Official Company Motto: We Don't Compromise.

ABOUT US


From the President

Welcome to Wholesale Chemical Company. For over a decade, Wholesale Chemical has earned its reputation as the "go-to" source for custom-formulated demulsifiers, coagulants, defoamers, detergents, and emulsifiers for the most demanding applications. If your treatment requirements are simple, you probably haven't heard of us. But if, for example, you operate a centralized waste treatment (CWT) facility and your process involves separating a variety of comingled, surfactant-stabilized "engineered" emulsions, then you're already a customer… or you should be.

These are exciting times for our industry. Our new generation products leverage some of the latest technologies that weren't even available just a year ago. From nano technologies to biopolymers to green technologies to new reaction-enabling catalysts, the chemistry of today is vastly improved over the chemistry of yesterday. And with technology constantly advancing, our customers will enjoy cutting-edge products as they become available. Some noteworthy examples we have incorporated into our product line:
  1. Quick-release detergents do a superior job of removing oil and grease from hard surfaces, but don't generate emulsions in the process. When rinsed, the water and oil phases quickly separate into clear water and clean, saleable oil. The water can then be recycled to the wash process.
  2. Bioflocculants which are synthesized in biological reactors to produce flocculants with molecular weights 10 times higher than those produced using standard chemical polymerization processes.
  3. Flocculant structures such as graft (comb) copolymer, star copolymer and dendrimer that are cross-linked to form robust flocs. Well suited to centrifuge and other high-shear applications.
  4. Green chemistry that has eliminated hazardous ingredients and, therefore, changed the way many products are handled and dispensed, especially detergents and degreasers which tend to be used in close proximity to personnel.
  5. Surfactant chemistries that now cover a much broader range of desired properties, such as higher cloud point temperatures, choice of wide or narrow molecular weight distributions, and polyhydrophilic products which have revolutionized the separation of complex O/W/O and W/O/W emulsions.
  6. Overtreatment protection. Chemical overtreatment can be as detrimental as undertreatment. When treating fluids that vary greatly in quality and flowrate, it is more important to have consistent performance rather than instantaneous performance. Whether to set chemical feed rates to err on the overtreatment or undertreatment side has always been a difficult decision, until now. A new generation of coagulants, flocculants, and demulsifiers is being tested at sites across the United States. This new chemistry eliminates "overtreatment" because the treatment mechanism does not depend on neutralizing electrostatic surface charges.
We welcome you to come enjoy the benefits of this technology revolution. If you are like most of our customers, you'll only have one thing to say…"WOW!"


Mission

Our original mission was to fill a huge void in our industry…high performance chemicals for effectively separating the most stable emulsions. Today, we have successfully filled that void and now focus on providing the best PRICE, PERFORMANCE, SELECTION and SERVICE in our industry. Our supply chain includes distribution warehouses strategically located across the United States. When combined with our efficient processes, bulk purchases, and network of cost-saving transportation services, we are able to provide the most competitive pricing and most responsive customer service in the marketplace. In addition, Wholesale Chemical adheres to an aggressive program of innovative product development that couples technology with functionality. By building upon the unique needs of our customers, we have become the undisputed leader in developing a wide array of tailor-made, high performance chemical products.


Vision

Wholesale Chemical has no equal in its industry for providing custom solutions to separate complex oily emulsions. Though we have never lost a single customer to the competition, we have limited our target markets to Fortune 500 companies, engineering and consulting firms, contract operations firms, and distributors. Our vision is to scale-up our current business model by offering to the broader end use markets our combination of value pricing, high performance products, technical expertise, and safe and environmentally friendly chemistries.


Our Promises

We promise to outperform the competition. We make this bold statement with confidence because, for over 15 years, our products have never been beaten. Our competitors tend to compromise, because it's the easier path. They tend to dilute their products, because it creates the false impression of value.

We will provide the best possible solutions for select applications: we won't dilute the quality of a product by trying to use it on a wide range of applications. This approach has led Wholesale Chemical to become the leading provider of primary, enhancement and supplemental products for separating emulsions. When it comes to solving your problems and optimizing your process, we are obsessive; we are tenacious. We get the chemistry right, we add value, and we don't compromise.

We promise to always act with honesty and integrity in a culture that embraces responsibility, accountability and transparency. Because that's who we are.


History

In 1992 Mobley Environmental Services, a national company engaged in waste oil collection and treatment (later to become US Filter Recovery Services), had attempted for several years to procure an outside chemical company that could provide high performance chemical products. One of the toughest problems was separating surfactant-stabilized industrial emulsions. After testing hundreds of products from over 30 chemical suppliers and sponsoring over 25 plant trials, no chemical company could meet the level of performance sought. Ultimately, Mobley entered into a contractual alliance with a large oil technology company and began co-developing their own treatment chemicals. With a team of PhD chemists and an almost unlimited variety of emulsion streams, the alliance began a 5 year campaign of hard work, determination, and substantial investment which resulted in the development of over 170 high performance demulsifiers, coagulants, flocculants, defoamers, precipitants, degreasers, detergents, and emulsifiers. In 1998 the oil technology company reorganized and spun off their Performance Chemicals Division and Wholesale Chemical Company was born.

Over the past 15 years, we focused our efforts on finding solutions to the most difficult applications in industry…applications our competitors deemed "untreatable". We have yet to find any untreatable emulsions, however, we have seen a lot of mediocre competitor products that perform poorly. The path we chose has been long and difficult, but along the way we developed the technology and gained the knowledge and expertise to resolve industry's most difficult separation problems.


whole·sale [hōl' sāl] - the sale of goods in large quantities and at prices below retail.