Formalin & Agricultural Intermediates

Formalin

For over a hundred years, formalin has been an essential building block in the production of many items that improve our everyday lives and contribute to efficiency, safety, and sustainability.

Formalin is a raw material for many specialty chemicals used in countless industrial and consumer applications such as automotive, coatings (NPG, melamine), chemical intermediates (MDI – methylene diphenyl diisocyanate, BDO – butanediol, amines, pentaerythritol, polyacetal resins, chelating agents, urea, phenolic and melamine resins, construction (wood panel binders, MDI), crop nutrition and protection (urea, slow-release fertilizers – SRF, pesticides), sulfur removal triazines, health care products (disinfectants), preservatives etc.

Many of these products enable sustainable solutions and bring a significant contribution in creating a safer and cleaner environment. We continue to support our customers’ innovation of solutions to conserve energy such as home and appliances insulation and lighter vehicles leading to improvement in fuel efficiency, to lower coatings VOCs, to increase crop yields using SRFs resulting in a significant reduction of watershed pollution, to expand usage of natural gas clean energy and to continue to focus on many other environmentally conscious applications.

Foremark Advantages

  • Formalin in a wide range of concentrations (30% to 52%).
  • Blends of formaldehyde with additives such as methanol and polymerization inhibitors.
  • Tailored formulations to meet customer end-use product requirements.
  • Ability to rapidly manufacture in spec products to ensure just in time delivery by truck and rail.

Agricultural Intermediates

Foremark manufactures Urea-Formaldehyde Concentrate (UFC), a building block for many of the products that are increasing agricultural crop yields. Key products made with UFC are ecologically sound controlled release fertilizers. Due to their high nutrient use efficiency, growers reduce the fertilizer usage and achieve higher quality crops with a lower environmental impact. Other large end-use applications include urea manufacturing, many types of fertilizers, wood binders and coatings.

Foremark Advantages

  • Produces and commercializes UFC-85 (60% formaldehyde and 25% urea).
  • Tailored formulations to meet customer end-use product requirements.
  • Just in time delivery by truck and rail.