Our Divisions & Markets
Our Personal Care capabilities are a prime example of how our company has grown to meet dynamic industry demands in responsible sourcing. Today, LBB Specialties maintains an expansive offering of cutting-edge active ingredients and natural chemistries in addition to our portfolio of standard functional ingredients. Our alignment with world-class ingredient suppliers positions us to offer creative technical solutions to a vast array of formulation challenges. The LBB Specialties sales and marketing team offers unmatched market insights to help predict and respond to rapidly-evolving trends in hair care, skin care, and cosmetics.
Consumers continue to demonstrate increasing interest in functional food and nutrition products; they are reading the labels of food products and analyzing supplements in search of ingredients that deliver specific health benefits. LBB Specialties is continually updating our comprehensive product offering to anticipate consumer trends like cognitive health and meat and dairy alternatives. We have built on our extensive offerings of core products like processing aids and excipients to include innovative solutions in food design, food technology, and clean label formulation. Our portfolio reflects the increasing demand for quality, naturally-sourced ingredients for the health, wellness, and food industries.
LBB Specialties services various Advanced Materials markets including CASE (coatings, adhesives, sealants, and elastomers), flavor and fragrance, metal treatment, oil field, plastics, water treatment, and more. Whether customers are sourcing corrosion inhibitors, hydrazines, or antioxidants, our commercial team has both the market expertise and responsible sourcing know-how to provide resourceful technical and logistical support.
LBB Specialties offers a comprehensive assortment of solutions for every stage of the pharmaceutical value chain, ranging from chromatography products and biochemical reagents to Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and value-added excipients. Our strategic partnerships with best-in-class suppliers position us to support drug innovators and API manufacturers alike through all stages of product development and commercial manufacturing of prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) formulations. The entire Life Sciences portfolio is built on our rigorous quality standards and technical expertise; we are ideally-equipped to serve our customers as a trusted regulatory support partner.
The LBB Specialties product portfolio is continually expanding to meet the needs of a variety of specialty markets. Our focus on technical innovation and operational excellence is at the core of our collaborative supplier relationships. By leveraging our global sourcing network and local logistics infrastructure through our subsidiaries, we provide customers with strategic product solutions for a wide variety of technical applications.
AIC is an ISO-Registered specialty chemical and ingredient sales and marketing company serving the North American market since 1972.
AIC's success is built on long-term partnerships with global manufacturers, allowing the company to provide its customers with consistent sources of quality specialty chemicals and ingredients.
AIC serves customers in attractive end markets including biotechnology, food & beverage, nutraceutical, personal care, pharmaceutical and specialty industrial. With annual revenues of over $100 million and approximately 100 employees across North America, AIC is a well-respected and well-established company with significant growth potential.
Centerchem is a specialty chemical and ingredients distributor based in Norwalk, CT serving primarily the personal care and food & nutrition end markets. Founded in 1948, Centerchem has built a network of specialty manufacturers and leveraged its highly specialized technical personnel to provide solutions, technical market insights, promotional expertise and high levels of support for its customers.
Charkit Chemical Company LLC offers a wide range of high-demand products to customers in the personal care, food, flavor & fragrance, water treatment, imaging, metal treatment, nutritional, pharmaceutical and specialty chemicals markets.
For companies that require customized specialty chemical solutions, Charkit also provides custom sourcing, manufacturing, technical assistance and product development services through its partners.
Founded in 1995, Custom Ingredients LLC is a leading producer of innovative and quality specialty chemical products with attentive service and quick deliveries to customers. Committed to the development of specialty chemical blends, high quality natural oils, polymers and extracts tailored to customer needs for optimal performance, and superior batch-to-batch consistency. Custom Ingredient’s 7 product lines consisting of over 200 other products cover the extent of raw materials that cosmetic formulators need to develop efficacious and unique marketable products.
Debro Inc. is a specialty chemical and ingredient distributor based in Brampton, ON serving the advanced materials, food & nutrition, and personal care markets across Canada.
Since being founded in 1920,Debro has distinguished itself through personalized customer service and enduring partnerships with world class specialty chemical manufacturers.
Dien, Inc. is a leading specialty chemical and ingredients distributor based in Dallas, TX serving primarily the personal care, food & beverage, and nutraceutical end markets.
Founded in 1996, Dien is approaching 25 years of successful growth through its first-rate service, technical support, and proven track record.