Buckman offers custom manufacturing services to customers and suppliers worldwide.

With over 80 years of chemical manufacturing experience and technical expertise, coupled with a proven track record in providing quality products as and when required, Buckman is an ideal toll service provider. Outsourced manufacturing cuts the cost of maintaining production facilities, purchasing raw materials, hiring labor, and ensuring regulatory compliance so customers can focus more resources on their core business.

At all our global plants, Buckman provides flexible manufacturing capabilities based on customer-specific requirements. Our world-class production facilities are managed by specialists and engineers with expertise in the specialty chemical industry. Each location has a variety of blending, reaction, and storage vessels suitable for all requirements. Leveraging our existing volumes in these plants helps ensure that the differential cost for manufacturing is kept low, reducing the need for a capital expenditure in a new plant, people and machines. Buckman can take a product from lab scale through to large-scale production, and can provide product in sizes ranging from cubes to bulk.

Typical process technology includes:

• Blending/mixing
• Distillation
• Filtration/extraction
• Formulation Halogenation
• Formylation
• Oxidation reactions
• Packaging/microencapsulation Polymerization
• Reduction reactions
• Refining/purification

Buckman provides custom manufacturing that incorporates formulation and blending, material processing, SOP development, and full analytical laboratory support. Our extensive product lines permit a wide variety of combination products that make use of:

• Global warehouse facilities – utilizing our existing inventories that are managed using state-of-the-art inventory control processes.
• Our current global purchasing power.
• Management and storage of a wide range of raw materials from a number of pre-approved sources to ensure continuity of supply.
• Our extensive distribution network to assist in minimizing overall costs and delivery time.
• Private labeling if required

Memphis R&D Expanded Pilot Plant Now Available for Custom Toll Manufacturing

Equipped with the highest safety standards and a state-of-the-industry digital monitoring and analysis system to monitor all functions in real time, collecting data that can optimize both the product application and the process, the Memphis pilot plant can help you meet your custom chemical manufacturing needs.

Memphis Pilot Plant Resources

• 12,400 square feet on two levels
• 4 processing vessels and 2 receive tanks with shared condensers, vacuum systems, emissions control system, etc.
• Process conditions up to 450 psig / 500 degF with supporting utility systems
• Rockwell Factory Talk Batch DCS with more than 130 process data acquisition instruments feeding data historian for automated process data acquisition
• Space and utilities for rental equipment and evaluating novel manufacturing techniques
• Wet lab for process development and batch QC testing
• Control room, offices and meeting room with camera monitoring of operating plant area

Manufacturing Capabilities

• Polymers
• Monomers
• Organic Synthesis
• Component Isolation
• Emulsions

Simulation Capabilities

• Predictive simulations to guide process development work
• Reaction calorimeter
• Computational fluid dynamics – mixing assessment and optimization

Click here to read the full press release about our new pilot plant.

Technical specialists are available for questions and inquiries. Contact us today.

Email: connect@buckman.com

Phone (US): +1 901.272.8413

Buckman is committed to providing customers professional and reliable service and a commitment to safety, quality and environmental sustainability. Our facilities have certified management systems for safety (ISO 45001:2018), quality (ISO 9001:2015), and environmental (ISO 14001:2015). The company maintains strict safety compliance, produces quality products, and is committed to pollution prevention through continuous improvement. All of this translates to a significant savings for our customers.