SPECIAL REPORT ICIS Top 100 Chemical Distributors We rank the global players by sales and also break out regional leaders in North America, Europe, Asia, Middle East & Africa and Latin America SARAH CRESWELL LONDON President and CEO: David C Jukes HELM JOSEPH CHANG NEW YORK Products: Additives; aviation fuel additives; 4 2018 SALES: $5.85Bn (€5.11BN) WILL BEACHAM BARCELOna chelates; hydrocarbons; inorganics; mono- mers; oils; oleochemicals; pigments; plasticiz- Hamburg, Germany BRENNTAG ers; polymers/resins; silica; silicones; solvent WWW.HELMAG.COM 1 2018 SALES: $14.4Bn (€12.6BN) blends; solvents; surfactants CEO: Hans-Christian Sievers Services: Technical support; ChemPoint e- Products: Feedstocks; methanol; organic and Essen, Germany distribution; custom blending; custom packag- inorganic chemicals; acids and lyes; active WWW.BRENNTAG.COM ing and private label services; laboratory and pharmaceutical ingredients; pharmaceuticals; CEO: Steven Holland formulation services; minibulk; sustainable ser- fertilizers; crop protection ingredients Products: Full-line range of more than 10,000 vices; telemetry services; transportation; ware- Services: International marketing; logistics; products; industrial chemicals; adhesives; housing; delivery to more than 130 countries production; project development; scientific paints; oil and gas chemicals; food and nutri- Assets: More than 3,500 tractors, trailers and and technical services tion ingredients; water treatment chemicals; tankers; global network of 24 formulation Assets: More than 100 subsidiaries; sales of- personal care ingredients; pharmaceutical in- labs, development kitchens and research cen- fices and participation in over 30 countries gredients; cleaning chemicals; coatings and tres; nearly 10,600 employees in 31 countries; construction chemicals; animal nutrition over 1,300 suppliers IMCD products; pulp and paper chemicals 5 2018 SALES: $3.16Bn (€2.68BN) Services: Tailor-made distribution solutions TRICON ENERGY for industrial and specialty chemicals; one- 3 2018 SALES: $7.81BN Rotterdam, Netherlands stop-shop solutions; specific application tech- WWW.IMCDGROUP.COM nology; extensive technical support and val- Houston, Texas, US CEO: Piet van der Slikke ue-added services such as just-in-time WWW.TRICONENERGY.COM Products: Specialty chemicals and ingredi- delivery, product mixing, formulation, re- President and CEO: Ignacio Torras ents; pharmaceutical ingredients; coatings, packaging, inventory management and drum Products: Chlor-alkalis; aromatics; glycols; adhesives, sealants and elastomers (CASE); return handlingApril-June 2019 fibre intermediates; solvents; olefins; poly- personal care ingredients; advanced materi- Assets: More than 580 locations in 73 coun- mers; fertilizers als; food and nutrition ingredients; animal tries; more than 16,600 employees Services: Marketing; pre-export financing; nutrition ingredients; nutraceuticals; lubri- shipping; logistics; packaging; blending; stor- cants; synthesis chemicals; HI&I chemicals; UNIVAR SOLUTIONS age; just-in-time delivery; repackaging; inven- oil and gas chemicals 2 2018 SALES: $8.63BN tory management; risk management for com- Services: Technical sales; marketing of spe- modity price and foreign exchange; global cialty chemicals and food ingredients; appli- Downers Grove, Illinois, US presence with sales into over 100 countries cation laboratory services; local and central WWW.UNIVARSOLUTIONS.COM Assets: 28+ offices; more than 450 employees stock holding; drumming; repackaging; Shutterstock www.icis.com April-June 2019 | CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTOR | 27 SPECIAL REPORT TOP 100 CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTORS blending; sampling room pharmaceuticals facilities; integrated Bielefeld, Germany Assets: 45 market-focused application labora- supply chain; sampling WWW.STOCKMEIER.DE tories; 2,799 employees; 74 offices and 94 ware- Assets: 60 application laboratories; offices CEO: Peter Stockmeier houses throughout all operating companies in and access to warehouses across EMEA, Products: Industrial chemicals (acids, caus- Europe, Turkey, Africa (EMEA), Australia, New Americas and Asia Pacific; technically tic, solvents, solids); specialty chemicals for Zealand, India, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, trained sales force industrial and home care, coating, construc- Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, tion; cleaning products; peracetic acid; polyu- Japan (Asia-Pacific); US, Canada, Brazil, Puerto PLUSCHEM EEIG rethane chemicals; flavours and spices; print- Rico, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay (Americas) 8 2018 SALES: $1.5BN ing inks; textile auxiliaries; AdBlue; water treatment chemicals SINOCHEM PLASTICS Dublin, Ireland Services: Warehousing; blending; toll manu- 6 2018 SALES: $3.08BN WWW.PLUSCHEM.COM facture; specialised laboratories; logistics President: Alan Looney; CEO: David Salter Assets: More than 40 locations in Europe, Beijing, China Products: Specialty chemicals; fine chemicals; 200 trucks WWW.SINOCHEMPLASTICS.COM commodity chemicals; pharmaceutical/synthe- General Manager: Zhang Xiaolei sis chemicals; food/feed/agro chemicals; cos- SNETOR Products: Engineering plastics; plastics metics ingredients; general industrial chemicals 11 2018 SALES: $1.36BN (ABS, AS, PS, PMMA, MS, PC, PA, POM, PC/ Services: Bulk storage; logistics/trucking; re- ABS, ASA, POE, PVC, EVA, Q-resin and packing; blending; warehousing including Courbevoie, France ABSHR); high performance plastics (modified food products and hazardous/dangerous goods WWW.SNETOR.COM nylon, modified PBT, modified polyformalde- Assets: Multiple wholly owned warehouses President: Emmanuel Aubourg hyde, polysulfone and PES); plastics addi- in various countries (Spain, Portugal, France, Products: PE; PP; PVC; PET; PS; ABS; engi- tives; epoxy resin; BPA; crude glycerine; UPR; Italy, Canada, South Africa); logistics/trans- neering polymers; polyol-TDI; industrial coatings (organic silicon, emulsion, coating port assets; bulk liquid storage tank farms chemicals agent, surfactants); fluff pulp and SAP; syn- Trading sales: 20% Services: Trading; distribution; packaging thetic rubber (IIR, SSBR, EPDM, SBCs, TPE); Assets: 15 warehouses; technical support automotive plastics (PE, modified PP); fine BIESTERFELD Trading sales: 75% chemicals; polyurethanes; vulcan chemicals; 9 2018 SALES: $1.43BN specialty chemicals; agricultural products; MANUCHAR food ingredients; textile and leather chemi- Hamburg, Germany 12 2018 SALES: $1.35BN cals; dyestuffs and pigments; coatings materi- WWW.BIESTERFELD.COM als; intermediates; solvents; oleochemicals; CEO: Thomas Arnold Antwerp, Belgium pine chemicals Products: High performance polymers; engi- WWW.MANUCHAR.COM Services: Raw material marketing services; neering polymers; thermoplastic elastomers; CEO: Philippe Huybrechs diversified product solutions; one-stop pro- styrenic polymers; acrylic polymers; stand- Products: Sodium sulphate; soda ash; STPP; curement; supply chain management; techni- ard polymers and additives; raw materials for zeolite; caustic soda; sodium bicarbonate; cal support; commissioned processing; brand cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, organic synthe- calcium chloride; sodium lauryl ether sul- maintenance; information consultation sis, household cleaning, food and beverage; phate (SLES); linear alkyl benzene sulphonic Assets: Four warehouses with gross area of coatings, adhesives, sealants, elastomers acid (LABSA); glycerine; surfactants and 82,833 square metres and total construction (CASE); synthetic rubbers; silicone and fluo- oleochemicals; silicones; emulsifiers; resins area of 57,984 square metres; two office build- rosilicone rubber compounds; carbon black; and monomers; homecare and detergent ings with gross area of 9,939 square metres. industrial and agricultural chemicals; plant chemicals; textile chemicals; personal care Trading sales: 46% protection products and fertilizers; pharma- and cosmetics ingredients; paints and coat- ceutical raw materials; animal nutrition and ings chemicals; construction chemicals; AZELIS health care chemicals mining chemicals; oilfield chemicals; food 7 2018 SALES: $2.22bn (€1.94bn) Services: Individual solutions; technical ex- and feed additives pertise and consulting; active application de- Services: Diversified product portfolio in Luxembourg velopment and product specification; direct chemicals; local know-how and technical WWW.AZELIS.COM and warehouse distribution; blending; stor- support in emerging markets; tailor-made CEO: Dr Hans Joachim Mueller ing; formulation and technical assistance; warehousing; logistics/supply chain services; Products: Animal nutrition ingredients; food laboratory support of specialty chemicals; financial solutions and health ingredients; personal care ingredi- less-than-truckload (LTL) quantities; custom- Assets: 50+ affiliates worldwide across 35+ ents; homecare and industrial cleaning chem- ised logistical solutions; marketing; consul- countries; 140+ locations; 450,000+ square icals; pharmaceutical ingredients; specialty tancy and advisory services for Europe’s metres of warehouse space agriculture/horticulture chemicals; CASE; REACH regulation; legal compliance; silicone Trading sales: 36% electronic chemicals; essential chemicals; fine rubber compounding chemicals; lubricants and metal-working flu- Assets: Subsidiaries in more than 30 coun- OMYA ids; rubber and plastic additives; textile, tries; application laboratories; blending and 13 2018 SALES: $1.30BN leather and paper chemicals storage facilities for solid and liquid chemicals (SWFR1.28BN) Services: Laboratory