Azelis Americas announced last week that BASF has expanded its partnership with Monson, an Azelis Americas company, to distribute BASF’s premium line of Lubricant and Metalworking components. Monson is a leading provider of Lubricant and Metal Working Fluid (LMW&F) products to the industry.

Highlights & rationale

  • Expands and enhances strategic growth with one of our key principals, BASF
  • Reinforces Monson’s position as a leading Lubricant and Metalworking distributor in the US with industry-focused, dedicated technical sales team and application lab.
  • Provides organic growth opportunity via our innovation through formulation initiative and industry leading digital marketing platforms

The portfolio of BASF products now available from Monson include: Breox®, Pluracol®, Plurasafe®, Synative®, Amine® O, Sarkosyl® O, Prostab® 5198, Irganox®, Irgacor®, Irgapac®, Irgaflo®, Irgafos®, and Irgamet®. 

About Azelis

Azelis is a leading distributor of specialty chemicals and food ingredients present in over 40 countries across the globe with around 2,000 employees. Our knowledgeable teams of industry, market and technical experts are each dedicated to a specific market within Life Sciences and Industrial Chemicals. We offer a lateral value chain of complementary products to about 40,000 customers, creating a turnover of €1.94 billion. In the US we operate under a number of renowned co-brands that cater to the various markets in the region.

Throughout our extensive network of 60 application laboratories, our award-winning technical staff help customers develop formulations. We combine a global reach with a local focus to offer a reliable, integrated service to local customers and attractive business opportunities to principals. And we believe in building and nurturing solid, honest and transparent relationships with our people and partners.

Impact through ideas. Innovation through formulation.