About us

Vanchem Performance Chemicals’ first success story occurred during WWII. We became a manufacturing leader of industrial weld flux (SOD–R–RITE), a product in great need during that period. It was one of the first non-corrosive fluxes formulated for metal alloys available to the North American market. As time progressed, Vanchem’s product line changed with changing times. Commoditized products such as welding flux became unprofitable. Specialty chemical products eventually became Vanchem’s primary revenue generator. Today’s chemical business culture is very different compared to yesterday’s business culture. In fact, in the past five years alone, chemical business has experienced more change than the seventy years that preceded it. During the past era, business philosophy focused on profitable manufacturing of materials required by the expanding market place. Sadly, companies in that era spent little intellectual time on things like worker health and safety and almost no thought at all on things like environmental impact. This changed drastically in the 1980s where scientists showed that an assortment of chemical compounds caused cancer in humans and affected ecological systems. Today, companies like Vanchem begin with health, safety, and environmental impact before beginni…...