Buckman International is a privately held specialty chemical company founded in 1945 and headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee. Its technical work spans biocide chemistry, industrial water treatment, process chemistry, microbiological control and bacterial deposit control, alongside data analysis and smart technology. The company combines industry specialists with its products and applied data tools to address problems of productivity, profitability, safety, compliance and sustainability in industrial settings. Buckman is ISO-certified.
The firm was started by five people working with a single 50-gallon reactor, and its first product, BSM-11, was a biocide introduced to paper mills as an alternative to shutting down production to clean bacterial deposits. The business has since broadened beyond pulp and paper into industrial water treatment, process chemistry and chemical solutions for the leather industry, and now operates in more than 90 countries. Its principal verticals include pulp and paper, industrial water treatment, leather processing, industrial manufacturing and chemical manufacturing.
Products and services span biocides, industrial water treatment chemistry, process chemistry offerings and leather industry solutions. The company is held privately, with no external funding disclosed. Its stated positioning, "We Are Chemistry, Connected", reflects the combination of chemical expertise with smart technology and advanced data analysis. Further detail is available at https://buckman.com/.
