Calca Solutions

Name

Calca Solutions

Legal name

Calca Solutions, LLC

Website

https://calcasolutions.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1953

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Westlake

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Hydrazine Chemical Manufacturing & Sales: Calca Solutions manufactures and sells hydrazine-based chemical products including anhydrous hydrazine, monomethyl hydrazine, hydrazine hydrates, and propellants. Products are sold directly to aerospace, defense, pharmaceutical, water treatment, and agricultural customers on a custom per-order basis.
2. Cleanazine Remediation Products: Sale of Cleanazine remediation products for neutralizing hydrazine spills, available in various packaging from spray bottles to pails, including presoaked pads and pillows.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Calca Solutions manufactures and supplies hydrazine and hydrazine-based chemical products, including military-grade anhydrous hydrazine, monomethyl hydrazine (MMH), H-70 propellant, Scav-Ox oxygen scavengers, hydrazine hydrates, and the patented Cleanazine remediation product. Products are custom-blended per customer specification and sold primarily to aerospace and defense agencies (NASA, U.S. Space Force, DLA Energy), with additional sales to water treatment, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and nuclear power customers.

Product overview

Calca Solutions is a hydrazine manufacturing company offering a portfolio of chemical products centered on hydrazine chemistry. The core product line includes Ultra Pure™ Anhydrous Hydrazine, Monomethyl Hydrazine (MMH), H-70 Propellant, Scav-Ox oxygen scavenger solutions, and Hydrazine Hydrates. These products serve aerospace, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, and agriculture industries. The company also offers Cleanazine as a complementary remediation product for safe handling of hydrazine spills. Calca Solutions operates as a specialty chemical manufacturer with over 70 years of industry experience, acquired by NewMarket Corporation in October 2025 to expand its specialty materials segment.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cleanazine: A hydrazine remediation product line that neutralizes hydrazine products in case of leaks or spills. It is the safest hydrazine remediation technology available, developed as a method to deal safely with neutralizing hydrazine and monomethyl hydrazine by a chemical process that produces a nonhazardous waste stream.
• Ultra Pure
• Scav-Ox

Products and services

• Ultra Pure™ Anhydrous Hydrazine Military-grade anhydrous hydrazine that exceeds Monopropellant Grade and High Purity Grade requirements per Military Specification MIL-PRF-26536G. Used in monopropellant thrusters, gas generators, satellite attitude control, and space probes for aerospace and defense customers.
• Monomethyl Hydrazine (MMH) Clear, colorless, hygroscopic liquid used as a propellant for spacecraft orbital control thrusters and in bipropellant systems. Meets MIL-P-27404 military specifications and is also used in chemical synthesis for petroleum refining, explosives, metal treating, photography, fibers, coatings, and resins.
• H-70 Propellant 70% aqueous hydrazine solution used as propellant in emergency power units (EPU) on F16 and other single-engine aircraft. Provides hydraulic and electrical power when primary engine fails by decomposing over a catalyst bed rather than via combustion.
• Scav-Ox® Oxygen Scavenger Solutions 35% and 15.5% hydrazine solutions used as oxygen scavengers in boiler water treatment to prevent corrosion in steam generating systems. Scav-Ox II features an organic catalyst for rapid oxygen reaction at low temperatures and minimal worker exposure to fumes.
• Cleanazine™ Hydrazine Remediation Product Patented hydrazine remediation technology using a naturally occurring organic compound to neutralize hydrazine and monomethyl hydrazine from leaks or spills. Tested by NASA and successfully used by nuclear power plants. Available in multiple packaging formats including spray bottles, pails, presoaked pads, and pillows.
• Hydrazine Hydrates Hydrazine and water mixtures including monohydrate (N2H4·H2O) used in agricultural products (herbicides, fungicides, plant growth regulators), pharmaceutical synthesis, and as polymerization initiators in the plastics industry.

Quantifiable outcome

• 27+ years without lost time injury; 12 consecutive years without OSHA-recordable incident
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• NASAcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerNASA uses Calca Solutions hydrazine for critical space missions. DLA Energy provided the Orion capsule with 438 pounds of hydrazine and 6,245 pounds of Monomethyl Hydrazine from Calca for spacecraft re-entry thrusters. Calca hydrazine also powers the Perseverance rover and Mars Odyssey Orbiter.
• U.S. Space ForcecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerU.S. Space Force utilizes Calca Solutions hydrazine propellants for satellite propulsion and space operations.
• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDLA Energy sources hydrazine propellants from Calca Solutions for defense aerospace applications. DLA Energy provided Orion spacecraft with Calca hydrazine products.
• AerojetminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerLeading aerospace organization utilizing Calca Solutions hydrazine propellants for aerospace applications.
• Fellow Hydrazine ProducerminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with another hydrazine producer ensures seamless supply of hydrazine solutions not just for the United States, but globally.
• Lake Area Industry Alliance (LAIA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCalca Solutions participates in LAIA programs including the annual Chem Expo reaching nearly 2,000 middle school students each year, promoting STEM careers in industrial science and engineering.
• Keep Louisiana BeautifulminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCalca Solutions supports Keep Louisiana Beautiful initiatives focusing on litter abatement and educational programming through Pick-It-Up Calcasieu.
• United Way of Southwest LouisianaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCalca Solutions supports United Way fundraising events and giving programs to assist residents with economic mobility, education, health services, and basic needs.
• Brimstone Historical SocietyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCalca Solutions supports Brimstone Historical Society fostering community connectivity with arts and culture in Calcasieu Parish through exhibits, festivals, and educational programming.
• Arts & Humanities Council of SWLAminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCalca Solutions partnered with the Arts & Humanities Council of SWLA to present Chuck Fest, a celebration of art, culture, and music in Southwest Louisiana.
• Nuclear Power PlantsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNuclear power plants use Cleanazine to neutralize hydrazine spills. Successfully used to neutralize 96,000 gallons of water containing hydrazine.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• American Pacific Corporation (AMPAC): Sister company within NewMarket Corporation's specialty materials segment; AMPAC produces ammonium perchlorate, the dominant solid rocket oxidizer used in space launch and defense propulsion. AMPAC and Calca are complementary propellant chemistry suppliers serving the same aerospace and defense customers (NASA, U.S. Space Force, DLA), and are being acquired and expanded together as part of NewMarket's ~$1B specialty materials build-out.
• Olin Corporation: Major global hydrazine producer with significant hydrazine hydrate and anhydrous hydrazine capacity serving water treatment, pharmaceutical, and agricultural markets. Olin is Calca's most direct U.S. competitor in commercial-grade hydrazine, though Calca differentiates on military-spec propellant grades (MIL-PRF-26536G, MIL-P-27404).
• Aerojet Rocketdyne (now part of L3Harris): Leading U.S. propulsion system manufacturer and Calca customer that designs and produces hydrazine thrusters and rocket engines for NASA, DoD, and commercial space missions. Aerojet consumes Calca's Ultra Pure hydrazine and MMH as a critical propellant input, making it both a customer and a direct player in the same aerospace propulsion value chain.

Broad incumbents

• BASF SE: Global chemical giant with hydrazine hydrate and hydrazine derivatives production serving agrochemical, pharmaceutical, and industrial customers. BASF competes with Calca in non-propellant hydrazine applications and represents the broad incumbent in industrial organic chemistry that Calca operates within.
• Arkema: French specialty chemicals manufacturer producing hydrazine hydrate and hydrazine derivatives for crop protection, peroxides, and industrial applications. Comparable to Calca as a diversified specialty chemicals player with hydrazine in its portfolio serving aerospace, water treatment, and agricultural end markets.
• Lonza Group: Swiss specialty chemicals and APIs manufacturer with hydrazine and hydrazine derivative capabilities serving pharmaceutical and agricultural customers. Comparable to Calca as a high-purity chemical supplier to regulated pharma and agro end markets, though Lonza operates at much larger scale.
• Yara International: Norwegian global fertilizer and chemical producer with hydrazine hydrate production capacity serving water treatment, agrochemical, and industrial customers. Comparable to Calca as a hydrazine producer with diversified end-market exposure, though primarily focused on agricultural nitrogen chemistry.
• Solvay SA: Belgian specialty chemicals group producing hydrazine derivatives and specialty peroxides for pharmaceutical, agrochemical, and electronics customers. Comparable to Calca as a high-purity chemical supplier to regulated industrial end markets with hydrazine chemistry as a core product line.
• LANXESS AG: German specialty chemicals company with material protection and industrial biocides product lines that overlap with Calca's Scav-Ox oxygen scavenger and water treatment applications. Comparable as a specialty industrial chemicals supplier serving water treatment and process chemistry customers.

Emerging players

• Blue Origin: U.S. commercial space company developing BE-3PM and other engines that have historically used hydrazine-based propellant systems for reaction control and lunar lander applications. As a potential or actual Calca customer in the expanding commercial space economy, Blue Origin represents an emerging demand vector for high-purity hydrazine propellants.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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