply Gothenburg, Sweden Services: Blending; packaging; storage; dilu- chain; fully ISO and OHSAS accredited and www.cellmark.com tions; technical applications laboratory ser- signatory to CAIA Responsible Care President, Chemicals: Hugo Galletta; vices (polyurethanes, home and personal Assets: 16 physical locations in South Africa, President, Basic chemicals: Ersin Alkan care, pharmaceuticals and food); full techni- Namibia, Kenya and Angola (over 40 hec- Products: Basic chemicals; lignosulfonates; cal support; formulation tares); over 50,000 square metres of ware- caustic soda; semiconductor materials; re- Assets: Three warehouses in Brazil; one house space; fleet of over 80 delivery vehicles newable battery materials; oilfield chemi- warehouse in Argentina; four premixes facili- for liquid bulk and packed chemical distribu- cals; water treatment chemicals; coatings; ties for animal nutrition; one premix facility tion; over 30,000 cubic metres of bulk liquid agrochemicals; flame retardants; food and for food nutrition; physical, chemical and mi- chemical storage under management beverage ingredients; cosmetic and oral care crobiological accredited ISO 17025 laboratory Trading sales: 2% ingredients; active pharmaceutical ingredients; organic chemicals; inorganic chemi- Protea Chemicals TOP Solvent cals; specialty and fine chemicals 47 2018 Sales: $315m 48 2018 Sales: $307.5m Services: Sales and marketing; sourcing; custom manufacturing; packaging; blending, Bryanston, Gauteng, South Africa Bangkok, Thailand milling and granulations; R&D; regulatory ser- www.proteachemicals.co.za www.topsolvent.com/en vices; market research; logistics www.omnia.co.za CEO: Acharee Tiyabhorn Assets: Production equipment and inventory Managing director: Funani Mojono products: hydrocarbon solvents (hexane, held at public warehouses in over 20 loca- Products: Mining chemicals; agriculture and pentane, SBP group, toluene, xylene, aromat- tions worldwide animal feeds; food ingredients including ic solvents, white spirits); chemical solvents Trading sales: Less than 30% yeasts and enzymes for the wine industry; (IPA, acetone, MEK, ethyl acetate, butyl ace- Shutterstock

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tate); styrene; ethylene glycol (MEG/DEG); Services: Blending; packaging; tailor- Knutsford, Cheshire, UK food ingredients; pharmaceutical ingredients; made products; sourcing services; materials www.norkem.com personal care ingredients; animal feed prod- consulting Group managing director: A Nicholson ucts; cleaning products Products: Iodine and iodine salts; zinc oxide Services: Manufacturing of hydrocarbon sol- ECEM European and zinc salts; manganese compounds; cop- vent products; storage; drum filling; transpor- 52 Chemical Marketing per salts; barium carbonate; citric acid; po- tation; multi-delivery mode offerings (vessel, 2018 Sales: $287.1m tassium carbonate and hydroxide; food bulk truck, ISO Tank, drum); thinner blending chemicals; pharmaceutical intermediates; Assets: One hydrocarbon solvents manufac- Amsterdam, Netherlands feed chemicals turing plant via subsidiary Sak Chaisidhi www.ecem.com Services: Blending; packaging; manufactur- (SAKC); four tank terminals; 73 chemical stor- CEO: Barend Barendse ing; liquid suspensions; liquid solutions age tanks; six warehouses; loading and un- Products: Acrylates and methacrylates; hy- Assets: 12 locations worldwide loading facilities with both trucks, ISO tanks droxy monomers; 150 special monomers; an- and vessels; drum filling station; laboratory hydrides; phosphonates; water treatment Connect Chemicals Group (QC and technical); 51 bulk trucks (contract- chemicals; polyurethanes; food and feed in- 55 2018 Sales: $265m ed); 39 pack trucks (contracted) gredients; pharmaceutical ingredients; coat- Trading sales: 1% ings resins and polymers; adhesives and seal- Ratingen, Germany ants; water treatment chemicals; isocyanates www.connectchemicals.com Quimtia TDI and MDI for polyurethanes CEOs: Basar Karaca, Dirk Otmar 49 2018 Sales: $307m Services: One-stop shopping; global supply Products: Paper chemicals; lubricants and chain service; consignment stocks; fully metal-working fluids; cosmetics and personal Buenos Aires, Argentina REACH registered in EU; bulk storage and care ingredients; water treatment chemicals; www.quimtia.com warehousing; drumming installation; blend- household and industrial care chemicals; President and CEO: Diego Collard Bovy ing; returnable IBCs; over 100 products in coatings, adhesives and sealants; plastics Products: Mining chemical blends; water stock; local storage in several countries Services: Custom manufacturing; blending; treatment chemicals; paper chemical blends; Assets: eight own ISO Tanks for dedicated storage; sourcing feed additives and specialities; feed premixes; bulk transport; over 100 returnable (custom tai- Trading sales: 100% feed vaccines; food blends; food flavours; lored) stainless steel IBCs; over 70 professional food ingredients; basic industrial chemicals; staff in sales and logistics and workers at sev- Solventis plastic bags and sacks eral terminals and warehouse operations; sales 56 2018 Sales: $264.3m (€230.7m) Services: Packaging and storage; blending (feed offices in Brazil,Japan, China, US and EU and food premixes); dilutions; production (ani- Trading sales: 4% Guildford Surrey, UK mal vaccines, flavours); applications consulting; www.solventis.net quality control (company labs); total chemical KRAHN Chemie CEO: David Lubbock; management services at customer sites 53 2018 sales: $284.1m (€248m) Managing director: Nick Johnson Assets: 13 warehouses; eight laboratories Products: Alcohols; antifreeze; brake fluids; (quality control, applications) Hamburg, Germany acetate esters; glycols; glycol ethers; hydrocar- Trading sales: 2% www.krahn.eu bons; ketones; monomers; propylene glycol Managing directors: Dr. Rolf Kuropka, ethers; white oils; airplane de-icers PVS Distribution Group Axel Sebbesse Services: Importing of bulk chemicals; glob- 50 2018 Sales: $305m Products: Coating ingredients (additives, rheol- al bulk and drum distribution and blending ogy modifiers, pigments and colourants, resins, of automotive products; Antwerp storage ter- Detroit, Michigan, US biocides, film consolidation agents); construc- minal with drumming and blending facili- www.pvschemicals.com tion chemicals (additives, pigments, fillers, rhe- ties; UK storage and blending facility Chief operating officer: Timothy F Nicholson ology modifiers); adhesives ingredients (resins, Products: Full line of chemicals; inorganic plasticizers, additives, bonding agents); plastic RAI Rakha Al Khaleej acids and bases; surfactants; solvents ingredients (additives, plasticizers, flame retard- 57 International Services: Blending; packaging; storage; truck- ants), rubber ingredients (synthetic rubber, ad- 2018 Sales: $260m ing; minibulk hesion promoters, mould release agents); ce- Assets: Five warehouses; company-owned ramic powders (zirconia, alumina); lubricant Dubai, UAE fleet of box vans and bulk trailers; network of ingredients (base oils, additives and additive www.rai-uae.com terminals packages); heat transfer fluids CEO: Henry F Roth Trading sales: 2% Services: Technical sales and marketing sup- Products: Polymers (PE, PP, ETP, PVC); mas- port; application development; laboratory terbatches and fillers Telko analysis; colorimetry and colour matching Services: Trading 51 2018 Sales: $304.7m (€266m) service; formulation advice; warehousing and Assets: Four owned warehouses; others on logistics solutions; mixing and blending; release Espoo, Finland packaging; sampling service; legislative and Trading sales: 25% www.telko.com regulatory support CEO: Kalle Kettunen Assets: Two technology centres KPL International Products: Engineering plastics; automotive 58 2018 sales $258.7m chemicals; paints and coatings; personal care Norkem Holdings (INR 18,009m) ingredients; packaging; construction chemi- 54 2018 Sales: $276m cals; additives; mining chemicals New Delhi, India

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www.kplintl.com merous warehouses covering Europe and factants; plasticizers Managing director: Surinder Kumar Kak Turkey; truck fleet and road tankers. Services: Solvent recycling; blending; cus- Products: Bulk and essential chemicals; Trading sales: 25% tom manufacturing; private labelling; waste polymers; paper and allied chemicals; speci- disposal; acetone replacement systems; ven- ality chemicals; paint & coating chemicals; Interstate Chemical dor-managed inventory; regulatory consult- industrial and specialty gases; engineering 61 2018 Sales: $249m ing; bulk and package delivery consumables; Darjeeling teas Assets: Eight full-service locations; 55 Services: Development of markets for new Hermitage, Pennsylvania, US trucks; 150 trailers; 250 bulk tanks; 55 products and applications; investment in www.interstatechemical.com blend tanks value-added services like repackaging facil- President and CEO: Albert R Puntureri ities for greater market coverage; providing Products: Alcohols; glycols; ketones; caustic BUFA Chemikalien Group continuous market intelligence, technical soda; thermal fluids; catalysts; plasticizers; 65 2018 Sales: $230m and after-sales support; sourcing; exports; resins; various solvents procurement and auditing services; Services: Manufacturing; blending; toll Hude-Altmoorhausen, Germany KPL sources and exports products from manufacturing; packaging; storage www.buefa.de India, China and Middle East countries Assets: Two manufacturing facilities; eight CEO: Ronald Ijzer to international markets; repackaging ser- distribution facilities; two river terminals; Products: Ethanolamines, ethylene glycol vices; warehousing and logistics services; 200 trucks ethers, ethylene glycols, polyethylene glycols, facilitating technical support from group propylene glycol ethers, propylene glycol, companies for quality control, testing and ARKEM KIMYA isopropyl alcohol, propionic acid, formic plant audits 62 2018 Sales: $248m acid, caustic soda, solvents, aromatics, sty- Assets: Seven warehouses; two bottling fa- rene, surfactants, oxo alcohols cilities for refrigerant and industrial gases; Istanbul, Turkey Services: Formulating, warehousing, filling eight wind turbines with generation capaci- www.arkem.com and bottling, blending, logistics, drumming ty of 15.35 MW Chairman and CEO: Levend Kokuludag Assets: Six warehouses, 14 trucks Trading sales: 25.43% Products: Monomers; hydrocarbon sol- Trading sales: 30% vents; alcohols; ketones; esters; glycols; gly- Tennants Distribution col ethers; chlorinated solvents; oleochemi- Ksolv Group 59 2018 Sales: $257.8m (£202m) cals; specialty chemicals; cosmetics; 66 2018 sales: $230m pharmaceuticals; food ingredients; sur- www.tennantsdistribution.com factants; plastics Houston, Texas, US Chairman: Andrew Mitchell Services: Sales and marketing; blending; for- www.ksolv.com Managing director: Tim Griffiths mulating; drumming; packaging; labelling Owner/CEO: Russ Allen Products: Acids and alkalis; animal feed and storage Products: Aliphatic solvents; aromatic sol- raw materials; fatty acids, alcohols and es- Assets: One deep-sea tank terminal; logistics vents; alcohols; glycols; glycol ethers; ace- ters; food ingredients and flavours; fragranc- company with 75 transport units and 600 ISO tates; chlorinated solvents; ketones; base oils; es; general chemicals; Greenox AdBlue; per- tank containers; four warehouses white oils; acids sonal care ingredients; pharmaceutical Trading sales: 3% Services: Chemical distribution; chemical products; resins; solvents; specialty prod- packaging; chemical blending; chemical lab- ucts; surfactants; water treatment chemi- Solvochem Holdings oratory; maritime services; emergency spill cals; white oils and petroleum jelly 63 2018 Sales: $245m response; disaster response; industrial ser- Services: Warehousing and storage; repack- vices; waste management; transportation aging; blending; formulating; relabelling Limassol, Cyprus Assets: Tote and drum warehouse tank farm; Assets: 20 sites (including warehousing www.solvochem.com flare; nitrogen access; dock and storage); own vehicles Chairman: Anthony Joseph Flouty Trading sales: 2% Products: Solvents and chemicals; plastic; Marubeni Specialty additives; plasticizers; urethanes and mining 67 Chemicals KTM products 2018 Sales: $229m 60 2018 sales $257m Services: Storage; blending; packaging Assets: Seven trucks; 11 warehouses; 93 White Plains, New York, US Istanbul, Turkey tanks www.marubenisci.com www.ktm.com.tr/en/ Trading sales: 40% President: Jo Harada CEO: Keyan Zulfikari Services: Paper chemicals; 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Products: Commodity and specialty chemicals; transhipment; blending; toll manufac- Moscow, Russia cals; food ingredients; pharmaceutical ingre- turing; warehousing; packaging; delivery by www.propartners.ru dients; paint and construction chemicals; vessel, rail, container, truck and silo-truck CEOs: Gaurav Sood, Constantin Rzaev cosmetics and detergents ingredients; metal Assets: Head office in Switzerland; branch Products: Plastics; polyolefins; polyure- treatment chemicals; printing chemicals; office in Austria; three manufacturing/ware- thanes; steel; MCAA; disinfection chemicals; water treatment chemicals; customer specific housing sites; third-party warehouses pulp and paper chemicals; animal feed; syn- compositions Trading sales: 10% thetic fibres; oil drilling chemicals; hydraulic Services: Mixing; blending; environmental- fracturing chemicals; flexible packaging; ly friendly consultancy and planning; tech- HSH Chemie chemicals for crude transportation; rubber nical consultancy; training sessions on safety 72 2018 Sales: $208.5m (€182m) and tyres; mining chemicals and the law; waste disposal; consultancy on Services: Blending; packaging; vendor man- chemical law and Reach Hamburg, Germany aged inventory; international logistics; local Assets: 12 warehouses www.hsh-chemie.com logistics; sourcing services; surveying servic- Trading sales: 20% Executives: Stephan P Lohden, Frank Raabe, es; market research; agro trading; learning Stefan Rather centre Gamma Chimica Products: Specialty chemicals for coatings, ad- Assets: 24 warehouses; one office space 69 2018 Sales: $222.1m (€193.9m) hesives and building products; personal and Trading sales: 13% home care ingredients; food, feed and pharma- Lainate, Milan, Italy ceutical ingredients; plastics and rubber addi- Bang & Bonsomer www.gammachimica.it tives; industrial performance chemicals 80 2018 Sales: $194.7m (€170m) President: Giuseppe Mearini Services: Technical consultancy; formula- Products: Glycols; ethanolamines; fatty tion advice; storage and logistics; sampling; Helsinki, Finland acids; intermediates; solvents; antifreeze; financing; full compliance support; full mar- www.bangbonsomer.com glycerine; sequestering agents keting support CEO: Mikko Teittinen Services: Storage; packaging; blending; anti- Assets: 12 sales office locations in central Products: Coatings and construction chemi- freeze production and eastern Europe cals; food ingredients; personal and home Assets: Head office; warehouse of 54,000 Trading sales: 10% care ingredients; packaging and plastics addi- square metres tives; composites and polyurethanes, polymer Orkila materials LBB Specialties (includes 73 2018 Sales: $208m Services: Process chemistry solutions with 70 Charkit Chemical, AIC ) engineering, remote control and digitisation; 2018 Sales: $215m Beirut, Lebanon manufacturing of industry intermediate prod-

www.orkila.com Shutterstock ucts and functional blends; application labo- New York City, New York, US Chairman and CEO: Antoine Sacy ratory services; R&D and formulations; blend- www.LBBSpecialties.com Products: Specialty chemicals; pharmaceu- Bandeirante Quimica dry mixture and construction chemicals; made packaging; stock control and teleme- ing; dissolving; packaging; warehousing, President and CEO: Charles Hinnant tical ingredients; agrochemicals; animal nu- 75 2018 Sales: $207.9m plastics and polymer additives; rubber try; logistics operations consulting logistics Products: Personal care ingredients; nutri- trition ingredients; personal care ingredients; chemicals; resins and chemicals for compos- Assets: Logistics complex; five tank termi- Assets: One R&D centre; six application labo- tional ingredients; biotech chemicals; food performance products; paints and construc- Sao Paulo, Brazil ites; fibres; chemicals for detergents; cosmet- nals for liquids; 55 trucks; 50 cisterns; six ratories and technical centres; five manufac- ingredients; pharmaceutical ingredients; tion chemicals; oilfield chemicals; plastics www.bbquimica.com.br ics and household chemicals; oilfield, lubri- semi-trailers; 65 ISO tank containers turing sites; 15 warehouses plastics additives; water/metal treatment additives; home care chemicals; water treat- CEO: Carlos Eduardo Marin cant and refinery additives and chemicals; Trading sales: 10% chemicals; flavors and fragrances, nutraceu- ment chemicals Products: Aromatics; aliphatic solvents; food additives; specialties and basic chemi- Special Materials Company ticals; electronic chemicals; industrial chem- Services: Sales and marketing covering 60 oxygenated solvents; ethanolamines; titani- cals; pharmaceutical raw materials; agricul- ChemGroup 81 2018 Sales: $192m icals; plastics; veterinary chemicals; concrete countries; centralised purchasing and con- um dioxide (TiO2); surfactants; specialty tural chemicals 78 2018 Sales: $200m chemicals; medical devices solidated shipment; local currency invoic- resins; carbon black; tailor-made blends; UV Services: Storage; mixing/blending; labora- New York, US Services: Warehousing; blending; packaging; application laboratory services; local monomers/oligomers; household and per- tory services; technical support; developing Fairfield, Ohio, US www.smc-global.com ing; custom/contract manufacturing; custom technical support; in-house market data col- sonal care chemicals; silicas; amines; agri- certification www.chemgroup.com CEO: Adam Feldman synthesis; product development lection and analysis cultural chemicals; epoxy resins; glycols; Assets: 12 offices; 12 warehouses; seven President: Marty Wehr Products: Specialty solvents; paints and Assets: 69 stocking locations in North America Assets: 18 regional centres and more than 45 mining chemicals laboratories; 451 employees Products: Acids; alkalis; hydrogen peroxide; coatings additives; oilfield chemicals; warehouses; a European hub based in Rotter- Services: Blending; agency sales (indent sodium hypochlorite; solvents and intermedi- phosphorus derivatives; water treatment Metafrax Trading dam; technically qualified sales force; ISO sales); formulation; technical assistance; stor- Grupo RNM ates; glycols; glycol ethers; amines; sur- chemicals; biocides; friction reducers; 71 International 9001:2015 and GDP certifications age; packaging 77 2018 Sales: $200.9m factants; alcohols; water treatment chemicals; electronic chemicals; mining chemicals; 2018 Sales: $211.9m (€185m) Assets: Six branches; 95 tanks; three ware- nitrogen products; white oils; borates; lime flame retardants; textile additives; photo WWRC Holding houses; truck fleet; two laboratories; 2,000 Famalicao, Portugal and specialty chemicals; gas-to-liquid (GTL) imaging chemicals; PCBTF; sodium hy- Lugano, Switzerland 74 2018 Sales: $208m IBCs www.grupornm.pt fluids and solvents pophosphite; glutaraldehyde; scale and www.metadyneatrading.com CEO: Ricardo Machado Services: Chemical and inventory manage- corrosion inhibitors President: Ralph Theuer; Director: Alexan- Singapore United Trading System Products: Caustic soda; hydrogen peroxide; ment; blending; warehousing; technical and Services: Custom blending; relabelling; so- der Maksimov www.wwrc.com 76 (UTS/ETC) sulphuric acid; hydrochloric acid; sodium safety training; customised billing lution adjustments; neutralisation reactions; Products: Methanol; hexamine (urotropine); CEO: Teoh Weng Chai 2018 Sales: $201m hypochlorite; plastics (PE, PP, PVC, Assets: 10 warehouses with over 420,000 conversions; dilutions; storage; warehous- micronized hexamine; pentaerythritol; Products: Resins and intermediates; addi- PS, PET, EVA); solvents; specialties; square feet; over 2m gal bulk storage; 26 trac- ing; bulk storage; consignment inventory; micronized pentaerythritol; dipentaerythri- tives and catalysts; pigments, fillers and ex- St Petersburg, Russia glycols; propylene glycol; glycol ethers; tors; 16 straight trucks; 36 trailers; 12 tankers just-in-time delivery; third-party warehous- tol; wax polymer compounds; polycarbon- tenders; other chemicals and solvents; grind- www.utsrus.com surfactants; silicones; methanol; epoxy res- ing; technical sales and support; regulatory ate; melamine; paraformaldehyde; phthalic ing media Managing director UTS: Lars Hjorth; ins; inorganics ChemPartners affairs expertise anhydride Services: Technical service; storage; delivery Managing director ETC: Andrey Shkola Services: Storage of liquid and packed 79 2018 Sales: $196.5m Assets: Five global production sites; 15 ware- Services: Storage of liquid and solid chemi- Assets: Eight warehouses Products: Paints and coatings chemicals; products; blending; standard and tailor- houses; truck fleet

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The Plaza Group ing; delivery to customer or job site; waste ser- ing of hazardous goods; just-in-time deliv- 82 2018 Sales: $184m vices; laboratory services ery; applications advice; single sourcing Assets: Six stocking locations; delivery fleet Assets: Six warehouse facilities; tank farm; Houston, Texas, US HACCP filling and blending area; one labora- www.theplazagrp.com Haeffner tory; 30 trucks President: Randy Velarde 86 2018 Sales: $170m Trading sales: 10% Products: Solvents; intermediates; elastomers; styrenics; polyethylenes; agricultural Asperg, Stuttgart, Germany 2M Holdings chemicals; lignosulfonates www.haeffnergroup.com 87 2018 Sales: $164.4M (£128.9M) Services: Marketing; logistics; storage CEOs: Jurgen Martin; Thomas Dassler Assets: One warehouse; one bulk storage Products: Water treatment chemicals; Runcorn, UK tank; 101 railcars paints, inks, coatings, adhesives and resins www.2m-holdings.com additives; paint, textile and leather auxilia- CEO: Mottie Kessler Transmare Chemie ries; food additives; feed additives; metal Products: Triklone LE (aerospace); Perklone 83 2018 Sales: $183.5m treatment chemicals; household and person- EXT (oil refinery/catalyst grade); MEC Prime al care ingredients; lubricant additives (pharmaceutical grade); surfactants/rheology Antwerp, Belgium Services: Mixing; blending and formulating; modifiers; AdBlue (emission reduction); aer- www.transmare.com repackaging; contract packaging; warehous- ospace approved products; Pigmentan (anti- www.transmare-chemie.com CEO: Patrick Van Ende MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION LEADERS (2018 SALES) Products: Chemicals and blends for the oil Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) and gas industry; fine chemicals for health, 1 Snetor 856.0 36 Azelis 14.9 personal and home care; food and feed ingre- 2 Petrochem Middle East 794.3 37 ECEM European Chemical 14.6 dients; industrial and high purity solvents; 3 Pluschem EEIG 750.0 Marketing chemicals and pigments for paints and adhe- 4 Tricon Energy 647.2 38 Grupo RNM 13.1 sives; reference fuels; plastics additives 39 Sinochem Plastics 12.0 Services: Personalised blends and formula- 5 Protea Chemicals 313.4 40 Quimdis 11.5 tion support; drumming and packaging 6 Solvochem Holdings 245.0 Assets: 11 warehouses; Class 2 storage 7 Manuchar 215.0 41 Ricardo Molina Group 11.2 facilities 8 Orkila 208.0 42 BUFA Chemikalien Group 11.0 Trading sales: 50% 9 Vikudha Overseas 171.0 43 Arpadis Benelux 10.3 10 Ravago Chemicals 120.3 44 Grolman Group 9.6 IMPAG 11 RAI Rakha Al Khaleej International 120.0 45 Barentz International 9.5 84 2018 Sales: $180.0m (€150m) 12 Quimidroga 113.4 46 Indukern 9.5 Zurich, Switzerland 13 ICC Chemical 99.8 47 Group Barcelonesa 7.4 www.impag.com, impag.ch 14 Taj Al Mulook 88.9 48 Unipex 7.4 CEO: Remo Bernardi 15 Afriglobal Commodities 83.0 49 EMSA Tecnologia Quimica 6.9 Products: Coatings additives; anhydrides; 16 Transmare Chemie 82.8 50 DutCH2 6.0 acrylates; polyols; flame retardants; polyure- 17 Al Nahda International 79.3 51 Rahn Group 5.0 thanes; green solvents; detergents; base chem- (Anichem Group) 52 Megachem 4.7 icals; cosmetics functionals and active ingre- 18 CellMark Chemicals 74.0 53 Airedale Chemical 4.6 dients; food ingredients; pharmaceutical 19 Prakash Chemicals International 53.8 APIs; metals; oleochemicals 54 Noahs Ark Chemicals 4.6 20 Shamrock Shipping & Trading 50.7 Services: Global logistics; global sourcing; stor- 55 Penpet Petrochemical Trading 4.6 21 Solvadis Group 47.7 age; application laboratory services; technical 56 Proquibasa 4.6 support; regulatory support; financing; packaging 22 Biesterfeld 43.0 57 Joss Elastomers 4.0 Assets: Six sales offices across Europe; one 23 Omya 40.7 58 Matrix Chemie 3.8 tank farm for liquid goods; own application 24 Linkers Chemicals & Polymers 38.3 laboratory 25 Metafrax Trading International 36.1 59 CG Chemikalien 3.8 Trading sales: 20% 26 Jebsen & Jessen Group 29.8 60 2M Holdings 3.4 27 Venus Chemicals Group 29.0 61 KPL International 2.8 Barton Solvents 62 TOP Solvent 2.5 85 2018 Sales: $176.8m 28 Helm 28.6 29 Bodo Moller Chemie 28.0 63 ProChema 2.0 Des Moines, Iowa US 30 KH Chemicals 26.5 64 A.+ E. Fischer-Chemie 1.1 www.barsol.com 31 Norkem Holdings 24.0 65 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 1.1 President: David M Casten 32 Solventis 23.4 66 Will & Co 1.1 Products: Aliphatics; aromatics; alcohols; 33 Kale Kimya 22.0 67 LEHVOSS Group 1.1 glycol ethers; acetates; ketones; glycols; epoxy 34 Pon Pure Chemicals Group 17.5 68 Haeffner 1.0 resins; surfactants; distilled spirits; specialty chemicals; USP/NF pharmaceutical ingredi- 35 Safic-Alcan 17.2 69 Hawkins 1.0 ents; oils; lubricants NOTE: Sales are by region and may differ from the total sales figure in the main Top 100 listing. Table excludes companies that do not break out sales by geography Services: Custom packaging; custom blend-

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corrosive, environment friendly pigrments); Thommen-Furler siers and finished dosage forms; nutritional in- CEO: Marcel Gatti Assets: Two warehouses President and CEO: Roberto Giuliani SamSol; specialty personal care and cosmet- 91 2018 Sales: $155.8m (€136m) gredients; sourcing of APIs and excipients; GDP Products: Raw materials for inks, coatings Trading sales: 25% Products: Specialty chemicals; pigments; ad- ics ingredients; hydrocarbons and oxygenat- logistic; MSDS and CLP labelling; IP consulting and adhesives; personal care ingredients; fla- ditives; resins; paints and coatings chemicals; ed solvents; homecare and I&I ingredients; Ruti bei Buren, Switzerland Assets: Three warehouses vours, fragrances and food ingredients Faravelli plastics and rubber chemicals; lubricants pharmaceutical excepients and APIs; preci- www.thommen-furler.ch Trading sales: 20% Services: Application support; R&D/ 97 2018 Sales: $136.8m (€119.4m) chemicals; personal care and cosmetics ingre- sion cleaning solutions; Cool-Phos and Va- CEO: Franz Christ customised products; regulatory affairs; dients; food ingredients; laboratory equipment posol; phosphating chemicals (metal pre- Products: Industrial chemicals (inorganics, ELTON Group guide formulations; international logistics; Milan, Italy Services: Technical sales and marketing; ap- treatment) organics, liquids and solids); ethanol; hy- 93 2018 Sales: $153.5m (€134m) analytics www.faravelligroup.com plication development; quality control; Services: Blending; packing; storage; formu- giene and surface cleaning products; acti- Trading sales: 50% CEO: Luca Benati warehousing; regulatory services; supply lation and technical support with laboratory vated carbon; intermediates; plasticizers; Athens, Greece Products: Fine chemicals; food ingredients; chain management; after-sales services; re- facilities; sample management; technical, high purity solvents and reagents; electron- www.elton-group.com Arpadis Benelux nutraceutical ingredients; cosmetics ingredi- packaging; blending regulatory and legislative expertise; toll ic grade chemicals; industrial and automo- CEO: Nestor Papathanasiou 95 2018 Sales: $142.5m (€124.4m) ents; pharmaceutical ingredients; animal nu- blending; water treatment; pigment disper- tive lubricants; marine and aviation lubri- Products: Coatings and adhesives chemicals; trition raw materials and ingredients Bodo Moller Chemie sion; development and formulation cants; automotive fluids; car care products; construction chemicals; detergents and cos- Antwerp, Belgium Services: Blending; packaging; storage; cos- 101 2018 Sales: $134.0tm (€117m) Assets: Application laboratories; warehous- AdBlue; wastewater treatment chemicals metics ingredients; pharmaceutical ingredi- www.arpadis.com metics application lab services; food applica- ing in UK, Germany, Poland, Brazil, Nordics, and installations ents; food, feed and beverage ingredients; CEO: Laurent Abergel tion lab services; international trading of Offenbach am Main, Germany Benelux, China; blending and storage facili- Services: Storage; blending; mixing; packag- water treatment chemicals; metal treatment Products: Acrylates and monomers (MMA , commodities www.bm-chemie.com ties; own trucks ing; laboratory services; quality and control chemicals; PU systems; textile chemicals; GMAA, GMA + BA, EA, 2-EHA, GAA, MA); Assets: Six warehouses Chairman managing director: Frank Haug tests; hazardous waste management; Opti- paper chemicals; agrochemicals; rubber adipic acid; TDI; MDI; polyols; flame retard- Trading sales: 25% Products: Adhesives and bonding systems; Grolman Group Tank tank farm management by telemetry chemicals; plastics additives; refrigerants ants; blowing agents; HMD; DBE; solvents; sealants; silicones; resins; casting and potting 88 2018 Sales: $160.4m (€140m) Assets: Five dedicated sites for chemicals Services: Local warehousing; storage; full glycols HARKE GROUP resins for electronics; hardeners and curing and hazardous waste handling; tank farms coverage of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Ser- Services: Blending; packaging; dilution; 98 2018 Sales: $136.3m (€119m) agents; composites; mould-making ingredi- Neuss, Germany and warehouses for chemicals and hazardous bia, Turkey, Kosovo, Albania, North Macedo- storage ents; additives for coatings; additives for plas- www.grolman-group.com waste; blending, mixing and filling installa- nia, Cyprus and Ukraine markets; technical Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany tics and rubber; additives for lubricants; tex- Managing partners: Dirk Grolman, Florian tions; waste treatment installations; 57 road promotion and business development; in- RAINOLDI www.harke.com tiles chemicals and dyes; packaging and Grolman; Managing director: Mike Dorsam tankers and trucks for general cargo ventory management 96 2018 Sales: $137.5m (€120m) President: Thorsten Harke labelling adhesives Products: Pigments and dyes; mineral fillers Assets: nine warehouses; two laboratories; Products: Cleaning and detergent chemicals; Services: Packaging; filling; testing; modifi- and performance materials; binders; addi- Selectchemie trucks and tank trucks Varese, Italy coatings; electronic/high purity chemicals; cation; blending; education and training tives; actives and intermediates 92 2018 Sales: $155m www.rainoldi.it food ingredients; health and functional food Assets: Headquarters in Germany; affiliates in Services: Formulation and testing lab Rahn Group CEO: Simone Bombardieri ingredients; industrial chemicals; cosmetics/ Europe, Africa, Asia and US; warehouses; adhe- services Zurich, Switzerland 94 2018 Sales: $145m Products: Caustic soda; potassium hydrox- personal care ingredients; pharmaceutical ex- sives competence centre and laboratory facili- Assets: Laboratories; warehouses www.selectchemie.ch ide; hydrochloric acid; acetates; ammonia; cipients; phosphates; plastics; specialty films; ties; production plant for polymer formulations CEO: Peter Kaufmann Zurich, Switzerland hydrogen peroxide; EDTA specialty chemicals; synthetic polymers; Atlantic Chemicals Trading Products: APIs; excipients; intermediates; dos- www.rahn-group.com Services: Storage; packaging water soluble films; water treatment chemicals Keyser & Mackay 89 2018 Sales: $160.4m (€140m) Services: Formulation; blending; mixing; en- 102 2018 Sales: $134.0m (€117m) capsulation; packaging; refilling; storage; gra- Hamburg, Germany vure; film coating; Reach consulting Amsterdam, Netherlands www.act.de Assets: Warehouse; packaging machines; fill- www.keysermackay.com CEO: Dr Ramin Ghaffari ing stations; silo; encapsulation machines Managing partners: Gerard de Waal, Willem Products: Vitamins; amino acids; sweeten- Trading sales: 10% Augustinus ers; energy ingredients; sports nutrition in- Products: Specialty chemicals; coatings and gredients; preservatives; acidifiers; flavours ProChema inks materials; plastics and rubber additives; and fragrances; plant extracts; feed additives; 99 2018 Sales: $135m adhesives and sealants; construction chemi- food additives; natural products cals; personal care ingredients; food and feed Services: Customising; global supply chain Vienna, Austria ingredients; pharmaceutical ingredients Assets: 13 offices worldwide; several ware- www.prochema.com Services: Technical sales and marketing; houses worldwide CEO: Werner Figlhuber local and central stockholding; sampling Trading sales: 10% Products: Additives and hardeners; Assets: Offices and warehouses in seven Eu- acrylates and methacrylates; binders and res- ropean countries. KH Chemicals ins; monomers; organic acids; polymers; Trading sales: Less than 5% 90 2018 Sales: $159.5m (€139.2m) polyurethane feedstocks; reactive diluents; UV curing monomers Penpet Petrochemical Zwijndrecht, Netherlands Services: Pan-European sales network spe- 103 Trading www.khchemicals.com cialised in selected customer branches; mar- 2018 Sales: $131.7m (€115m) CEO: Hans Ketting ket research; sales; financing; storage; supply Products: Acrylates; acetates; alcohols; an- chain management Hamburg, Germany hydrides; aromatics; chlorinated solvents; Assets: Nine sites in Europe and Asia www.penpet.com glycols; glycol ethers; hydrocarbons; ke- Trading sales: 25% General managers: Tim Meister, Christoph tones; monomers; oxo-alcohols; plasticizers; Meister propylene glycol ethers; vegetable oils URAI Products: Oxo-alcohols; melamine; solvents; Services: Trading; packaging; drumming; lo- 100 2018 Sales: $134.6m (€117.5m) plasticizers gistics services Services: Blending; packaging; storage Assets: Office space; two ISO tanks Assago, Italy Assets: Two warehouses

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Nortex CSC Jaecklechemie metal-working formulations; chemicals for 104 2018 Sales: $130.2m 106 2018 Sales: $129.9m (€113.4m) detergent, disinfection, home care, personal care and pharmaceuticals; textile and leather Moscow, Russia Nuremberg, Germany chemicals; coatings, inks, adhesives, construc- www.nortex-chem.ru www.csc-jaekle.de tion, lubricants and paper chemicals; swim- CEO: Vladimir Yakushin Executives: Robert Spath, Philipp Klass, Dr ming pool chemicals Products: Isocyanates; polyols; epoxy res- Michael Spehr, Dr Bernhard Schmid Services: Blending; drumming; custom and ins; synthetic rubber; natural rubber; phe- Products: Industrial chemicals; acids; alka- toll manufacturing; contract manufacturing; nolic resins; polyolefins; engineering plas- line solutions; solvents; solids; specialties; VMI (telemetry); environmental and technical tics; surfactants; titanium dioxide; cellulose coatings, adhesives and sealants; high quality assistance; packaging; agency services; spe- ethers; antioxidants; UV stabilizers; plasti- parts cleaning chemicals; life science chemi- cialised storage and transportation cizers; PVC resins cals; water and environment chemicals Assets: Eight warehouses; tanks capacity of Services: Storage; packaging; logistics; tech- Services: Technical expertise and field ser- 17,000 cubic metres; own truck fleet; com- nical support vice; warehouse and direct distribution; in- mercial salesforce of 80 persons; PlusChem Assets: Nine warehouses ventory management; blending and repackag- alliance Trading sales: 20% ing; proper disposal of chemical waste; Trading sales: 20% worldwide shipment; trucking Pride Chemical Solutions Assets: One storing, filling and trans-ship- Tillmanns 105 2018 Sales: $130m ment site; warehouse; two laboratories for 108 2018 Sales: $127.2m (€111m) quality assurance; six tank wagons for chemi- Holtsville, New York cals; 13 trucks; 23 company vehicles Milan, Italy www.pridesol.com www.tillmanns.it President: Arthur Dhom Jr GROUP BARCELONESA CEO: Stefan Vollmer Products: Alcohols; amines; esters; glycols; 107 2018 Sales: $128.3m (€112m) Products: Organic and inorganic pigments; glycol ethers; hydrocarbons; ketones; binders; resins; waxes; preservatives; special- mineral oils; petrolatum; polyols; oleochem- Barcelona, Spain ty chemicals and additives for coatings, plas- icals; plasticizers; silicones; stearates; www.grupbarcelonesa.com tics, adhesives and construction chemicals; surfactants President and CEO: D Enric Collell water treatment chemicals; functional addi- Services: Blending; packaging; storage; NF Products: Basic inorganic and organic chemi- tives and ingredients for food and feed USP kosher repackaging; RSPO repackaging; cals; chlor-alkalis; acids and bases; metallic Services: Marketing; product formulation ethyl alcohol denaturing and packaging salts; chemicals for oil drilling and comple- and blending; custom packaging; product Assets: Three warehouses; 12 tractor tion; mining chemicals; solvents; resins, cur- evaluation in own laboratory; technical sup- trailers; five straight trucks; 25 tank wagons; ing agents and composites; food and feed ad- port; green chemistry product solutions; ware- tank farm ditives and tailor-made blends; agrochemicals; housing; supply chain management; vendor Shutterstock

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managed inventory; fire class 4.1 category for tion systems Tilley Chemical storage of highly flammable products Services: Warehousing and bulk storage; lo- 115 2018 Sales: $109m Assets: Two company owned and operated gistics; repackaging and relabelling; blending warehouses; two laboratories; own truck fleet and mixing; toll production; REACH servic- Baltimore, Maryland, US es; laboratory testing www.tilleychem.com Haviland Enterprises Assets: 25 warehouses President: John Tilley 109 2018 Sales: $122.4m Products: Food ingredients; pharmaceutical Unipex ingredients; personal care ingredients; HI&I Grand Rapids, Michigan, US 112 2018 Sales: $117.5m (€102.6m) chemicals www.havilandusa.com Services: Blending; packaging President and CEO: Mike Karasiewicz Paris, France Assets: Two company owned facilities; four Products: Caustic soda; sulphuric acid; hy- www.unipex.com third-party logistic providers; 26 tank trucks; drochloric acid; finishing chemicals; anodiz- President: Patrice Barthelmes 15 van trailers; 12 specialty delivery vehicles ing chemicals; cleaning chemicals; pool Products: Active and functional personal chemicals; wastewater chemicals; potable care ingredients; active pharmaceutical in- QUIMDIS water chemicals; solvents gredients (APIs) and excipients; enzymes; 116 2018 Sales: $107.7m (€94m) Services: Liquid and powder blending; amino acids; lactose; sweetneers; sugar; liquid and powder packaging; sachet/pouch- starch; fibres; plasticizers; surfactants; addi- Levallois-Perret, France ing; screen printing; labelling; laboratory tives; silicones; titanium dioxide (TiO2); www.quimdis.com analysis dyes and pigments, sports grounds polymers President: Jean-Francois Quarre Assets: Six warehouses; 14 trucks; 24 trail- and resins Products: Pharmaceutical APIs and excipients; ers; four tankers; five manufacturing locations Services: CSR (corporate social responsibili- veterinary APIs and excipients; essential oils; Trading sales: Less than 5% ty); warehousing; application laboratory ser- aroma chemicals; nutraceuticals ingredients; vices; formulations; regulatory services; audit- cosmetics ingredients; food ingredients and ad- Sea-Land Chemical ing; reconditioning ditives; feed and pet food ingredients and addi- 110 2018 Sales: $120.9m Assets: Two owned warehouses in the Paris tives; flavours and fragrances ingredients area Services: Dry granulation in GMP site; API Westlake, Ohio, US Trading sales: 7% production (diosmine); blending and filtra- www.sealandchem.com tion of essential oils President: Jennifer Altstadt Essential Ingredients Assets: Three factories; three warehouses Products: Acids; amines; antioxidants; bioc- 113 2018 Sales: $114.4m Trading sales: 30% ides; chlorinated paraffins; corrosion inhibitors; defoamers; dispersants; esters; emulsi- Atlanta, Georgia, US Harwick Standard fiers; ethoxylated alcohols; fatty acids; foam www.essentialingredients.com 117 Distribution control agents; industrial and transportation CEO: Kris Maynard 2018 Sales: $106m lubricant additive components; lubricity ad- Products: Personal care ingredients; home ditives; polyalphaolefins; primary amino al- care chemicals; industrial and institutional Akron, Ohio, US cohols; natural petroleum sulfonates; sur- chemicals; pet care ingredients www.harwick.com factants; vegetable and animal oils Services: R&D solutions; product develop- President and CEO: Ernie Pouttu Services: Stocking distributor; packaging ment; technical support; dedicated customer Products: Polymers; rubber chemicals; plas- and repackaging; product sourcing; market service representatives; blending; repackag- ticizers; process oils; flame retardants; acti- development; technical expertise; lubricant ing; logistics solutions; regulatory team; sam- vators; chemical and color dispersions; pro- testing; logistics; small package to bulk de- ple inventory; multi-language personnel cessing aids; organic peroxides; resins; liveries; ISO9001:2015 standards; regulato- Assets: Seven distribution locations through- vulcanising agents; colorants; fillers; stabilis- ry support out the US ers; dry liquid concentrates Assets: 10 warehouse locations in North Services: Warehousing; bulk break; logistics; America and Europe; six repackaging facili- PHT International storage; import; export; technical support; ties; one testing laboratory 114 2018 Sales: $110.8m regulatory support Assets: Two company owned and operated Algol Chemicals Charlotte, North Carolina, US warehouses; seven public warehouses, 111 2018 Sales: $120m www.phtinternational.com one truck President: Lihong Yu Espoo, Finland Products: Pharmaceutical ingredients; agro- C.H. Erbsloeh Group www.algolchemicals.com chemicals; consumables; electronic chemi- 118 2018 sales: $104.2m (€91m) Managing director: Juha Jokinen cals, personal care ingredients; industrial Products: Resins, binders, fillers and addi- chemicals Krefeld, Germany tives for paints and coatings; additives, aux- Services: Custom manufacturing; in-house www.cherbsloeh.com iliaries and fillers for polymers and rubber; chemical development; quality control and CEO: Christopher Erbsloeh polymers; food ingredients and additives; regulatory support; strategic sourcing; logis- Products: Specialty chemicals for coatings; raw materials for animal feed; chemicals for tics; sales and marketing; sample generation; adhesives; construction; lubricants; pharma- metal production and systems for metal contract research organisation; import/export ceutical; cosmetics; personal and home care; treatment; industrial chemicals; water treat- services in the US and China rubber; plastics; electronics; water treatment; ment chemicals; mining chemicals; ammo- Assets: Fully owned Sancus Arc manufac- food and beverage nia gas and aqueous ammonia; soil remedia- turing facility Services: Technical sales and marketing;

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application development; analytical testing Products: Anhydrous and aqua ammonia www.chemsolv.com & quality control; warehousing; regulatory Services: Safety training; storage tanks; CEO: L Glenn Austin services; supply chain management; after pump out services; storage tank repairs and Products: Specialty blends of lacquer thinners; sales services maintenance enamel reducers; flexo ink solvents; cleaners; Assets: 11 office locations; application and Assets: 16 distribution locations, full fleet of acetals solvents; aromatic/aliphatic hydrocar- quality control laboratories; owned and op- tractors and trailers bons; isoparaffins; alcohols; ketones; esters; gly- erated warehousing and tank farm cols; glycol ethers; polyethylene glycols; The Chemical Company amines; ethanolamines; plasticizers; sur- Staub & Co – Silbermann 121 2018 Sales: $102.1m factants; acrylates; silicones; heat transfer flu- 119 2018 Sales: $103.1m (€90m) ids; metal-working fluids; process oils; oils and Jamestown, Rhode Island lubricants; inorganics; phosphates; caustic pot- Nuremberg, Germany www.thechemco.com ash; caustic soda; acids; high purity lab reagents www.staub-silbermann.de CEO: Robert N Roach Jr; President: Robert N Services: Solvent formulation; NMP replace- Managing directors: Andreas Frank; Peter Roach III ment; solvent distillation and purification; Stockmeier Products: Polymer additives; coatings, adhe- laboratory services; consulting on product, Products: Industrial and specialty chemicals; sives, sealants and elastomers (CASE); flame safety and environmental; rail terminal service acids and lyes; solvents; solid chemicals; clean- retardants; silanes; water treatment chemi- Assets: Six warehouses; 39 trucks; 50 trail- ing agents; products for food, feed, pharmaceu- cals; intermediates; acids ers; bulk storage ticals, cosmetics; water treatment chemicals; Services: Global procurement; packaging; thermal transfer agents; ammonia; AdBlue imports; international customs management: Neo Chemical Services: Storage; mixing; blending; filling; EH&S team; logistics; rail fleet management 123 2018 Sales: $102.0m (€89m) packaging; polymerisation Assets: Global network comprised of 41 sites; Assets: Two warehouses; 17 trucks regional offices (California, US; Colombia; Dzerzhinsk, Russia Trading sales: 34% Mexico City, Mexico; Nanjing, China); 10 www.neochemical.ru storage facilities; 14 railcars; global warehous- CEO: Andrey Lipovetskiy; Director: Vladimir Tanner Industries es, shore tanks and distribution centres Fedyushkin 120 2018 Sales: $102.7m Products: Epoxy resins; additives; peroxide Chemsolv compounds; titanium dioxide; silanes; poly- Southampton, Pennsylvania, US 122 2018 Sales: $102m isobutylene; hardeners; hexene-1; citric acid; www.tannerind.com surfactants; base oils; disinfectants; PPU/

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Services: Storage; shipping Services: Liquid and dry storage; packaging; Services: Product mixing; blending; tailor- Assets: Wholesale warehouse blending; flexible delivery; technical support; made packaging solutions; Reach lead regis- Trading sales: 47% product and solutions development trant of many molecules Assets: One headquarters; three branches; Assets: Global presence; local technical ClearTech Industries eight warehouses; 75 trucks sales forces 124 2018 Sales: $100m TRiiSO TCR Industries Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada 128 2018 Sales: $93m 132 2018 Sales: $88m www.cleartech.ca President: Randy Bracewell Cardiff, California, US La Palma, California, US Products: Water treatment; caustic soda; www.tri-iso.com www.tcrindustries.com hydrochloric acid; chlorine; sodium hy- President: Jason Scott CEO: Sam Rumfola pochlorite; coagulants; flocculants; acids; al- Products: Paints; coatings and ink raw materi- Products: Resins; pigments; additives and kalis; sulfites; defoamers; activated carbon; als; adhesive and sealant ingredients; plastics specialties phosphates; chemical feed systems; analyti- and composite chemicals; lubricant and met- Services: Storage cal products alworking additives; polyurethane chemicals Assets: 10 warehouses Services: Blending; packaging Services: Logistics; warehousing Trading sales: 10-20% Assets: 10 buildings Assets: One office; multiple 3PL service providers Megachem UNION PETROCHEMICAL 133 2018 Sales: $86.5m (S$117.9m) 125 2018 Sales: $99m MAYS CHEMICAL 129 2018 Sales: $92.7m Singapore Bangkok, Thailand www.megachem.com.sg www.unionpetrochemical.com Indianapolis, Indiana, US Chairman and CEO:Sidney Chew Managing director: Perapol Suwannapasri www.mayschem.com Products: Surfactants; plasticizers; flame Products: Alcohols; aromatics; esters; President: Kristin Mays Corbitt retardants; catalysts; anti-foaming agents; glycols; gylcol ethers; ketones; monomers; Products: acidulants; binders; buffers; che- emulsifiers; aromatics; food and beverage ad- PP; PE lates; citrates; emulsifiers; excipients; glycer- ditives; pharmaceutical chemicals; antioxi- Services: Blending; packaging; repackaging; ine; gums; methanol; phosphates; solvents; dants; corrosion inhibitors; silicone fluid; bio- storage; delivery; inventory management starches; stearates; surfactants cides; persulphates; polymers Assets: Five warehouses; 30 trucks Services: Shipping; warehousing; liquid Services: Global sourcing; storage; vendor- blending; repackaging; reformulation managed inventory; transportation; custom Taj Al Mulook Assets: Two warehouses; one warehouse/ blending; repackaging; packaging; labelling; 126 2018 Sales: $95.6m blending facility; one freight truck; six liquid technical and laboratory services tank trucks; 12 forklifts/related equipment Assets: Warehouses; trucks; blenders/reactors Dubai, United Arab Emirates www.tajchem.com Noahs Ark Chemicals AEGEAN FIRST COMPANY (AFCO) CEO and chairman: Irfan Siddique Mulla 130 2018 Sales: $91.6m (€80m) 134 2018 Sales: $85.1m (€74.3m) Products: Polyurethane chemicals; lubricant additives, paint ink and coating; con- London, UK Athens, Greece struction chemicals, oil and gas; solvents; www.noahsark.eu.com www.afco.gr PU; machinery and fabrics CEO: Bharat Bhardwaj President and general manager: Christos Services: Blending; repacking; local ware- Products: Solvents; glycols; styrene; benzene; Spanos housing; technical support; supply chain acrylates Products: Polymers; aromatics; solvents; management; just-in-time delivery; invento- Services: Blending; storage caustic soda; inorganics; plasticizers; food ad- ry management Trading sales: 30% ditives; pharmaceutical cleaning agents; Assets: Marketing network in GCC and Afri- water treatment chemicals; recycled materials ca; six warehouses Novasol Chemicals Group Services: Repackaging Trading sales: 40% 131 2018 Sales: $90m Greenchem Industries Quimisa Brussels, Belgium 135 2018 Sales: $84.5m 127 2015 Sales: $95.2m novasolchemicals.com General manager: Claude Fickers West Palm Beach, Florida, US Santa Catarina, Brazil Global business director: Francois-Xavier www.greenchemindustries.com www.quimisa.com.br Coiffard CEO: John S Lagae President and CEO: Rogerio Wehmuth Products: Extraction and reaction solvents; Products: Acetates; acids; acrylates; alco- Products: Caustic soda; chlorinated sol- intermediates and reagents; active ingredi- hols; amines; aromatics; chlorinated solvents; oxygenated solvents; aromatic sol- ents/extracts; botanicals; essential oils; clays; vents; ketones; glycerine; glycols; glycol vents; glycols; hydrogen peroxide; organic emollients; preservatives; rheology modifiers; ethers; nonyl phenol ethoxylates; phthalates; acids; inorganic chemicals; ethanolamines; UV filters; conditioners; surfactants; flavours plasticizers; PCBTF; DMC; THF; d-limonene heat transfer fluids; textile auxiliaries and and fragrances; carbonates; additives; DAAM; Services: Sourcing; import; logistics; repack- dyestuffs; enzymes; chemicals for household ADH; EMA; GMA; acrylates/methacrylates; aging; JIT inventory management; in-house care and industrial/institutional applica- sulfolane; trimercaptotriazine and hydroxies; customs broker; freight tions; water treatment chemicals water treatment chemicals; 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LATIN AMERICA DISTRIBUTION LEADERS (2018 SALES) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) 1 Tricon Energy 1,098.7 24 Omya 40.7 46 Quimidroga 6.0 2 Brenntag 925.4 25 Sulatlantica 38.0 47 Ricardo Molina Group 5.7 3 Manuchar 771.0 26 Morais de Castro 29.1 48 Aceto 5.0 4 GTM Holdings 642.0 27 Ravago Chemicals 25.2 49 Prakash Chemicals International 5.0 5 Helm 515.6 28 Selectchemie 25.0 50 Van Horn, Metz & Co 5.0 6 Quimica Anastacio 374.9 29 Brisco do Brasil 24.5 51 Arpadis Benelux 5.0 7 Pochteca Materias Primas 336.5 30 CellMark Chemicals 23.0 52 Transmare Chemie 4.7 8 Snetor 325.0 31 Petrochem Middle East 21.4 53 2M Holdings 4.6 9 M. Cassab 316.2 32 CG Chemikalien 20.7 54 Penpet Petrochemical Trading 3.5 10 Quimtia 303.0 33 KH Chemicals 20.5 55 Solventis 3.4 11 Bandeirante Quimica 207.9 34 DAXX 19.0 56 Norkem Holdings 3.4 12 Jebsen & Jessen 195.9 35 ECEM European Chemical Marketing 18.6 57 Quimdis 3.0 13 Indukern 166.3 36 The Chemical Company 15.2 58 Harwick Standard Distribution 2.3 14 Quimisa 95.2 37 Barentz International 15.2 59 WISTEMA 2.2 15 Vikudha Overseas 82.0 38 Sinochem Plastics 15.0 60 Hawkins 2.0 16 Biesterfeld 58.0 39 Wego Chemical Group 14.0 61 Ketsin de Costa Rica 2.0 17 Metachem Group 52.3 18 Carbono Quimica 49.0 40 DutCH2 13.1 62 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 1.4 19 Andes Chemical 48.2 41 Shamrock Shipping & Trading 10.3 63 LEHVOSS Group 1.1 20 ICC Chemical 44.5 42 Clariquimica 9.3 64 Astro Chemicals 1.0 21 Verquimica 42.4 43 BUFA Chemikalien Group 9.0 65 Grupo RNM 1.0 22 Henry Hirschen 42.0 44 Joss Elastomers 8.2 66 R.E. Carroll 1.0 23 Quelaris 40.7 45 The Plaza Group 8.0 67 Rahn Group 1.0 NOTE: Sales are by region and may differ from the total sales figure in the main Top 100 listing. Table excludes companies that do not break out sales by geography

Cornelius Group Services: Storage of liquid and solid prod- Assets: eight warehouses; 26 trucks; blend- 136 2018 Sales: $83.3m (£65.25m) ucts; storage for third parties; blending; cus- ing and formulation unit tomised handling (packaging, mixing, filling Trading sales: 7.1% Bishops Stortford, UK and labelling); quality control; technical after www.cornelius.co.uk sales support; Reach support Rowell Chemical Chairman: Neville Prior; CEO: Darren Spiby Assets: two owned warehouses with total 139 2018 Sales: $82m Products: Monomers; specialty chemicals; space of 85,000 square metres and storage food ingredients; personal care ingredients; capacity for liquid products of more than Hinsdale, Illinois, US pigments; additives; resins; minerals; sur- 7,000 cubic metres; one warehouse for rent; www.rowellchemical.com factants; adhesive materials; excipients; natu- three offices; two laboratories; five trucks President: Thomas Harris ral products; animal feed ingredients; medical Trading sales: 20% Products: Bleach; caustic soda; potassium hy- device raw materials; coatings ingredients droxide; hydrochloric acid; sulphuric acid; Services: Global supply chain management; Afriglobal Commodities phosphoric acid; hydrofluosilicic acid laboratory services; logistics; legislative/regu- 138 2018 Sales: $83.0m Services: Transloading from railcars to bulk latory advice; distillation; chemical reactions storage tanks or trailers and manufacturing; repackaging; R&D; sales Dubai, UAE Assets: two warehouses; 15 trucks; 35 trailers and marketing www.afriglobalonline.com Assets: nine warehouses; five laboratories; Managing director: Maneesh Bhushan Garg Miles Chemical two manufacturing sites; seven offices; one Products: Flexible and rigid polyurethane 140 2018 Sales: $80.5m clean room chemicals; food and feed ingredients; bever- Trading sales: 3% age grade ethanol; paint raw materials; Arleta, California, US mining chemicals; cosmetics raw materials www.mileschemical.com Ilario Ormezzano and fine chemicals; soap and detergent raw CEO: Michael Miles; Chairman: Anthony 137 2018 Sales: $83.1m (€72.5m) materials; leather, textile and water treat- Milesix ment chemicals; oilfield chemicals; lube Products: Acids; esters; lubricants; alcohols; Gaglianico, Italy additives; plastic resins and processing flavours and fragrances; plasticizers; food www.ilarioormezzano.it aids; construction chemicals; pharmaceuti- additives; polyglycols; amines; glycol President: Giancarlo Ormezzano cal excipients ethers; hydrogen peroxide; solvents; chelat- Products: Solvents; phenol; acrylates; base Services: Imports; technical after-sales sup- ing agents; chlor-alkali; inorganics; sur- chemicals; pharmaceutical intermediates; hy- port; end-to-end logistics; VMI; warehous- factants; chlorinated solvents; thickening drocarbons ing; blending agents; ketones

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Services: Manufacturing; blending; con- Services: Packaging; storage; contract pack- tions; warehousing; storage; customised ser- tract packaging; solvent reclamation; aging; VMI; custom training; blending vices and solutions; technical support technical training; safety training; hazard- Assets: 40 tankers; 12 delivering boxes; six ous waste removal; customer product delivering tractors; five warehouses; 28 bulk Prakash Chemicals research tanks 145 International Assets: bulk storage capacity; warehouse 2018 Sales: $78.5m space; 30 trucks; 32 trailers; 21 vans; 14 tankers; Al Nahda International six Bobtails 143 (Anichem Group) Vadodara, Gujarat, India 2018 Sales: $79.8m www.pciplindia.com Joss Elastomers Managing director: Manish K Shah 141 2018 Sales: $80.2m (€70m) Dubai, United Arab Emirates Products: Caustic soda flakes; TDI; caustic www.alnahdafz.com soda prills; benzyl alcohol; ethyl acetate; so- Alkmaar, Netherlands Group managing director: Dr T R Vijayan dium sulphate anhydrous; cinnamic aldeh- www.joss.nl Products: Solvents; acetates; acrylates; al- dye; acetone; SLES; chlorinated paraffin President and CEO: Frits C Jeukens cohols; aromatics; cellulose ethers; coating wax; benzyl chloride; citric acid; liquid glu- Products: Natural rubber; natural latex; syn- additives; glycols; pigments; polymer emul- cose; DEP; dextrose monohydrate; hydro- thetic rubbers; rubber chemicals; carbon sions; thinners; ethanol; IPA; LABSA chloric acid; white oil black; renewable silica; process oils; silane Services: Terminal storage for bulk liquid Services: Blending; packaging; storage; la- coupling agents chemicals; drumming; 3PL logistics ware- belling; logistics supply chain service; quali- Services: Warehousing; full logistical servic- housing; custom blending ty assurance; inspection; country specific es from factory to final destination Assets: tank terminal storage with dedicat- documents complaince; Reach registration; Trading sales: 60% ed berth access; nine warehouses; three pro- FAMI-QS certification duction facilities; three laboratories Assets: two manufacturing plants; two Webb Chemical Service Trading sales: 70% warehouses; three subsidiaries outside India 142 2018 Sales: $80m CHEM INTERNATIONAL George S Coyne Chemical Muskegon Heights, Michigan, US 144 2018 Sales: $79.1m 146 2018 Sales: $76.8m www.webbchemical.com CEO: Brad Hilleary Warsaw, Poland Croydon, Pennsylvania, US President: Charlie Stevens www.chem-international.pl www.coynechemical.com Products: Caustic soda; caustic potash; sol- CEO: Cezary Mielczarek President and CEO: Thomas H Coyne Sr vents; aromatics; acids; surfactants; amines; Board member: Pawel Tomaszkiewicz Products: Acids; alcohols; amines; chelating ethanolomines; pharmaceutical ingredi- Products: VAM; styrene monomer; butyl agents; chlor-alkai; chlorinated solvents; ents; water and wastewater treatment chem- acrylate; phenol; glycols; solvents; anhy- food additives; glycol ethers; hydrogen per- icals; HI&I chemicals; coatings chemicals; drides; polymers; EPS; caustic soda oxide; inorganics; ketones; polymers; spe- metal finishing chemicals Services: Logistics support; intermodal solu- cialty quats; surfactants; potable and waste www.icis.com April-June 2019 | Chemical Distributor | 55 special report top 100 Chemical DISTRIBUTORS

water treatment chemicals Connection Chemical ics; ketones; glycol ethers Services: Blending; technical training; 150 2018 Sales: $73m Services: Toll manufacturing; custom blend- contract packaging; terminal rail to truck ing; packaging; USP packaging; storage; rail- transloading Newtown, Pennsylvania, US car transloading Assets: Four warehouses; 27 trucks; over 50 www.connectionchemical.com Assets: tank farm storage; 14 car rail spur; trailers or tankers President: Frank Farish warehouse space; bulk tanker fleet Products: Caustic soda; caustic potash; in- Will & Co dustrial and institutional chemicals; com- KALE KIMYA 147 2018 Sales: $76.8m (€67m) pounding chemicals; agricultural products; 154 2018 Sales: $70m water treatment chemicals; food and beverage Badhoevedorp, Netherlands ingredients; feed ingredients; pulp and paper Kocaeli, Turkey www.will-co.nl chemicals; oil and gas chemicals; metal fin- www.kalekimya.com Managing director: Jacques van Lindonk ishing and flux chemicals; phosphates; min- CEO: Birgen Kaleagasi Products: 1,4-butanediol and derivatives eral acids Products: Detergent additives; disinfectant (THF, GBL); plasticizers and flame retard- Services: Logistics; importing; inventory and protection chemicals; emulsifiers; poly- ants; pigments; proteins; cosmetic and per- management; supply chain solutions; repack- mers; surfactants; pool chemicals; actives and sonal care ingredients; coating resins and aging; dilutions; blending; outsourcing antioxidants; paints; oils and esters; condi- additives; bio-based solvents and binders; Assets: 12 stocking locations nationwide; tioners; protectives; perfume; silicones; UV impact modifiers for plastics; foaming strategic deep draft storage filters; fatty alcohols; adhesives agents for plastics; additive masterbatches; Services: Storage; transport; production; sulfamic acid; ferric chloride; engineering Maha Chemicals blending; packaging plastics and compounds 151 2018 Sales: $73m Assets: Five warehouses; four trucks; one Services: Storage management; logistics production facility; storage; bulk storage management; sales and marketing Singapore Trading sales: 30% Trading sales: 90% www.mahachem.com CEO: Tan Seow Hoon MOGoil Callahan Chemical Products: Carbon black; construction chemi- 155 2018 Sales: $68.7m (€60m) 148 2018 Sales: $75m cals; resins; polymers; additives; functional fillers; pigments; colourants; biocides; sur- Berlin, Germany Palmyra, New Jersey, US factants www.mogoil.com www.calchem.com Services: Sales and marketing; warehouse General director: Andreas Rogge President: Gregory D. Shetler storage; logistics; packaging Products: Base oils; process oils; naphthenic Products: Coatings; adhesives sealants Assets: 12 warehouses; 12 trucks oils; white oils; low viscosity oils; rubber pro- and elastomers; household, institutional Trading sales: 100% cess oils and industrial chemicals; pharmaceutical/ Services: Storage; technical support; logistics nutracuetical ingredients; personal care/ RICARDO MOLINA GROUP solutions cosmetics ingredients; food ingredients; 152 2018 Sales: $71.7m (€62.6m) Trading sales: 30% functional fluids Services: Bulk liquids packaging; custom Barcelona, Spain Shamrock Shipping & Trading blending; returnable containers, drums and www.ricardomolina.com 156 2018 Sales: $68.5m totes; customized tote programmes; custom President: Gemma Molina labelling; remote tank monitoring; vendor- Products: Specialty chemicals; coatings ma- Limassol, Cyprus managed inventory; consignment invento- terials; building and construction chemi- www.shamrockoils.com ry; committed inventory to forecast cals; adhesives; lubricants; pharmaceutical Managing Director: Céline Boutier Assets: White rooms; bulk storage; compa- ingredients; cosmetics ingredients; personal Products: Base oils; polyalphaolefins; naph- ny owned and operated fleet; nine and home care chemicals; rubber chemi- thenic oils; re-refined base oils; additives, warehouses; 12 trucks; tank farm; two re- cals; plastics additives; water treatment glycols, waxes, white oils; recycled oils; rub- gional offices chemicals; food and beverage ingredients; ber process oils, petroleum jelly, bitumen, agrochemicals anti-freeze Chemical Solvents Services: Technical sales and marketing; Services: Supply chain and logistics; financ- 149 2018 Sales: $75m application development; quality control; ing and trade finance; flexitank loading; mar- warehousing; regulatory services; supply ket intelligence; storage; transshipment Cleveland, Ohio, US chain management; after sales services; re- Assets: Offices in Cyprus, France and UAE www.chemicalsolvents.com packaging Trading sales: 50% Owner: Ed Pavlish Assets: three laboratories; one warehouse Products: Aromatics; aliphatics; ethanola- Buckley Oil mines; purge solvents; acetates; silicones; Chemisphere 157 2018 Sales: $67m plasticizers; organic solvents; oil and gas 153 2018 Sales: $70m chemicals; chlorinated solvents; THF; NPB; Midlothian, Texas, US cyclohexanone St Louis, Missouri, US www.buckleyoil.com Services: Custom blending; toll blending; www.chemispherecorp.com President: Robert Rice hazardous and non-hazardous waste han- President: Matthew Schwent Products: Solvents, alcohols, aliphatics, aro- dling; storage; packaging Products: Beverage grade ethanol; denatured matics, glycols, glycol ethers, ketones, base Assets: four warehouses; storage tanks ethanol; aliphatic solvents; alcohols; aromat- oils, finished lubricants

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Services: Blending, packaging, toll blend- ethyl cellulose; titanium dioxide; acrylates Astro Chemicals ing, storage, delivery, custom packaging, Services: Custom packaging; custom 161 2018 Sales: $65m transloading blending; toll manufacturing; container Assets: four warehouses, 20 trucks management programmes; export services; Springfield, Massachusetts, US Trading sales: >5% technical support; green chemistry product www.astrochemicals.com solutions; small container filling President: Chris Diamond Skyhawk Chemicals Assets: Nine trucks; 24 trailers; 15 tankers Products: Solvents; chlor-alkali; pharma- 158 2018 Sales: $66.9m ceutical grade chemicals; food grade chemi- Brainerd Chemical cals; adhesives; activated carbon; water Houston, Texas, US 160 2018 sales: $66m treatment chemicals; wastewater treatment www.skyhawkchemicals.com chemicals; mineral oils and petrolatums; ac- President: Clark Knickerbocker Tulsa, Oklahoma, US etates; heat transfer fluids; alcohols; citrates; Products: Caustic soda; methanol; calcium www.brainerdchemical.com phosphates; silicates chloride; sulfuric acid; anhydrous ammo- CEO: Mathew A. Brainerd Services: Blending; packaging; storage; lo- nia; aqua ammonia; KOH, urea, propylene Products: Peracetic acid; hydrofluoric gistics glycol, hydrochloric acid, xylene, bleach, acid; sulphuric acid; nitric acid; refriger- Assets: Two warehouses, 12 trucks, five tank- polyphosphoric acid, benzoic acid, ethyl- ants; aromatics; aliphatics; glycols; glycol ers; 12 storage tanks ene glycol ethers; high hazard acids; chlor-alkali; Services: Blending; packaging; storage alcohols; formaldehyde; food processing LAVOLLEE sanitation chemicals; water treatment 162 2018 Sales: $64.2m (€56m) SolvChem chemicals 159 2018 Sales: $66.2m Services: Packaging; blending; manufactur- Levallois, France ing/engineering services; contract packing; www.lavollee.com Pearland, Texas, US toll manufacturing; logistic services; ware- President: Herve Lavollee www.solvchem.com housing; transloading; Products: Ingredients for life sciences; indus- President and CEO: Jean-Pierre Baizan Assets: Four production locations in Okla- trial chemicals Products: Solvents; organic and inorganic homa, North Carolina, and Illinois; tank ter- Services: Sales development; storage; formu- chemicals; epoxies; silicones; silicone minals; rail terminals; fleet of trucks, trailers lation support; regulatory advice; VMI; out- emulsions; hydrocarbon resins; hydroxyl and bulk tankers sourcing; repackaging

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Assets: One laboratory Services: Contract manufacturing; small pack President: Peter Jobling chemical production; waste management Products: Organic ingredients; food ingredi- PROQUIBASA Assets: production and storage facility; six ents; sodium reduction agents; green clean- 163 2018 Sales: $60.7m (€53m) warehouse locations; 20 fully owned trucks; ing solutions; industrial additives; personal R&D/QC laboratories care ingredients; health ingredients; pulp Barcelona, Spain Trading sales: 5% and paper chemicals; petroleum lubricants; www.proquibasa.com customized petroleum blends CEO: Ivan Sanchez EMSA TECNOLOGIA QUIMICA Services: Customised petroleum laboratory Products: Specialty and commodity chemi- 167 2018 Sales: $57.3m (€50m) formulations; blending; packaging; test kitch- cals; coatings, construction and adhesives en; in-house laboratory materials; pigments and performance prod- Barcelona, Spain ucts; water treatment chemicals; household www.emsaquimica.com Newport Industries and industrial cleaning chemicals; lubricants President: Jorge Grima 171 2018 Sales: $53.4m (£41.9m) and metalworking chemicals Products: Pigments; fillers; binders; inorgan- Services: Technical service; blending; manu- ics; surfactants; minerals; additives Richmond, Surrey, UK facturing; toll manufacturing; bulk loading Services: Blending; packaging; storage www.newport-industries.com and storage; warehousing Assets: Four storage locations Managing director: Raj Patel Assets: Full service and wholly owned facili- Products: Soda ash; sodium bicarbonate; hy- ties in Barcelona with tank farm and ware- Hubbard-Hall drocarbon resin; calcined bauxite; l-carnitine; house; regional hub in Madrid with tank farm 168 2018 Sales: $56.2m resins; mineral animal feed materials; indus- and warehouse trial chemicals Waterbury, Connecticut, US Services: Supply chain management; sourcing Walsh & Associates www.hubbardhall.com 164 2018 Sales: $60.6m President and CEO: Molly Kellogg Valudor Products Products: Chlor-alkali chemicals; organic 172 2018 Sales: $53m Saint Louis, Missouri, US solvents; 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EUROPE CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTION LEADERS (2018 SALES) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) Company Sales ($m) 1 Brenntag* 6,116.4 48 ELTON Group 153.5 95 Kale Kimya 48.0 2 Helm 3,297.0 49 Grolman Group 150.8 96 EMSA Tecnologia Quimica 47.5 3 Univar Solutions* 1,970.0 50 Aceto 150.0 97 Drogas Vigo 45.0 4 Tricon Energy 1,934.5 51 2M Holdings 149.7 98 UCG (United Chemical Group) 43.5 5 IMCD* 1,561.4 52 Metafrax Trading International 146.6 99 National Chemical 40.8 6 Stockmeier Holding 1,376.9 53 CellMark Chemicals 142.2 100 A. + E. Fischer-Chemie 38.9 7 Barentz International 1,343.0 54 Rainoldi 137.5 101 WISTEMA 35.5 8 Biesterfeld 1,281.0 55 Urai 134.6 102 MY-CHEM 34.7 9 Azelis 1,068.8 56 Keyser & Mackay 134.0 103 Brugues 33.8 10 Quimidroga 945.1 57 HARKE Group 133.6 104 Joss Elastomers 32.1 11 OQEMA 939.3 58 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 131.7 105 Sameca 29.2 12 Omya 915.3 59 Nortex 130.2 106 Vikudha Overseas 29.0 13 TER Group 797.3 60 Selectchemie 130.0 107 Lumar 28.5 14 Caldic 738.9 61 Faravelli 129.2 108 Equilex 23.5 15 Solvadis 625.9 62 ProChema 129.0 109 Lake Chemicals and Minerals 22.1 16 Safic-Alcan 594.2 63 CSC Jaecklechemie 128.3 110 Manuchar 22.0 17 Ravago Chemicals 532.7 64 Tillmanns 127.2 111 WhitChem 20.9 18 Nordmann, Rassmann 477.7 65 Petrochem Middle East 122.7 112 Monarch Chemicals 20.9 19 CG Chemikalien 457.7 66 Group Barcelonesa 117.1 113 Biachem 19.0 20 LEHVOSS Group 387.2 67 Arpadis Benelux 114.0 114 Klaus F. Meyer 18.7 21 Jebsen & Jessen Group 374.6 68 Unipex 110.1 115 Comindex 18.3 22 DKSH Holding** 333.1 69 Algol Chemicals 110.0 116 The White Sea & Baltic Company 17.9 23 Indukern 325.2 70 Penpet Petrochemical Trading 108.8 117 KEMAT 16.6 24 Pluschem EEIG 320.0 71 KH Chemicals 104.7 118 Tecnosintesi 16.3 25 Eigenmann & Veronelli 311.6 72 C.H. Erbsloeh Group 103.3 119 Matrix Chemie 16.0 26 Telko 304.7 73 Staub & Co – Silbermann 103.1 120 DutCH2 15.8 27 KRAHN Chemie 284.1 74 Bodo Moller Chemie 93.8 121 Stort Chemicals 11.5 28 ICC Chemical 278.1 75 Rahn Group 89.0 122 Prakash Chemicals International 10.4 29 KTM 257.0 76 Quimdis 88.2 123 Megachem 6.2 30 Arkem Kimya 243.4 77 Aegean First Company (AFCO) 85.1 124 LBB Specialties (includes Charkit 5.0 31 Solventis 228.0 78 Wego Chemical Group 85.0 Chemical Company & AIC) 32 Donauchem 226.8 79 Ilario Ormezzano 83.1 125 The Chemical Company 4.2 33 Gamma Chimica 222.1 80 Noahs Ark Chemicals 82.5 126 KPL International 4.2 34 Norkem Holdings 210.4 81 Neo Chemical 80.5 127 Marubeni Specialty Chemicals 4.0 35 ECEM European Chemical 209.9 82 Chem International 79.1 Marketing 128 Quimtia 4.0 83 Cornelius Group 77.3 36 HSH Chemie 208.5 129 Dakram Materials 4.0 84 Will & Co 75.6 37 United Trading System (UTS/ETC) 201.0 130 Transmare Chemie 3.2 85 Behn Meyer Group 73.3 38 ChemPartners 196.5 131 Van Horn, Metz & Co 3.0 86 MOGoil 68.7 39 Bang & Bonsomer 194.7 132 Sea-Land Chemical 2.9 87 Novasol Chemicals 67.0 40 Connect Chemicals Group 190.8 133 Sinochem Plastics 2.3 88 Lavollee 63.0 41 Tennants Distribution 187.6 134 Hawkins 2.0 89 RAI Rakha Al Khaleej 60.0 42 Grupo RNM 186.8 International 135 Higgi 1.9 43 IMPAG 180.0 90 Proquibasa 56.1 136 Protea Chemicals 1.6 44 BUFA Chemikalien Group 175.0 91 Ricardo Molina Group 55.5 137 Taj Al Mulook 1.4 45 Haeffner 168.0 92 Airedale Chemical 50.5 138 Shamrock Shipping & Trading 1.1 46 Snetor 168.0 93 PHT International 48.7 139 Monachem Group 1.1 47 Thommen-Furler 155.8 94 Same Chemicals 48.5 140 Astro Chemicals 1.0 *EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) **DKSH figures are based on industry estimates. Europe sales include North America NOTE: Sales are by region and may differ from the total sales figure in the main Top 100 listing. Table excludes companies that do not break out sales by geography

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Chem One membranes 175 2018 Sales: $50.1m Services: Bulk storage; blending; packaging; lab services Houston, Texas, US Assets: Five warehouses; three manufactur- www.chemone.com ing facilities; 29 trucks (straight, tanker, trac- President and CEO: Terry Podlogar tor, trailers) Products: Feed additives; fertilizer ingredients; water treatment chemicals; food addi- United Chemical Group (UCG) tives; industrial chemicals 185 2018 Sales: $43.5m Services: JIT inventory; pallet quantities; truckloads Moscow, Russia Assets: headquarters and warehouse; inde- www.ucgrus.com pendent facilities in Laredo, Texas and Chairman and CEO: Gennadiy Tolstobrov Tampa, Florida Products: ABS; ASA; SAN; HIPS; PC/ABS; PBT; PMMA; POM; SBS; SEBS; SIS; POE; Carbono Quimica EVA; HDPE; PP copolymers; PA and AIM; 176 2018 SaleS: $49m (R190m) road construction materials (cellulose stabi- lisers, plasticizers, emulsions; adhesion ad- Sao Bernardo do Campo, Sao Paulo, Brazil ditives); oil additives and modifiers; base www.carbono.com.br oils; fertilizers; liquid chemicals President: Vera Maria Miraglia Gabriel Services: Logistics; packaging; storage; tech- Products: Aliphatic solvents; aromatic sol- nical support vents; oxigenated solvents; epoxy resins; Assets: Eight offices; nine warehouses epoxy hardeners; coatings additives; paint driers; alkyd resins; pigments; glycerine; fatty Coast Southwest acids; fatty alcohols 186 2018 Sales: $43.3m Services: Blending; packaging; bulk storage; laboratory services Placentia, California, US Assets: Five subsidiaries, branches, 10 trucks www.coastsouthwest.com President: Joseph C Cimo Ramcharan Products: Surfactants; silicones; personal Trading177 2018 Sales: $49m care ingredients; preservatives; oleochemicals

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hexane; white spirit; improvement Barendrecht, The Netherlands ethers; hydrogen peroxide; inorganics; ke- Services: Warehousing and supply chain toluene; caustic soda liquid and flakes; amyl Services: Packaging; storage; testing and cer- www.samechemicals.com WISTEMA tones; personal care ingredients; polyglycols; services; ADR transport via own fleet; acetate; ethyl acetate; acetone; isopropanol; tification; quality certification, including Managing Director: Cees-Jan Crezée 181 2018 Sales: $46.0m (€40.2m) solvents; textile care ingredients; water treat- automotive expertise; JIT delivery, vendor MEK; cyclohexanone; isophorone; methyl- through an in-house lab jointly promoted by Products: Styrene; DCPD; aromatics; glycols; ment chemicals managed inventory; telemetry; chemicals ene chloride; perchloroethylene Rhein Chemie alcohols; ketones; hydrocarbons; acetates Dielheim, Germany Services: Wholesale custom blending and vessel reception and bulk storage; filling; la- Services: Blending; 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President: Jean Marie Diederichs ethers; glycols; heat transfer fluids Northspec Chemicals Products: Solvents; aromatics; glycol ethers; Services: Testing; bulk storage; repackaging; 202 2018 Sales: $35m esters; alcohols; isocyanates; amines; special- liquid bulk handling; custom blending; purity chemicals fying; stabilising Toronto, Ontario, Canada Services: Blending; packaging; storage; rail- Assets: Three locations; seven trucks; www.northspec.com car, tanker, ISO tank, vessel shipments 30 tankers; 10 box trucks; full analytical Principal and president: Noel Shahnazarian Assets: One warehouse; four trucks; four laboratory Products: Epoxy resins and hardeners; ali- tanks Trading sales: 10% phatic and aromatic urethanes and polyols; Trading sales: 20% acrylic resins; pigments and additives; coat- Sulatlantica ings materials; graphic arts materials; con- EQUILEX 199 2018 Sales: $38m struction chemicals; floor care chemicals; 195 2018 Sales: $39.8m (34.7m) composites; adhesives; plastics and rubbers Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Services: Inventory management; logistics Schiedam, Netherlands www.sulatlantica.com.br Assets: Six warehouse facilities across Cana- www.equilex.com CEO: Leonardo Roisman da; one head office Managing director: Cees Verdel Products: Chemicals for oil and gas, min- Trading sales: 5% Products: Higher olefins; alkylphenols; ing, glass, agriculture, food and feed indus- alkylbenzenes; ethanolamines; ethylene tries (organic chemicals, inorganic chemi- Brisco do Brasil glycols; solvents; performance intermedi- cals, solvents, emuslifiers, viscosifiers) 203 2018 sales: $35m ates; phenol; aromatics; tackifying resins; Services: Importing; exporting; distribut- isophorone; diacetone alcohol ing; packaging; blending Sao Paulo, Brazil Sevrices: Marketing; storage; packaging; sea, Assets: Four warehouses; 20 tanks; one of- www.brisco.com.br rail and road transportation; customs services; fice building www.briscopc.com Reach regulation services CEO: Guillermo Castillo Trading sales: 20% Research Solutions Group Products: Styrene monomer; thermoplastics 200 2018 Sales: $36.5m (PE, PS, EPS, ABS, PC); acrylates; plastizis- Vivion ers, solvents 196 2018 Sales: $39m Pelham, Alabama, US Services: Distribution; logistics; warehous- www.researchsolutionsgroup.com ing; blending; agent services San Carlos, California, US CEO: Jeff Miller Assets: 2 warehouses; 3 offices; 10 trucks www.vivioninc.com Products: Organic and inorganic chemi- Trading sales: 30% President: Michael Poleselli cals; dry chemicals; solvents and solvent Products: Acidulants; sweeteners; humec- blends; pharmaceutical ingredients; spe- MY-CHEM tants; preservatives; chelants; hydrocolloids; cialty chemicals; specialty compounders; 204 2018 Sales: $34.7m (€30.3m) surfactants; vegetable oils; antifoams; tablet- HAPs free low VOC chemistry ing aids; micronutrients; vitamins; minerals Services: Custom blends; toll packaging; Buchholz, Germany Services: VivAssure testing custom toll blending and formulating; www.my-chem.de Assets: Two offices/warehouses; one truck lab services; ethanol denaturing; transload- CEO and owner: Ralf Meinecke ing; contract transportation services; Products: Phthalic anhydride; maleic an- Linkers Chemicals & warehousing; certified DOT and OSHA hydride; styrene; mono-pentaerythritol; di- 197 Polymers trainers; HAZ and NON-HAZ waste man- pentaerythritol; paraformaldehyde; tall oil 2018 Sales: $38.3m agement services products; heat transfer fluids; silicate dis- Assets: Four bulk facilities with warehous- persions; trimelitic anhydride; purified Dubai, UAE ing; rail transload facility; four satellite isophthalic acid; purified terephthalic acid; www.lcp.ae warehouses; 22 power units; 17 tank trail- sodium formate Managing director: Malik Pervez Zaman ers; 10 dry vans; two DSP permitted ethanol Services: Storage; transportation Products: Synthetic rubber; PVC; engineering denaturing facilities Trading sales: 5-10% plastics; plasticizers; latex; monomers; construction chemicals; animal nutrition; coat- Independent Chemical R.E. 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fornia, Ohio, Georgia and Texas LUMAR Founder and managing director: Dilip 210 2018 Sales: $32.6m (€28.5m) Shah; CEO and executive director: Shamik Brugues Shah 206 2018 sales: $34.4m (€30m) Barcelona, Spain Products: Plastics additives; aroma chemi- www.lumarquimica.com cals; pharmaceutical excipients; pharmaceu- Viladecans, Barcelona, Spain President: Lluis Ribera; CEO: Bruno Saillant tical intermediates; cosmetic ingredients; www.brugues.com Products: Antioxidants; corrosion inhibitors; essential oils; feed and food ingredients; oil- CEO: Raimon Brugues Sintes antiwear/EP additives for lubes; fatty acids; field chemicals; water treatment chemicals; Products: Acetone; bencile alcohol; diace- fatty alcohols; surfactants; polyalphaolefins; fine chemicals tone alcohol; dipropylenglicol; ethyl ace- esters; polyisobutene; polyalkylene glycols; Services: Packaging; warehousing; sourc- tate; formic acid; isobutyl alcohol; isopro- silicone oils; phosphate esters; PTFE; friction ing; indenting; technical services; contract pyl acetate; methyl ethyl ketone; methyl modifiers; antifoams; tackifiers; antimists; manufacturing isobutyl ketone; metoxipropilo acetate; n- pour point depressants; viscosity index im- Assets: office; four warehouses propanol; phosphoric acid; propylene gly- provers; OCP; amines Trading sales: 20% col USP; trietanolamine Services: Warehousing and storage; repack- Services: Packaging; mixtures, solutions aging; blending; sampling; technical service; Gulf Coast Chemical and dilutions training; formulating 219 2018 Sales: $26.3m Assets: Warehouses Trading sales: 20% Radchem Products Abbeville, Louisiana, US 211 2018 Sales: $32.1m www.gulfcoastchemical.com McKinn International Managing member: Jim Fusilier 207 2018 Sales: $34.2m Orland Park, Illinois, US Products: Glycols; methanol; ethanola- www.radcheminc.com mines; coolants; lubricants; antifreeze; Singapore President: William M Radostits heat transfer fluids; production chemicals; www.mckinn.com.sg Products: Chemicals and solvents; acetates; wireline lubes; specialty frac and comple- Managing director: Chau Tak Vui alcohols; aliphatic and aromatic hydrocar- tion fluids Products: Raw materials for adhesives; bons; glycol ethers; process and base oils; Services: Blending; storage; laboratory ser- coatings materials; UPR, PU and TPU; reuse solvents; resins; ketones; K-1 kerosene vices; chemical treatment programs; opera- plastics additives; flame retardants; Services: Transport via railcar, tanker, tor training acids and anhydrides; oleochemicals; plas- drums, totes; blending Assets: Seven company operated facilities; ticizers; rubber additives; water-based Assets: Dedicated owned trailer warehousing; bulk storage; laboratory facili- acrylic resins ty; 21 delivery trucks; two tankers; six ser- Services: Sourcing T.Z Group (includes TZ Trad- vice trucks Assets: Third-party warehouse 212 ing, Tau Chemicals, Treza) Trading sales: < 10% Trading sales: 85% 2018 Sales: $31.6m

Shutterstock Seeler Industries Acid Products Mexico City, Mexico 220 2018 Sales: $26.1m 208 2018 Sales: $34.1m www.treza.com.mx ethers; heat transfer fluids; hydrogen perox- SAL Chemical Assets: Two warehouses; 15 trucks; one bulk www.tauchemicals.com ide; ketones; metal finishing chemicals; oil- 215 2018 Sales: $29.8m storage facility; one refrigerated facility One Genstar Drive, Joliet, Illinois Chicago, Illinois, US President: Fernando J Zavala field chemicals; organic and inorganic www.seeler.com www.acidproducts.net Products: Caustic soda; chlorine; sodium chemicals; pharmaceutical chemicals; sur- Weirton, West Virginia, US Venus Chemicals Group CEO: Steve Seeler President: Jann Fisher hipoclorite; sulfuric acid; sodium carbonate; factants; water treatment chemicals www.salchem.com 217 2018 Sales: $29m Products: Hydrogen peroxide; peracetic Products: Caustic soda; paper chemicals; sodium chloride; calcium chloride; sodium Services: Contract blending; proprietary President: Steve Fenell acid; glacial acetic acid; propylene glycol; solvents; aromatics; acids; caustics; sur- bicarbonate; hydrogen peroxide; fosforic acid; blends; transloading; warehousing Products: Acids; alkalis; calcium chloride; Cairo, Egypt sodium gluconate; caustic soda; hydrochlo- factants; dry chemicals; solvents; hydrogen organic phosphonates HEDP ATMP, PBTC; Assets: Three warehouses; 25 tankers; 10 inorganics; oil and gas; solvents; water and www.venuskim.com ric acid; soda ash; DDBSA; sodium chlorate; peroxide clorhidric acid; sodium metabisulfite; acetic tractors; five vans; bulk storage; rail siding waste treatment chemicals CEO: Ahmed Jamal Alghoul phosphoric acid; quaternary compounds; Services: Toll blending; contract packaging; acid; acetic anhydride Services: Dry bulk and packaging; liquid Products: Glycerine; nonyl phenol ethoxy- other specialty chemicals powder blending; bulk storage Services: Packaging; transport and logistics; Sameca PQ bulk and packaging; blending; storage lates; fatty alcohol ethoxylates; polysorbate Services: Tank storage; railcar unloading; Assets: 2 locations, including 250 acres storage; dilution, blending 214 2018 sales: $29.8m (€26m) Assets: One warehouse; 12 trucks; 16 ethoxylates; castor oil ethoxylates; soya blending; liquid packaging; bagging; trans- in Indiana with rail service; 8 powder Assets: Five warehouses; 28 trucks and 35 trailers lecithin; latex; defoamers; thickeners; loading; warehouse storage; property rental; blenders; 30 liquid blending tanks; tank trucks Porto, Portugal white spirit; pine oil; maleic resin; gum trucking; laboratory services 8 trucks; 2 onsite chemists; a high pressure Trading sales: 9.28% www.samecapq.com Morais de Castro rosin; hydrocarbon resin; SLES 70; fra- Assets: warehousing; five trucks; 10 liquid homogenizer CEO: Eduardo Moura e Sár 216 2018 Sales: $29.1m (R112.9m) grances; coatings materials; chewing and and box trailers; 27 aboveground storage Industrial Chemicals Corp Products: Additives for food, plastics and bubble gum ingredients; detergent chemi- tanks; seven rail spurs; overhead rail trestle Veckridge Chemical 213 2018 Sales: $30.2m rubber; coating and resins; solvents; inorganic Salvador, Bahia, Brazil cals; cosmetics ingredients 209 2018 Sales: $33m chemicals; pigments, organic and inorganic; www.moraisdecastro.com.br Assets: Three warehouses; 10 jumbo trucks; JNS-Smithchem Arvada, Colorado, US coatings; resins; personal care, cosmetics and CEO: Andre Castro six cars 221 2018 Sales: $25m Kearny, New Jersey, US www.industrialchemcorp.com detergent chemicals; effect chemicals; resin Products: Surfactants; glycols; white min- Trading sales: 70% veckridgechemical.com President: Robert L Wilson II intermediates eral oils; caustic soda; sulfonic acid (LAB-S); Paterson, New Jersey, US President: Mark Veca Products: Acetates; acids; aliphatic and aro- Services: Storage, bulk and solids; packag- inorganic acids; sodium hypochlorite; per- MONACHEM GROUP www.jns-smithchem.com Products: Inorganics; amines; acids; chlor- matic solvents; alcohols; biofuel chemicals; ing; own road fleet for distribution sonal care additives; food ingredients and 218 2018 Sales: $27.0m (Rs1.88bn) CEO: Darren Jachts alkali; specialty chemicals; food ingredients CBD extraction chemicals; chelating agents; Assets: Six trucks; two owned warehouses flavours; rheology modifiers; oxygenated Products: Minerals; resins; additives; pig- Services: Packaging; dilution; storage chlor-alkali products (caustic soda, KOH); plus three rented ones solvents; chlorinated solvents; biocides; sul- Vadodara, Gujarat, India ments; specialty chemicals Assets: 5 trucks; 3 warehouses detergent chemicals; glycols and glycol Trading sales: 40% fates; silicones www.monachem.com Services: Storage; packaging

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Lake Chemicals and Minerals www.monarchchemicals.co.uk sulphate; sodium chloride; EDTA; NTA; 222 2018 sales: $22.9m (€20m) Chairman: Phillip Copeland GLDA; surfactants; sodium percarbonate; Products: Glycerine; glycols; citric acid; magnesium chloride; potassium chloride; so- Redditch, UK formic acid; amines; sodium sulphide; dium hydrosulphite www.lakecm.co.uk caustic soda; hydrochloric acid; sodium hy- Services: Repackaging; blending; dilution MD: Dr Steven Cartlidge pochlorite; epichlorohydrin; cinnamic acid; Assets: Five contract warehouses in UK and Products: Speciality chemicals for coatings; propionic acid; nitric acid; agricultural si- Ireland adhesives; corrosion removal and inhibition; lage and performance additives; fertilisers construction, lubricants, flame retardants, and feed products The White Sea & Baltic pharmaceutical, cosmetics, personal and Services: Warehousing; liquid and powder 229 Company home care, rubber, plastics, electronics, blending; dilutions; toll manufacturing; 2018 Sales: $18.9m (£14.8m) water treatment, food, nutrition, flavours packed and bulk UK distribution; inventory Services: Technical sales and marketing; management; supplier reduction; just-in- Leeds, UK application development; warehousing; time delivery; global sourcing www.whitesea.co.uk quality control; regulatory services; blend- Assets: Two distribution locations with Managing director: Alan Carradice ing and packing; contract research and bulk and packed storage; offices; four pur- Products: Surfactants; fatty acids; oleochem- manufacturing service pose-built trucks icals; biocides; suncare UV absorbers; per- Assets: Research and development laborato- Trading sales: 18% sonal care products; epoxy resin; reactive ries for food and personal care; BRC AA- diluents; benzoic acid; lactate esters; tall oil graded and MHRA certified warehouse Matrix Chemie fatty acid; alkyl polyglycosides 226 2018 Sales: $20.4m (£16m) Services: Storage; packaging; sourcing Seacole Assets: Office; group warehouse 223 2018 Sales: $22m Stourton, Leeds, UK Trading sales: 35% www.matrixchemie.com Plymouth, Minnesota, US Chairman and CEO: Graham Royle Eagle Alcohol www.seacole.com Products: Surfactants; oleochemicals; per- 230 2018 Sales: $18.7m President and CEO: Gregg Elliott sonal care ingredients; homecare and I&I Products: Electronic processing chemicals specialities; antiperspirant actives; essential St Louis, Missouri, US (printed and integrated circuit); surface fin- oils; phosphates; water treatment chemi- President: Daniel J Croghan ishing/plating chemicals; industrial cleaning cals; emulsion polymerisation adjuncts; Products: Ethyl alcohol; organic ethanol; detergents; odour control chemicals; trans- suncare ingredients glycols; glycol ethers portation cleaning and maintenance; labora- Services: Supply chain management; im- Services: Blending; packaging; storage tory reagents; fine chemical ingredients; port and export; warehousing Assets: Three tractors; 12 tankers; one box water treatment chemistry Assets: One facility (offices and warehouse) trailer; warehouse Services: Custom and contract blending and Trading sales: 20% packaging; private label blending and packag- COMINDEX ing; logistics Klaus F. Meyer 231 2018 Sales: $18.3m (€16m) Assets: Warehouse/manufacturing/head- 227 2018 Sales: $19.4m (€16.9m) quarters; trucks Barcelona, Spain Fussgoenheim, Germany www.comindex.es WhitChem www.klausfmeyer.de CEO: Ana-Cristina Arp 224 2018 Sales: $20.9m (£16.4m) Managing directors: Martina Magnie, Frank Products: Defoamers and air release addi- Meyer tives; surface additives; wetting and dis- Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK Products: Hydroxylamine sulphate; hy- persing additives; polyurethanes; acrylics; www.whitchem.co.uk droxylamine hydrochloride; triflic acid; styrene-acrylic hybrids; UV-curable disper- Managing director: Charles Hawley MEKO; nitromethane; isocyanuric acid; sions and polyols; epoxy resins and reactive Products: Resins and polymers; pigments; BHT; p-toluenesulfonic acid; n-isopropyl- diluents; alkyd emulsions; linseed and cas- fillers and additives for adhesives and seal- hydroylamine; TMEDA; anthranilic acid; tor oils and derivatives; organic, inorganic, ants; coatings and inks ingredients; plastics agrochemicals; pharmachemicals; specialty aluminium, effect and pearl pigments and and rubber additives; construction and re- chemicals; catalysts pigment dispersions; wax additives; addi- fractory materials; textiles processing and Services: Door-to-door-service; refilling of tri- tives for thermoplastics; coupling agents; finishing chemicals; additives for agriculture flic acid; handling of dangerous goods; stock- rheology modifiers; adhesion promoters; and horticulture chemicals; filtration media holding; ISO tanks corrosion inhibitors for liquid/solid separation Assets: Five warehouses; own office in Services: Technical assessment; storage; Services: Storage and logistics for UK Shanghai-Puxi, China; laboratory for sample agency sales; training; testing and Ireland; specialist technical support; handling Assets: warehouse; office space project development; formulation advice; agency sales Biachem Schibley Solvents and Assets: Sales office and warehouses 228 2018 Sales: $19.0m 232 Chemicals 2018 Sales: $17.5m Monarch Chemicals London, UK 225 2018 Sales: $20.9m (£16.4m) www.biachem.com Elyria Ohio, US Managing director: Bob Beaumont www.schibley.com Sheerness, Kent, UK Products: Caustic soda; chlorine; sodium President: Reed Schibley

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Products: Surfactants; chelates; organic per- glycols; 1-2 diaminocyclohexane; 2-ethyl- Stort Chemicals oxide initiators; fatty acids; FRP equipment; hexyl acetate; 2-ethylhexylglycerin; 239 2018 Sales: $11.5m (£9m) fiberglass reinforcements; unsaturated poly- caprylyl glycol; dimethyl succinate; ester resins; gelcoats; solvents; thickeners di-n-butyl ether; isoamyl alcohol; vinyl- Bishops Stortford, UK and release agents 2-ethylhexanoate www.stortchemicals.co.uk Services: Industrial chemical distribution; Services: Registered with the FSSAI (supply Mananging Director: Richard Gilkes storage; packaging; blending; trucking and to F&B Industries) and the FDA (supply to Products: Resins; additives; colourants; delivery services the pharmaceutical industry); custom blend- fluorosurfactants; plasticisers; natural and Assets: Warehouses; three semi-trucks and ing and repackaging; drumming; market re- synthetic raw materials for the fragrance and three temperature-controlled trailers search; technical support; trend analysis; flavour industries Trading sales: 10% warehousing; legal compliance Assets: Storage and distribution Assets: Two offices; three warehouses (one KEMAT owned); blending/formulation unit Audiche Trading 233 2018 Sales: $17.0m (€14.8m) Trading sales: 1-2% 240 2018 Sales: $11.2m

Brussels, Belgium Royale Group (AWSM, Shore- Alexandria, Egypt www.kematbelgium.com 236 chem, Royale Pigments) www.audiche.com Managing director: Simon Mason 2018 Sales: $15m CEO: Alain Audiche Products: Polyisobutenes including propri- Products: Titanium dioxide; polyvinyl alco- etary blends; polyalphaolefins including low Paramus, New Jersey hol; methyl ethyl ketoxime; hydrocarbon and high viscocity and metallocene; lubri- www.royalepigments-chem.com resin C9; sodium ammonium and potassium cant auxiliaries such as castor and linseed CEO: John Logue persulphates; zinc phosphates, micaceous oils, molybdenum disulphide and 12-hy- Products: Alkali fluoroborates; fluorides; iron oxide; glass flakes; glass beads; nano- droxystearic acid; fuel additives (Keropur) metal fluoroborates; nitrates/nitrites; borates; sized TiO2; adhesion promoters; compound with BASF technology specialty organic and inorganic fluorines; ferro titanium Services: Blending; bulk storage; drum- pearlscents; fluorescents; iron oxides Services: Agency sales ming; outsourcing; packaging; repackaging; Services: Stock and supply chain manage- Assets: One office; two warehouses sourcing; transport with own fleet; ware- ment; consulting; blending; grinding Trading sales: 10% housing Assets: Five warehouses; two converting Assets: 75 ISO containers; warehouses locations Classic Distributing with drumming, blending and repackaging 241 Company capability; five offices globally; internal EMCO-Inortech 2018 Sales: $11m laboratory 237 2018 Sales: $14.7m (C$20m) Trading sales: 7% Pacoima, California, US Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada www.classicdistrib.com Tecnosintesi www.inortech.com President: Larry H Helscher 234 2018 Sales: $16.6m (€14.5m) Vice president, sales and marketing: Jean- Products: Surfactants; preservatives; quater- Baptiste Moranta naries; esters; emulsion bases; sunscreen; vi- Bergamo, Italy Products: Specialty chemicals for paints and tamin E; CBD oil; waxes; silicones; butters; www.tecnosintesi.com coatings - resins, additives, pigments polymeric thickeners Sales and marketing manager: Michele Services: R&D application laboratory servic- Services: Liquid blending; storage; techni- Angius es cal sales Products: Adipic acid; ammonium Assets: Two offices, including one R&D labo- Assets: One warehouse; one truck; one polyphosphate; acetyl tributyl citrate; ratory blending operation butanediol; cyclohexane-dimethanol; dial- lyl phthalate; hexanediol; isophthalic American Chemie Custom Chemical Services acid; monobutyltin oxide; monopropylene 238 2018 Sales: $13.2m 242 2018 Sales: $11m glycol; polyethylene wax; p-tert butyl phenol; tartaric acid; trimethylolpropane; Austin, Texas, US Hitchcock, Texas, US zinc oxide www.americanchemie.com www.cchemicals.com Services: Trading; general and specialties President: Paula Kamdar President: Margaret Roff sourcing; storage; blending; repackaging Vice president: Mike Kamdar Products: Solvents; aromatics; ketones; eth- Assets: Four warehouses; three tractors; Products: Personal care and sunscreen in- anols; alcohols; caustics; glycols; inorganics; five trailers gredients; food and nutrition ingredients; oil and gas chemicals Trading sales: 70% surfactants; animal nutrition; paints; inks; Services: Blending; packaging; warehousing; catalysts; lube oil; greases; metal-working import/export; containerisations; trans-load- Saiper Chemicals chemicals, PVC lubricants; flame retardants; ing; neutralisations; lab services 235 2018 Sales: $15.4m (Rs1.07bn) synthesis chemicals Services: Logistics; imports; handling haz- ChemCeed Mumbai, India mat chemicals in ISO tanks; just-in-time de- 243 2018 Sales: $10.0m www.saiper.com livery; hazmat certified; outsourcing; tolling; Managing director: IBV Raghavan private labelling Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, US Products: Additives; amines; C4 chemicals; Assets: Large inventories of chemicals in six www.chemceed.com coalescing aids; glycol ethers; propylene warehouses across the US President: Marimel Enderesa www.icis.com April-June 2019 | Chemical Distributor | 73 special report top 100 Chemical DISTRIBUTORS

Products: Plasticizers; corrosion inhibitors; A.S. Paterson KETSIN DE COSTA RICA additives; solvents; fatty acids; alcohols; spe- 246 2018 Sales: $5.5m (C$7.5m) 249 2018 Sales: $1.4m cialty chemicals; industrial chemicals; food additives Toronto, Ontario, Canada San Rafael, Costa Rica Services: Blending; packaging; labelling; www.aspaterson.com www.ketsincr.com storage; consignment; JIT delivery CEO: Rod Paterson CEO: Cesar Marin Assets: Four warehouses Products: Pigments; pigment dispersions; Products: Titanium; emulsions; resins; pig- Trading sales: 10% dyes, micronised waxes; wax emulsions; foam ments; masterbaches; plastics; polyethylene; control products; acrylic emulsions; polyure- solvents; aromatics; specialty products; food CLARIQUIMICA thane dispersions; polyester resins; nitrocellu- additives; sanitizers; consumer products; 244 2018 Sales: $9.3m lose; amino resins; isocyanates; corrosion con- household chemicals; personal care ingredients trol chemicals; concrete admixtures; fragrances Services: Storage; packaging Sao Paulo, Brazil Assets: One warehouse; transportation fleet www.clariquimica.com.br Dakram Materials CEO: Valne Lucas Vieira 247 2018 Sales: $4.0m (£3.12m) NOTE: EMEA sales for Brenntag, IMCD, Products: Pigments and additives; pigment Univar listed under Europe dispersions; paper and textile chemicals; iron Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, UK oxide; dyes for paper and textiles; caustic www.dakram.com soda; carbon black Manging director: Kate Mingay CURRENCY CONVERSION RATES Services: Blending and packaging Products: Inorganic metal-based chemicals; 31 December 2018 Assets: Warehouse; one truck agricultural chemicals; animal feed and nutri- Trading sales: 75% tion ingredients; catalysts; water treatment $1= chemicals; electronic ceramics; ceramics; Euro 0.8729 SMA Collaboratives glass; bakery products; metal treatment; weld- British Pound 0.7837 245 2018 Sales: $8.9m ing chemicals Swiss Franc 0.9833 Canadian Dollar 1.3644 Cincinnati, Ohio, US Higgi Singapore Dollar 1.3623 www.smacollaboratives.com 248 2018 Sales: $1.9m (£1.5m) Brazilian Real 3.8809 President: Saad Ashoor Indian Rupee 69.6049 Products: Personal care ingredients Wrexham, UK Australian Dollar 1.4193 Services: In-house extraction; blending; test- www.higgi.co.uk Malaysian Ringgit 4.1331 ing and free formulations support Managing director: April Davies Japanese Yen 109.7144 Assets: Innovation office/lab in Seoul, Products: Ferrous-based chemicals (iron); Chinese Yuan 6.8783 South Korea; headquarter/warehousing in ammonium sulphate; magnetite; play sand Thai Baht 32.3195 Cincinnati; applications lab and warehouse Services: Packaging; storage; repackaging Mexican Peso 19.6426 in south Florida; office and sales in Bogota, Assets: Admininstrative office building; South African Rand 14.3853 Colombia plant and machinery South Korean Won 1,113.5216 Trading sales: 30% Trading sales: 95% Shutterstock

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