Suppliers in Decorative Materials & Finishes

As one of the world’s leading brands of coating additives, Borchers is committed to the continuous development and improvement of coating systems across the spectrum of chemistries, applications, and end markets. Borchers’ products and services make the world safer and more colorful, and enhance quality of life every day. Key products include Borchi® OXY-Coat and Borchi® Dragon cobalt-free high-performance catalysts, Borchi® Burst defoamers, Borchi® Gen wetting and dispersing agents, and Borchi® Gel rheology modifiers. In 2020, Borchers was acquired by Milliken & Company, a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow’s breakthroughs today.

Norplex-Micarta is a leading manufacturer of high performance thermoset composite materials based on impregnation and lamination technology. Norplex-Micarta manufactures the highest quality specialty sheet products, prepregs, rods, molded shapes, and tubes to meet demanding applications for OEMs and fabricators around the world.

The global headquarters of Norplex-Micarta is located in Postville, Iowa, USA. To support the demand for thermoset composite materials in Asia, the Company also operates a facility in Changzhou, Jiangsu, P.R. China.

Norplex-Micarta produces sheets, tubes, rods, and other specialty molded shapes for thousands of different applications in dozens of different industries. 

The Postville, Iowa facility is equipped with a variety of impregnation and downstream equipment to serve the varied needs of the industrial market. Prepreg can be produced on either horizontal or vertical machines as required to match the requirements of the fabrication process. Norplex-Micarta processes sheets and stock shapes internally. 

Sheets are regularly produced at 6 inches (150 mm) thick, and several materials can be produced as a monolithic sheet as thick as 12 inches (300 mm). Tubes are produced on IDs ranging from 0.094 inches (2.3 mm) to 48 inches (1.2 meters) on specially built mandrels. These materials are generally further processed by firms that specialize in the machining, punching, or other stock removal fabrication process.

Ivanhoe Industries, Inc. is a privately held, family owned specialty chemical manufacturer located in Zion, IL which is equal distance between Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI. Our product line consists of foam control agents, non-ionic surfactants, release agents and hydrophobic silica that are used as additives in a wide range of consumer packaged goods and chemical formulations. Ivanhoe’s market focus is predominately food processing, fermentation, and agricultural applications, but we are developing industrial markets such as oil field, lubricants, and wastewater treatment applications. Ivanhoe has always utilized bio-based raw materials to manufacture our products and always consider sustainable and environmentally friendly concepts in our product development. We are backwards integrated into many of our raw materials and look to offer highly concentrated and efficient foam control agents, and precision dosing systems to reduce cost, reduce carbon footprint, and create new value for our customers.

We apply our sense of family loyalty to our dealings with customers and how we treat our employees. We have both customers and employees who have been with us since the very beginning and we are constantly developing new ones as well. Our customers and our employees will be responsible for our continued success and they will always have first consideration in our decision making processes.

For over 20 years, our mission has been to work alongside our customers, helping them to make the best of their color offer. Our goal is to help them Create Value through Color. Our main activity is to produce and market dispersions of pigments (commonly called colorants) to tint paints either in factory or at point of sale. Over the years, we have built up an international network of suppliers, and this has allowed us to consolidate a business of the trading of powder pigments for colors and effects in sectors also outside paints (like plastic, ink, textile, leather…). Today this has become one of the pillars of our company. Iris Green is the market leader for tinting systems in Italy and does business in over 30 countries with more than 400 customers. We are an Italian company with deep local roots, and belong to an International group which does business around the world.