Univar (United States)

American distributor of chemicals and ingredients headquartered at Downers Grove in Illinois, with roots going back to 1924 and taken private by Apollo Global Management in 2023. Sources and distributes commodity and specialty chemicals worldwide from its own warehouse and transport network, and through its pharmaceutical ingredients business supplies active ingredients, excipients, solvents and processing chemicals to drug makers together with ingredients for food, personal care and industrial customers, offering regulatory documentation, quality support and formulation laboratories.