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Welcome to Gateway Food Products, a family owned manufacturer and processor of vegetable oils, shortenings, corn syrups, flakes, custom blended oils and soy wax products. We formulate and package a variety of proprietary formulas from our wide range of bulk ingredients.

Carroll Crosley founded Gateway Food Products Company in 1961, opening our first facility in downtown St. Louis. Carroll focused on manufacturing high quality products backed by friendly and reliable customer service. Carroll’s commitment provided the ground work for rapid growth. By 1978, Gateway Food Products had outgrown our facility and moved our operations to our current 25,000 square foot facility in Dupo, Illinois. In 1988, Carroll Crosley retired and handed over the leadership to his son, John Crosley. John has continued the traditions established by his father, spearheading our expansion and growth into new product lines.

Gateway Food Products focuses on individualized customer service, catering to customers of all sizes without establishing minimum orders. This philosophy provides our customers a competitive advantage in the marketplace by allowing ease of entry into private label product lines and reasonable inventory management.

Our success and growth over the years has come as a result of our commitment to quality and integrity. We understand that our continued growth and success will come as a direct result of our customer's growth and success.

Gateway Food Products is centrally located in the Midwest, allowing us to be competitive anywhere in the country. With our diversified product lines, Gateway Food Products provides a wide range of items to meet our customers' specific requirements.

"Desilube is a Pennsylvania-based, privately-owned business, focused on research, development, manufacturing and marketing of specialty lubricants and lubricant additives for the metalworking and other industrial markets. Based on its own proprietary technology, Desilube offers a range of products tailored for a variety of end users. Included are non-toxic, high performance additives for extreme pressure applications, food-grade additives, products for use under high temperature conditions, substitutes for commonly used MoS2 and chlorinated hydrocarbons, and a new line of environmentally and worker friendly soy-based lubricants. Since 2018 Desilube has a new management team focused on continuing the brand legacy while continuing to deliver value to its customers and provide innovative solutions across all industries we serve."

At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainable future. We combine economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. More than 111,000 employees in the BASF Group contribute to the success of our customers in nearly all sectors and almost every country in the world. Our portfolio comprises six segments: Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care and Agricultural Solutions.

In 1990, our founder, Dr. Bernard Gordon III, PhD, was working as a professor of polymer science at Penn State University. He saw an opportunity to capitalize on a niche market by developing a novel process of producing poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline), later trade named Aquazol®, while remaining cost effective for customers. This entrepreneurial ambition paved the way for the company we are today. 30 years later, PCI is still the only commercial manufacturer of Aquazol® (PEtOx) and has expanded into other specialty materials – each synthesized through innovative processes known and developed exclusively by PCI’s chemists.

As one of the world’s leading brands of , 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 , , , and . In 2020, Borchers was acquired by Milliken & Company, a global manufacturing leader whose focus on materials science delivers tomorrow’s breakthroughs today.

Harcros has been a trusted resource for our ability to deliver high quality products and solutions to thousands of customers around the world. As a technology driven, employee-owned company, we are consistently driving product development to ensure our solutions are not only innovative but customer-centric.