Balchem BCPC

Balchem Corporation develops manufactures distributes and markets specialty performance ingredients and products for the nutritional food pharmaceutical animal health plant nutrition sterilization fumigation and industrial markets.

The company generates revenue by selling its products through its own sales force independent distributors and sales agents with primary offerings including human grade choline nutrients mineral amino acid chelated products specialty vitamin K2 methylsulfonylmethane microencapsulation solutions choline chloride for animal feed and performance gases and chemicals such as ethylene oxide propylene oxide and ammonia distributed in reusable and recyclable packaging.

The company operates through the following segments: Human Nutrition and Health Animal Nutrition and Health and Specialty Products.

• The Human Nutrition and Health segment provides human grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products for nutrition and health applications manufactures specialty vitamin K2 for bone heart health and immunity and methylsulfonylmethane for joint health sports nutrition skin and beauty and healthy aging serves the food and beverage industry for beverage bakery dairy confectionary and savory manufacturers and provides microencapsulation solutions for food pharmaceutical and nutritional ingredients to enhance performance of nutritional fortification processing mixing packaging and shelf life with applications in baked goods refrigerated and frozen dough systems processed meats seasoning blends confections sports and protein bars dietary plans and nutritional supplements and creates cereal systems for ready-to-eat cereals grain-based snacks and cereal based ingredients.

• The Animal Nutrition and Health segment provides nutritional products derived from microencapsulation and chelation technologies and essential nutrient choline chloride for ruminant animals to boost health and milk production delivers nutrient supplements that are biologically available provides enhanced nutrient absorption for production and companion animals manufactures and supplies choline chloride for monogastric animal health predominantly to poultry pet and swine industries and manufactures MSM for pet health.

• The Specialty Products segment re-packages and distributes performance gases and chemicals including ethylene oxide as a sterilant gas for health care industry medical device sterilization propylene oxide as a fumigant for insect and microbiological spoilage control in nut meats spices cacao beans cocoa powder raisins figs prunes and for chemical synthesis applications and ammonia as a refrigerant for heat treatment of metals and chemical synthesis applications distributed in reusable and recyclable drum and cylinder packaging also sells single use canisters for sterilizing reusable devices in hospitals and sells chelated minerals through its micronutrient agricultural nutrition business to producers of high value crops using a patented two-step approach involving optimal mineral balance determination and foliar applied Metalosate® product range utilizing patented amino acid chelate technology to deliver mineral nutrients quickly and efficiently.

The company competes with many large and small companies some of which have greater financial research and development production and other resources competition in supplement food and beverage markets is based on product performance customer support quality service and price while competition in animal feed and industrial markets is similarly based on product performance customer support quality service and price in highly price competitive environments and in Specialty Products performance gases competition is based on service reliability quality and price with competition from alternate technologies or substitute products and plant nutrition competition is based on product performance customer support quality and price with development of new and improved products being important.

The company serves hospitals and patients for ethylene oxide sterilization medical device manufacturers for contract sterilization services poultry pet and swine industries for choline chloride producers of high value crops for chelated minerals and food and beverage manufacturers for beverage bakery dairy confectionary and savory products.