Syrgis Performance Specialties manufactures benzophenone ultraviolet (UV) light absorbers for use in plastics, coatings, adhesives and personal care. These additives are designed to preserve the final products' properties such as color or fragrance from damage caused by UV radiation. Syrgis Performance Specialties serves more than two hundred customers, including the world's leading chemical manufacturers and distributors. Syrgis Performance Specialties also offers unique capabilities for custom synthesis and contract manufacturing with hazardous chemistries.
Leaders in High Performance Chemicals
Syrgis Performance Chemicals (PChem) provides specialty corrosion inhibitors, scale inhibitors, chemical scavengers and various other specialty chemicals, which are used in a broad range of oil and gas applications. The majority of PChem's products are used in the petroleum, petrochemical and natural gas production and refining industries to protect and preserve capital equipment, and to improve production efficiency and capacity.
Syrgis Performance Initiators, previously Norac Inc. and Norac Andos AB, produces organic peroxide initiators for the fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) composites (fiberglass) industry. Syrgis Performance Initiators is the #1 producer of methyl ethyl ketone peroxides in North America and ranked second in the world in organic peroxides for plastics and reinforced thermoset composites. The company manufactures a broad line of premium ketone and diacyl peroxides from its state-of-the-art production facilities located in Helena, Arkansas, and Köpmanholmen, Sweden.

