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Linde Materials

Specialty flocculants and corrosion inhibitors for water systems.

Linde produces specialty flocculants, corrosion inhibitors, and scale-control chemistries for municipal water authorities and industrial customers. The product line is narrow on purpose. The business makes a small number of chemistries very well, and has done so for nineteen years.

Linde operates two plants in northern Ohio and a third, smaller plant in Saxony-Anhalt that serves the European utilities market. Both American plants are unionized and have been since founding. The business has not had a major work stoppage in its history.

Linde has been part of the Barlow portfolio since 2017 and is run by the same management team that has operated it since.

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From the Linde Materials portfolio file.

Interior of a specialty chemicals plant with stainless steel reactors and insulated piping.
The South Plant in Toledo, Ohio.

By the numbers

Plants
3
Continuous operation
19 yrs
Workforce
212
A gloved chemist holding a glass beaker of pale amber liquid to a laboratory window.
QA sampling in the formulation lab.

From the file

A small number of chemistries, made very well, for nineteen years.

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