NORTH CHEMICALS LTD

What NORTH CHEMICALS LTD does

North Chemicals Ltd (trading as North Speciality Chemicals Ltd) is a privately held Irish specialty chemical manufacturer headquartered at New Road, Elphin, Co Roscommon. The company develops and produces environmentally friendly liquid detergents, cleaners, degreasers, and sanitation formulations, marketed under sub-brands including Autoshine (car wash), Sanclean (quaternary ammonium sanitizer), Grime Beat (traffic film removers), Ferro-Clean (engineering degreaser), Steel Brite (stainless steel cleaner/descaler), and Clear Air (odour control chemistry). Manufacturing is centralized in Roscommon, with a distribution hub in Dublin serving industrial customers across Ireland and Great Britain.

The portfolio exceeds 40 SKUs organized into five functional categories: transport cleaning (Autoshine, Grime Beat, High Foam Truck Wash, Rinse Aid), food industry sanitation (Deep Clean, Dishwash, IS Extra Clean, Sanclean, Steel Brite), engineering degreasers (Ferro-Clean, Steel Brite), specialized cleaners (B-12 ink cleaner, Conclean, Grime Away), and equipment-based odour control solutions (Mobile Odour Control, Pressure Fogging, Rotary Atomizer paired with Clear Air chemistry). Products are positioned around biodegradable, non-tainting, and safety-compliant formulations, including caustic-free variants and broad-spectrum bactericides effective against salmonella, Listeria, and E. coli.

The company operates a direct sales model to industrial and institutional buyers in transportation, engineering, food processing, hygiene, municipal councils, and waste/sewage treatment. Pricing is not publicly disclosed. With a reported headcount of 1-10 employees, North Chemicals is a micro-scale manufacturer relying on its regional distribution footprint and specialized formulation breadth rather than scale advantages. The business has not raised external funding and operates independently with no disclosed parent company or institutional investors.

Name

NORTH CHEMICALS LTD

Legal name

North Speciality Chemicals Ltd

Website

https://northchemicals.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2015

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

North Chemicals Ltd is an Irish specialty chemical manufacturer producing environmentally friendly liquid detergents, degreasers, and sanitation products across over 40 SKUs, serving transportation, food processing, engineering, and municipal sectors in Ireland and Great Britain through direct sales from its Roscommon manufacturing facility.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Specialty Industrial Cleaning Chemicals

NAICS

Chemical Manufacturing (325), Soap and Cleaning Compound Manufacturing (32561), Other Chemical Product and Preparation Manufacturing (3259)

SIC

Miscellaneous Chemical Products (2890), Chemicals & Allied Products (2800), Wholesale-Chemicals & Allied Products (5160)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYIMAEABAG

Industrial & Institutional (I&I) Cleaning Chemicals

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Chemicals & Industrial Materials/Specialty Chemicals

SECONDARYIMAEAJAL

Biocides & Disinfection Chemicals (Non-Agricultural)

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Chemicals & Industrial Materials/Water Treatment & Process Chemicals

SECONDARYCRAOAGAB

Cleaning Chemicals & Disinfectants Distribution

Consumer Products & Retail/Wholesale, Distribution & Category Management/Household, Cleaning & Janitorial (JanSan) Distribution

SECONDARYIMAEABAN

Water Treatment & Process Specialty Chemicals

Industrials, Manufacturing & Construction/Chemicals & Industrial Materials/Specialty Chemicals

Keywords

• Specialty industrial chemicals
• Liquid detergent manufacturing
• Biodegradable cleaning products
• Odour control equipment
• Food industry sanitation

Headquarters

HQ city

Elphin

HQ country

Ireland

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Specialty Chemical Products Sales: Revenue generated from manufacturing and selling specialty chemical formulations including detergents, cleaners, degreasers, and sanitation products. The company manufactures products in Roscommon with distribution from Dublin hub, serving Ireland and Great Britain with over 40 products developed for various industrial applications.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

North Chemicals Ltd manufactures and sells over 40 specialty, environmentally friendly liquid detergents and chemical compounds for industrial applications. Products are formulated for transportation cleaning (car/truck wash chemistry), food industry sanitation (sanitizers, degreasers, descaling), engineering degreasing, and specialized cleaning, complemented by proprietary odour-control equipment solutions. Manufacturing occurs in Roscommon, Ireland, with distribution through a Dublin hub covering Ireland and Great Britain.

Product overview

North Speciality Chemicals is a manufacturer of speciality, environmentally friendly liquid detergents and compounds. The company offers a portfolio of over 40 products organized into product lines for Transport (Autoshine, Grime Beat, High Foam Truck Wash, Rinse Aid), Food Industry (Deep Clean, Dishwash, IS Extra Clean, Sanclean, Steel Brite), Engineering/Degreasers (Ferro-Clean, Steel Brite), Specialized Cleaners (B-12, Conclean, Grime Away), and Equipment Solutions for Odour Control (Mobile Odour Control, Pressure Fogging, Rotary Atomizer). Products are manufactured in Roscommon with a distribution hub in Dublin for both Ireland and Great Britain. Applications span Transportation, Engineering, Food Processing, Hygiene, Councils, and Waste and Sewage Treatment industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Autoshine: Product line for car wash industry including Autoshine High Foam, Autoshine Shampoo, and Autoshine Wax
• Grime Beat
• Clear Air
• Deep Clean
• Sanclean

Products and services

• Autoshine High Foam Biodegradable cleaner for the car wash industry with high foaming ability and lubricating qualities that extend brush life in brush washes and foam arches; used by car wash operators and fleet cleaners.
• Autoshine Shampoo Clear green liquid car wash concentrate with cleaning ability and copious foam for cars, trucks, and buses in brush washes and high pressure washers.
• Autoshine Wax Clear liquid wax concentrate for automated car washing systems that causes immediate beading of water for spot and streak-free cars.
• Conclean Acid-based cleaner that removes algae and grease from concrete surfaces, limescale from plastics and toilets, and concrete from trucks and plant equipment.
• Grime Away General purpose water-based biodegradable cleaner for factories, restaurants, and garage floors, usable in high pressure washes and floor scrubber dryers.
• Grime Beat Truck Wash Biodegradable high foaming cleaner designed for grease and traffic film on trucks, buses, trains, trams, coaches, and commercial vehicles.
• Grime Beat Standard Traffic film remover designed for high pressure washers to clean grease, traffic film, and oil from cars and commercial vehicles.
• High Foam Truck Wash Neutral pH fully biodegradable detergent for rollover truck washes that removes traffic film, grease, mineral oil, and brake dust from trucks, coaches, buses, vans, and trains.
• Rinse Aid Highly concentrated biodegradable formulation that causes a beading effect on vehicles for a spot and streak-free finish in car washes.
• Deep Clean All-purpose fully biodegradable high foaming liquid detergent for the food processing industry, effective at removing fat, blood, and proteinaceous scale.
• Dishwash Highly alkaline liquid cleaner for spray wash systems, suitable for glass washing, ware washing machines, and plastic tray washing in food processing facilities.
• IS Extra Clean Caustic-free biodegradable general purpose cleaner for kitchens, grease extractors, hotels, institutions, and restaurants, containing real lemon oil for extra cleaning power.
• Sanclean Quaternary ammonium chloride based final sanitizer that is non-tainting with broad spectrum bactericidal action against salmonella, Listeria, E. coli and other pathogenic bacteria.
• Steel Brite Acidic stainless steel cleaner and descaler that is biodegradable and non-tainting, used to clean grease and water scale from stainless steel equipment and to etch and restore aluminium.
• B-12 Versatile water-based caustic-free detergent for industrial ink cleaning that removes water-based inks from machinery, stainless steel equipment, floors, and ink pumps.
• Ferro-Clean Highly alkaline low foaming water-based spray cleaner containing caustic for heavy duty cleaning of oil and grease from stainless and mild steel parts.
• Mobile Odour Control Unit Mobile unit containing a rotary fan and water storage tank with Clear Air mixture that can be directed at odour problem areas such as sewage tanks and waste landfills.
• Pressure Fogging System High pressure fogging system where Clean Air is mixed with water and pumped via pipework to nozzles producing fine mist that neutralizes offensive odours.
• Rotary Atomizer Fixed or oscillating rotary atomizer producing fine mist with droplet size less than 10 microns for indoor and outdoor odour control applications.

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature8 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Emerging players

• Veolia: Global water and waste management services company whose odor control and wastewater treatment offerings intersect with North Chemicals' Clean Air / rotary atomizer odor management line.

Broad incumbents

• Ecolab: Global leader in water, hygiene, and infection prevention solutions with deep presence in food and beverage sanitation, vehicle wash, and industrial cleaning — directly addresses the same end markets as North Chemicals at significantly greater scale.
• SC Johnson Professional: Division of SC Johnson supplying professional cleaning, hygiene, and food-industry sanitation products; offers overlapping specialty cleaning chemistries to industrial and institutional customers across Europe.
• Diversey Holdings: Global manufacturer and supplier of hygiene, infection prevention, and cleaning chemicals for foodservice, food retail, and industrial customers; a much larger incumbent with overlapping specialty cleaning chemistry and food-industry sanitation solutions.

Direct peers

• Selden Research: UK-based manufacturer of cleaning and hygiene chemicals for industrial, institutional, and food industry customers with a similar specialty formulation portfolio and direct sales approach.
• Arrow Solutions: UK-based manufacturer of industrial cleaning chemicals, degreasers, and maintenance products serving automotive, engineering, and industrial markets; a direct comparable in size and geographic focus.
• Christeyns: Belgium-headquartered manufacturer of industrial and institutional cleaning chemicals, with a similar specialty detergents and disinfection portfolio serving food processing, laundry, and professional cleaning customers across Europe — directly comparable product category, customer base, and GTM motion.
• Evans Vanodine: UK manufacturer of professional cleaning and disinfection products for food industry, healthcare, and general industrial use; comparable portfolio breadth, biodegradability positioning, and channel mix.
• Klenzan: UK-based specialty manufacturer of cleaning and sanitizing chemicals for the food and beverage industry; closely comparable niche focus on food-safe, biodegradable cleaning chemistry.

Others

• Brenntag: Global chemical distribution company that supplies specialty and industrial cleaning chemicals across Europe; comparable as a downstream distribution channel and benchmark for specialty cleaning chemistry economics.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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