Carpenter Chemicals, LC was founded in 1998 to promote Plaforization and related product lines in North America, including the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.

Carpenter Chemicals is pleased to offer a range of performance pretreatment products that are both economical in terms of capital costs and operating costs, and designed to be friendly to earth, air and water.

The Carpenter Chemicals team is dedicated to providing you with the best and most innovative products in the pretreatment market, and giving you the personal and flexible service necessary to meet your needs. From initial contact and testing with the parts to be treated, through planning and installing the equipment with assistance of equipment specialists familiar with Plaforization, to start-up and on-going monitoring, we are intimately involved in assuring your complete satisfaction.

Our supplier, PaiKor, has been in business since 1924 and has been serving the pretreatment market since the early 1980s. Plaforization products are used to treat more than 15 million square feet of metal surface world-wide each day.

The acceptance of Plaforization in North America has resulted in a growing list of customers in a variety of industries including job shops, manufacturers of ordnance, lighting, motor armatures, wind chimes, outdoor grills, and many other products.