EMCO Chemical Distributors

Established in 1971, EMCO Chemical Distributors, Inc. is a privately owned chemical company recognized as one of the leading providers of chemicals and chemical related products and services in North America. Guided by our commitment to quality and safety, EMCO annually handles more than 350 million pounds of product through its chemical distribution and contract packaging divisions. Blending robust technical expertise with a highly adaptable business platform, EMCO is the chemical supplier of choice for responsive, customer driven solutions.

EMCO began operations with a focus on industrial chemicals, including petrochemicals, that continue to represent a majority of the chemical market and are essential for use in dozens of applications. EMCO has greatly expanded its product lines and chemical offerings, but industrial chemicals solidly remain a core focus of our business. All of our operations have both fully supported custom blending and repackaging capabilities, ensuring that EMCO can both blend and fill containers to meet varied, industry specific requirements. From railcars of a custom blend to pails of a single industrial chemical, EMCO can rapidly meet your industrial chemical needs and ensure you have the products that you need to keep your processes, and your business, on-time and operating to meet the needs of your customers.

Specialty chemicals are a category of high value, performance products characterized by bringing innovative and functional chemical properties to your finished goods. EMCO is changing the way business is done in the specialty chemical market by utilizing a consultive approach, collaborating with our customers to understand their needs and using that information to formulate customized solutions that set your product apart from the rest of the marketplace. Recognized for our successes at providing our customers unique and valued solutions through constantly evolving product lines, EMCO is your resourcing partner in providing leading-edge specialty chemical components, technology and solutions for your business.

EMCO is a premier contract chemical blending and packaging provider in the United States, specializing in the blending, filling and packaging of flammable and corrosive products into a wide range of containers. Our operational facilities in North Chicago,IL and Columbia, IL continually work with our extensive supply chain network to secure the highest quality raw materials and cost efficient packaging components necessary to meet varied product and customer driven specifications. Utilizing automated filling equipment designed to withstand the harsh properties of a wide range of chemicals, our production lines safely and efficiently fill, seal, label and package containers from ounces to gallons.

EMCO offers a suite of technical and lab resources which deliver value added services to our business partners. From custom blends to identifying alternative products, our experienced and highly trained technical services team works collaboratively with our customers to fi nd cost effective solutions that provide a competitive edge.

EMCO’s Waste Services Division focuses on assisting our customers with completely managing their chemical lifecycle requirements, also known as “cradle-to-grave”, by providing customers with a comprehensive, regulatory compliant, cost-effective, safe and sustainable solution to properly handle your hazardous, non-hazardous and universal waste. We provide a wide variety of recycling, treatment and disposal options for your hazardous and non-hazardous waste. We work with each customer’s unique requirements to properly classify waste streams generated from business operations, clean-up activities or remedial project work, determine and suggest applicable disposal technologies, properly prepare the required paperwork and arrange for transportation of the material from your site in a manner that meets your operational objectives, as well as your budget.