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SPECIAL REPORT TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors We present our global ranking of the leaders in chemical distribution, from large to small based on 2020 sales. This year we have a record of nearly 300 companies participating Shutterstock

Sarah Creswell London for industrial and specialty chemicals; one- personal care specialties; polymer/resins; Joseph Chang New York stop-shop solutions; specific application silicones; solvents; surfactants Will Beacham Barcelona technology; extensive technical support; Services: Corporate accounts; ChemPoint; value-added services such as just-in-time de- custom blending; custom packaging & private livery; product blending and mixing; formu- label services; lab & formulation services; min- BRENNTAG lation; repackaging; inventory management; ibulk; supply chain; telemetry services; ware- 1 2020 SALES: $14.40BN digital ordering via e-commerce platform housing; onsite services; ChemCare services (€11.78BN) Brenntag Connect Assets: shop.univarsolutions.com; Essen, Germany Assets: More than 670 locations in 77 coun- chemcentral;com; univarsolutions.com www.brenntag.com tries; workforce of more than 17,000 employees CEO: Christian Kohlpaintner TRICON ENERGY Products: Full-line portfolio of more than UNIVAR SOLUTIONS 3 2020 SALES: $5.23BN 10,000 products; industrial chemicals; spe- 2 2020 SALES: $8.26BN cialty chemicals; ingredients; adhesives; Houston, Texas, US paints; oil and gas chemicals; food and nutri- Downers Grove, Illinois, US www.triconenergy.com tion ingredients; water treatment chemicals; www.univarsolutions.com President and CEO: Ignacio Torras personal care ingredients; pharmaceutical President and CEO: David Jukes Products: Chlor-alkalis; aromatics; glycols; ingredients; cleaning chemicals; coatings Products: Amines; aviation fluids; chelants; fibre intermediates; solvents; olefins; poly- and construction chemicals; animal nutrition additives; hydrocarbons; hydrocarbons; es- mers; fertilizers products; pulp and paper chemicals sential chemicals & ingredients; military Services: Marketing; pre-export financing; Services: Tailor-made distribution solutions specification; monomers; oleochemicals; shipping; logistics; packaging; blending; www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 53 OF LEADING WITH INSIGHT storage; just-in-time delivery; repackaging; entific & technical services; production & Assets: 55 market-focused application inventory management; risk management investments laboratories; nearly 3,300 employees; 91 for commodity price and foreign exchange Assets: Subsidiaries in about 30 countries; offices; 94 warehouses throughout all oper- Assets: Global presence with sales into 100+ production participations ating companies in Europe, Turkey, Israel, countries; 28+ offices; 450+ employees UAE, Africa, US, Canada, Brazil, Puerto IMCD Rico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia, HELM 5 2020 SALES: $3.60BN (€2.94BN) Mexico and Australia, New Zealand, India, 4 2020 SALES: $5.04BN (€4.12BN) Bangladesh, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Hamburg, Germany www.imcdgroup.com Japan, South Korea www.helmag.com CEO: Piet van der Slikke CEO: Stephan Schnabel Products: Speciality chemicals and ingredi- AZELIS Products: Methanol; base petrochemicals; ents for pharmaceuticals, CASE (coatings, 6 2020 SALES: $2.72BN (€2.22BN) biobased chemicals; acids & lyes; fibreglass; adhesives, sealants, elastomers), personal intermediates; fertilizers (nitrogen, potassi- care, advanced materials, food and nutrition, Luxembourg um, phosphates, liquids, specialties); crop animal nutrition, nutraceuticals, lubricants, www.azelis.com protection (insecticides, herbicides, fungi- synthesis, HI&I, oil and gas Group CEO: Dr Hans Joachim Muller cides, growth regulators); pharmaceutical Services: Technical sales; marketing of spe- Products: Thousands of specialty chemicals products (active pharmaceutical ingredi- cialty chemicals and food ingredients; appli- and food ingredients for the following markets ents, pharmaceuticals) cation laboratories; local and central stock - animal nutrition; food and health; personal Services: International marketing; logis- holding; drumming; repackaging; blending; care; home care & industrial cleaning; phar- tics; distribution; project development; sci- sampling maceuticals; specialty agri/horti; CASE; electronics; essential chemicals; fine chemicals; lubricants & metal working fluids; rubber & plastic additives; textile; leather, paper and other applications Services: Laboratory analysis; formulation development and blending; expert technical and regulatory support; repacking; flexible pack sizes; local stockholding; market research and trend analysis; GMP and cleanroom pharmaceuticals facilities; integrated supply chain; sampling Assets: 60+ application laboratories; offices and access to warehouses across EMEA, Americas and Asia Pacific; high quality sales force that is technically trained for the market segments they serve

KOLMAR GROUP 7 2020 SALES: $2.65BN

Zug, Switzerland www.kolmargroup.com CEO and Chairwoman of the board: Ruth Sandelowsky Products: Aromatics; olefins; fibre intermediates; alcohols; renewable fuels; solvents Services: Blending; storage; transportation Assets: 2 biofuels plants Trading sales: 81%

SINOCHEM PLASTICS 8 2020 SALES: $2.32BN

Beijing, China www.sinochemplastics.com Company President: Zhao Guoxun Products: Engineering plastics (AS, PS, PMMA, MS, PC, PA); general plastics (ABS, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride); polyurethanes; rubber chemicals Services: Marketing; customer-centric ideol- ogy; diversified product solutions and value-

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TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch stream; one-stop procurement; supply chain PETROCHEM MIDDLE EAST CEO: Philippe Huybrechs management; technical support; commis- 12 2020 SALES: $1.54BN Products: Sodium sulphate; soda ash; zeolite; sioned processing; brand maintenance; infor- caustic soda; sodium bicarbonate; calcium mation consultation Dubai, UAE chloride; sodium lauryl ether sulphate (SLES); Assets: Three warehouses with gross area of www.petrocheme.com linear alkyl benzene sulphonic acid (LABSA); 58,687 square metres; total construction area CEO: Yogesh Mehta glycerine; surfactants and oleochemicals; sili- of 57,210 square metres; two office buildings Products: Aromatics; alcohols; aldehydes; ke- cones; emulsifiers; resins and monomers; with gross area of 10,270 square metres tones; phenol; glycols; monomers; esters; homecare and detergent chemicals; textile Trading sales: 40% methanol; caustic soda; plasticizers; poly- chemicals; personal care and cosmetics ingre- mers; pentaerythritol; phthalic anhydride dients; paints and coatings chemicals; con- BARENTZ Services: Storage of bulk and drum chemi- struction chemicals; mining chemicals; oilfield 9 2020 SALES: $2.02BN (€1.65BN) cals; blending; trading commodities; packag- chemicals; food and feed additives; fertilizers ing; providing tanks for leasing; logistics Services: Diversified product portfolio; local Hoofddorp, The Netherlands Assets: Large state-of-the-art terminal in know-how and technical support in emerging www.barentz.com Jebel Ali, Dubai; 41 bulk chemical storage markets; tailor-made warehousing and other CEO: Hidde van der Wal tanks, including drum storage for 25,000 logistics/supply chain services; financial solu- Products: Life science ingredients and spe- drums and 4 drumming lines; tank terminal in tions cialty chemicals for human nutrition, phar- Adabiya, Egypt for storing bulk chemicals; Assets: 80+ affiliates worldwide across 35+ maceuticals, personal care, animal nutri- brand new storage terminal at Port Said West, countries; 170+ locations; 450,000+ square tion, CASE and plastics, household care, Egypt with the construction of 20 tanks with metres of warehouse space; well-situated in industrial and institutional cleaning; spe- capacity of 54,000 cubic metres expected to emerging markets such as Latin America, Car- cialty intermediates be completed in two phases by early 2022; 26 ibbean, Africa, Middle East and Asia Services: Local/regional/global warehousing; trailer trucks; 14 road tankers; storage and lo- Trading sales: 46% combined order management; harmonised gistics terminal in Dammam, Saudi Arabia in sampling system; technical and formulation partnership with Hoyer; sales and distribution BIESTERFELD support; customised nutrition and taste sys- offices in India, Egypt, Singapore, Taiwan, 15 2020 SALES: $1.27BN tems/production; customised sourcing; dry/ China, UK and Holland liquid blending; spray drying; microencapsula- Trading sales: 38% Hamburg, Germany tion; test-market support www.biesterfeld.com Assets: Offices in 65+ countries in EMEA, OMYA CEO: Thomas Arnold Asia-Pacific, China, North America and Latin 13 2020 SALES: $1.47BN Products: High-performance polymers; engi- America; 25+ specialised application laborato- (SWFR1.3BN) neering polymers; thermoplastic elastomers; ries; 1,500+ employees; Barentz Academy Oftringen, Switzerland styrenic and acrylic polymers; sustainable www.omya.com plastic solutions; synthetic rubbers; high-qual- SNETOR Vice president: Peter Bigler ity compounds based on silicone and fluoro- 10 2020 SALES: $1.63BN Products: Binders; high-performance poly- silicone rubbers; carbon blacks; additives; raw mers; titanium dioxide; organic pigments; materials for personal care, pharmaceuticals, Courbevoie, France dyes; minerals; additives; specialty raw materi- organic synthesis, food and CASE; perfor- www.snetor.com als for CASE (coatings, adhesives, sealants and mance products; industrial and agricultural President: Emmanuel Aubourg elastomers), inks, engineered materials, plas- chemicals; plant protection products; animal Products: PE; PP; PVC; PET; PS; ABS; engi- tics, thermosets, plasters, mortars, concrete, health care ingredients; salts neering polymers; polyols; TDI; industrial packaging, board & paper, aluminium finish- Services: Individual solutions; technical ex- chemicals; recycled, biodegradable, com- ing; ingredients for food, nutraceuticals, phar- pertise and consulting; active application postable, mass balance maceuticals, personal care, cosmetics, home development and product specification; di- Assets: 90 warehouses; technical support care and animal nutrition; raw materials for rect and warehouse distribution; blending Trading sales: 70% agriculture and water treatment and storing; formulation/technical assis- Services: Global marketing and sourcing; tance and laboratory support; less-than- STOCKMEIER HOLDING global supply chain management (logistics, truckload (LTL) quantities; customised logis- 11 2020 SALES: $1.57BN (€1.28BN) customer service); regulatory affairs manage- tical solutions; consultancy and advisory ment and services; R&D; technical service; an- services for Europe’s REACH regulation; sili- Bielefeld, Germany alytics; microscopy; quality control cone rubber compounding www.stockmeier.de Assets: R&D center for surface science, min- Assets: Subsidiaries in more than 30 coun- CEO: Peter Stockmeier eral pigments, chemical engineering, microbi- tries; application laboratories; mixing, blend- Products: Industrial chemicals (acids, caustic, ology and consumer goods; technical applica- ing and storage facilities for solid and liquid solvents, solids); specialty chemicals for indus- tion service hubs in Europe, Americas and Asia chemicals trial and home care, cosmetics, coating, con- Pacific for all product categories; sales affili- Trading sales: 10% struction; cleaning products; peracetic acid; ates in more than 50 countries; global network polyurethane chemicals; flavours and spices; of 120+ warehouses DKSH HOLDING printing inks; textile auxiliaries; AdBlue; water 16 2020 SALES: $1.25BN treatment chemicals MANUCHAR (SWFR1.11BN) Services: Warehousing; blending; toll manu- 14 2020 SALES: $1.28BN Zurich, Switzerland facture; specialised laboratories; logistics www.dksh.com/pm Assets: More than 50 locations in Europe, Antwerp, Belgium CEO: Stefan P Butz 200 trucks www.manuchar.com Products: Food and beverage ingredients;

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TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch personal care and cosmetics ingredients; phar- eners, cocoa and chocolate, antioxidants, vita- gos) and centre (Madrid) of Spain, each with maceutical ingredients; specialty chemicals mins); texturisers (flavours, colours, proteins); capacity of 1,500 tonnes of packed products Services: Marketing and sales; logistics; inno- emulsifiers (hydrocolloids, fruit preparations, plus 20 tanks for liquids; 9 distribution centres; vation and formulation services; regulatory ser- oils & fats, nuts & seeds, enzymes, fruit miner- fully equipped quality control laboratory and vices; sourcing services; blending and repack- als; solvents, acids & lyes; binders; fillers; plasti- applications and developments laboratory for aging; after-sales services; digital services cizers; pigments; additives; softeners; dispirit- personal care, home care and food; customs Assets: 48 innovation centres; 120 business ing agents; tanning agents; catalysts; bonded warehouse locations adsorbents; dessicants; elastomers; antioxi- Trading sales: 5% dants; release agents; silicones; heat transfer MITSUBISHI SHOJI CHEMICAL fluids; distinguishing powders; water treatment OPEC PLASTICS 17 2020 SALES: $1.18BN additives; health and personal care ingredients 22 2020 SALES: $892.5M Services: Market research; supply chain ser- Tokyo, Japan vices; production services; formulation; regu- Hanoi, Vietnam www.mccml.co.jp/en latory support; sourcing; repackaging http://opec.vn President and CEO: Tadashi Takasugi Assets: Locations in Europe (Sweden, Nor- Chairman: Dinh Duc Thang Products: Solvent (aromatics, esters, paraffins, way, Finland, Denmark, UK, France, Germany, Products: Plastics resin; biodegradable plas- ketones, acids); urethanes; coatings (carbon Spain, Italy, Benelux, Baltics, Ireland), North tic bags black, acrylic resin, polyester resin, monomer, America (Canada, US), Asia-Pacific (China, Services: International trading; logistics; im- additives); silicones; fluorocarbon polymers Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, New Zealand) port and export; supply chain solutions; Services: Global marketing, sourcing and packaging trading; logistics by vessel, isotank, bulk RAVAGO CHEMICALS Assets: 18 branches and representative offic- lorry, drum, bag 20 2020 SALES: $1.04BN (€850M) es worldwide; 2 biodegradable plastic bag Assets: Global network in 115+ countries and plants with capacity of 3,000 tonnes/month; locations as Mitsubishi Corporation Arendonk, Belgium 15 warehouses in Vietnam www.ravagochemicals.com Trading sales: 20% OQEMA GROUP General manager EMEA: Filip Van Camfort / 18 2020 SALES: $1.12BN (€913M) General manager US: Kevin Wettstein TER GROUP Products: Industrial chemicals (coatings, PU 23 2020 SALES: $881.7M (€721M) Liedberg, Germany & polymers, construction, asphalt); specialty www.oqema.com chemicals (care, life science, performance, Hamburg, Germany CEO: Peter Overlack / CSO: Patrick Barthels / water); base chemicals (solvents, inorganics, www.terchemicals.com CFO: Hartmut Kunz intermediates, plasticizers) CEO and managing shareholder: Christian Products: Paints & coatings materials; chemi- Services: Technical expertise; warehousing; Westphal cal industry & synthesis chemicals; construc- logistics; customised blends and premixes; Products: Waxes; gum rosin; thermoplastic tion chemicals; industrial cleaning chemicals; repackaging and application laboratories and thermoset polymers; polybutenes; SIS/ cosmetic & personal care ingredients; feed & Assets: Network of warehouses (own and 3rd SBS block copolymers; IIR rubber; casein; food ingredients; flavours & fragrances; phar- party); drumming & blending & lab facilities; amorphous polyalpha olefins; hydrocarbon maceutical ingredients; water treatment feed premix plant; pressure vessel manufac- resins; pigments; dyes; polyvinyl alcohol; food chemicals; surface technology chemicals; turing and water treatment unit factory ingredients; vaseline; white oil plastic & rubber additives; agriculture chemi- Trading sales: 10% Services: Blending; packaging; storage; cals; lubricants; metal & surface treatment production chemicals; automotive & machinery chemicals QUIMIDROGA Assets: Numerous office buildings; warehous- Services: Blending; dilution and mixing; sus- 21 2020 SALES: $996.6M (€815M) es; trucks tainability & recycling in own units; tailored lo- Trading sales: 25% gistics solutions; key account management; Barcelona, Spain technical support; laboratory services; storage www.quimidroga.com BEHN MEYER GROUP and warehousing; drumming and packaging; CEO: Vicente Munoz 24 2020 SALES: $857.2M (€701M) transloading vessel to rail; regulatory affairs Products: Solvents; monomers; glycols and management; clean room services; price risk intermediates; fine chemicals and specialties Hamburg, Germany mitigation (fixed, contract and spot pricing) for food, feed; agrochemicals & fertilizers; www.behnmeyer.com Assets: Offices and warehouses in 22 Euro- pharmaceutical ingredients; cosmetics ingre- Products: Fertilizers; crop protection chemi- pean countries; tank terminal in Ludwig- dients; flavours & fragrances; detergents; cals; agricultural additives and specialties; in- shafen, Germany; recycling plant; fleet of own coatings; adhesives; paper chemicals; water gredients for food, personal & home care and trucks; specialised laboratories; workforce of treatment chemicals; plastizicers; resins; plas- pharmaceuticals; additives for animal feed 1,200 Europe-wide tics and elastomers and aquaculture; specialties for rubber and Trading sales: 5% Services: Storage of liquid and packed prod- plastics; eco-friendly solutions for water treat- ucts; blending; standard and tailor-made ment, petrochemicals, coatings, leather and CALDIC packaging; dissolutions; Authorised Economic textiles, and process industries 19 2020 SALES: $1.09BN (€891M) Operator (AEO) certification; technical advice; Services: Technical sales and marketing; formulations; research customer service; regulatory and risk man- Rotterdam, The Netherlands Assets: Logistics complex at the Port of Bar- agement; innovation and formulation; R&D www.caldic.com celona with capacity of 30,000 tonnes of support; blending, tailoring and packaging; CEO: Alexander Wessels packed products plus 155 tanks for warehousing and logistics; supply chain Products: Food ingredients (starches, sweet- 12,000cbm of liquids; 2 sites in the north (Bur- management; omni-channel support; busi-

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Asia Pacific chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales 1 Sinochem Plastics 2,276.0 33 Caldic 48.9 62 RAHN-Group 8.0 2 Tricon Energy 1,954.5 34 Biesterfeld 45.0 63 2M Group 7.7 3 Brenntag 1,753.5 35 Rakha Al Khaleej 44.3 64 Antonio Tarazona 6.1 International 4 Mitsubishi Shoji Chemical 1,178.0 65 Prakash Chemicals 5.9 5 DKSH Holding 939.7 36 Shrieve Chemical 42.2 International 6 Opec Plastics 845.0 37 Nordmann, Rassmann 40.4 66 Cornelius Group 5.7 7 IMCD 788.7 38 Skystep Trading 31.4 67 Metafrax Trading 5.5 International 8 Behn Meyer Group 775.3 39 McKinn International 30.8 68 Nortex 5.4 9 Kolmar Group 680.4 40 ChemPartners 30.3 69 Group Barcelonesa 3.7 10 Helm 572.0 41 Taj Al Mulook General 30.0 Trading 70 Noahs Ark Chemicals 3.7 11 Redox 518.9 42 Norkem Holdings 29.0 71 Indukern 3.7 12 Omya 316.6 43 Continental Industries 25.0 72 Arkem Kimya 3.0 13 ICC Chemical 304.1 Group 73 Jobachem Group 2.9 14 Azelis 291.0 44 RishiChem Distributors 24.7 74 Bloomchemag 2.8 15 Pon Pure Chemicals Group 268.1 45 S. Kushalchand International 23.8 75 Quimdis 2.7 16 TOP Solvent 258.2 46 ECEM European Chemical 22.7 17 Jebsen & Jessen Group 248.2 Marketing 76 MCassab 2.6 18 Petrochem Middle East 244.9 47 Neo Chemical 18.7 77 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 2.5 19 KPL International 195.4 48 Saiper Chemicals 16.0 78 Solventis 2.1 20 WWRC Holding 144.2 49 Wego Chemical Group 14.9 79 Basstech International 2.0 21 Manuchar 127.0 50 PHT International 14.4 80 Nesstra Services 2.0 22 Barentz 105.9 51 Bodo Moeller Chemie 13.5 81 KEMAT 1.4 23 Echemi Group 86.8 52 Arpadis Benelux 12.2 82 Coreflow Chemi 1.2 24 Union Petrochemical 85.2 53 Algol Chemicals 12.2 83 A.+ E. Fischer-Chemie 1.2 25 Telko 81.4 54 Penpet Petrochemical 12.2 84 Lavollee 1.2 Trading 26 Shanghai Saifu Chemical 81.2 85 Selectchemie 1.1 55 Aug. Hedinger 11.2 Development 86 Al Nahda International 1.1 27 Transmare Chemie 75.6 56 Connect Chemicals Group 10.0 (Anichem Group) 28 TER Group 73.4 57 Safic-Alcan 10.0 87 The Chemical Company 1.0 29 CellMark 72.6 58 An Loc Phat International 10.0 88 Haeffner 1.0 30 Maha Chemicals 71.0 59 Equilex 9.8 89 George S. Coyne Chemical 1.0 31 Ravago Chemicals 67.3 60 Wistema 9.3 Note: Sales are in the specific region and may differ 61 Novasol Chemicals Group 9.0 from total company sales. Sales $1m and above 32 Lehmann & Voss 55.0 included ness development JEBSEN & JESSEN GROUP EMERAUDE Assets: Over 1,200 employees; office and 26 2020 SALES: $719M (€588M) 27 2020 SALES: $700M warehouses in 14 countries; 38 warehouse locations; global production facilities in Malay- Bangkok, Thailand, and Hamburg, Germany Paris, France sia, Thailand, Indonesia, Italy, Netherlands and www.ingredients.jjsea.com / www. www.emeraude-international.com US; laboratory facilities in Malaysia, Indonesia, jebsen-jessen.de CEO: Umar Rafique Thailand, Vietnam, Italy and Netherlands CEOs: Lim Siew Tin, Fritz von der Schulenburg Products: Polyethylene (PE); polypropylene Products: Coatings & resins; plastics & rub- (PP); polyvinyl chloride (PVC); polyethylene ICC CHEMICAL ber; food & nutrition health ingredients; feed terephthalate (PET); polystyrene (PS); polyure- 25 2020 SALES: $830.4M additives; oil & gas chemicals; oil derivatives; thane (PU); recycled resins; masterbatches bioethanol; pharmaceutical & personal care and additives; adhesives and coatings New York, New York, US ingredients; home care specialties; adhesives; Services: Logistics; packaging; storage; tech- www.iccchem.com water treatment specialties; mining compo- nical expertise President: Naveen Chandra nents; agro chemicals; modified starches; col- Assets: 24 locations; workforce of more than Products: Polymers & additives; aromatics; lagen & sweeteners 150 employees; 39 warehouses solvents; ketones; acrylates & intermediates; Services: Sales and marketing; R&D; import/ nitriles; specialty chemicals; organic acids and export; regulatory affairs; warehousing; sourc- GTM HOLDINGS derivatives; glycols; phenols; alcohols ing; factory audit; credit report; local currency 28 2020 SALES: $690M Services: Packaging financing Assets: 6 global offices and 25 representa- Assets: 22 offices worldwide; 15 warehouses; Sao Paulo, Brazil tives worldwide 4 laboratories; 3 regional innovation centres; www.gtmchemicals.com Trading sales: 70% R&D application lab CEO: Rodrigo Gutierrez www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 61 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch Shutterstock

Products: Specialty chemicals; perfor- cialties, detergent industries; life sciences for ishing chemicals; solvents; and wastewater mance products and industrials for paints pharmaceutical, cosmetics & personal care, treatment chemicals. and coatings, adhesives, sealants, agroin- and health, wellness & nutrition industries Services: Contract manufacturing; formula- dustry, chemicals and petrochemical indus- Services: Global sourcing; local sales; supply tion; solvent reclamation; hazardous waste re- try, oil & gas, cleaning, rubber, lubricants, chain management and marketing support; moval; packaging and transloading; technical food, printing and packaging, flavours & fra- dedicated technical, regulatory, and quality training and customer product research grances, mining, pharma, construction, per- support; formulation; blending and sampling Assets: 15 locations; bulk storage of 15m sonal care, pharma, plastics Assets: More than 170 years of experience; gallons; private fleet of trucks and profes- Services: Storage and repackaging; industri- 30 offices that cover 50 countries in EMEA, sional drivers alization and filling; logistics and distribution; North America and Asia; 9 laboratories for analysis; product application and quality con- cosmetics, coatings, rubber, pharmacy and HAWKINS trol laboratory; blending and laboratory testing water treatment. Combination of local ware- 31 2020 SALES: $571.3M Assets: more than 40 facilities, including 6 houses and regional storage owned maritime terminals; 15 application and Roseville, Minnesota, US quality control laboratories HYDRITE CHEMICAL www.hawkinsinc.com 30 2020 SALES: $675M President and CEO: Patrick Hawkins SAFIC-ALCAN Products: Caustic soda; bleach; minerals; lac- 29 2020 SALES: $688M Brookfield, Wisconsin, US tates; sulphuric acid; hydrochloric acid; sodi- www.hydrite.com um citrate; vitamins; ferric/ferrous chloride; Paris, France CEO: Paul Honkamp urea; chlorine www.safic-alcan.com Products: Peracetic acid; chlor-alkali; indus- Services: Manufacturing; custom blending; CEO of Myrtil (holding company): Martial trial chemicals; foam control chemicals; food packaging; private label; delivery Lecat / CEO of Safic-Alcan: Philippe Combette processing and sanitation chemicals; food in- Assets: Industrial manufacturing facilities Products: Wide range of specialty chemicals gredients; liquid sulphites; fertilizers and liq- (7); water treatment distribution warehouses and materials; performance products for adhe- uid micronutrients; pulp and paper chemi- (33); trucks (125+); nutraceutical manufactur- sives & sealants, coatings, inks & construction, cals; organic and inorganic chemicals; ing plant (1) plastics, rubber, polyurethane, industrial spe- styrene/acrylic emulsion polymers; metal fin- Trading sales: 10%

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NORDMANN, RASSMANN sulphur forming (prilling); regeneration Trading sales: 49% 32 2020 SALES: $536.8M (€439M) Assets: 9 tank farms; 2 storage facilities/warehouses; 2 production facilities LEHMANN & VOSS Hamburg, Germany Trading sales: 5% 38 2020 SALES: $476.9M (€390M) www.nordmann.global Managing directors: Dr Gerd Bergmann, CONTINENTAL INDUSTRIES Hamburg, Germany Felix Kruse. Chairman: Carsten Guntner 35 GROUP www.lehvoss.com Products: Adhesives and sealants; compos- 2020 SALES: $500M Managing Partner: Soenke Thomsen ites materials; construction and coatings New York, New York, US Products: Customized polymer materials; chemicals; contact lenses; dental and medical www.continental-industries.com composite materials; masterbatches; plastic materials; flame retardants; food additives; in- President and CEO: Omer T Karabey additives; rubber chemicals; functional flu- dustrial chemicals and intermediates; lubricant Products: Specialty and commodity chemi- ids; raw materials for coatings; cosmetics; additives; monomers; oleochemicals; personal cals: glycerine; gum rosin; n-hexane; soda ash; nutraceutical; magnesia; rare earth; diath- care additives; pharmaceutical and nutraceuti- sodium bicarbonate; sodium hydroxide; sodi- omaeteous earth cal ingredients; polyurethane chemicals; syn- um nitrate; sodium thiocyanate; sodium tung- Services: Sourcing; manufacturing; custom- thetic rubber and rubber chemicals; thermo- state; dimethyl terephthalate; polybutenes; izing; product development; logistics plastics and polymer additives petrochemicals: PVC; HDPE; LLDPE; PP Assets: Production sites in US; Europe; China; Services: Laboratory studies and R&D; chem- Services: Sourcing; sales; trading laboratories; warehouses ical synthesis and compounding; marketing Trading sales: 40% Trading sales: 30% and market intelligence; legislative and regulatory support; quality management and safety; INDUKERN QUADRA CHEMICALS global supply chain management; repackag- 36 2020 SALES: $481.5M (€393.8M) 39 2020 SALES: $468.2M ing and refilling; sample service Assets: Warehouses located all over Europe, Barcelona, Spain Quebec, Canada Asia and North America www.indukern.com / www.grupoin- www.quadrachemicals.com /www. Trading sales: 5% dukern.com quadraingredients.com CEO: Daniel Diaz-Varela Bertschinger CEO: Philip Infilise REDOX Products: Food ingredients; pharmaceutical Products: Performance adhesives; flexible 33 2020 SALES: $531.2M ingredients; pharmaceutical APIs; flavours packaging; household, industrial & institu- and fragrances; veterinary and animal nutritional cleaning chemicals; water treatment Sydney, Australia tion ingredients chemicals; mining & smelting chemicals; www.redox.com Services: Blending; premixes; packaging; soluble fertilizer; pulp & paper chemicals; Chairman and managing director: Robert storage metal treatment & galvanizing chemicals; Coneliano Assets: 9 warehouses in Spain and subsidiaries coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers; oil Products: More than 1,000 products serving Trading sales: 11% refining, oilfield services, gas processing, over 140 industries; commodity and specialty SAGD chemicals; nutritional & functional in- chemicals; food ingredients; agricultural chem- CELLMARK gredients; health & personal care ingredi- icals; household and personal care chemicals; 37 2020 SALES: $479.2M ents; pharmaceutical ingredients mining chemicals; surface coatings; plastics Services: Storage; packaging; blending additives; grease and lubricants; water treat- Gothenburg, Sweden Assets: 7 locations (warehouses and tank ment chemicals; building and construction www.cellmark.com farms) chemicals; pharmaceutical ingredients President, Chemicals Division: Hugo Gal- Services: Custom blending; dilutions; repack- letta; President, Basic Materials Division: EIGENMANN & VERONELLI aging; bulk storage of powders, solvents, Ersin Alkan 40 2020 SALES: $425.5M (€348M) acids, alkalis; palletised storage Products: Acetyls; acids; chlor-alkali; agro- Assets: 12 regional sales offices; 2 manufac- chemicals; construction chemicals; ligno Milan, Italy turing sites; 7 owned and operated warehous- chemicals; petrochemicals; light metals; www.eigver.it es; more than 50 stock locations foundry chemicals; non-ferrous and ferrous CEO: Gabriele Bonomi materials; caustic soda; semiconductor chem- Products: Specialty chemicals for coatings, SOLVADIS GROUP icals; renewable battery materials; oil and gas construction, pharmaceuticals, personal 34 2020 SALES: $529.3M chemicals; water treatment chemicals; coat- care, rubber, textile, detergents; plastic addi- ings; flame retardants; food and beverage in- tives; food ingredients Frankfurt, Germany gredients; cosmetic and oral care ingredients; Services: Tool manufacturing; bulk breaking; www.solvadis.com active pharmaceutical ingredients; organic repackaging; warehousing CEO: Andreas Weimann and inorganic chemicals; vitamins; plant ex- Assets: 3 production sites Products: Sulphur; sulphuric acid; methanol; tracts; nutraceuticals; amino acids; specialty Trading sales: 15% petrochemicals; solvents; industrial chemi- and fine chemicals cals; industrial minerals; pharmaceutical raw Services: Sales and marketing; sourcing; cus- QUIMICA ANASTACIO materials; synthetic lubricants; laboratory tom manufacturing; packaging; blending; mill- 41 2020 SALES: $417.8M chemicals; coatings; fertilizers; packaging ma- ing and granulations; R&D; regulatory services; terials; personal protective equipment market research; logistics; bulk and dry storage Sao Paulo, Brazil Services: Marketing; storage; transport; logis- Assets: Production equipment and inventory www.anastacio.com tics; packaging; supply chain management; held at public warehouses in over 20 loca- CEO: Jan Krueder processing; transloading; remanufacturing; tions worldwide Products: Cosmetics and personal care in-

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TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch gredients; pharmaceutical ingredients; fla- cago, Illinois; Columbia, Illinois; Pleasant Prai- house care & personal care; mining; paint & vours; animal health ingredients; agricultural rie, Wisconsin); 9 warehouses (US - Columbia, construction; polymers & packaging and chemicals; rubber chemicals; household and Illinois; North Chicago; Illinois, Elkhart, Indiana; water treatment auto care chemicals; lubricants; plastics; poly- Minneapolis, Minnesota; Cincinnati, Ohio; Services: Warehousing; reconditioning; urethane; paints and coatings materials; resins Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin; Canada - Calgary, solid and liquid blending; tailor made formu- and adhesives; food and feed ingredients; Alberta, Toronto, Ontario, Montreal, Quebec); lations; consignment and telemetry-man- sports nutrition ingredients 5,000 square foot CASE applications lab; 45 aged stock management; application labo- Services: Storage; blending; packaging; bulk trucks; 105 trailers ratory services; supply chain optimization; distribution; trading; cargo consolidation; liquid and solid bulk handling and distribu- dedicated procurement PROTEA CHEMICALS tion; a full range of agroservices; A.O. test Assets: 9 warehouses - 4 in Sao Paulo, 1 in 45 2020 SALES: $355.0M fields; digitalization projects Santa Catarina, 1 in Rio Grande do Sul, 1 in Per- (SAR5.2BN) Assets: Asset base in 7 countries in West & nambuco, 1 in Gois and 1 in Buenos Aires Bryanston, South Africa Central Africa including warehouses, liquid Trading sales: 24% www.omnia.co.za storage tanks, solid bulk facilities, docking Managing director: Michael Smith berths, bulk powder trailers, repacking in- K-SOLV GROUP Products: Food & beverage ingredients; stallations, 2 laboratories (Ivory Coast & 42 2020 SALES: $392M water care chemicals; consumer care ingredi- Cameroon). ents; agri science chemicals; specialty poly- Trading Sales: 2% Houston, Texas, US mers; CAS; renewables www.ksolv.com Services: Manufacturing; blending; bulk- LBB SPECIALTIES Owner/CEO: Russell Allen breaking; sourcing; warehousing; logistics/ 48 2020 SALES: $315.8M Products: Aliphatic solvents; aromatic sol- delivery; quality control/laboratories; formula- vents; alcohols; glycols; glycol ethers; ace- tion design; financing; technical; bulk trading Westborough, Massachusetts, US tates; chlorinated solvents; ketones; base Assets: 15 major installations across Africa; www.lbbspecialties.com oils; white oils; acids 150 trucks; multiple bulk storage tanks; 600 CEO: Darren Birkelbach Services: Chemical packaging; chemical employees; warehousing Products: Personal care ingredients; nutri- blending; chemical laboratory; maritime ser- Trading sales: 10% tional ingredients; food and beverage ingredi- vices; emergency spill response; disaster re- ents; biotech and life sciences chemicals; sponse; hazmat response; industrial services; MCASSAB aroma chemicals and flavours and fragrances; waste management; transportation 46 2020 SALES: $336.8M HI&I chemicals; imaging components; spe- Assets: Tote and drum warehouse tank farm, cialty chemicals; industrial products flare, nitrogen access, dock in Texas; distribu- Sao Paulo, Brazil Services: Warehousing; blending; packaging; tion warehouse in Louisiana www.mcassab.com.br custom/contract manufacturing; custom syn- CEO: Victor Cutait Neto thesis; product development MARUBENI INTERNATIONAL Products: Performance and specialty chemi- Assets: 32 stocking locations in North America 43 (EUROPE) - CHEMICAL GROUP cals for polyurethanes, paints, resins, con- 2020 SALES: $391.3M (€320M) struction and polymers; solvents; additives; WEGO CHEMICAL GROUP Dusseldorf, Germany silicones; pigments; monomers; emulsifiers; 49 2020 SALES: $311.1M https://europe.marubeni.com polyols; isocyanates; biocides; APIs and phar- President: Tadashi Terada maceutical excipients; home and personal Great Neck, New York, US Products: Petrochemicals and specialty care ingredients; veterinary products; feed www.wegochem.com chemicals and food premixes and ingredients; vitamins; Principal & President: Bert Eshaghpour Services: Warehousing and logistics; com- amino acids Products: Agriculture; animal nutrition & pounding Services: Blending; packaging; storage; in- feed; antifreeze & coolant; case; corrosion in- Trading sales: 60% ventory management; dilutions; full technical hibitors; lithium battery & electrolytes; lubri- support; formulation cant & grease; pharmaceutical & fine chemi- EMCO CHEMICAL Assets: 4 warehouses in Brazil; 1 warehouse cals; HI&I; flame retardants; food & beverage; 44 DISTRIBUTORS in Argentina; 4 premix facilities for animal nu- metal working; finishing & flux; oil field ser- 2020 SALES: $358.7M trition; 1 premix facility for food nutrition; vices; plastics; resins & rubber; pulp & paper; Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, US technical applications laboratories (polyure- water treatment & pool chemicals www.emcochem.com thanes, home and personal care, coatings, Services: Chemical supply; supply chain solu- President: Edward Polen agribusiness, pharmaceuticals and food); tions; logistics; warehousing; outsourcing Products: Acids and alkalis; additives; aliphat- physical, chemical and microbiological ac- Assets: 100+ worldwide professionals; 14 in- ic and aromatic hydrocarbons; amines; car- credited ISO 17.025 laboratory ternational offices; global distribution network bonates; chelating agents; ester and ether es- Trading Sales: 0.6% of 50+ warehouses ters; ethanol and denatured ethanol; glycols; Trading sales: 20% ketones; pigments; plasticizers; resins; sili- SOLEVO cones; surfactants 47 2020 SALES: $326.5M POCHTECA MATERIAS PRIMAS Services: Blending and packaging; waste 50 2020 SALES: $291.1M services; application laboratory services, Switzerland hazardous goods warehousing; order fulfil- www.solevogroup.com Mexico City, Mexico ment; USP and food grade packaging; pri- CEO: Joris Coppye www.pochteca.net vate fleet delivery Products: Agrochemicals; animal feed addi- CEO: Armando Santacruz Assets: 3 production facilities (US - North Chi- tives as well as chemicals for food & beverage; 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Products: Coating ingredients (additives, rheology modifiers, pigments & colourants, resins, biocides, film consolidation agents); construction chemicals (additives, pigments, fillers, rheology modifiers); adhesives ingredients (resins, plasticizers, additives, bonding agents); cleaning & disinfection products; personal care ingredients; plastic ingredients (additives, plasticizers, flame retardants); rubber ingredients (synthetic rubber, adhesion promoters, mould release agents); ceramic powders (zirconia, alumina); lubricant ingredients (base oils, additives & additive packages); heat transfer fluids Services: Technical sales and marketing support; application development; laboratory analysis; colorimetry & colour matching service; formulation advice; warehousing and logistics solutions; mixing and blending; repackaging; sampling service; legislative and regulatory support Assets: 5 technology centres

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Moscow, Russia www.rushimset.ru CEO: Alexander Cheriatov Products: Solvents; coatings; construction chemicals; flexo printing; PVC; engoneering plastics; gas & oil chemicals; food & feed ingredients; household chemicals; personal care ingredients; industrial cleaning chemicals; rubber; tyres; polyurethanes; composites Services: Mixing, diluting and drumming of liquids; dangerous goods transportation with own ADR transport; technical support in coatings, detergents, rigid PVC; consignment storage Assets: 16 own branches (with 21 warehous-

Shutterstock es) in Russia; affiliated companies in Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Poland blends; food ingredients; chemical special- tones; esters; ethers; chlorinated solvents; al- Trading sales: 20% ties; lubricants cohols; aliphatic solvents; hydrocarbons; Services: Blending; packaging; storage and monomers; coatings & inks; plastics & com- ECEM EUROPEAN CHEMICAL logistics solutions; product application; prod- posites; textile chemicals; leather & paper 54 MARKETING uct development; quality control; environ- chemicals; sugar chemicals; water treatment 2020 SALES: $278.7M mental solutions chemicals; lubricants Amsterdam, Netherlands Assets: More than 349,000 square metres of Services: Small packaging; underground www.ecem.com logistics capacity; capacity to store 22.2m li- storage; technical services; custom blending; CEO: Barend Barendse tres of liquids; 49 distribution centers - 33 in JIT delivery; transportation Products: Acrylates; methacrylates; hydroxy Mexico, 3 in Central America, 12 in South Assets: 25 branches in India; 5 overseas monomers; isocyanates; anhydrides; phos- America, 1 in US; fleet of more than 200 units; branches in Dubai, Australia, Singapore, Bang- phonates; 150 other complementary products solvent recycling plant; 28 quality control and ladesh and Sri Lanka; 23 warehouses across for coating resins and polymers; adhesives product application laboratories India (inclusive of 7 explosive repackaging and sealants; water treatment chemicals; warehouse); leased terminal facilities at Kandla, pharmaceutical ingredients PON PURE CHEMICALS GROUP Mumbai, Ennore, Kakinada, Haldia and Hazira Services: Focus on acrylic monomers and 51 2020 SALES: $289.7M complementary products; representatives of KRAHN CHEMIE producers; one-stop shopping and global sup- Chennai, Tamilnadu, India 52 2020 SALES: $282.5M (€231M) ply chain through offices in EU, Brazil, US, www.pure-chemical.com Japan, UK; supply from bulk storage tanks and Chairman and managing director: M Pon- Hamburg, Germany packed materials from several warehouses in nuswami www.krahn.eu EU; drumming; blending; break bulk deliver- Products: Acids & derivatives; aromatics; ke- CEO: Dr Rolf Kuropka ies; full Reach registrations

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Assets: Bulk storage for major products; North America chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) warehouses for packaged products; Isotank fleet for dedicated transport to customers; Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales over 150 returnable stainless steel IBCs 1 Univar Solutions 6,116.9 29 Pride Chemical Solutions 125.0 Trading sales: 5% 2 Brenntag 5,124.8 30 Tilley Chemical 115.9 3 Helm 1,381.3 31 ICC Chemical 113.9 TENNANTS DISTRIBUTION 4 Azelis 1,165.3 32 NAGASE Specialty 110.0 2020 SALES: $278.7M (£204M) Materials 55 5 IMCD 1,002.3 33 ClearTech Industries 104.0 Manchester, UK 6 Kolmar Group 926.1 34 Sea-Land Chemical 103.1 www.tennantsdistribution.com 7 Tricon Energy 852.3 Managing director: Tim Griffiths 8 Barentz 691.4 35 Mays Chemical 99.2 Products: Acids and alkalis; animal feed raw 9 Hydrite Chemical 675.0 36 TCR Industries 90.0 materials; fatty acids; alcohols and esters; 10 Hawkins 566.1 37 Chemsolv 86.5 food and flavours, fragrances; general chemi- 38 Miles Chemical 86.3 cals; Greenox AdBlue; personal care ingredi- 11 Quadra Chemicals 468.2 39 H.M. Royal 86.0 ents; pharmaceutical products; resins; solvents; 12 K-Solv Group 392.0 specialty products; surfactants; water treatment 13 EMCO Chemical 358.7 40 Tanner Industries 83.0 chemicals; white oils and petroleum jelly Distributors 41 CellMark 82.6 Services: Warehousing and storage; repack- 14 LBB Specialties 315.8 42 TRiiSO 81.5 aging; blending; formulating; relabelling 15 Caldic 292.3 43 Harwick Standard 79.5 Assets: 20 sites (including warehousing and 16 PVS Chemicals Distribution 255.0 Distribution storage); own vehicles Group 44 Chemisphere 78.5 Trading sales: 2% 17 Interstate Chemical 248.0 45 Petrochem Middle East 78.4 18 Superior Industrial 210.0 46 George S. Coyne Chemical 77.8 TELKO Solutions 2020 SALES: $275.0M (€224.9M) 47 TRInternational 76.0 56 19 Ravago Chemicals 207.9 48 Greenchem Industries 75.8 20 Shrieve Chemical 207.7 Espoo, Finland 49 Chemical Solvents 75.0 21 Colonial Chemical 202.0 www.telko.com 50 Webb Chemical Service 74.0 Mikko Pasanen Solutions CEO: 51 Astro Chemicals 70.0 Products: Solvents; specialty chemicals; life 22 The Plaza Group 197.0 science chemicals; thermoplastics; engineer- 23 ChemGroup 185.6 52 Skyhawk Chemicals 68.9 ing plastics; plastics additives; masterbatches; 24 SMC Global 185.0 53 TER Group 68.5 bioplastics; plastics machinery; industrial lu- 25 Wego Chemical Group 184.45 54 Tennants Distribution 66.9 bricants; car chemicals 26 Barton Solvents 174.9 55 The Chemical Company 66.8 Services: Warehousing; packaging; customer 56 SolvChem 66.7 specific mixtures; bulk transport; technical 27 Continental Industries 150.0 Group 57 Connection Chemical 66.5 support; technical service Assets: 26 local offices in 15 countries; 50 28 Omya 135.7 58 Rowell Chemical 62.0 warehouses; 300 professionals Trading sales: 2% Products: Specialty chemicals for coatings, QUIMTIA adhesives & building, personal & home care, 57 2020 SALES: $272M SHRIEVE CHEMICAL food, feed & pharma, plastics & rubber and 58 2020 SALES: $266.2M industrial performance applications Buenos Aires, Argentina Services: Technical consultancy; formula- www.quimtia.com The Woodlands, Texas, US tion advice; storage and logistics; sampling; President and CEO: Diego Collard Bovy www.shrieve.com financing; full compliance support; full mar- Products: Mining chemical products & ser- CEO: Ted Threadgill keting support vices; water treatment products & pro- Products: Sulphuric acid; sulphur; ammonia; Assets: 12 sales office locations in Central grammes; paper chemical blends; oil & gas caustic; styrene; paints and coatings; elasto- and Eastern Europe chemical products; basic industrial chemicals; mers; compressor lubricants; base oils; breakers Trading sales: 10% feed aditivies and specialties; poultry pig- Services: Ammonia tank cleaning and ments; feed premixes; animal health products; pump-outs TOP SOLVENT food ingredients; food blends; food flavours; Assets: Blending facility in Marlin, Texas; railcars 60 2020 SALES: $260.3M plastic sacks and bags Trading sales: 100% Services: Packaging and storage; blending Bangkok, Thailand capabilities; dilutions; production of pigments; HSH CHEMIE www.topsolvent.com animal vaccine production; food flavour pro- 59 2020 SALES: $262.9M (€215M) Managing director: MS Duangporn duction; feed, food and industrial application Teerapabpaisit consultanting; quality control; total chemical Hamburg, Germany Products: Solvents (hydrocarbon, aromatic, management services at customer facilities www.hsh-chemie.com chemical); monomers, food ingredients; Assets: 13 warehouses; 8 production facilities; Managing Directors: Stephan P Loehden, cleaning products 8 quality control labs; 5 application labs Frank Raabe, Stefan Rather Services: Manufacturing of hydrocarbon

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North America chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales 59 Walsh & Associates 58.7 88 Atlantic Chemicals Trading 28.1 117 Manuchar 9.0 60 Coast Southwest 56.5 89 InterAtlas Chemical 28.0 118 Faravelli 8.0 61 Tarr 54.6 90 Sinochem Plastics 28.0 119 Nordmann, Rassmann 7.3 62 Hubbard-Hall 53.0 91 Northspec Chemicals 26.7 120 DutCH2 6.7 63 Buckley Oil 52.5 92 Basstech International 26.1 121 Norkem Holdings 6.4 64 Brainerd Chemical 52.3 93 CJ Chemicals 26.0 122 Noahs Ark Chemicals 6.1 65 Vivion 51.7 94 Connect Chemicals Group 26.0 123 ProChema 5.8 66 Safic-Alcan 50.0 95 Gehring Montgomery 26.0 124 Snetor 5.0 67 Debro 50.0 96 Aktopa 25.8 68 Jebsen & Jessen Group 47.7 97 Radchem Products 25.7 125 Behn Meyer Group 4.9 69 Chem One 46.7 98 R.E. Carroll 25.4 126 HARKE Group 4.9 70 Rierden Chemical & 43.1 99 Seacole 23.0 127 Prakash Chemicals 4.4 Trading 100 DAXX 22.9 International 71 Chemical Distributors 42.3 101 Brisco do Brasil 19.0 128 Arpadis Benelux 3.7 72 McCullough & Associates 42.0 102 Schibley Solvents and 19.0 129 Bodo Moeller Chemie 3.7 Chemicals 73 Min-Chem/Lawrason’s/CK 41.5 130 TZ Group (Tau, Treza) 3.1 Ingredients Group 103 Metafrax Trading 18.9 International 131 Cornelius Group 2.9 74 Research Solutions Group 40.9 104 Lehmann & Voss 18.3 75 Ideal Chemical & Supply 40.2 132 Solventis 2.5 105 Gulf Coast Chemical 17.8 76 PHT International 40.1 133 Aug. Hedinger 2.4 106 Unique Chemical 16.4 134 Arkem Kimya 2.0 77 Acid Products 38.5 Technologies 78 Independent Chemical 38.0 107 Echemi Group 16.1 135 Quimdis 1.7 79 Veckridge Chemical 38.0 108 SMA Collaboratives 13.5 136 Jobachem Group 1.6 80 Eagle Alcohol 36.0 109 Custom Chemical Services 13.4 137 Indukern 1.5 81 Seeler Industries 35.0 110 ChemCeed 12.3 138 Group Barcelonesa 1.2 82 GJ Chemical 34.0 111 Redox 12.2 139 Penpet Petrochemical 1.2 83 Van Horn, Metz & Co 33.9 112 Classic Distributing 12.0 Trading Company 84 ECEM European Chemical 32.8 140 SAME Chemicals 1.2 Marketing 113 Novasol Chemicals Group 12.0 141 Selectchemie 1.1 85 JNS-Smithchem 32.8 114 American Chemie 11.6 NOTE: Sales are in the specific region and may differ 86 Industrial Chemicals Corp 32.3 115 Skystep Trading 9.2 from total company sales. Sales $1m and above included 87 RAHN-Group 29.0 116 Biesterfeld 9.0

solvent products; storage; drum filling; trans- www.arkem.com Products: Polymers; masterbatches & fillers; portation services; multi-delivery mode of- Chairman and CEO: Levend Kokuludag petrochemicals ferings (vessel, bulk lorry, iso-tank, drum); Products: Monomers; hydrocarbon solvents; Services: Trading thinner blending alcohols; ketones; esters; glycols; glycol Assets: 4 owned warehouses; several ware- Assets: 1 manufacturing plant of hydrocar- ethers; chlorinated solvents; oleochemicals; houses on lease bon solvents with nameplate capacity of specialty chemicals; cosmetics; pharmaceuti- Trading sales: 20% 141,000 tonnes/year via subsidiary Sak cals; food ingredients; surfactants; plastics Chaisidhi Company Ltd (SAKC); 5 tank termi- Services: Sales and marketing; bulk storage; PVS CHEMICALS nals in Asia (2 in Thailand, 2 in Vietnam and 1 blending; formulating; drumming; packaging; 63 DISTRIBUTION GROUP in Indonesia); 73 chemical storage tanks with labelling; other warehousing services 2020 SALES: $255M total capacity of over 50m litres; 7 warehous- Assets: Deep sea tank terminal at Gebze, Tur- Detroit, Michigan, US es in 3 countries with total capacity of key with capacity of 84,000 cubic metres; lo- www.pvschemicals.com 40,000 drums (200 litres); loading and un- gistics company with 75 transport units and Chief operating officer: Timothy F Nicholson loading facilities with both trucks, isotanks 600 ISO tank containers; 4 warehouses (2 in Products: Inorganics; surfactants; solvents; and vessels; drum filling station; laboratory Istanbul, 1 in Izmir, 1 in Rotterdam) flammable goods; food grade ingredients; oil (QC & technical); 60 bulk lorries (contract- Trading sales: 3% & gas chemicals; agriculture chemicals; ed); 50 pack trucks (contracted) electronics chemicals; HI&I chemicals; water Trading sales: 5% RAKHA AL KHALEEJ treatment chemicals 62 INTERNATIONAL Services: Minibulk; warehousing; packaging; ARKEM KIMYA 2020 SALES: $255.6M transportation/freight; blending; bulk and 61 2020 SALES: $260M Dubai, UAE packaged shipments www.rai-uae.com Assets: 5 warehouses Istanbul, Turkey CEO: Henry F Roth Trading sales: 2%

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NORKEM HOLDINGS cals used food, pharmaceuticals, paint and facturing; environmental services; transporta- 64 2020 SALES: $254.4M construction, cosmetics and detergents, tion; quality control metal, printing, water treatment; customer Assets: 9 warehouses; refinery; 2 river termi- Knutsford, Cheshire, UK specific compositions nals; 102 trucks; 170 tankers; storage tank rent- www.norkem.com Services: mixing, blending, environmentally als; quality control lab Group managing director: Alan Nicholson friendly consultancy and planning, technical Products: Iodine and iodine salts; zinc oxide consultancy, training sessions on safety and GRUPO RNM and zinc salts; manganese compounds; cop- the law, waste disposal, consultancy on chem- 67 2020 SALES: $237.2M (€194M) per salts; barium carbonate; citric acid; po- ical law and Reach tassium carbonate and hydroxide; food Assets: 12 warehouses Vila Nova de Famalicao, Portugal chemicals; pharmaceutical intermediates; Trading sales: 20% www.grupornm.pt feed chemicals General manager: Ricardo Machado Services: Blending; packaging; manufactur- INTERSTATE CHEMICAL Products: Caustic soda; hydrogen peroxide; ing; liquid suspensions; liquid solutions 66 2020 SALES: $248M sulphuric acid; hydrochloric acid; sodium hy- Assets: 12 locations worldwide pochloride; polymers (PE, PP, PVC, PS); sol- Hermitage, Pennsylvania, US vents; surfactants; silicones; sulphonic acid; DONAUCHEM www.interstatechemical.com SLEs; Adbue 65 2020 SALES: $250.7M (€205M) CEO: Al Puntureri Services: Storage of liquid and packaged Products: Alcohols; ketones; solvents; gly- products; blending; tailor made packaging; Vienna, Austria cols; catalysts; plasticizers; resins; thermal flu- logistics and operations consulting www.donauchem.com ids; caustic soda; acids Assets: Logistics complex at Famalicao, Member of the Board: Mathieu de Krassny Services: Packaging; custom blending/man- Santo Tirso, Madrid, Valencia, Cartagena, Products: Commodities and specialty chemi- ufacturing; refining; toll blending and manu- Vigo, Lisboa with capacity of 50,000 tonnes Shutterstock

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TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch for packed products and 8,000 cubic metres CEO: David Lubbock SUPERIOR INDUSTRIAL for liquids; 5 tank terminals for liquid bulk; Products: Alcohols; antifreeze; brake fluids; 74 SOLUTIONS own fleet with 60 trucks, 55 cisterns and 65 acetates; glycols; glycol ethers; hydrocarbons; 2020 SALES: $210M Isotainers ketones; monomers; propylene glycols; white Indianapolis, Indiana, US Trading sales: 10% oils; airplane de-icers www.relyonsuperior.com Services: Importing of bulk chemicals; global President: Kurt Hettinga THOMMEN-FURLER bulk and drum distribution and blending of au- Products: Solvents, water-based cleaners, 68 2020 SALES: $224.4M (€183.5M) tomotive products paint pre-treatment products, paint purge, Assets: Antwerp storage terminal with drum- thinners, heat transfer fluids, pressroom Buren, Switzerland ming and blending facilities; UK storage and chemicals, fiberglass reinforcements, resins, www.thommen-furler.ch blending facilities catalysts, gel coats, corrosion inhibitors, sur- CEO: Franz Christ factants, plasticizers Products: Industrial chemicals (inorganics, or- ECHEMI GROUP Services: Solvent recycling, blending, cus- ganics, liquids and solids); ethanol; hygiene and 71 2020 SALES: $216.3M tom manufacturing, private labelling, waste surface cleaning products; activated carbon; disposal, acetone replacement systems, ven- intermediates; high purity solvents and rea- Hong Kong, China dor managed inventory, regulatory consulting, gents; electronic grade chemicals; industrial www.echemi.com bulk and package delivery and automotive lubricants; marine and aviation CEO: David Zhang Assets: 10 operating locations, 55 trucks, 150 lubricants; automotive fluids; carcare products; Products: Paints and coatings materials; fine trailers, 250 bulk tanks, 55 blend tanks AdBlue; wastewater treatment chemicals chemicals; food and nutrition additives; phar- Services: Storage; blending; mixing; packag- maceutical APIs and intermediates SELECTCHEMIE ing; laboratory services; quality and control Services: Chemical raw materials supply; 75 2020 SALES: $203.6MM tests; hazardous waste management; Opti- research and analysis services; marketing; (SWFR180M) Tank tank farm management by telemetry logistics; warehousing after-sales services; Zurich, Switzerland Assets: 7 dedicated sites for chemicals and e-commerce www.selectchemie.com hazardous waste handling; tank farms and Assets: 15 worldwide operations centers; 2 CEO: Peter Kaufmann warehouses for chemicals and hazardous warehouses; 1 factory Products: FDF (finished dosage forms, medi- waste; blending; mixing and filling installa- Trading sales: 60% cine); generics; pharmaceutical active sub- tions; waste treatment installations; 57 road stances (APIs) (narcotics, antibiotics, cancer, tankers and trucks for general cargo; 114 tank BANDEIRANTE QUIMICA CNS, CVS); pharmaceutical excipients; nutri- wagons and tank containers 72 2020 SALES: $215M tional ingredients Services: Regulatory support; development UNITED TRADING SYSTEM Maua, Sao Paulo, Brazil of generic dossiers; storage; lab trials 69 (UTS/ETC) www.bbquimica.com.br Assets: 3 warehouses (Hamburg-Germany, 2020 SALES: $220M CEO: Carlos Eduardo Marin Zurich, Eiken-Switzerland) ETC: St Petersburg, Russia; UTS purchas- Products: Aromatics; aliphatic solvents; oxy- Trading sales: 10% ing: Astorp, Sweden genated solvents; ethanolamines, titanium www.utsrus.com dioxide (TiO2); surfactants; specialty resins; TRANSMARE CHEMIE Managing director UTS: Lars Hjorth; CEO carbon black; aromatics; tailor-made blends; 76 2020 SALES: $202.8M ETC: Andrey Shkola UV monomers/oligomers; household and Products: Paint & coating chemicals; dry mix- personal care chemicals; silicas; amines; ag- Antwerp, Belgium ture & construction chemicals; plastics and ricultural chemicals; epoxy resins; glycols; www.transmare.com polymer additives; rubber chemicals; resins mining chemicals CEO: Patrick Van Ende and chemicals for composites; fibres; chemi- Services: Blending; agency sales (indent Products: Chemicals and blends for the oil cals for detergents; cosmetics and household sales); formulation; technical assistance; stor- and gas industry; fine chemicals for health; chemicals; oil & oilfield, lubricants and refinery age; packaging home and personal care ingredients; ingredi- additives & chemicals; food additives; special- Assets: 5 branches; 98 tanks; 3 warehouses; ents for food and feed; organic solvents; inor- ties and chemicals of general application; truck fleet; 3 laboratories; 3,000 intermediate ganic salts; pigments and binders for paint; pharmaceutical raw materials; agricultural bulk containers (IBCs) adhesive and construction chemicals chemistry; chemicals for mining; chemicals Assets: Class 2 storage facilities; 11 warehous- for road construction; polyurethanes GAMMA CHIMICA es (Antwerp, Hamburg, Singapore, Malaysia, Services: Storage and logistics; mixing/ 73 2020 SALES: $211.6M (€173M) Algeria, Angola, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Kenya, blending; laboratory services; technical sup- Morocco, Tunisia) port; certification Lainate, Italy Trading sales: 50% Assets: 13 offices and 14 warehouses; www.gammachimica.it 40,000 square metres of warehousing; President: Giuseppe Mearini COLONIAL CHEMICAL 14,000 square metres office space; 7 labora- Products: Glycols; ethanolamines; fatty acids; 77 SOLUTIONS tories; 550 employees intermediates; solvents; antifreeze; glycerins; 2020 SALES: $202.4M sequestering agents Savannah, Georgia, US SOLVENTIS Services: Storage; packaging; blending; anti- www.colonialchemicals.com 70 2020 SALES: $219.0M (€179.1M) freeze production President: Rob Roberts Assets: Head office; warehouse of 54,000 Producst: Full line of organics and inorganics; Guildford, Surrey, UK square metres (15,000 square metres focus on aromatics; aliphatics; alcohols; acids; www.solventis.net covered) chlor-alkali; oleochemicals and specialty

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Services: Global sourcing focused on re- Assets: 22 rented warehouses; 1 owned 15.35MW; tea garden packaging and custom blending; complete warehouse Trading sales: 70% logistics, just in time inventory and highest Trading sales: 17% levels of customer service THE PLAZA GROUP Assets: 6 rail-served warehouses; multiple KPL INTERNATIONAL 80 2020 SALES: $197M bulk tanks; truck and rail fleet; blend tanks 79 2020 SALES: $198.0M (INR Trading sales: 15% 14.46BN) Houston, Texas, US New Delhi, India www.theplazagrp.com CHEMPARTNERS www.kplintl.com President: Randy Velarde 78 2020 SALES: $202.2M Managing director: Mr. Surinder Kumar Kak Products: Acetone; benzene; methanol; Products: Bulk & essential chemicals; poly- fuels; toluene; MEK; aqua ammonia; sulphuric Moscow, Russia mers; paper & allied chemicals; specialty acid; lignosulfonates www.propartners.ru chemicals; paint & coating chemicals; indus- CEOs: Gaurav Sood, Constantin Rzaev trial & speciality gases; engineering consuma- DISAN LATINOAMERICA Products: Polyolefins (thermoplastic polyole- bles; Darjeeling teas 81 2020 SALES: $187M fins, polyolefin elastomers); recycled poly- Services: Development of markets for new mers; PVC; polymer processing additives; ad- products and applications; investment in value Bogota, Colombia hesives and bonding systems (epoxy, added services like repackaging facilities for https://disanlatinoamerica.com polyurethane); solvents; MCAA; water treat- greater market coverage; providing continu- CEO: Mateo Leon ment chemicals; animal feed; synthetic fibres; ous market intelligence, technical and after- Products: Additives; ingredients; silicones; chemicals and blends for the oil and gas in- sales support; sourcing, exports, procurement fertilizers; feed and food nutrition ingredi- dustry; disinfection chemicals; food ingredi- and auditing services; repackaging services; ents; chemical specialties; chemical com- ents; flexible packaging; paints and construc- warehousing and logistics services; facilitating modities; textile auxiliaries; enzymes; private tion chemicals; mining chemicals technical support from group companies for label chemical products Services: Blending; packaging; vendor man- quality control, testing and plant audits Services: Long-term relationships; reliable aged inventory; international and local logis- Assets: 10 warehouses; two bottling facili- supply; specialised support; logistics efficien- tics; sourcing services; surveying services; ties for refrigerant and industrial gases; Eight cy; one-stop shop portfolio market research; studying center; auditing wind turbines with generation capacity of Assets: 15 warehouses; 12 R&D laboratories; 2

Middle East & Africa chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales 1 Petrochem Middle East 997.4 25 Biesterfeld 38.0 50 Sinochem Plastics 7.0 2 Snetor 925.0 26 Bodo Moeller Chemie 30.6 51 Ricardo Molina Group 6.7 3 Tricon Energy 489.8 27 Linkers Chemicals and 30.1 52 Unipex 6.6 4 Manuchar 378.0 Polymers 53 Interallis Holdings 5.4 5 Protea Chemicals (Omnia 355.0 28 Skystep Trading 28.4 54 Grolman Group 4.9 Group) 29 Grupo RNM 23.7 55 Penpet Petrochemical 3.7 6 Solevo 326.5 30 Solventis 20.2 Trading 7 ICC Chemical 231.3 31 Jebsen & Jessen Group 19.6 56 Lehmann & Voss 3.7 8 Kolmar Group 223.7 32 Opec Plastics 18.0 57 Arpadis Benelux 3.1 9 Ravago Chemicals 220.1 33 Pon Pure Chemicals 17.1 58 RAHN-Group 3.0 10 Continental Industries 150.0 Group 59 Neo Chemical 2.8 Group 34 ECEM European 15.4 60 TOP Solvent 2.1 Chemical Marketing 11 Rakha Al Khaleej 147.9 61 Wistema 2.1 International 35 Indukern 14.7 62 L'aprochimide 2.1 12 Afriglobal Commodities 124.0 36 Safic-Alcan 13.0 63 Life Supplies 2.1 13 Taj Al Mulook General 122.0 37 Audiche Trading 12.8 64 Bloomchemag 1.8 Trading 38 Selectchemie 11.3 65 2M Group 1.8 14 Transmare Chemie 118.7 39 EMSA Tecnologia 11.3 15 Azelis 108.8 Quimica 66 KEMAT 1.7 16 Quimidroga 105.2 40 Wego Chemical Group 10.2 67 PHT International 1.5 17 CellMark 99.5 41 Norkem Holdings 9.7 68 Noahs Ark Chemicals 1.2 18 Nesstra Services 89.1 42 Quimdis 8.7 69 Antonio Tarazona 1.2 19 Al Nahda International 83.2 43 Group Barcelonesa 8.6 70 Atlantic Chemicals 1.2 Trading (Anichem Group) 44 L.C.M. 8.6 71 Will & Co 1.2 20 Omya 62.2 45 DutCH2 8.2 72 Metafrax Trading 1.1 21 Prakash Chemicals 57.8 46 RishiChem Mideast 7.6 International International 47 Barentz 7.3 22 Venus Chemicals Group 49.0 73 Hawkins 1.0 48 Proquibasa 7.3 23 Kale Kimya 44.0 Note: Sales are in the specific region and may differ 49 Arkem Kimya 7.0 from total company sales. Sales $1m and above 24 Echemi Group 42.1 included www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 77 OF LEADING WITH INSIGHT premix plants Products: Chemical raw materials ents; oils; lubricants Trading sales: 15% Services: Supply chain Services: Custom packaging; custom blend- Assets: 14,500 square metres total space; up ing; delivery to customer or job site; waste ser- CHEMGROUP to 30,000 EUR-pallets; 2 areas with mobile vices; laboratory services 82 2020 SALES: $185.6M shelves; 12 multifunctional loading docks; Assets: 7 stocking locations; 83 power units; 2x35 square metres low-temperature con- 161 trailers Cincinnati, Ohio, US trolled area; 10-layers storage; 30% of total www.ChemGroup.com space could be used for ADR products; area GROLMAN GROUP President: Marty Wehr for flammable materials; 2 offices in Moscow 89 2020 SALES: $167.5M (€137M) Products: Acids and alkalis; hydrogen perox- (total about 1,200 square metres) ide; sodium hypochlorite; solvents and inter- Trading sales: 100% Neuss, Germany mediates, glycols, glycol ethers, amines, sur- www.grolman-group.com factants; alcohols, water treatment chemicals, NORTEX Managing directors: Dirk Grolman, Florian nitrogen products; white oils and petrolatum; 86 2020 SALES: $183.2M Grolman, Mike Dörsam borates, lime; specialty chemicals; gas-to-liq- Products: Additives; pigments; dyes; actives uids (GTL) and sustainable fluids and solvents Moscow, Russia & intermediates; performance materials; fill- Services: Chemical and inventory manage- www.nortex-chem.ru ers; resins for paints & coatings; plastics & ment; blending, packaging, warehousing, CEO: Vladimir Yakushin rubber; construction; sealants & adhesives; chemical technical and safety training; cus- Products: Isocyanates; polyols; PU disper- printing inks; personal care & pharma; ener- tomised billing sions; epoxy resins; polyolefins; engineering gy storage Assets: Super-regional presence across Mid- plastics; antioxidants; synthetic/natural rub- Services: Lab tests; formulation advice west and Southeast US with 10 warehouses ber and latex; phenolic resins; PVC resins; Assets: Labs; warehouses; offices totaling over 500,000 square feet, over 2m gal plasticizers; detergents; mineral fillers; oil and bulk storage; 28 tractors; 18 straight trucks; 38 lubricant additives; synthetic fiber HAEFFNER trailers; 12 tankers Services: Warehousing; safety stocks; logis- 90 2020 SALES: $167M tics; drumming; financing; technical consulting SMC GLOBAL Assets: Central licensed storage hub; 12 re- Asperg, Germany 83 2020 SALES: $185M gional warehouses www.hugohaeffner.com Trading sales: 20% CEOs: Juergen Martin, Thomas Dassler New York, US Products: Water treatment chemicals; paint; www.smc-global.com HARKE GROUP ink; coating; adhesive and resin additives; CEO: Adam Feldman 87 2020 SALES: $180M (€147.2M) paint; textile and leather auxiliaries; food ad- Products: CASE; oil and gas chemicals; water ditives; feed additives; metal treatment treatment chemicals; electronics chemicals; Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany chemicals; household and personal care in- mining chemicals; textile chemicals; chemical www.harke.com gredients; lubricant additives intermediates President: Thorsten Harke Services: Value-added services including Services: Tolling; trucking; financing Products: Home care I&I chemicals; coatings; mixing, blending and formulating repackag- Assets: Locations in San Angelo (Texas), Kan- electronics/high purity chemicals; food ingre- ing; contract packaging; warehousing of sas City (Kansas), Kershaw (South Carolina); dients; health & functional food; industrial hazardous goods; just-in-time-delivery and 50 trucks chemicals; cosmetics/personal care ingredi- application advice by our highly skilled tech- ents; pharma excipients; plastics; rubber nical sales team; single sourcing ATLANTIC CHEMICALS chemicals; specialty plastic films; specialty Assets: 6 warehouse facilities across Europe 84 TRADING chemicals; polymers; water-soluble films; wa- with tank farm for acids/lyes/solvents and 2020 SALES: $183.4M (€150M) ter-treatment chemicals hazard analysis and critical control points Hamburg, Germany Services: Reformulation; development; regu- (HACCP) filling and blending area; 1 labora- www.act.de latory advice; blending; mixing; contract en- tory; 30 trucks CEO: Dr Ramin Ghaffari capsulation; contract packaging; refilling; Trading sales: 10% Products: Vitamins; amino acids; sweeten- sandblast gravure; pre-print ers; energy ingredients; flavours and fra- Assets: Warehouses in different European KEYSER & MACKAY grances; sports nutrition ingredients; pre- countries; 2 production sites (Germany, Hun- 91 2020 SALES: $162.6M (€133M) servatives; plant extracts; feed additives; gary); 10 packaging and encapsulation lines; food additives; natural products filling stations Amsterdam, Netherlands Services: Customising; global supply chain Trading sales: 10% www.keysermackay.com services; storage Managing partners: Gerard de Waal, Willem Assets: 13 offices worldwide; several ware- BARTON SOLVENTS Augustinus houses worldwide 88 2020 SALES: $174.9M Products: Specialty chemicals; raw materi- Trading sales: 10% als for coatings, inks, plastics, rubber, adhe- Des Moines, Iowa, US sives, sealants, construction, personal REVADA GROUP www.barsol.com care, food, feed, pharmaceuticals and other 85 2020 SALES: $183.4M (€150M) President: David Casten applications Products: Aliphatics; aromatics; alcohols; gly- Services: Technical sales and marketing; Moscow, Russia col ethers; acetates; ketones; glycols; epoxy local and central stockholding; sampling www.revada-group.com resins; surfactants; distilled spirits; specialty Assets: Offices, laboratories and warehouses Technical director: Igor Gorlov chemicals; USP/NF pharmaceutical ingredi- in 7 European countries www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 79 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. 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TAJ AL MULOOK GENERAL reduction); aerospace approved products; cals; trans-shipment; blending; toll manufac- 92 TRADING Pigmentan (anti-corrosive environment friend- turing; warehousing; packaging; deliveries by 2020 SALES: $157M ly pigrments); oilfield chemicals; specialty per- vessel, rail, container, truck and silo-truck Dubai, UAE sonal care & cosmetics ingredients; hydrocar- Assets: Office in Switzerland; manufacturing www.tajchem.com bons & oxygenated solvents; homecare and sites in Russia and Austria; 3rd party ware- Chairman and CEO: Irfan Siddique Mulla I&I ingredients; pharmaceutical excepients houses in Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Rus- Products: Raw materials for coating; con- and APIs; precision cleaning solutions; pre- sia, Spain and US; marketing subsidiary in struction chemicals; chemicals for polyure- servatives and biocides; fragrances South Korea thane industry such as TDI, MDI, polyols; poly- Services: Blending; packaging; storage; for- Trading sales: 10% mers LLDPE, LDPE, HDPE, PVC; lubricant mulation and technical support with laborato- additives and base oil; food ingredients ry facilities; sample management; technical, FARAVELLI Services: Warehousing; blending; technical regulatory and legislative expertise; toll blend- 98 2020 SALES: $148.2M (€121.2M) services; logistics and inventory management ing; water treatment; pigment dispersion; de- Assets: 5 warehouses (2 in Saudi Arabia velopment & formulation Milan, Italy and 3 in UAE); 5 storage tanks in UAE; 10 de- Assets: Application laboratories; warehous- www.faravelligroup.com livery trucks ing in UK, Poland, Brazil, Nordics, Benelux, CEO: Luca Benati Trading sales: 65% blending & storage facilities; own trucks Products: Chemicals and raw materials for food; pharmaceuticals; nutraceuticals; cos- CONNECT CHEMICALS GROUP GROUP BARCELONESA metics and various industrial applications 93 2020 SALES: $156M 96 2020 SALES: $149.2M (€122M) Services: Logistic and storage; regulatory support; formulation support through our Ratingen, Germany Barcelona, Spain labs; blending; repackaging www.connectchemicals.com www.grupbarcelonesa.com Assets: 1 plant; 2 labs; 10 warehouses CEOs: A Basar Karaca, Dirk Otmar CEOs: Enric Collell, Albert Collell Trading sales: 25% Products: Household & industrial care chemi- Products: Food additives; feed additives; spe- cals; cosmetics & personal care ingredients; cialty agrochemicals and micronutrients; spe- ALGOL CHEMICALS water treatment chemicals; lubricants & metal cialty additives for oil drilling and completion; 99 2020 SALES: $146.7M (€120M) working fluids; paper chemicals; coatings, ad- mining chemicals; resins, curing agents and hesives & sealants; plastics composites; aluminium and stainless steel fin- Espoo, Finland Services: Custom manufacturing; produc- ishing chemicals; detergent and disinfection www.algol.com tion; storage; blending chemicals; home care chemicals; personal CEO: Kalle Kettunen care ingredients; pharmaceutical ingredients; Products: Coatings; food and feed ingredi- ELTON GROUP textiles and leather chemicals; specialties for ents; construction chemicals; plastics; road 94 2020 SALES: $151.6M (€124M) coatings, inks, adhesives, construction, lubri- and rubber chemicals; industrial chemicals; cants and paper; pool chemicals; water treat- water treatment chemicals; personal care in- Athens, Greece ment chemicals; polyols and polyurethanes; gredients; detergents www.elton-group.com chlor-alkalis; acids and bases; metallic salts; Services: Packaging; bulk breaking; mixing; CEO: Nestor Papathanasiou solvents; amines; glycols tolling; toll manufacturing; storage Products: Industrial raw materials and spe- Services: Blending and formulating; custom Assets: Production sites; warehouses cialties for coatings, adhesives, construction, and toll manufacturing; contract manufac- detergents, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, turing; labelling and drumming; packaging; URAI food, feed, beverages, water treatment, metal technical assistance; environmental assis- 100 2020 SALES: $146.7M (€120M) treatment, PU systems, textiles, paper, agro- tance; VMI (telemetry); agency services; chemicals, rubber, plastics and refrigerants bond warehousing for third parties; logistics; Assago, Milano, Italy Services: Local warehouses; storage and specialised warehousing and transportation www.urai.it distribution in Southeast European markets; for dangerous goods President and CEO: Roberto Giuliani full coverage of Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Assets: 8 warehouses with palletised storage Products: Specialty chemicals; pigments; ad- Serbia, Turkey, Kosovo, Albania, North Mace- capacity of 70,000 square metres (56,000 ditives; resins; paints & coatings chemicals; donia, Cyprus and Ukraine markets; techni- pallets), located in southwest Europe and plastic & rubber chemicals; lubricant chemical promotion and business development; Northern Africa; Sea tanks of 17,000 cubic me- cals; personal care & cosmetics ingredients; inventory management tres; trucks food ingredients; laboratory equipment. Assets: 9 warehouses; 2 laboratories; private- Trading sales: 20% Services: Technical sales and marketing; ap- ly owned trucks and tank trucks plication development; quality; warehousing; METAFRAX TRADING regulatory services; supply chain manage- 2M GROUP 97 INTERNATIONAL ment; after sales services; repacking; blending 95 2020 SALES: $149.9M 2020 SALES: $148.9M (€121.7M) Assets: Office building; 2 external warehouses Lugano, Switzerland Runcorn, UK www.metafraxtrading.com WWRC HOLDING www.2m-holdings.com Executive director: Marina Sivkova 101 2020 SALES: $144.2M Chairman and chief executive: Mottie Kessler Products: Methanol; hexamine and pentae- Products: Triklone; Perklone and MEC prime; rythritol (incl micronised grades); melamine; Singapore SamSol; chlorine gas (cylinders & drums) for urea; paraformaldehyde; ammonia; phthalic www.wwrc.com water treatment and chemical synthesis; sur- anhydride CEO: Teoh Weng Chai factants/reology modifiers; AdBlue (emission Services: Storage of liquid and solid chemi- Products: Resins/intermediates; additives/

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Assets: PHT Pharmaceutical - CDMO; PHT own applications lab line solutions; solvents; solids; specialities; Pharmaceutical Technology - CRO; samples Trading sales: 20% coatings, adhesives and sealants; industrial lab; import/export offices in China; procure- parts cleaning chemicals; life science chemi- ment team in China; global administrative of- ARPADIS BENELUX cals; water and environment chemicals fices and sales representatives 106 2020 SALES: $129.6M (€106M) Services: Technical expertise and field service; warehouse and direct distribution; in- IMPAG GROUP Antwerp, Belgium ventory management; blending and repack- 105 2020 SALES: $133.3M (€109M) www.arpadis.com aging; proper disposal of chemical waste; CEO: Laurent Abergel worldwide shipment; trucking Zurich, Switzerland Products: Isocyanates; polyols; acrylates and Assets: Filling and trans-shipment; site impag.com / impag.ch monomers; solvents; glycols; adipic acid; warehouse laboratory for quality assurance; CEO: Remo Bernardi HMD; polyaspartics; polyether amines; PTA tank wagons for chemicals trucks; company Products: Coatings additives; anhydrides; Services: Dilution; repackaging; transport; vehicles acrylates; polyols; flame retardants; polyure- storage; blends thane; green solvents; detergents; base PRIDE CHEMICAL SOLUTIONS chemicals; cosmetic functionals and active CSC JAEKLECHEMIE 108 2020 SALES: $125M ingredients; food ingredients; pharmaceuti- 107 2020 SALES: $126.2M (€103.2M) cal/APIs; oleochemicals Holtsville, New York, US Services: Global logistics; global sourcing; Nurenberg, Germany www.pridesol.com storage; technical support; regulatory sup- www.csc-jaekle.de President: Art Dhom Jr port; financing; packaging Managing directors: Robert Spath, Dr Bern- Products: Alcohols; amines; esters; glycols; Assets: 6 sales offices across Europe; 1 tank hard Schmid, Dr Michael Spehr glycol ethers; hydrocarbon solvents; ketones; farm for liquid goods; filling line for chemicals; Products: Industrial chemicals; acids; alka- mineral oils; oleochemicals; petrolatums; plasticizers; silicones; surfactants Services: NF/USP Kosher repackaging; solvent blending; DSP ethanol denaturing; flammable packaging Assets: 3 warehouses; multiple tanker trucks; tractor trailers and box trucks

AFRIGLOBAL COMMODITIES 109 2020 SALES: $124M

Dubai, UAE www.afriglobalonline.com Group CEO: Maneesh Garg Products: Polyurethane chemicals, paint chemicals, cosmetics chemicals, basic chemicals, oilfield chemicals Services: Logistics; trade finance Trading sales: 8%

NEO CHEMICAL 110 2020 SALES: $124M

Dzerzhinsk, Moscow www.neochemical.ru CEO/Director: Andrey Lipovetskiy/Vladimir Fedyushkin Products: Epoxy resins; titanium dioxide; peroxide compounds; oil additives; food ingredients; polyisobutylenes; silanes; hardeners; solvents;fuel additives; flame retardants; base oils; hexene 1; PVC additives; raw materials for cosmetics and household chemicals Services: Packaging; storage; shipping Assets: Wholesale warehouse Trading sales: 55%

QUIMDIS 111 2020 SALES: $120.5M (€98.5M)

Levallois-Perret, France

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President: Jean-François Quarre mers; organic acids; polymers; polyure- Baltimore, Maryland, US Products: Raw materials; food/feed; nutra- thane feedstocks; reactive diluents; UV cur- www.tilleychem.com ceuticals; pharmaceuticals and veterinary; fla- ing monomers President and CEO: Sean Tilley vours and fragrances; cosmetics Services: Pan-European sales network, spe- Products: Food ingredients; pharmaceuti- Trading sales: 6.8% cialized on selected customer branches; cal ingredients; personal care ingredients, market research; financing; storage; supply HI&I chemicals, fragrances, chemical RAHN-GROUP chain management processing 112 2020 SALES: $120M Assets: 14 sites in Europe and Asia Services: Contract blending and packaging Trading sales: 25% Assets: 28 tank trucks; 10 van trailers; 10 Zurich, Switzerland straight trucks; 2 rail facilities; multiple www.rahn-group.com C.H. ERBSLOEH GROUP warehouses CEO: Marcel Gatti 116 2020 SALES: $116.2M (€95M) Products: Raw materials for inks, coatings NESSTRA SERVICES and adhesives; personal care ingredients; fla- Krefeld, Germany 119 2020 SALES: $110.9M vours and fragrances; food ingredients www.cherbsloeh.com Services: Application support; R&D/custom- CEO: Christopher Erbsloh Slough, UK ised products; regulatory affairs; guide for- Products: Specialty chemicals for coatings, www.nesstra.com mulations; international logistics; analytics adhesives, construction, lubricants, pharma- CEO: Alwan Hitti Trading sales: 50% ceutical, cosmetics, personal and home Products: Polyurethane chemicals (polyols, care, rubber, plastics, electronics, water TDI, MDI, additives); polyurethane foam KALE KIMYA treatment, food and beverage plants, cutting machines and spare parts; 113 2020 SALES: $120M Services: Technical sales and marketing; basic chemicals (calcium carbonate, caus- application development; analytical testing tic soda, glycerine, hexane, hydrogen per- Istanbul, Turkey and quality control; warehousing; regulato- oxide, methylene chloride, MPG, sulphuric www.kalekimya.com ry services; supply chain management; acid, titanium dioxide, toluene, xylene); President: Birgen Kaleagasi after sales services plastics (HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, PVC); con- Products: Detergent additives; disinfectant & Assets: 11 office locations, application and struction, mining and electrical equipment protection; emulsifier; polymers; surfactants; quality control laboratories; fully owned and and consumables pool chemicals; actives & antioxidants; paint; oils operated warehouses and tank farm Trading sales: 15% & esters; conditioners; protectives; perfume; silicones; uv filters; fatty alcohols; adhesives L.C.M. UNIPEX Services: Storage; transport; production; 117 2020 SALES: $116.2M (€95M) 120 2020 SALES: $110.7M (€90.5M) blending; packaging Assets: Warehouses; trucks; production facili- Milan, Italy La Defense, Paris, France ty; laboratories; packaging facility; bulk stor- www.lcm-group.it www.unipex.com age facility President: Fabio Lencioni CFO: Patrice Barthelmes Trading sales: 30% Products: Raw materials for the pharmaceu- Products: Active & functional personal tical, nutraceutical, cosmetic and personal care ingredients; active pharmaceutical in- STAUB & CO. - SILBERMANN care, animal nutrition, chemical and food ingredients (APIs) and excipients; enzymes; 114 2020 SALES: $117.4M (€96M) dustries; APIs; active ingredients; excipients; amino acids; lactose; sweetneers; sugar; synthesis intermediates; extracts; enzymes; starch; fibres; plasticizers; surfactants; ad- Nürnberg, Germany amino acids; emulsifiers; fibres and stabiliz- ditives; silicones; titanium dioxide; dyes www.staub-silbermann.de ers; vitamins; feed ingredients; agri/horti and pigments; sports grounds polymers Managing directors: Andreas Frank, Peter chemicals; water treatment chemicals; oleo- and resins Stockmeier chemicals; plastic additives; polymers; res- Services: Tailored services; technical ex- Products: Industrial and speciality chemi- ins; surfactants; silicones; pigments; galvan- pertise; formulation assistance; repackag- cals; acids and lyes; solvents; solid chemi- ic products; leathers and fabrics; coatings; ing; storage; CSR; regulatory monitoring; cals; cleaning agents; products for food/ organic and inorganic raw materials quality; ISO; analytical reference standards feed/pharma/cosmetics; water treatment Services: Sourcing; import/export; blending Assets: 2 warehouses chemicals; thermal transfer agents; ammo- development; customised ingredients and Trading sales: 5% nium; AdBlue formulation solutions; expert technical and Services: Storage; mixing; blending; filling; regulatory affairs support; consultancy and NAGASE SPECIALTY packaging; polymerisation advisory services for Europe’s Reach regula- 121 MATERIALS Assets: 2 warehouses; 20 trucks tion; trained sales force; local stockholding; 2020 SALES: $110M Trading sales: 30% tailor-made services Itasca, Illinois, US Assets: Strategic stock points at Genoa and www.nsm-na.com PROCHEMA Ravenna port, in addition to 3 storage and President and COO: Mark Miller 115 2020 SALES: $117.2M distribution warehouses; offices and market Products: Coatings, adhesives, sealants, access in EMEA, including North Africa and elastomers; pigment dispersions; polymers; Vienna, Austria Middle East UV coatings; paints; personal care; hair www.prochema.com care; actives CEO: Werner Figlhuber TILLEY CHEMICAL Services: Laboratory services; innovation Products: Additives & hardeners; acrylates 118 2020 SALES: $115.9M Assets: Itasca Innovation Lab & methacrylates; binders & resins; mono- Trading sales: 50%

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Latin America chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) CEO: Francois-Xavier Coiffard Products: Pharmaceutical ingredients; per- Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales sonal care ingredients; resins & coatings; con- 1 Brenntag 1,001.5 41 CellMark 15.5 struction chemicals; water treatment chemi- 2 Tricon Energy 881.0 42 DAXX 13.4 cals; industrial chemicals 3 Manuchar 720.0 43 The Chemical Company 12.5 Services: Wholesaling; warehousing; filling & 4 GTM Holdings 690.0 44 Nesstra Services 11.7 repackaging; on-time delivery; sourcing 5 Univar Solutions 451.0 45 DutCH2 10.0 SKYSTEP TRADING 6 Helm 450.7 46 Lehmann & Voss 8.6 125 2020 SALES: $105M 7 Quimica Anastacio 417.8 47 Clariquimica 7.9 8 Snetor 392.0 48 Prakash Chemicals 7.1 Limassol, Cyprus 9 MCassab 334.0 International www.skystep.eu 10 Pochteca 291.1 49 Ricardo Molina Group 6.4 Director: Oksana Spyrou 11 Quimtia 268.0 50 SAME Chemicals 4.9 Products: Acrylates; oxo-alcohols; sulphur; 12 Indukern 216.0 51 Transmare Chemie 4.8 sodium tripolyphosphate; soda ash; sodium 13 Bandeirante Quimica 215.0 52 Norkem Holdings 4.2 sulphate; caustic soda; potassium hydroxide; potassium carbonate; potassium sul- 14 Disan Latinoamerica 187.0 53 SolvChem 4.2 15 IMCD 173.5 phate; sodium lignosulphonates; chromium 54 Safic-Alcan 4.0 compounds; acetone; methylene chloride; 16 Jebsen & Jessen Group 172.4 55 Quimidroga 3.7 rubbers; glycols; phenol; isopropyl alcohol; 17 Continental Industries 150.0 56 Arkem Kimya 3.0 ethanolamines and many others Group 57 Equilex 2.9 Services: Sales and marketing; financing; ex- 18 Omya 73.5 58 Solventis 2.7 tensive technical and customer support; logis- 19 Barentz 63.6 tics and documentation; transportation and 59 PHT International 2.6 20 Metachem 60.0 forwarding of dry and tank containers; bulk 60 Group Barcelonesa 2.5 21 Kolmar Group 59.2 shipping; handling and re-packaging; storage 22 Solven Solventes e 40.4 61 Noahs Ark Chemicals 2.5 and inventory management. Quimicos 62 Wistema 1.8 Assets: Terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia; 23 Quelaris 38.6 63 Metafrax Trading 1.8 two offices in Limassol, Cyprus; 40+ highly- 24 Henry Hirschen 37.6 International skilled employees 25 Carbono Quimica 36.9 64 2M Group 1.7 Trading sales: 80% 26 Wego Chemical Group 35.1 65 Hawkins 1.6 SEA-LAND CHEMICAL 27 Biesterfeld 35.0 66 Ketsin de Costa Rica 1.6 2020 SALES: $104.6M 28 Skystep Trading 34.5 67 Aug. Hedinger 1.2 126 29 Selectchemie 31.7 68 Lavollee 1.2 Westlake, Ohio, US 30 Petrochem Middle East 28.4 69 Penpet Petrochemical 1.2 www.sealandchem.com 31 Morais de Castro 28.3 Trading President: Jennifer Altstadt 32 Opec Plastics 27.0 70 Atlantic Chemicals 1.2 Products: Specialty amines; biocides/preserv- Trading 33 Echemi Group 24.5 atives; corrosion inhibitors; esters; fatty acids; 71 Rakha Al Khaleej 1.1 surfactants; extreme pressure additives; 34 Ravago Chemicals 24.5 International 35 Assuncao Distribuidora 24.0 chelating agents; lubricity aides; anti-oxidants; 72 Basstech International 1.0 sodium sulphonates; poly alpha olefins; normal 36 ICC Chemical 23.2 73 RAHN-Group 1.0 alpha olefins; rheology modifiers; industrial 37 TZ Group (Tau, Treza) 20.4 74 Haeffner 1.0 and transportation lubricants and additives 38 ECEM European 20.2 75 Hubbard-Hall 1.0 Services: Warehousing; repackaging; prod- Chemical Marketing 76 Sinochem Plastics 1.0 uct sourcing; market development; techni- 39 Sulatlantica Importadora 19.5 cal expertise; laboratory testing; domestic e Exportadora Note: Sales are in the specific region and may differ from total company sales. Sales $1m and above and international logistics; small package to 40 Brisco do Brasil 16.0 included bulk deliveries; consolidation of orders; regulatory support PENPET PETROCHEMICAL LIFE SUPPLIES Assets: 10 warehouse locations in North 122 TRADING 123 2020 SALES: $107.6M (€88M) America and Europe; 6 repackaging facilities; 2020 SALES: $107.6M (€88M) one testing laboratory Hamburg, Germany Olen Belgium www.penpet.com www.life-supplies.com CLEARTECH INDUSTRIES General managers: Tim Meister, Christoph Managing director: Chantal Voets 127 2020 SALES: $104M Meister Products: Oxo-alcohols; melamine; sol- NOVASOL CHEMICALS GROUP Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada vents; plasticizers 124 2020 SALES: $105M www.cleartech.ca Services: Blending; packaging; storage President: Randy Bracewell Assets: 2 warehouses Brussels, Belgium Products: Acids; activated carbon; alkalis; bi- Trading sales: 25% www.novasolchemicals.com ological augmentation; chelating & seques-

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Indianapolis, Indiana, US La Palma, California, US H.M. ROYAL www.mayschem.com www.tcrindustries.com 136 2020 SALES: $86M President: Kristin Mays-Corbitt President: Gary Glaviano Products: Acidulants; alkalis; citrates; humec- Products: Paints and coatings; plastics; Trenton, New Jersey, US tants; flavours; glycerine; glycols; phosphates; CASE; food ingredients; pharmaceutical in- www.hmroyal.com solvents; stearates; surfactants gredients; personal care ingredients; bever- President: Joseph Royal Services: Shipping; warehousing; liquid and age ingredients; HI&I chemicals; nutraceuti- Products: Rubber polymers; resins and dilu- dry blending; repackaging; reformulation cals; building materials ents; curing agents; processing aids; plasticiz- Assets: 2 warehouses; 1 warehouse/blending ers; rubber to substrate bonding adhesives; facility; 5 liquid tank trucks; 2 liquid tank trail- CHIMPEX INDUSTRIALE flame retardants; smoke suppressants; films; ers; 12 forklifts/related equipment 133 2020 SALES: $86.8M (€71M) wrapping tapes; performance additives; functional fillers; reinforcing fillers NOAHS ARK CHEMICALS Naples, Italy Services: Market development; sales; order 129 2020 SALES: $97.8M (€80M) www.chimpex.it fulfilment President and CEO: Salvatore Romano Assets: New Jersey-based distribution site; London, UK Products: Base chemicals (organics and inor- California-based distribution site; 18 regionally www.noahsark.eu.com ganics); AdBlue; water treatment chemicals; deployed salespeople CEO: Jeroen Baaima composite materials; food additives; home Trading sales: 40% Products: Ethylene glycol; styrene monomer; care and industrial cleaning chemicals acrylic resins; pigments; CASE monomers Services: Tailor-made solutions for industrial PRAKASH CHEMICALS Services: Trading and specialty; technical support 137 INTERNATIONAL Assets: Tank and warehouse storage in Benelux Assets: 3 plants in Italy in the north, southeast, 2020 SALES: $86M Trading sales: 10% southwest; more than 130 tanks; AdBlue plant; Vadodara, Gujarat, India potassium soap plant; production facilities www.pciplindia.com AEGEAN FIRST COMPANY Managing director: Manish K Shah 130 (AFCO) CHEMSOLV Products: Caustic soda flakes; TDI; benzyl al- 2020 SALES: $95.4M (€78M) 134 2020 SALES: $86.5M cohol; ethyl acetate; sodium sulphate anhy- Athens, Greece drous; cinnamic aldehyde; SLES; chlorinated www.afco.gr Roanoke, Virginia, US paraffin wax; benzyl chloride; liquid glucose; CEO and President of the Board: Christos www.chemsolv.com DEP; dextrose monohydrate; hydrochloric Spanos CEO: L Glenn Austin acid; white oil; hydrogen peroxide; colour Products: Polymers; specialty chemicals; or- Products: Full line of organic and inorganic speckles; liquid chlorine ganic and inorganic chemicals; pharmaceutical industrial solvents and chemical products; sur- Services: Blending; packaging; storage; la- ingredients; agrochemicals; food ingredients factants; silicones; metalworking fluids; chlor- belling; logistics and supply chain services; ex- Services: Storage; technical support; techni- alkali; oils and lubricants; specialty blends works to DDP; quality assurance; inspection; cal sales Services: Blending; packaging; transportation; country specific documents compliance; Assets: Branch offices in Bucharest, Sofia and solvent distillation and purification; technical REACH registration; FAMI-QS certification; ISO Belgrade; 9 warehouses rented; 51 employees support; safety and environmental consulting 9001:2015; ISO 14001:2015 Trading sales: 6% Assets: 5 locations; large bulk storage facility; Assets: 2 manufacturing plants; 1 R&D lab; 2 large fleet of trucks and trailers warehouses; four subsidiaries outside India ILARIO ORMEZZANO Trading sales: 2% 131 2020 SALES: $91.7M (€75M) CHEM INTERNATIONAL MILES CHEMICAL 138 2020 SALES: $85.4M Gaglianico, Italy 135 2020 SALES: $86.3M www.ilarioormezzano.it Warsaw, Poland President and CEO: Giancarlo Ormezzano Arleta, California, US www.chem.international Products: Solvents; phenol; acrylates; base www.mileschemical.com Board member, CEO: Cezary Mielczarek chemicals; pharmaceutical intermediates; hy- CEO: Michael Miles/Chairman: Anthony Miles Products: VAM; styrene monomer; IPA, BA; drocarbons Products: Acids; esters; lubricants; fatty phenol; glycols; solvents; anhydrides; poly- Services: Storage of liquid and solid prod- chemicals; pigments; alcohols; flavours and mers; EPS; caustic soda ucts; storage for third parties; blending; cus- fragrances; plasticizers; aldehydes; food addi- Services: Logistics support; intermodal solu- tomised handling (packaging, mixing, filling tives; polyglycols; amines; glycol ethers; hy- tions; warehousing; storage; customised ser-

90 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com OF LEADING WITH INSIGHT Shutterstock vices and solutions; technical support storage with dedicated berth access (<500m www.tannerind.com away) at the Jebel Ali port; 9 warehouses; 3 President and CEO: Brad Tanner UNION PETROCHEMICAL production facilities (including a 15,000 tonne Products: Anhydrous ammonia, aqua ammo- Ba139 2020 SALES: $85.2M (BT2.56BN) sulphonation plant); 3 laboratories nia and urea solutions Services: Storage tanks; pump out services; Bangkok, Thailand THE CHEMICAL COMPANY tank maintenance; safety training www.unionpetrochemical.com 141 2020 SALES: $83.5M Assets: 13 distribution locations; full fleet of Managing director: Perapol Suwannapasri tractors and trailers; highly trained company Products: Alcohols; aromatics; esters; gly- Jamestown, Rhode Island, US drivers cols; gylcol ethers; ketones; monomers; PP www.thechemco.com and PE Sales and marketing specialist: Ben Sawicki NEWPORT INDUSTRIES Services: Blending; packaging; repackaging; Products: Polymer additives; plasticizers; R143 2020 SALES: $82.7M (£60.5M) storage; delivery; inventory management coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers Assets: 5 warehouses; 30 trucks (CASE); flame retardants; silanes; water treat- Richmond, London, UK ment chemicals; intermediates; acids www.newport-industries.com AL NAHDA INTERNATIONAL Services: Global procurement; packaging; im- Managing director: Raj Patel Du140 (ANICHEM GROUP) ports; international customs management: Products: Soda ash; sodium bicarbonate; hy- 2020 SALES: $84.2M EH&S team; logistics and rail fleet manage- drocarbon resin; calcined bauxite; l-carnitine; Dubai, UAE ment resins; mineral animal feed materials; industri- alnahda.group Assets: Global network of 41 sites, with re- al chemicals Group managing director: Dr Vijayan gional offices in California (US), Colombia, Services: Supply chain management; sourcing Products: Solvents; acetates; acrylates; alco- Mexico City, and Nanjing (China); 10 storage Trading sales: 100% hols; aromatics; cellulose ethers; coating addi- facilities; 14 railcars; warehouses; shore tanks; tives; glycols; pigments; polymer emulsions; distribution centres AUG. HEDINGER thinners; ethanol; IPA; LABSA 144 2020 SALES: $82.2M (€67.24M) Services: Terminal storage for bulk liquid TANNER INDUSTRIES chemicals; drumming facility; 3PL warehous- S142 2020 SALES: $83M Stuttgart, Germany ing; custom blending www.hedinger.de Assets: 25,000 cubic metres tank terminal Southampton, US CEO: Johann-Ludwig Raiser www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 93 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch

TRIISO Products: Chemical processing; personal Cleveland, Ohio, US 145 2020 SALES: $81.5M care; pulp and paper; paint and coatings; au- www.chemicalsolvents.com tomotive; municipal; petroleum refining; CEO and owner: Ed Pavlish Cardiff, California, US food and beverage; adhesives and sealants; Products: Aromatics; aliphatics; chlorinated www.tri-iso.com soaps and detergents; electronics; textiles; solvents; acetates; alcohols; amines; esters; President: Jason Scott pharma; metals glycol ethers; ketones; silicones; surfactants; Products: Polyurethanes; paints and coatings; Services: Contract packaging; blending; bulk white oils metalworking fluids and lubricants; greases rail transloading Services: Custom blending; hazardous waste and oils; adhesives and sealants; epoxies; Assets: Multiple facilities with over 300,000 disposal composites and advanced materials square feet of storage; private truck fleet; Services: Logistics; warehousing; importing bulk storage CALLAHAN CHEMICAL and exporting 154 2020 SALES: $74.7M CHEMISPHERE SHANGHAI SAIFU CHEMICAL 150 2020 SALES: $78.5M Palmyra, New Jersey, US 146 DEVELOPMENT www.calchem.com 2020 SALES: $81.2M (CNY530M) St Louis, Missouri, US President: Gregory D Shetler Shanghai, China www.chemispherecorp.com Products: Coatings, adhesives, sealants and www.saifu.cn President: Matthew Schwent elastomers (CASE); household, institutional CEO: Tao Yu Services: Toll manufacturing; custom blend- and industrial chemicals; pharmaceutical/nu- Products: 100+ cosmetics/personal care in- ing; packaging; USP packaging; storage; rail- traceutical ingredients; personal care/cos- gredients; industrial ingredients car transloading metics ingredients; food ingredients; func- Assets: 2 subsidiary companies; 1 technical Assets: 1.4m gal tank farm storage; 14 car rail tional fluids application centre with 2 laboratories spur; 60,000 square feet warehouse space; Services: Bulk liquids packaging; custom bulk tanker fleet blending; returnable containers, drums and HARWICK STANDARD totes; customized tote programs; custom la- 147 DISTRIBUTION TRINTERNATIONAL belling; remote tank monitoring; vendor man- 2020 SALES: $80.6M 151 2020 SALES: $77.3M aged inventory; consignment inventory; com- Akron, Ohio, US mitted inventory to forecast; mixed truckload www.harwick.com Edmonds, Washington, US deliveries; LTL quantities; JIT deliveries President and CEO: Ernie Pouttu www.trichemicals.com Assets: 3 dedicated white rooms for NF, Products: Polymers, rubber chemicals; plasti- CEO and owner: Megan E Gluth-Bohan FCC, USP and Kosher packaging; 5,000 cizers; process oils; flame retardants; activa- Products: Industrial, specialty, and fine square feet of temperature controlled (hot/ tors; chemical and colour dispersions; pro- chemicals for paints, coatings, adhesives, cold) warehousing; 400,000 square feet of cessing aids; organic peroxides; resins; sealants, inks and dyes, polymer, composite environmentally controlled warehousing; vulcanizing agents; colourants; adhesives; and construction, metal working, textiles, lu- 90,000 gal bulk storage stabilizers; dry liquid concentrates bricants, household and industrial cleaning, Services: Warehousing; bulk break; logistics; water treatment, oil and gas, food and bever- WEBB CHEMICAL SERVICE storage; import; export; technical support; age, feed and agriculture, pharmaceutical, 155 2020 SALES: $74M regulatory support cosmetics and personal care products Assets: Two company owned and operated Services: Marketing; logistics; technical ser- Muskegon Heights, Michigan, US warehouses; seven public warehouses; one vices; custom manufacturing; blending; con- www.webbchemical.com company owned truck tract packaging CEO: Brad Hilleary Trading sales: 5.5% Assets: 1 office building Products: Organic solvents; inorganics; chlor- Trading sales: 26% alkali; acids; surfactants; aromatics; aliphatics; MEADE-KING, ROBINSON & CO ethanolomines; alcohols 148 2020 SALES: $80.6M (£59M) GREENCHEM INDUSTRIES Services: Company-owned fleet and drivers; 152 2020 SALES: $75.8M blending; inventory management; on time de- Liverpool, UK livery www.mkr.co.uk West Palm Beach, Florida, US Assets: 40 tankers; 6 warehouses; 25 bulk Managing director: Philip Tarleton www.greenchemindustries.com tanks; 100 customer-focused employees Products: Oleochemicals; glycerine; waxes; CEO: John Lagae epoxy resins; base oils; process oils; castor Products: Acetates; acids; acrylates; amines; ANTONIO TARAZONA oil; malic acid; ethanol & esters aromatics; chlorinated solvents; DMC; ke- 156 2020 SALES: $73.4M (€60M) Services: Warehousing; repackaging; blend- tones; glycerine; glycols; glycol ethers; NMP; ing; storage; formulating nonyl phenol ethoxylates; phthalates; plasti- Valencia, Spain Assets: Warehouse and blending facilities cizers; PCBTF; THF; d-limonene www.antoniotarazona.com Trading sales: 19% Services: Logistics; transportation; warehous- CEO: Daniel Tarazona ing; import/export; small packaging; ecom- Products: Urea; calcium nitrate; ammonia; GEORGE S. COYNE CHEMICAL merce; 3PL; repackaging urea solutions; MAP; MKP; dicalcium phos- 149 2020 SALES: $79.7M Assets: 35 public warehouses phate; phosphoric acid; DAP; potassium nitrate; ammoniun sulphate; potasssium sul- Croydon, Pennsylvania, US CHEMICAL SOLVENTS phate; industrial additives; NPK water soluble www.coynechemical.com 153 2020 SALES: $75M Services: Blending; packaging; manufactur- President and CEO: Thomas H Coyne Sr ing; logistics

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Assets: 65,000 square metres warehouse ceutical-grade chemicals; food-grade Products: Caustic soda (liquid and dry); space chemicals; adhesives; activated carbon; caustic potash (liquid and dry); industrial Trading sales: 30% water treatment chemicals; wastewater and institutional chemicals; compounding treatment chemicals; mineral oils and pet- chemicals; agricultural products; water MAHA CHEMICALS rolatums; acetates; heat transfer fluids; al- treatment chemicals; food and beverage in- 157 2020 SALES: $71M cohols; citrates; phosphates; silicates gredients; feed ingredients; pulp and paper Services: Blending; packaging; storage; chemicals; oil and gas chemicals; metal fin- Singapore logistics ishing and flux chemicals; phosphates; min- www.mahachem.com Assets: 2 warehouses; 14 trucks; 5 tankers; eral acids; solvents; surfactants Chairman: Tan Seow Hoon 13 12,500 gallon storage tanks; 10 positions Services: Logistics; importing; inventory Products: Carbon black; construction for rail unloading management; supply chain solutions; re- material chemicals; resins; polymers; emul- packaging; dilutions; blending; outsourcing sions; additives; functional fillers; pigments SKYHAWK CHEMICALS Assets: 12 stocking locations nationwide; and colourants; biocides; surfactants; 161 2020 SALES: $68.9M strategic deep draft storage analytical instruments; lab equipment and machines Houston, Texas, US LAVOLLEE Services: Sales and marketing; warehouse www.skyhawkchemicals.com 165 2020 SALES: $66.0M (€54M) storage; logistics; repackaging; process President: Jill Knickerbocker and digital technology solutions Products: Caustic soda; methanol; calcium Paris, France Assets: 15 warehouses; 9 trucks chloride; sulphuric acid; anhydrous ammonia; www.lavollee.com aqua ammonia; KOH; urea; propylene glycol; President: Herve O Lavollee SOLVCHEM hydrochloric acid; xylene; bleach; polyphos- Products: Additives and ingredients for coat- 158 2020 SALES: $71.0M phoric acid; benzoic acid; ethylene glycol ing; IFL; polymers; friction; water treatment; Services: Blending; packaging; storage pharma; personal care; food; F&F Pearland, Texas, US Assets: 275 gal and 330 gal totes Services: Technical advice in formulation; www.solvchem.com lab; outsourcing; VMI; consignment; repack- CEO: Jean-Pierre Baizan L’APROCHIMIDE ing; storing Products: Solvents; organic and inorganic 162 2020 SALES: $67.9M (€55.5M) chemicals; epoxies; silicones; silicone emul- AIREDALE CHEMICAL sions; hydrocarbon resins; hydroxyl ethyl cel- Muggio, Italy 166 2020 SALES: $65.3M (€47.8M) lulose; titanium dioxide; acrylates www.aprochimide.it Services: Custom packaging; custom President: Claudio Sadino Keighley, UK blending; toll manufacturing; container man- Products: Titanium dioxide; iron oxides; blanc www.airedalechemical.com agement programs; export services; techni- fixe; minerals; inorganic pigments; industrial Group CEO: Chris Chadwick cal support; green chemistry product solu- raw materials; food additives; feed additives; Products: Industrial chemicals; specialty tions; small container filling glass beads chemicals; phosphoric acid; peracetic acid; Assets: 9 trucks; 24 trailers; 15 tankers Services: High storage capacity; logistics antifoams; surfactants; phosphates solutions; import/export; inventory man- Services: Small pack chemical filling; con- WILL & CO. agement; supply chain solutions; repacking tract/toll manufacture 159 2020 SALES: $70.9M (€58M) facility Assets: 4 acre production facility; 9 ware- Assets: 3 owned warehouses total 28,000 house storage locations; bulk chemical tank Badhoevedorp, Netherlands sqm.; owned office building 750 msq; certi- farm; fully owned distribution fleet www.will-co.eu fied warehouse for food additives and feed ad- Trading sales: 65% Managing director: Jacques van Lindonk ditives; truck for local delivery Products: 1,4-butanediol and derivatives POLYSTYLEX (THF, GBL); bio succinic acid; plasticizers INTERALLIS HOLDINGS 167 2020 SALES: $64.6M (€52.8M) and flame retardants; pigments; proteins; 163 2020 SALES: $67.7M (€55.4M) cosmetic and personal care ingredients; Riga, Latvia coating resins and additives; biobased sol- Nicosia, Cyprus www.polystylex.com vents and binder; impact modifiers for plas- www.interallis.com CEO: Anton Viderker tics; foaming agents for plastics; additive President of the board: Nikos Kazantzis Products: Polyethylenes (LDPE, LLDPE, masterbatches; sulfamic acid; ferric chlo- Products: Human nutrition ingredients; home mLLDPE, HDPE, EBA, EVA); polypropylenes ride; engineering plastics and compounds & personal care chemicals; lubricants; con- (HPP, ICP, RCP); polycarbonates; master- Services: Storage management; logistics struction chemicals; polymers; animal nutri- batches and colours (AF, AB, SL, AT, management; sales and marketing tion ingredients; agro supplies UV, UVA, FR, PA); adhesive resins; polyam- Trading sales: 10% Services: Logistics; value-added services ides; ABS Trading sales: 50% Services: Customer service; technical sup- ASTRO CHEMICALS port; product development support; storage; 160 2020 SALES: $70.0M CONNECTION CHEMICAL delivery; logistics solutions; reserved stock; fi- 164 2020 SALES: $66.5M nancing; documentation; counselling Springfield, Massachusetts, US Assets: Warehouses and office in Riga, Lat- www.astrochemicals.com Newtown, Pennsylvania, US via; warehouses and office in Kiev, Ukraine; President: Chris Diamond www.connectionchemical.com warehouses and office in Kaliningrad, Russia Products: Solvents; chlor-alkali; pharma- President: Frank Farish Trading sales: 2%

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RICARDO MOLINA GROUP Products: Full range of chemicals, food ingre- Services: Technical service; logistics support 168 2020 SALES: $64.2M (€52.5M) dients and performance polymers Assets: Warehouses in Brazil and Uruguay; Services: Full supply chain solutions includ- business offices Barcelona, Spain ing risk assessment, sourcing, accreditation, Trading sales: 57% www.ricardomolina.com regulatory support, logistics and supply President: Gemma Molina Assets: ISO 13485 medical polymer com- MOGOIL Products: Specialty chemicals for coatings, pounding plant in JV with Innovative Polymer 173 2020 SALES: $59.9M (€49M) building, adhesives, construction, lubricants, Compounds (IPC) pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal and Trading sales: 70% Berlin, Germany home care, rubber, plastics, water treatment, www.mogoil.com food and beverage, agrochemicals EMSA TECNOLOGIA QUIMICA General manager: Andreas Rogge Services: Technical sales and marketing; 171 2020 SALES: $60.5M (€49.5M) Products: Base oils; process oils; low viscosity application development; quality control; oils; paraffin waxes warehousing; regulatory services; supply Barcelona, Spain Services: Supply; storage; customs clear- chain management; after sales services; re- www.emsaquimica.com ance; financing; technical support packaging CEO: Jorge Grima Trading sales: 40% Assets: 3 labs; 1 warehouse Products: Pigments; fillers; binders; surfactants; additives; agrochemicals; minerals; PROQUIBASA ROWELL CHEMICAL inorganics; monomers and polymers 174 2020 SALES: $59.9M (€49M) 169 2020 SALES: $62M Services: Custom blending and packaging; toll manufacturing; compacting technologies; Barcelona, Spain Hinsdale, Ilinois, US atomisation www.proquibasa.com www.rowellchemical.com Assets: 5 offices; 4 warehouses; 1 laboratory Managing director: Ivan Sanchez President: Thomas Harris Trading sales: 40% Products: Specialty and commodity chemi- Products: Water treatment chemicals; indus- cals; coatings, construction and adhesives; trial chemicals METACHEM pigments and performance products; water Services: Terminal services 172 2020 SALES: $60M treatment; household and industrial clean- Assets: Plant owned and operated by Rowell ing; lubricants and metalworking Chemical; trucking fleet Sao Paulo, Brazil Services: Technical service; blending; man- www.metachem.com.br ufacturing; toll manufacturing; bulk loading NATIONAL CHEMICAL President: Ricardo Rego Freitas and storage; warehousing 170 2020 SALES: $61.1M (€50M) Products: Food ingredients; basic oils; coat- Assets: Full service and wholly-owned facili- ing additives; lubricant additives; feed ingre- ties in Barcelona with tank farm (80 tanks) and Dublin, Ireland dients; fertilizer raw materials; flame retard- 7,000 square metres warehouse, regional hub www.ncc.ie ants; phosphate derivatives; TOFA; home in Madrid with tank farm (24 tanks) and 2,000 CEO: Alan Looney care raw materials sq metres warehouse Shutterstock www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 99 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch

SAME CHEMICALS COAST SOUTHWEST tions and manufacturing; repacking; R&D; 175 2020 SALES: $59.1M (€48.3M) 177 2020 SALES: $56.5M sales & marketing Assets: 9 warehouses; 5 laboratories; 2 man- Barendrecht, Netherlands Arlington, Texas, US ufacturing sites; 7 offices; 1 clean room www.samechemicals.com www.coastsouthwest.com Managing director: Cees-Jan Crezee President: Joseph C Cimo SOLVACHEM Products: Acetates; acrylates; alcohols; Products: Surfactants; silicones; personal 179 2020 SALES: $55.8M DCPD; glycols; glycol ethers; hydrocarbon sol- care ingredients; anti-aging; preservatives; vents; ketones; styrene oleochemicals and lubricants Wroclaw, Poland Services: Bulk distribution; salvage trading; Services: Liquid blending; liquid bulk; stor- www.solvachem.pl recycling; warehousing; logistics; storage; age; drumming; transportation; formulation President and CEO: Elisabeth Luerenbaum Reach consultation Assets: 8 locations; 7 trucks; applications Products: Methanol; UCO and vegetable Assets: Offices in The Netherlands, Denmark laboratory oils; alcohols and other solvents; regenerat- and Poland ed solvents; polymers; base oils; aerosols; Trading sales: 20% CORNELIUS GROUP inorganic chemicals; washing agents and 178 2020 SALES: $56.2M (£41.1M) disinfectants; fillers and additives; colour- WALSH & ASSOCIATES ants; oils and greases 176 2020 SALES: $58.7M Bishop’s Stortford, UK Services: Logistics services www.cornelius.co.uk Assets: One methanol tank; five warehouses; Saint Louis, Missouri, US CEO: Phillip Gibbons two customs warehouses; production facili- www.walsh-assoc.com Products: Monomers; specialty chemicals; ties (UCO, washing agents and disinfectants) President & CEO: Ellen M. Murphy food ingredients; personal care ingredients; Trading sales: 7% Products: Products for CASE; HI&I; ink; per- pigments; additives; resins; minerals; sonal care; oil & gas; agriculture; food & surfactants; adhesive materials; excipients; HUBBARD-HALL beverage; pharma; plastic; and green natural products; animal feed ingredients; 180 2020 SALES: $54.9M chemistry medical device raw materials; coatings Services: Manufacturing; blending; contract ingredients Waterbury, Connecticut, US packaging; technical training & EHS Services: Global supply chain management; www.hubbardhall.com Assets: 8 warehouse locations; 30,000 gal laboratory services; logistics; legislative/reg- President and CEO: Molly Kellogg liquid bulk storage; 1 tractor trailer ulatory advice; distillation; chemical reac- Products: Chlor-alkali chemicals; organic sol- Shutterstock

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TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch vents; inorganic chemicals; specialty solvents; hyde; food processing sanitation chemicals; Assets: 5 warehouses, 2,500sqm; 15 jumbo hydrogen peroxide based specialties; surface water treatment chemicals cars; factory filling fragrances treatment chemistry; corrosion prevention Services: Blending; manufacturing/engi- Trading sales: 40% chemistry; paint stripping specialty formula- neering services; packaging; contract pack- tions; wastewater treatment specialty blends ing; toll manufacturing; logistics; warehous- SINPRO Services: Manufacturer/formulator of chemi- ing; transloading 189 2020 SALES: $48.9M (€40M) cal specialties; custom blending; warehous- Assets: 4 production locations in Oklahoma, ing; analytical and lab services North Carolina and Illinois; tank terminals; rail Lausanne, Switzerland Assets: 2 manufacturing facilities; 6 ware- terminals; extensive company owned fleet of www.sinprosa.ch houses; 8 trucks trucks, trailers and bulk tankers Director: Alfred Frankel Products: Industrial chemicals; resins; poly- TARR VIVION esters; pharmaceutical ingredients; con- 181 2020 SALES: $54.6M 185 2020 SALES: $51.7M struction chemicals; paints; inks; food and feed additives Portland, Oregon, US San Carlos, California, US Services: Associated with a forwarding agent www.tarrllc.com www.vivioninc.com President: Skip Tarr President: Michael Poleselli CHEM ONE Products: Solvents; aliphatics; aromatics; ke- Products: Humectants; sweeteners; miner- 190 2020 SALES: $46.7M tones; glycols; high purity chemistry als; vitamins; tabletting aids; personal care; Services: Blending; formulating; packaging; industrial ingredients; fertilizers/agricultural; Houston, Texas, US storage; delivery food; preservatives; acids www.chemone.com Assets: 4 warehouses; 6 clean rooms; Services: VivAssure testing CEO and president: Terry Podlogar 870,000 gal bulk storage, 3 rail spurs; 11 trucks Assets: 2 office/warehouses, 3 public ware- Products: Fertilizer ingredients; water treat- houses ment chemicals; food additives; feed addi- UCG (UNITED CHEMICAL tives; industrial chemicals 182 GROUP) DEBRO Services: JIT inventory; pallet quantities; 2020 SALES: $53.8M 186 2020 SALES: $50M truckloads Moscow, Russia Assets: Houston, Texas headquarters and www.ucgrus.com Brampton, Ontario, Canada warehouse; independent facilities in Laredo, CEO and chairman: Gennady Tolstobrov www.debro.com Texas and Tampa, Florida Products: ABS; ASA; SAN; HIPS; PC/ABS; PBT; President: Paul Ruffo PMMA; PC; POM; SBS; SEBS; SIS; POE; EVA; Products: Industrial specialties; HPC; food KREGLINGER SPECIALTIES HDPE; PP copolymers; PA & AIM; road con- ingredients 191 2020 SALES: $46.5M (€38M) struction materials; oil additives and modifiers; base oils; fertilizers; liquid chemicals WISTEMA Antwerp, Belgium Services: Logistics; packaging; storage; 187 2020 SALES: $49.5M (€40.5M) www.kreglinger.com technical support CEO: Wim Arnouts Assets: 8 offices; 9 warehouses; 2 interna- Dielheim, Germany Products: Specialty ingredients for food, tional offices www.wistema.de food supplements; pharma; cosmetics and General manager: Winfried Friedel technical industries; agro-(bio)chemicals BUCKLEY OIL Products: Catalysts; chemical intermedi- Services: Technical formulations; sampling 183 2020 SALES: $52.5M ates; contract & toll manufacture; cosmetics; toiletries & personal care; food ingredients; A.+ E. FISCHER-CHEMIE Midlothian, Texas, US industrial chemicals; pharma; plastic addi- 192 2020 SALES: $45.9M (€37.5M) www.buckleyoil.com tives; polymers; reprographic chemicals/ink President: Robert Rice chemicals; solvents/distilled solvents; water Wiesbaden, Germany Products: Solvents; alcohols; aliphatics; aro- treatment chemicals; waxes www.fischer-chemie.de matics; glycols; glycol ethers; ketones; base Services: Storage; waste management General manager: Manuel Fischer-Bothof oils; finished lubricants (waste disposal certified); salvage recovery Products: Caustic soda; solvents; hydro- Services: Blending; packaging; toll blending; and re-sale; Reach consultation chloric acid; citirc acid; urea; phosphoric storage; delivery; custom packaging; trans- Assets: Warehouses acid; matting agents; pyrogenic silicon di- loading Trading sales: 60% oxide; precipitated silica; silicone oil; glyc- Assets: 4 warehouses; 20 trucks erine; caustic potash; sodium bicarbonate; VENUS CHEMICALS GROUP hydrogene peroxide; activated carbon; so- BRAINERD CHEMICAL 188 2020 SALES: $49M dium persulfate 184 2020 SALES: $52.3M Services: Storage; packaging; mixing; Cairo, Egypt exporting Tulsa, Oklahoma, US www.venuskim.com Assets: 4 warehouses for solid and liquid www.brainerdchemical.com CEO: Ahmed Alghoul products; 16 trucks CEO: Mathew A Brainerd Products: Fragrances; surfactants; NP9 ; NP6; Trading sales: 10% Products: Peracetic acid; hydrofluoric acid; SLEs 70 %; Betain 35 %; opacifiers; maliec resin; sulphuric acid; nitric acid; refrigerants; aro- hydrocarbon resin; nitrocellulose; pine oil; BRUGUES matics; aliphatics; glycols; glycol ethers; high HPMC; thickeners 193 2020 SALES: $45.2M (€37M) hazard acids; chlor-alkali; alcohols; formalde- Services: Filling fragrances

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Barcelona, Spain MCCULLOUGH & ASSOCIATES Assets: 3 outside bonded warehouses www.brugues.com 197 2020 SALES: $42M CEO: Raimon Brugues Sintes MIN-CHEM/LAWRASON’S/ Products: Acetone; diacetone alcohol; Atlanta, Georgia, US 198 CK INGREDIENTS GROUP dipropylene glycol fragance; ethyl acetate; www.mccanda.com 2020 SALES: $42M formic acid; glycerine USP; isopropyl ace- President: George L McCullough Oakville, Ontario, Canada tate; isopropyl alcohol; methyl ethyl ke- Products: Organic and inorganic pigments; www.min-chem.com tone; methyl isobutyl ketone; methoxypro- special effect pigments; carbon black; polyu- www.lawrasons.com pyl acetate; n-propanol; n-propyl acetate; rethane resins and dispersions; cast polyure- www.ckingredients.com propylene glycol USP; ethanol (mixtures thane systems; wax additives; fumed silica; President: David A Luciani with ethanol) matting agents; silicone dispersions; preserv- Products: Composite-thermosets (roving, Services: Packaging in wide variety of atives (personal care); hydrocarbon resins; resin and peroxides); composite-thermo- containers for both liquids and in solids; laboratory & process equipment plastics; rubber additives; adhesives; waxes; mixtures, solutions and dilutions; storage Services: Storage and logistics; formulation flame retardants; Health Canada approved Assets: Warehouse in Viladecans (Barce- assistance; technical assistance; process en- infectious control disinfectants, hand sanitiz- lona) with 8,000 square metres; ware- gineering services ers, and other antibacterial solutions; phar- house in Alcaser (Valencia) with 6,000 square metres; logistics warehouse in Ig- Europe chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) orre (Bizkaia) Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales Trading sales: 20% 1 Brenntag* 6,148.3 38 Norkem Holdings 205.1 RIERDEN CHEMICAL & 2 Helm 2,635.2 39 Petrochem Middle East 195.7 194 TRADING 3 Univar Solutions* 1,697.0 40 Telko 193.6 2020 SALES: $43.9M 4 IMCD* 1,630.0 41 Solventis 191.6 Libertyville, Illinois, US 5 Stockmeier Holding 1,571.3 42 ECEM European Chemical 187.6 www.rierdenchemical.com 6 Azelis 1,155.6 Marketing President: Joe Rierden 7 Barentz 1,154.3 43 Revada Group 183.4 Products: Oleochemicals – glycerine and 8 Biesterfeld 1,145.0 44 Nortex 177.8 fatty acids 45 HARKE Group 174.0 Assets: Warehouse locations in Chicago, 9 OQEMA 1,120.0 46 ChemPartners 171.9 Houston, New Jersey, Atlanta, Los Angeles 10 Tricon Energy 1,050.7 Trading sales: 20% 11 Quimidroga 887.8 47 Haeffner 165.0 12 Omya 882.1 48 Grolman Group 162.6 EQUILEX 13 Kolmar Group 762.6 49 Keyser & Mackay 162.6 2020 SALES: $43.7M (€35.7M) 195 14 Caldic 755.7 50 Selectchemie 158.3 51 ICC Chemical 157.9 Schiedam, Netherlands 15 TER Group 739.8 52 ELTON Group 151.6 www.equilex.com 16 Safic-Alcan 611.0 Managing director: Cees Verdel 17 Solvadis Group 529.3 53 Atlantic Chemicals 150.4 Trading Products: Higher olefins; alkylphenols; 18 Ravago Chemicals 519.7 54 URAI 146.7 alkylbenzenes; ethanolamines; ethylene 19 Nordmann, Rassmann 489.1 glycols; solvents (MEK, MIBK, hexane, MIBC, 55 Faravelli 138.7 20 Eigenmann & Veronelli 425.5 IPA, acetone, cyclohexanone); performance 56 2M Group 138.2 intermediates (AMS, maleic and phthalic 21 Marubeni International 391.3 (Europe) 57 Tillmanns 134.9 anhydrides, DCPD); phenol; aromatics; 58 Algol Chemicals 134.5 tackifying resins, isophorone; diacetone 22 Lehmann & Voss 391.3 59 Group Barcelonesa 133.3 alcohol 23 DKSH Holding 313.2 60 IMPAG Group 133.3 Services: Marketing; storage; packaging; 24 Snetor 307.0 sea, rail and road transportation; custom for- 25 KRAHN Chemie 282.5 61 CSC Jaeklechemie 124.9 malities; Reach regulation 26 Ruskhimset 281.9 62 Metafrax Trading 121.6 Trading sales: 10% International 27 HSH Chemie 262.9 63 Connect Chemicals 120.0 28 Donauchem 250.7 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS INC Group 196 2020 SALES: $42.3M 29 Indukern 245.8 64 STAUB & CO - 117.4 30 Arkem Kimya 245.0 SILBERMANN Buffalo, New York, US 31 Jebsen & Jessen Group 229.9 65 C.H. Erbsloeh Group 116.2 www.cdibuffalo.com 32 Thommen-Furler 224.4 66 ProChema 111.0 President: Mark T Russell 33 United Trading System 220.0 67 Arpadis Benelux 110.1 Products: Acids; alkalis; reagents; solvents; (UTS/ETC) 68 L.C.M. 107.6 dry and liquid chemicals 34 Grupo RNM 213.5 69 Quimdis 106.4 Services: Bulk and LTL distribution; pack- 35 Tennants Distribution 211.8 70 Life Supplies 104.5 aging; blending; warehousing; laboratory testing; health and environmental services 36 Gamma Chimica 211.6 71 Unipex 103.2 Assets: Warehouses; trucks; trailers 37 CellMark 209.0 72 Neo Chemical 102.2

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maceutical ingredients; nutraceutical ingre- President: Marilyn Stovall FitzGerald RESEARCH SOLUTIONS GROUP dients; food ingredients; mineral and Products: Beverage grade ethanol; organic 200 2020 SALES: $40.9M industrial acids; water treatment chemicals; ethanol; denatured ethanol; alcohols; ali- pool & spa chemicals; janitorial and sanita- phatics; amines; aromatics; esters; ethanola- Pelham, Alabama, US tion chemicals; industrial specialty chemi- mines; ethers; glycols; hydrocarbons; ke- www.researchsolutionsgroup.com cals; winter ice melting products tones; mineral oils; process oils; silicones; CEO: Jeff Miller Services: Manufacturing; blending and surfactants Products: Aromatics; aliphatics; alcohols; compounding; logistics Services: Blending; packaging; food ketones; glycol ethers; glycols; esters; Assets: 3 warehouses in Ontario, Quebec, grade storage; ethanol denaturing; manu- solvent blends; specialty chemicals; British Columbia facturing paints; printing and pharmaceutical Assets: Dedicated white room for USP, NF, solvents TRANSCHEMICAL FCC; organic and Kosher packaging; Services: Toll blending and packaging; 199 2020 SALES: $41.5M 125,000 square feet warehouse space in- lab analysis and services; environmental cluding food grade warehouse; 1.2m gal tank services for hazardous and non-hazardous St Louis, Missouri, US farm; rail spur to accommodate 4 railcars; 20 wastes; industrial engineering services; www.transchemical.com tankers; 7 tractors; 3 boxes environmental consulting and training;

Europe chemical distribution leaders (2020 sales, $m) Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales Rank Company Sales 73 Aegean First Company 95.4 108 Kreglinger Specialties 46.5 143 Klaus F. Meyer 17.0 (AFCO) 109 Cornelius Group 46.3 144 Shrieve Chemical 16.3 74 Ilario Ormezzano 91.7 110 Brugues 45.2 145 Polyhimkomplekt-M 15.0 75 Penpet Petrochemical 89.3 111 A.+ E. Fischer-Chemie 44.0 Trading 146 Rusplast 14.9 112 Milano Colori 39.1 76 Bodo Moeller Chemie 88.8 147 CB Chemie 14.2 113 Drogas Vigo Group 39.0 77 Chimpex Industriale 86.8 148 Sinochem Plastics 11.0 114 Wistema 36.4 78 Chem International 85.4 149 Prakash Chemicals 10.8 115 Jobachem Group 36.2 International 79 Noahs Ark Chemicals 84.4 116 Eurosyn 35.1 150 Bloomchemag 10.7 80 Novasol Chemicals Group 84.0 117 SAMECA Produtos 31.9 151 A-Gas Electronic Materials 9.8 81 Newport Industries 82.0 Quimicos 152 Tecnosintesi 9.2 82 Meade-King, Robinson & 79.9 118 Barrettine Group 31.4 Co 153 Quimica Mer 9.1 119 SIP Speciality Oils and 30.7 83 RAHN-Group 79.0 Fluids 154 Abbey Chemicals 8.2 84 Behn Meyer Group 77.0 120 Equilex 30.7 155 Nesstra Services 8.1 85 Kale Kimya 76.0 121 GB-Chemie 29.4 156 Chemcom 7.8 86 PHT International 74.9 122 Antala 29.4 157 NiMAC 6.5 87 Will & Co 69.7 123 AISAKOS 27.9 158 Petrico 5.9 88 Antonio Tarazona 67.3 124 Lake Chemicals and 27.8 159 Taj Al Mulook General 5.0 89 Aug. Hedinger 66.9 Minerals Trading 90 Wego Chemical Group 66.5 125 Lumar Quimica 25.7 160 Basstech International 4.0 91 Airedale Chemical 65.0 126 Attilio Carmagnani 25.4 161 Quimtia 4.0 92 Polystylex 64.6 127 Monarch Chemicals 25.3 162 Transmare Chemie 3.7 93 L'aprochimide 64.6 128 Continental Industries 25.0 163 The Chemical Company 3.2 Group 94 Lavollee 63.6 164 Dakram Materials 3.1 129 MY-CHEM 24.5 95 Interallis Holdings 62.4 165 Opec Plastics 2.5 130 Stera Chemicals 24.5 96 Rakha Al Khaleej 62.3 166 SMA Collaboratives 2.0 International 131 WhitChem 21.3 167 GJ Chemical 2.0 97 National Chemical 61.1 132 KEMAT 20.9 168 Hawkins 1.7 98 MOGoil 59.9 133 MAS Albion 20.9 169 KPL International 1.7 99 Solvachem 55.8 134 Kadion Especialidades 20.4 100 UCG (United Chemical 53.5 Quimicas 170 Skystep Trading 1.6 Group) 135 Proquip 20.2 171 DAXX 1.5 101 Proquibasa 52.6 136 DutCH2 19.7 172 Independent Chemical 1.5 102 SAME Chemicals 52.3 137 The White Sea & Baltic Co 19.2 173 Crismachem 1.5 103 Ricardo Molina Group 51.1 138 Comindex 19.2 174 Sea-Land Chemical 1.5 104 Manuchar 50.0 139 Prime Surfactants 19.1 175 RIM LOGISTIKA 1.1 105 SINPRO 48.9 140 Biachem 19.0 *EMEA = Europe, Middle East & Africa 106 EMSA Tecnologia Quimica 48.1 141 CFI World 17.8 Note: Sales are in the specific region and may differ from total company sales. Sales $1m and above 107 Echemi Group 46.8 142 Stort Chemicals 17.8 included

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Services: Technical and formulation support; storage; packaging; quality control and testing; tailor-made products Assets: Warehouses; laboratories Trading sales: 15%

DROGAS VIGO GROUP 206 2020 SALES: $39M

Porrino, Pontevedra, Spain www.drovi.com CEO: Enrique F Casal Lareo Products: Solvents; thinners and green solvents; organic and inorganic chemicals; paints, coatings, adhesives and sealants raw materials; pharmaceutical, cosmetic and agrochemicals raw materials; automotive chemicals; softeners and detergents raw materials; fillers and pigments; water treatment chemicals; food ingredients; lubricants and waxes; ink and printing chemicals; paper chemicals; mining chemicals Services: Storage and marine logs – vessel reception; solvents recycling and reformulation; blending and formulations; packaging and bulk deliveries; logistics and ousourcing; quality/lab analytical services to third parties; JIT deliveries and telemetric stock control to third parties; e-invoicing and e.b2b with customers’ platforms Assets: 4 warehouses (bulk & pack); sea ter- Houston, Texas, US Products: Solvents; epoxy resins; pigments; minal; solvents recycling unit; bulk tank and www.daxxgrp.com fuel additives; paint additives; alkyd resins; packed trucks President: Jean-Marie Diederichs paint driers; coalescent agents; plastifiers; Products: Solvents; aromatics; glycol oxo-alcohols ACID PRODUCTS ethers; esters; alcohols; isocyanates; amines; Services: Blending; thinning; packaging; 207 2020 SALES: $38.5M specialty chemicals bulk warehousing Services: Blending; packaging; storage; rail- Assets: Own truck fleet Chicago, Illinois, US car, tanker, isotank, vessel shipments www.acidproducts.net Assets: 1 warehouse; 4 trucks; 4 tanks AMPERE ITALIA President: Jann Fisher Trading sales: 20% 212 2020 SALES: $36.7M (€30M) Products: Acids; caustics; dry chemicals; white oils; solvents; surfactants; cleaning HENRY HIRSCHEN Milan, Italy compounds 210 2020 SALES: $37.6M www.ampere.com Services: Toll blending (pails, drums, totes, Managing director: Matteo Chiri bulk); contract packaging (all bottle sizes); Buenos Aires, Argentina powder blending; acid blending; LTL chemi- www.hirschen.com.ar EAGLE ALCOHOL cal distribution; tanker deliveries President/CEO: Miguel Hirschen 213 2020 SALES: $36M Assets: 2 locations; rail; 10 trucks Products: Solvents; glycols; surfactants; amines; oleochemicals; biocides; food ingre- St Louis, Missouri, US VECKRIDGE CHEMICAL dients; specialties President: Daniel J Croghan 208 2020 SALES: $38M Services: Storage; packaging; blending; trad- Products: Ethyl alcohol; glycols; surfactants; ing; same day deliveries; financing; tailor- process oils Kearny, New Jersey, US made solutions to customers Services: Denaturing; blending; packaging; www.veckridge.com Assets: Central warehouse in Buenos Aires warehousing; bulk transloading President : Mark Veca industrial area; fit for liquids and solids with Assets: 90,000 square foot warehouse; 4 Products: Acids; alkali; amines; hydrogen secluded area for food/pharma tractors; 15 tankers; segregated bulk stor- peroxide Trading sales: 1% age; rail siding Services: Packaging; warehousing; dilutions; trucking CARBONO QUIMICA GJ CHEMICAL Assets: Warehouse; trucks 211 2020 SALES: $36.9M (R191.6M) 214 2020 SALES: $36M

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Products: Acrylate monomers; plasticizers; Products: Isopropanol; acetone; ethanol; hy- blending reagents; high purity solvents; ACS/USP/NF/ drocarbons; esters; aromatics; acids; caustic Assets: 25 tankers; 10 tractors; 5 vans; over HPLC; hand sanitizer soda; insecticides; rodenticides; wood pre- 800,000 gal bulk tank storage; 3 warehouses Services: Testing; bulk storage; repackaging; servatives; wood stains; paint strippers; clean- representing 60,000 square feet of storage; liquid bulk handling; custom blending; purify- ing chemicals; agrochemicals rail siding to accommodate 16 railcars ing; stabilizing and more Services: Technical sales; manufacturing; Assets: 3 locations in NJ; 8 trucks; 25 tankers; blending and bespoke formulations; contract SAMECA PRODUTOS 15 box trucks; USP filling room manufacturing 223 QUIMICOS Trading sales: 40% Assets: 3 production sites; manufacturing/ 2020 SALES: $31.9M (€26.1M) production plant and equipment Porto, Portugal EUROSYN Trading sales: 40% www.samecapq.com 215 2020 SALES: $35.1M (€28.7M) CEO: Eduardo Moura e Sa VAN HORN, METZ & CO Trading sales: 46% Capralba, Italy 219 2020 SALES: $34.2M www.eurosyn.it SIP SPECIALITY OILS AND Chairman: Flavio Campana Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, US 224 FLUIDS Products: Surfactants; dispersing and chelat- www.vanhornmetz.com 2020 SALES: $31M ing agents; biocides; rheology modifiers; fra- President: Barry Fisher London, UK grances; actives; silicones; dyes and pig- Products: Resins; pigments; additives; dyes; www.sip.com ments; resins and dispersions; photoiniziators; extenders Managing director: Stephen Spencer UV adsorbers; antioxidants; Services: Consultative selling, global sourcing Products: White oils and pharmaceutical oils; Services: Technical and regulatory support; drilling fluids; process oils; specialty fluids for application lab; logistics service provider BASSTECH INTERNATIONAL automotive and industrial use; sustainable and Assets: Logistics; application lab 220 2020 SALES: $33.1M renewable base oils; lubricant additives Services: Storage, logistics, blending, pack- BRISCO DO BRASIL Fort Lee, New Jersey, US aging, formulation 216 2020 SALES: $35M www.basstechintl.com Assets: Warehousing; blending and storage CEO: Benjamin Gutmann facilities in Belgium and UK Sao Paulo, Brazil Products: Inorganic chemicals; elastomers; www.brisco.com.br adhesives; polymers; metals and other indus- MCKINN INTERNATIONAL CEO: Guillermo Castillo trial raw materials 225 2020 SALES: $30.8M Products: Plastics and chemicals Products: International logistics; packaging; Services: Drumming; blending; agency sales; blending; storage; transloading Singapore import and export Services: Technical support and vendor man- www.mckinn.com.sg Assets: 4 warehouses; 1m litres park tanks; aged inventory CEO: Chau Tak Vui own fleet of 6 trucks Assets: Strategically located warehouses in Products: Raw materials for adhesives, coat- the US and Europe; polymer testing lab; offic- ings, UPR, PU and TPU; plastics additives; SEELER INDUSTRIES es in the US, China, India and Europe flame retardants; rubber additives; acids & an- 217 2020 SALES: $35M hydrides; plasticizers JNS-SMITHCHEM Services: Sourcing Joliet, Ilinois, US 221 2020 SALES: $32.8M Trading sales: 90% www.seeler.com CEO: Steve Seeler Paterson, New Jersey, US LINKERS CHEMICALS AND Products: Hydrogen peroxide; peracetic acid; www.jns-smithchem.com 226 POLYMERS glacial acetic acid; proplylene glycol; sodium Co-president: Michael Smith 2020 SALES: $30.1M gluconate; caustic soda; hydrochloric acid; Products: Resins; additives; fillers; colour pig- Dubai, UAE soda ash; DDBSA; sodium chlorate; phosphor- ments; specialty chemicals www.lcp.ae ic acid; quaternary compounds; other special- Services: Warehousing; trucking; technical Managing director: Malik Pervez Zaman ty chemicals expertise Products: Synthetic rubber; PVC; engineer- Services: Tank storage; railcar unloading; ing plastics; plasticizers; latex; monomers; blending; liquid packaging; bagging; trans- INDUSTRIAL CHEMICALS CORP construction chemicals; animal nutrition; loading; warehouse storage; property rental; 222 2020 SALES: $32.3M coatings chemicals trucking services; laboratory services Services: Market research; market expansion; Assets: 275,000 plus sq ft warehousing; 5 Arvada, Colorado, US technical support; finance tractors; 10+ liquid & box trailers; 27 above www.industrialchemcorp.com Trading sales: 100% ground storage tanks; 7 rail spurs of 2.5 miles President: Jamie Biesemeier-Wilkins of track for transloading; overhead rail trestle Products: Acetates; acids; alcohols; alkalis; ANTALA aliphatic and aromatic solvents; amines; bio- 227 2020 SALES: $29.4 (€24M) BARRETTINE GROUP fuel chemicals; CBD extraction chemicals; 218 2020 SALES: $34.7M (£25.4M) chelating agents; glycerine; glycols and glycol Barcelona, Spain ethers; heat transfer fluids; hydrogen perox- www.antala.es Warmley, Bristol, UK ide; ketones; metal finishing chemicals; phos- CEO: Victor Argudo www.barrettine.co.uk phates; silicates; surfactants Products: Adhesives and sealants (epoxy, Group managing director: Steve Bailey Services: Customisation; proprietary; toll methacrylate, polyurethane, silicone, SMP, an- www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 109 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch Shutterstock aerobic and cyanoacrylate); lubricants (greas- hypochlorite; personal care additives; food in- LAKE CHEMICALS AND es, oils, AFC, compounds, pastes); electronic gredients and flavours; rheology modifiers; 231 MINERALS protection materials; coatings oxygenated solvents; chlorinated solvents; bi- 2020 SALES: $28.0M (£20.5M) ocides; sulfates (Al; Na; Cu; NH3); silicones Redditch, Worcestershire, UK GB-CHEMIE Services: Packaging/repackaging; storage; di- www.lakecm.co.uk 228 2020 SALES: $29.4M (€24M) lutions; imports (under contract); transportation Managing director: Steven Cartlidge Assets: 2 warehouses (Bahia and Pernambu- Products: Corrosion control solutions; adhe- Messel, Germany co); trucks; bulk storage facilities; laboratories sives and sealants; lubricants and metal work- www.gb-chemie.com (quality control and food application); packaging fluids; paints; surface coatings; excipients Managing director: Dirk Forler ing/repackaging facility (with white room) for tablet; capsule and suspensions; drug de- Products: Amines; oxo-alcohols; inorganic & Trading sales: 1% livery modified lipids and phospholipids; ad- organic compounds; bromine derivatives; vanced intermediates; European licensed solvents; complexing agents; phosphorus INTERATLAS CHEMICAL APIs; substantiated actives; functional and compounds; starch/starch derivates 230 2020 SALES: $28M tactile additives; rheology modifiers; oils and Services: Technical service; sourcing; stor- fats; extracts; emulsifiers and solubilisers; fla- age; downsizing; refilling; packaging; logistics St Catharines, Ontario, Canada vours; food ingredients; nutritional supple- Assets: Several local warehouses; branch www.interatlaschemical.com ments; process aids office CEO: Alex Van Zijl Services: Chemical synthesis; distillation; Trading sales: 25% Products: Paraformaldehyde; hexamethylene; purification; repackaging; sieving; blending; phthalic anhydride; pentaerythritol; nonylphe- new product development; contract re- MORAIS DE CASTRO nol; para-tertiary butyl phenol; ethylbenzyl search and manufacturing; quality control; 229 2020 SALES: $28.3M (R147.1M) chloride; chloromethyl naphthalene; 2-ethyl- storage & distribution hexanol; maleic anhydride; bisphenol-A; iso- Assets: 1 head office; 1 warehouse; 4 labs Salvador, Bahia, Brazil propyl alcohol; melamine; benzoic acid; tar oil www.moraisdecastro.com.br Services: Sales and marketing; logistics; AISAKOS CEO: Andre Guimaraes de Castro warehousing; security of supply; partnerships; 232 2020 SALES: $27.9M (€22.9M) Products: Surfactants; glycols (EO/PO); min- risk management eral oils; caustic soda; sulfonic acid (LAB-S); Assets: 14 trucks; 50 chassis Athens, Greece inorganic acids (H2SO4; HCl; HNO3); sodium Trading sales: 40% www.aisakos.gr

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CEO and managing director: Themistoklis ic arts, construction, floor care, composites, Warminster, Pennsylvania, US Zygourakis adhesives, plastics and rubbers and related www.gehring-montgomery.com Products: Chemicals; petrochemicals; industries across Canada President and managing director: Mark S plastics; rubber; specialties; food industry Assets: 6 warehouse facilities across Cana- Bitting raw materials; wine ingredients; fertilizer da including inventory management and lo- Products: Additives; waxes; coatings; inor- raw materials; pulp and paper chemicals gistics delivery infrastructure ganics; surfactants; defoamers; hydrocar- Services: Paper industry mechanical bon resins; metal working additives; food equipment CJ CHEMICALS ingredients Assets: Headquarters 234 2020 SALES: $26M Services: Warehousing; inventory manage- Trading sales: 5% ment; repackaging; private fleet; technical Howell, Michigan, US support; food room; white room NORTHSPEC CHEMICALS www.cjchemicals.net Assets: Warehouse facility – 60,000 square 233 2020 SALES: $26.7M (C$34M) President: Catherine Lee feet; private fleet of trucks Products: Solvents; acrylates; glycols; mon- Toronto, Ontario, Canada omers; alcohol; naphthenic oils; ketones; ATTILIO CARMAGNANI www.northspec.com phosphates; acetates 236 2020 SALES: $25.9M (€21.2M) President: Noel Shanazarian Assets: Tank trucks; warehouse; rail siding Products: Epoxy resins and hardeners; ali- Genoa, Italy phatic and aromatic urethanes and polyols; GEHRING MONTGOMERY www.carmagnani.com acrylic resins; pigments; additives 235 2020 SALES: $26M General manager: Emilio Carmagnani Services: Services for the coatings, graph- Products: Aromatic hydrocarbons (solvent Shutterstock

112 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch naphtha 100; 150; 150 ND; 200; 200ND; AKTOPA Barcelona, Spain aliphatic hydrocarbons (hexane, heptane); 238 2020 SALES: $25.8M www.lumarquimica.com methanol; MEK; glycols (MEG, DEG); CEO: Lluis Ribera acetates (etac, butac) Houston, Texas, US Products: Synthetic lube bases (PAO, PIB, Services: Tank storaging to third parties www.aktopa.com PAG, esters, silicone); lubricant additives & Assets: Coastal terminal in Genoa, north- President: Jose S Rodriguez packages (AW-EP, antioxidants, corrosion west Italy Products: Glycol ethers; aliphatic solvents; inhibitors, metal deactivators, friction base oils; water treatment chemicals; modifiers, anti-foams, tackifiers); fatty R.E. CARROLL inorganics; polymers; vitamins acids; fatty alcohols; surfactants; viscosity 237 2020 SALES: $25.8M index improvers, pour point depressants; RADCHEM PRODUCTS amines; solid lubricants; wetting agents; Ewing, New Jersey, US 239 2020 SALES: $25.7M food ingredients, bio-additives and bases; www:recarroll.com antifreezes packages President: Robert E Carroll III Orland Park, Illinois, US Services: R&D; storage; logistics; repack- Products: Calcium carbonate; clays; blow- www.radcheminc.com aging; analysis; technical training ing agents; alumina trihydrate; zinc oxides; President: William M Radostits Trading sales: 5% plasticizers; foaming agents; sulfate; petro- Products: Chemicals and solvents; alco- leum products (aromatic oils, naphthenic hols; aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons; MONARCH CHEMICALS oils); magnesium oxide; stearates; soybean glycol ethers; process and base oils; reuse 241 2020 SALES: $25.3M (£18.5M) oils; lubricants; ASTM reference oils solvents; resins and ketones Services: Repackaging; storage; capacity Services: Transport via railcar, tanker, Sittingbourne, Kent, UK to efficiently repackage 6,000-12,000 drums, totes; blending www.monarchchemicals.co.uk gal per week at several locations for Assets: Dedicated owned compartment trail- Managing director: Jon Hill aromatic, naphthenic, paraffinic base and ers; dedicated equipment for specific products Products: Acetic acid; antifoams; caustic process oils soda; citric acid; formic acid; feed additives; Assets: Corporate offices; 3 warehouse LUMAR QUIMICA formates; glycerine; glycols; grain preserva- facilities; distribution equipment; company 240 2020 SALES: $25.7M (€21M) tion chemicals; hydrochloric acid; nitric cars acid; propionic acid; sodium hypochlorite;

114 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com OF LEADING WITH INSIGHT sodium sulphide Trading sales: 10% mx / www.tauchemicals.com Services: Warehousing; liquid and powder President and chairman of the board: Fer- blending; toll manufacturing; packed and KEMAT nando J Zavala bulk UK distribution; inventory manage- 245 2020 SALES: $24.3M (€19.9M) Products: Acetic acid; caustic soda liquid ment; supplier reduction; JIT delivery; glob- and flakes; soda ash; sodium bicarbonate; al sourcing Brussels, Belgium calcium chloride; sodium hypochlorite; HCL; Assets: 2 UK distribution locations with bulk www.kematbelgium.com glycerine; LESS; nonylphenol; sulphuric acid; and packed storage, warehousing, dilutions, Managing director: Simon Mason hydrogen peroxide; sodium sulphate; sodi- powder blending, liquid blending, offices; 4 Products: polybutenes; poly alpha olefins um metabisulfite purpose built trucks (PAO); lubricant auxiliaries; natural oils; rub- Services: Storage; drumming; blending; Trading sales: 18% ber auxiliaries; natural & synthetic rubber; transportation of hazardous products titanium dioxide; carbon black; fuel addi- Assets: Warehouse and tank stations in Mexi- MY-CHEM tives; keropur co City, Puebla, Merida and Cancun; 40 trucks 242 2020 SALES: $25.1M (€20.5M) Services: Blending; bulk storage; drumming; fleet for deliveries outsourcing; packing; repacking; sourcing; Trading sales: 13% Buchholz, Germany transport fleet; warehousing www.my-chem.de Assets: 100x ISO containers; warehouses SEACOLE CEO: Ralf Meinecke with drumming; blending and repacking ca- 249 2020 SALES: $23M Products: Phthalic anhydride; maleic pability; 5 offices globally; internal laboratory anhydride; trimelitic anhydride; styrene; Trading sales: 11% Plymouth, Minnesota, US terephthalic acid; isophthalic acid; mono- www.seacole.com pentaerythritol; di-pentaerythritol; para- ASSUNCAO DISTRIBUIDORA President and CEO: Gregg Elliott formaldehyde; tall oil products; heat trans- 246 2020 SALES: $24.0M Products: Electronic processing chemicals fer fluids; sanitizers (printed and integrated circuit); surface finish- Services: Trading Alhandra, Brazil ing/plating chemicals; industrial cleaning de- Trading sales: 60% www.assuncaodistribuidora.com.br tergents; odor control chemicals; transporta- General manager: Mauricio Assuncao tion cleaning and maintenance chemicals; RISHICHEM DISTRIBUTORS Products: TD; polyether polyol; hydrogen per- laboratory reagents; fine chemical ingredients 243 2020 SALES: $24.7M (RS1.8BN) oxide; caustic soda flakes; sodium metabisul- Services: Custom and contract blending phite; titanium dioxide; soda ash light; methyl- and packaging (dry and liquid); private label Mumbai, India ene chloride; potassium permanganate; blending and packaging; logistics www.rishichem.com sulphonic acid (LABSA 90%); calcium hy- Assets: 100,000 square foot warehouse; Director: Arvind Kapoor pochlorite 70% granulated; phosphoric acid; manufacturing/headquarters in Plymouth, Products: Acrylic-based flow modifiers, sodium nitrite; potassium hydroxide; sodium Minnesota; trucks matting agents & degassing agents; actives lauryl ether sulphate for personal care; anionic, nonionic and am- WHITCHEM photeric surfactants; aromatic polyisocy- S. KUSHALCHAND 250 2020 SALES: $21.3M (£15.6M) anates; alkali water soluble resins; hydrocar- 247 INTERNATIONAL bon resins; natural oils & extracts; fluoro 2020 SALES: $23.8M Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire, UK surfactants; high boiling alcohols; MDI & Mumbai, India www.whitchem.co.uk polyols; microcrystalline waxes, bees wax & www.skushalchand.com Managing director: Charles Hawley specialty blends; n-butyl chloride; specialty Managing director: Sunil Hirani Products: High quality resins/polymers; in- polyester resins; poly mercaptan fast cure Products: Ingredients for F&F industry; per- organic pigments; additives; mineral fillers/ epoxy hardeners; rheological modifiers; ros- sonal care; home care; functional ingredients filter aids; textile processing/finishing/coat- ins & rosin esters; silanes; silicone based ad- – skin & hair care; pharma intermediates; fra- ing products; raw materials for use in adhe- ditives, resins & intermediates; siliconates; grances; solvents; paints & coatings; polyam- sives, sealants, construction building materi- silicone pressure sensitive adhesives, release ide intermediates; essential oils als, coatings, inks, plastics, rubbers; liquid/ agents & surfactants Services: Import, distribution and export of solid separation, agricultural formulations, Services: Technical applications laboratory; a wide range of flavours and fragrance ingre- feeds, horticulture, metallurgy, engineering blending; packaging; labelling; warehousing dient; research and development; sales & materials and refractories and inventory management marketing Services: Local storage and supply of chem- Assets: Company premises Assets: 75,000 square feet manufacturing icals and minerals for customers across the and warehousing facilities in Tarapur & Bhi- UK and Ireland; industrially trained person- STERA CHEMICALS wandi in India and Grasse in France; corpo- nel; specialist technical support; project de- 244 2020 SALES: $24.5M (€20M) rate office in Mumbai; R&D facilities and ap- velopment; formulation advice; reliable sup- plication laboratory; formulation laboratory ply base – 96% of deliveries in 2020 received Jilava, Bucharest, Romania backed by a sales and marketing team in on time in full www.sterachemicals.ro France Assets: Sales office and warehouse located CEO: Alecsandru Rasidescu in the heart of the UK Products: Solvents; glycols; resins; sur- TZ GROUP (TZ, TAU, TREZA) factants; pigments; additives; masterbatch- 248 2020 SALES: $23.4M MAS ALBION es; inorganics 251 2020 SALES: $20.9M (RB1.55BN) Services: Blending; drumming; consulting Mexico City, Mexico Assets: Warehouses; trucks; offices www.tzgroupusa.com / www.treza.com. Moscow/Irkutsk, Russia www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 115 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch www.albionchem.ru Director: Irina Buldygina Products: Melamine; xanthan gum; silanes; manganese metal; magnesium sulphate; pol- yanionic cellulose; sodium dichloroisocyanu- rate; titanium dioxide; fatty acids; HEDP/ ATMP; thiourea; hexamethylenediamine; tri- acetin; propylene carbonate; ammonium polyphosphate Services: Trading; storage & logistics Assets: Owned sales office in Moscow; two rented sales offices and six rented warehouses in Russia

PROQUIP 252 2020 SALES: $20.8M (€17M)

Vilanova del Cami, Spain www.proquipsa.com Manager: Marta Pijuan Products: Caustic soda; sulphuric acid; leather specialities; industrial water treatment; acetic acid; phosphoric acid; inorganic and organic

Services: Custom made products; research, Shutterstock innovation in new products; support in process performance increase; support to reduce ins; functional fillers; matting agents; molec- PRIME SURFACTANTS environmental impact; specialists in import ular sieves; nanotechnology additives; pig- 257 2020 SALES: $19.1M (£14M) and exports ments; polyols; probiotics; PU dispersions; Assets: 44 well-trained staff; 22,000 square reactive diluents Leeds, UK metres of warehouse space; 12 trucks; ho- Services: Technical assessment; technical www.primesurfactants.com mologations to deal with 1,000 chemical visits with our principals; free customer train- Director: Nichole Hay products ing; free samples shipment Products: Alcohol ethoxylates; anionics; Trading sales: 8% Assets: Local warehouse; headquarters amine ethoxylates; biocides and preservatives; blends and mixtures; cationics; chelat- KADION ESPECIALIDADES THE WHITE SEA & BALTIC CO ing agents; fatty acids and alcohols; palm free; 253 QUIMICAS 255 2020 SALES: $19.6M (£14.4M) RSPO; silicones 2020 SALES: $20.4M (€16.7M) Barcelona, Spain Horsforth, UK BIACHEM www.kadion.com www.whitesea.co.uk 258 2020 SALES: $19M CEO: Joaquim Guilera Sarda Managing director: Alan Carradice Products: Specialty chemicals; additives; hy- Products: Surfactants – nonionics, anionics, London, UK perdispersants; surface and rheology modifi- cationics, hydrotopes and green surfactants; www.biachem.com ers; organic and inorganic pigments; alumini- fatty acids; oleochemicals; UV absorbers; Managing director: Bob Beaumont um and bronze metallic pigments; pearl pine tar; biocides and preservatives; person- Products: Caustic soda; surfactants; sodium pigments; solvent soluble dyes; defoamers al care ingredients; lactates; phenol blends percarbonate; sodium chloride; magnesium and air release agents; UV stabilizers; HALS; and crystals chloride; chlorine powder; chelates; sulpham- antioxidants; photoinitiators; nitrocellulose Services: Storage; blending; sourcing ic acid; sodium sulphate; phosphates resin; epoxy resin; vinyls; aldehydes; acrylics Assets: Head office Services: Storage; blending; repackaging; di- and polyurethane resins Trading sales: 20% lution Services: Technical sales and marketing; sup- Assets: All warehousing and transport sub- ply chain management; import and export; SULATLANTICA IMPORTADORA contracted; offices in London and Ireland warehousing; customer and regulatory services 256 E EXPORTADORA Trading sales: 5% Assets: Sales office and warehouses 2020 SALES: $19.5M Rio de Janeiro, Brazil SCHIBLEY SOLVENTS AND COMINDEX www.sulatlantica.com.br 259 CHEMICALS 254 2020 SALES: $19.6M (€16M) Director: Leonardo Roisman 2020 SALES: $19M Products: Ammonium chloride; BHT; borax; Elyria, Ohio, US Barcelona, Spain caustic potash; caustic soda; DEA; DEG; EDTA; www.schibley.com www.comindex.es MEA; MEG; potassium carbonate; sodium ni- President: Reed Schibley General Manager: Ana-Cristina Arp trate; sodium nitrite; sulphites; TEG Products: Organic peroxides; surfactants; Products: Additives; acrylic dispersions; Services: Import; export; packaging; trans- chelates; fatty acids; fiberglass reinforcements; alkyd emulsions; castor and linseed oil and portation; logistics; blending unsaturated polyester resins; stearates; release derivatives; corrosion inhibitors; epoxy res- Assets: 4 warehouses; 20 tanks; 1 office building agents; polyester processing equipment and

116 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch accessories; solvents and fillers Products: Glycols; methanol; ethanolamines; San Juan, Puerto Rico Services: Trucking; warehousing; technical coolants; lubricants; antifreeze; heat transfer www.unichemtech.com services fluids; production chemicals; wireline lubes; President: Carlos M. Acevedo Assets: 4 warehouses; trucking fleet; multi- specialty frac and completion fluids Products: Chemical & plastic resin - raw ple distribution partners Services: Blending; storage; laboratory ser- materials vices; chemical treatment programmes Trading sales: 9% CFI WORLD Assets: 6 company operated facilities; metha- 260 2020 SALES: $17.8M nol terminal; 120,000 sq ft of warehouse space; KLAUS F. MEYER 550,000 gallons of bulk storage; laboratory fa- 264 2020 SALES: $17.6M (€14.4M) Robakowo, Poland cility; 22 delivery trucks; 4 service trucks www.cfiworld.pl Fussgoenheim, Germany CEO: Klaudiusz Dominiak STORT CHEMICALS www.klausfmeyer.de Products: Cellulose ethers; tartaric acid; 262 2020 SALES: $17.8M (£13M) Managing Director: Martina Magnie/Frank SBS and NBR; RDP; EPDM; chloroprene; tita- Meyer nium dioxide; self-leveling additives; hydro- Bishops Stortford, UK Products: Hydroxylamine sulfate; hydroxy- phobic impregnates; www.stortchemicals.co.uk lamine hydrochloride; triflic acid; MEKO; ni- Services: R&D; formulations; logistics; blend- Executive chairman: Kendrick Gilkes tromethane; isocyanuric acid; BHT; p-tolue- ing; trading; sourcing of specialties; storage Products: Resins; pigments and additives for nesulfonic acid; n-isopropylhydroylamine; Assets: R&D center and headquarters (office coatings (paints, inks and adhesives); colour- anthranilic acid; agrochemicals; pharma- and warehouse) ants for paints and thermosets; fluoro-sur- chemicals; specialty chemicals; catalysts Trading sales: 5% factants; synthetic & natural raw materials for Services: Door-to-door-service; refilling of flavours and fragrances triflic acid; handling of dangerous goods; GULF COAST CHEMICAL Services: Technical sales; sampling; storage stockholding; isotanks 261 2020 SALES: $17.8M and distribution ROYALE GROUP Abbeville, Louisiana, US UNIQUE CHEMICAL 265 2020 SALES: $17M www.gulfcoastchemical.com 263 TECHNOLOGIES Managing member: Jim Fusilier 2020 SALES: $17.7M Bear, Delaware, US

118 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com OF LEADING WITH INSIGHT www.royalepigments-chem.com www.awsmsolutions.com CEO: John Logue Products: Alkali; fluoroborates; fluorides; metal fluoroborates; nitrates/nitrites; borates; ACS grades; speciality organics and inorganics Services: Manufacturing; supply chain management; consulting; contract manufacturing & formulating; liquids; blending; break bulk; wet & dry Assets: Owned manufacturing facility; 5 warehouse locations

SAIPER CHEMICALS 266 2020 SALES: $16.0M

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India www.saiper.com Director: IBV Raghavan Products: Additives (amine neutralizer, adipates, propionates, saturated block polyethers); amines (ethanolamines, ethyl- eneamines, isopropanolamines); C4 derivatives (BDO, NMP, THF, MPDiol, TBAC); coalescing aids (texanol, OE 300, TXIB, Coasol; Coasol 290 Plus); glycol ethers (e- series & p-series); propylene glycols; pine based derivatives: tall oil rosin; tofa; DTO; rosin esters and rosin ester emulsions; surfactants: Dowfax series; Tergitol series; Triton series; specialties: 1-2 diaminocy- clohexane, 2-ethylhexyl acetate, 2-ethylhex- ylglycerin, caprylyl glycol, dimethyl succi- nate, di-n-butyl ether, isoamyl alcohol, vinyl-2-ethylhexanoat Services: Amongst the few indian chemical distributors registered with the FSSAI (for supply of chemicals to the F&B industries) and FDA (for supply of chemicals & intermediates to the pharmaceutical industry); custom blending & repackaging; formulation laboratory; drumming Assets: 2 offices; 3 go-downs (one owned); 1

blending/formulation unit Shutterstock Trading sales: 2% RUSPLAST Cincinnati, Ohio, US BLOOMCHEMAG 268 2020 SALES: $15.9M (RB1.17BN) smacollaboratives.com 267 2020 SALES: $15.9M (€13M) President and CEO: Saad Ashoor Moscow, Russia Products: Anti-ageing actives; vitamins; bio- Mol, Belgium www.rusplast.com technologies; fermented actives; preserva- www.bloomchemag.com Director: Syukrin Aleksey tives; aroma chemicals; arrowroot powder; CEO: Rajesh Sethi Products: Plastics; polymers; rubbers; pentylene glycol; natural ingredients; formu- Products: Ethyl acetate; PMA; butyl acrylate; resins; thermoplastic elastomers (TPE, lations support MEK; benzyl alcohol; IPA; methylene chlo- TPV); bioplastics; masterbatches & addi- Services: Supply of active ingredients; formu- ride; ferric chloride; hydrochloric acid; acetic tives; silicones; recycled polymers; purg- lation support; blending anhydride; methylene chloride; TDI; calcium ing compounds Assets: 2 warehouses; 3 facilities in 3 states; hypochlorite; methoxy propanol; caustic Services: Technical support (before, after application lab; national sales team soda; sorbitol 70% sale); choice of polymers; processing; Trading sales: 50% Services: Global trading; imports into Ant- troubleshooting werp; distribution in Europe POLYHIMKOMPLEKT-M Assets: 3,000 square feet office space in SMA COLLABORATIVES 270 2020 SALES: $15M Noida, India 269 2020 SALES: $15.5M Trading sales: 35% Moscow, Russia www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 119 Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch Shutterstock http://phkomp-m.ru CUSTOM CHEMICAL SERVICES Services: Agencies; trading Owner and managing director: Stanislav 272 2020 SALES: $13.4M Assets: 1 office; 2 warehouses; 2 trucks Zhilich Trading sales: 65% Products: Binders; latexes; dispersions; res- Hitchcock, Texas, US ins; fillers; pigments; coalescents; rheological www.cchemicals.com CHEMCEED additives; biocides; antifoams; dispersants; President: Margaret Roff 274 2020 SALES: $12.3M thickeners; PVC; functional additives for plas- Products: Aliphatic and aromatic solvents; tics; textile additives; unsaturated PE resins amines; hydrocarbons; alcohols; glycols; gly- Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, US Services: Warehousing; logistics; transpor- col ethers; acetates; ketones; acids; sur- www.chemceed.com tation; customs clearance; marketing; factants; solvent blends President: Marimel Enderes advertising Services: Toll blending and packaging; con- Products: Plasticizers; corrosion inhibitors; Assets: 7 outsourced warehouses; 2 trucks; tainerization; warehouse storage; import/ex- additives; solvents; fatty acids; alcohols; microbiological lab port services; transloading; dilutions specialty chemicals; industrial chemicals; Assets: Warehouses; bulk storage food additives CB CHEMIE tanks; blending and packaging equipment; Services: Blending; packaging; labelling; stor- 271 2020 SALES: $14.2M (€11.6M) laboratory age; consignment; JIT delivery Assets: 4 warehouses Baumgarten, Austria AUDICHE TRADING COMPANY Trading sales: 10% www.cbchemie.at 273 2020 SALES: $12.8M CEO: Dr Christian Braunshier CLASSIC DISTRIBUTING Products: Thickeners; binders; pigments and Alexandria, Egypt 275 COMPANY preparations; metal soaps; multifunctional ad- www.facebook.com/Audiche- 2020 SALES: $12M ditives; speciality phosphates; SBS copoly- Trading-Co-411445818957021 Pacoima, California, US mers; cellulose ethers President: Alain Audiche www.classicdistrib.com Services: Development of solutions; techni- Products: Titanium dioxide; polyvinyl alcohol; President: Larry Helscher cal support; product research; vendor man- micaceous iron oxide; glass flakes; hydrocar- Products: Personal care; industrial cleaners; agement; storage; repackaging bon resin; methyl ethyl ketoxime; compound preservatives; esters; surfactants; specialty Assets: Warehouse; quality lab and R&D cen- ferro titanium; zinc phosphates; iron oxides; chemicals tre; refilling station Denka CSA (calcium sulpho aluminate) Services: Liquid blending; warehousing;

120 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com Sign up to receive free ICIS SPECIAL REPORT updates by email, tailored to the markets you are interested in. TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS Visit icis.com/keep-in-touch product development; technical sales monobutyltin oxide (MBTO); monopropylene Services: Blending and packaging Assets: Owned facility, truck fleet glycol (MPG); polyethylene wax (PE wax); p- Assets: Warehouse, 1 truck and 1 pick-up Trading sales: 5% tert butyl phenol (PTBP); tartaric acid; tri- methylolpropane (TMP); zinc oxide (gold, CHEMCOM AMERICAN CHEMIE green and active) 283 2020 SALES: $7.8M (€6.4M) 276 2020 SALES: $11.6M Services: Trading; sourcing of specialties; storage; blending and repackaging; full ser- Zapresic, Croatia Austin, Texas, US vice from sourcing to DDP delivery; handling www.chemcom.hr www.americanchemie.com of emergencies. CEO: Filip Rosandic President and CEO: Paula Kamdar Trading sales: 70% Products: Lubricant additives; food com- Products: Chemicals; ingredients and addi- modities; food additives; pharmaceutical ad- tives for sunscreens; personal care; HI&I QUIMICA MER ditives; coating and construction additives; chemicals; food ingredients; health and nu- 280 2020 SALES: $9.1M (€7.4M) general industry raw materials trition ingredients; animal nutrition ingredi- Services: Sales and technical support ents; paints; inks; catalysts; lube oil; greases; Toledo, Spain Trading sales: 50% metal working; PVC lubricants; flame retard- www.quimicamer.es ants; synthesis CEO: Javier Huerta Gonzalez RISHICHEM MIDEAST Services: Logistics; importation; hazmat Products: Solvents & thinners & green sol- 284 2020 SALES: $7.6M chemicals in iso-tanks; just-in-time delivery; vents; paints & coatings raw materials; adhe- hazmat certified; outsourcing; tolling; private sives & sealants raw materials; aroma/per- Dubai, UAE labelling fumes & cosmetic raw materials; softeners & www.rishichem.ae Assets: Large inventory of chemicals in 6 detergents; emulsions and copolymers; anti- Director: Arvind Kapoor warehouses across the US freeze formulated products; epoxy resins; Products: Silicone polymer; synthetic rub- pharmaceutical ingredients; cosmetics & ber; styrene block co-polymer; glycerine; A-GAS ELECTRONIC agro chemicals raw materials; organic & inor- silicone fluid; carbon black; epoxy resin; ce- 277 MATERIALS ganic chemicals; aeronautic & automotive tramonium chloride; sodium benzoate; cal- 2020 SALES: $10.1M (£7.4M) raw materials; water treatment chemicals; ink cium stearate Rugby, Warwickshire, UK & printing chemicals; food ingredients Services: Storage; warehousing; technical www.agasem.com Services: Bulk storage; blending & formula- support Managing director: Jonathan Sellars tions; packaging & bulk deliveries; logistics & Assets: 1 rented office and 1 owned office in Products: Semiconductor and microelec- outsourcing; lab analytical services to third Dubai; 2 third party rented warehouses in tronics materials; PCB; general metal finish- parties; e-invoicing Dubai ing chemicals; photovoltaics; flexible elec- Assets: 1 warehouse (bulk & packaged stor- tronics; sensors; microfluidics; lab on chip; age); bulk tank cars, packed trucks NIMAC ancillaries, MEMS 285 2020 SALES: $6.5M Services: Warehousing; cold and frozen stor- ABBEY CHEMICALS age; laboratory analysis; R&D projects; techni- 281 2020 SALES: $8.2M (£6M) Birmingham, UK cal support; logistics; export www.nimacltd.co.uk Assets: 20,000 square foot warehouse Great Yarmouth, UK Manager director and CEO: Nigel McDonald Trading sales: 100% www.abbeychemicals.co.uk Products: Lubricant additives; rust protec- Director: Tyson Bonham tives; antioxidants; specialty oleochemicals; AN LOC PHAT INTERNATIONAL Products: Monoethylene glycol; monopro- specialty petrochemicals and packages 278 2020 SALES: $10M pylene glycol; butyl diglycol; monoethanola- Services: Industry specific personnel; spe- mine; acetic acid; ferric chloride; caustic cialist technical support Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam soda liquor and pearl; copper sulphate; mag- Assets: Warehouses in the UK and Germany www.anlocphat.com.vn nesium sulphate; potassium nitrate; calcium CEO: Harry Nguyen nitrate; boric acid; zinc sulphate; manganese PETRICO Products: Synthetic rubber; plastics; sulphate; phosphates 286 2020 SALES: $5.9M (£4.3M) chemicals Services: Storage Services: Imports; reselling Assets: 3 warehouses; 6 trucks; 7 trailers; 5 Sandbach, UK Assets: Warehouse and office ADR drivers; offshore marine base facility; 12 www.petrico.com Trading sales: 25% offshore tanks Managing director: Andrew Lamb Trading sales: 20% Products: Lubricant additives, components TECNOSINTESI and packages 279 2020 SALES: $9.8M (€8M) CLARIQUIMICA Services: Procurement; consolidation 282 2020 SALES: $7.9M Bergamo, Italy DAKRAM MATERIALS www.tecnosintesi.com Sao Paulo, Brazil 287 2020 SALES: $3.1M (£2.3M) Sales & marketing manager: Michele Angius www.clariquimica.com Products: Adipic acid (AA); ammonium CEO: Valne Lucas Vieira Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, UK polyphosphate (APP); acetyl tributyl citrate Products: Pigments and additives; pigment www.dakram.com (ATBC); butanediol (BDO); cyclohexane- dispersions; paper and textile chemicals; iron Managing director: Kate Mingay dimethanol (CHDM); diallyl phthalate (DAP); oxide; dyes for paper and textiles; caustic Products: Potassium bicarbonate; manga- hexanediol (HDO); isophthalic acid (PIA); soda; carbon black nese sulphate; sodium molybdate; trace el-

122 | ICIS Chemical Business | 7-13 May 2021 www.icis.com OF LEADING WITH INSIGHT Shutterstock ements; vitamins; chelates; cobalt prod- Founder, managing director: Marcelo Vadodara, India ucts; animal feed products; sulphur; copper Montoro www.coreflowchemi.com products Products: Specialty chemicals for mortars; Director Burhan Bazi coatings, adhesives, sealants and elastomers Products: CASE segment - ethyl acetate, tita- CHEMEX (CASE); resins; cellulose ethers; additives; nium dioxide, ligno sulfonates, RDPP, MHEC, 288 2020 SALES: $3M minerals; pigments PVA; CARE segment - SLES, SLS needles, AOS Services: Storage; custom blending and Services: warehousing, solid mixing, repack- San Juan, Puerto Rico repackaging; formulation; drumming; train- aging, distribution CEO: Eduardo Perez ing; project development Assets: 2 warehouses; 1 office Products: Solvents Assets: Headquarters; 2 warehouses UAB RIM LOGISTIKA ENVIROTECH EUROPE KETSIN DE COSTA RICA 293 2020 SALES: $1.1M (€0.9M) 289 2020 SALES: $1.6M (£1.2M) 291 2020 SALES: $1.6M Vilnius, Lithuania London, UK Costa Rica www.rimlogistika.lt www.envirotech-europe.com www.ketsincr.com CEO: Redzinaldas Mickus Owner: Larry Clark CEO: Cesar Marin Products: Brake fluids; superabsorbent poly- Products: Ensolv CC-A; Prosolv; Prosolv Products: Polymers; masterbaches; adhesives; mers; acrylates; carbamide; potassium prod- 5408e; SuperCorr A; Aquus CL-One; solvents. food additives; titanium dioxide; emul- ucts; sodium bicarbonate; PEG400; PEG4000 vapour degreasing chemicals; solvent sions; acrylic resins; sanitizers; specialties; per- Services: Storage and warehousing; blending; cleaning chemicals; corrosion protection sonal care & house hold new product formulation; just-in-time logistics; chemicals Services: Storage & packaging fiscal agency; representation; sampling Services: Manufacturing Assets: Two warehouses (Costa Rica & Guate- Trading sales: 85% mala); transportation fleet CRISMACHEM Trading Sales: 1% 290 2020 SALES: $1.6M (€1.3M) Note: Local currency sales converted COREFLOW CHEMI to US dollars based on 31 December Madrid, Spain 292 2020 SALES: $1.2M (INR 90.07M) 2020 exchange rates www.crismachem.com www.icis.com 7-13 May 2021 | ICIS Chemical Business | 123