Seatex Acquires ChemQuest Chemicals Company

Seatex, LLC (Rosenberg, Texas, USA), a leading specialty chemical manufacturer and formulator, announced the acquisition of ChemQuest Chemicals, LLC (Pasadena, Texas, USA), a custom chemical manufacturer. 

For more than twenty-five years, ChemQuest has provided custom toll manufacturing services to customers around the world, with expertise in complex blending and reactionary synthesis. Its acquisition provides Seatex with enhanced production capabilities, increased capacity, and a complementary customer base representing a diverse set of end-markets. 

The acquisition will take place immediately, with customers enjoying continuity between business operations and the benefit of a broad range of chemical services offered by both companies. 

“ChemQuest’s reputation as a leading custom chemical manufacturer [and] its expansive technical capabilities, along with an accomplished and experienced team led by [ChemQuest] President Clay Pace, make it the perfect fit for Seatex,” says Jonathan O’Dwyer, CEO of Seatex. “We welcome the ChemQuest team to the Seatex family and believe our combined commitments to service, safety, and quality, alongside expanded capacity and enhanced capabilities, will greatly benefit our customer base.” 

“We are excited to partner with Seatex and for the opportunity to leverage the broader platform as we aggressively pursue commercial expansion,” adds Pace. 

With four manufacturing locations in Texas, Seatex’s combined service offering includes liquid reactions and complex blends, solids and dry blending, expansive packaging capabilities and formulation equipment, and R&D and lab support. With the acquisition of ChemQuest, the new company will be one Texas’s leading custom toll manufacturers with the ability to deliver creative and sustainable chemical solutions for its customers. 

Source: Seatex, https://seatexcorp.com