Barentz to Distribute ICT Products in the Household, Industrial and Institutional Cleaning Market

Barentz, a world-class distributor of life science ingredients and specialty chemical solutions throughout North America, is excited to announce our relationship with Innovative Chemical Technologies, Inc. (ICT).

Effective immediately, Barentz will distribute the following product lines:
Flexisorb - Odor absorbers
Flexiclean - Hard & soft surface cleaners, odor absorbers
Flexisurf - Specialty surfactants for hard and soft surface cleaning
Flexiwet - Specialty surfactants for hard and soft surface cleaning
Flexicon - Soft surface cleaning for leather
Flexishine - Hard surface cleaners for wood and stainless steel
Flexipel - Hard surface repellents, protectors & cleaners
Flexibrite - Dispersants for daily shower cleaners
Flexisperse - Dispersants, anti-scalants, co-builders & anti-redeposition polymers for laundry, dish wash and more.

These exceptionally high-quality products can be used in a variety of consumer cleaning and odor control products, as well as a wide range of industrial cleaning applications.

ICT, in conjunction with Barentz’ application development know-how, exceptional customer service, lab capabilities, formulary & regulatory support and technical sales team, will bring differentiated value-added solutions to customers by providing technical proficiency and formulation expertise.

“Barentz is excited to enter into this distribution agreement with ICT,” Chris Lupica, Vice President Principal Management, said. “ICT’s commitment of providing innovative products that enable solutions across a broad spectrum of applications within the HI&I market will drive our collective market leadership position. It is another example of how Barentz continues to bring novel offerings and solutions to our HI&I customers.”

“ICT is pleased to begin a formal relationship with Barentz, whose problem-solving, solution-oriented approach to their customers aligns perfectly with ICT’s business philosophy,” says Brian McLean, Sales and Marketing Director from ICT. “We look forward to working with them to broaden our ability to supply innovative products to the HI&I, Personal Care, and CASE markets in North America.”

ABOUT BARENTZ Barentz is a leading global life science ingredients and specialty chemicals distributor for the Human Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Personal Care, Home Care, Specialty Industrial, and Animal Nutrition markets. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Barentz distributes ingredients for products to small- and medium-sized enterprises and large customers globally. The Group sources branded specialty ingredients from leading manufacturers worldwide and its ingredients experts provide value-added technical support (including pre-mixing, blending, customized formulation and testing) from its state-of-the-art, customized formulation centers and application laboratories in EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific. Established in 1953, Barentz has operations in more than 60 countries with a strong presence in Asia, Europe, North America and a growing presence in Latin America. With a turnover of 1.5 billion the company employs around 1,500 people worldwide and serves over 21,000 customers. For more information, please visit: www.barentz-na.com

ABOUT ICT Founded in 1997, ICT is a vibrant, rapidly growing chemical company that has an extensive range of surface modification technologies including specialty polymers and surfactants. These technologies provide benefits including repellency, surface wetting and leveling, dispersion, crystal modification, odor neutralization, and improved cleanability. ICT has three manufacturing sites in Georgia and four research and development facilities including extensive analytical capabilities. Business operations are located northwest of Atlanta in Cartersville, Georgia. Manufacturing operations are equipped with 60 reactors plus additional hot and cold blending/dispersing/standardization vessels, development and scale-up vessels, as well as storage facilities. ICT has ISO 9001-2015 certification. As a member of SOCMA, ICT is committed to the principles of ChemStewards®. For more information, please visit: www.ictchemicals.com