Put your brand at the center of the conversations shaping the chemical industry. Build visibility, strengthen relationships with senior decision-makers, and showcase your expertise before, during, and after The Chemical Summit. Download the Sponsor Kit to learn more.
Questions about sponsorship opportunities? Contact Kelli McClearin, Event & Sponsorship Manager. (kelli@progressioglobal.com)
Palmer Holland – Keynote Sponsor
Sponsored by Palmer Holland is an employee-owned, North American specialty chemical and fine ingredient distributor of raw materials with 50+ account managers stationed throughout the U.S. and Canada. Our vertically aligned sales team uses in-depth market analysis to bring unparalleled industry knowledge directly to you. From finding the perfect formulation to getting material onsite faster, our job is to make sure your business performs at its best.
Occam – Reception Sponsor
Occam is building the operating system that keeps America’s most critical chemicals in production. We help our customers bring new molecules to market, design smarter supply chains, and stay resilient when disruption strikes. From national security to everyday manufacturing, we are reshoring the chemistries the country depends on most.
Simon Kucher – Gold Sponsor
Sponsored by Simon Kucher is a global consultancy with more than 2,000 employees in 30+ countries. Our sole focus is on unlocking better growth that drives measurable revenue and profit for our clients. We achieve this by optimizing every lever of their commercial strategy – product, price, innovation, marketing, and sales – based on deep insights into what customers want and value. With 40 years of experience in monetization topics of all kinds, we are regarded as the world’s leading pricing and growth specialist.
Solstice – Gold Sponsor
Powered by some of the brightest minds in our industry, Solstice Advanced Materials is a leading specialty materials company that advances science to achieve smarter outcomes with high-performance solutions across refrigerants, semiconductor materials, protective fibers, healthcare packaging, and more. Backed by deep technical expertise across critical industries, we are recognized as a global market leader that partners with customers to solve complex challenges in high-value applications.
The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates® (SOCMA) – Gold Sponsor
The Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates® (SOCMA) empowers our members with the latest industry knowledge, an unparalleled peer network, highly customized resources and dedicated technical and professional staff. SOCMA supports and fosters the growth of the specialty chemical industry by delivering legislative and regulatory advocacy, promoting the highest levels of safety, and strengthening business intelligence and manufacturing operations.
Veson Nautical – Silver Sponsor
Veson Nautical empowers the global maritime industry to navigate complexity and make confident, competitive decisions. Veson’s platform combines AI-driven workflows, trusted data, and seamless collaboration to deliver clarity across the freight contract lifecycle—from pre-fixture to post-voyage. Shaped by decades of innovation and partnership, Veson serves more than 38,000 users across 2,400 organizations in over 100 countries, enabling clients to manage risk and turn complexity into advantage.
Meraki International – Silver Sponsor
Sponsored by Meraki International is a leading business consulting firm that partners with clients to achieve their strategic goals. With a focus on executive leadership coaching, corporate change, and business development, Meraki offers tailored solutions to address complex challenges and drive growth. By providing expert guidance, tools, and strategies, Meraki empowers businesses and individuals to navigate today’s dynamic business landscape and achieve sustainable success.
Grace Matthews – Bronze Sponsor
Grace Matthews is a leading provider of middle market transaction advisory services for manufacturers, distributors, and service providers in the chemicals, specialty materials and life sciences value chain. Over the past 25 years, Grace Matthews has successfully completed more than 150 transactions on behalf of private companies, private equity firms, and large foreign or U.S.-based multi-nationals. Grace Matthews’ deep industry knowledge, M&A execution skills, and global network of industry contacts are key differentiators that drive success on engagements across the entire chemical and materials science industry.
Pilot Chemical Company – Bronze Sponsor
Pilot Chemical Company is a privately owned and independent global specialty chemical manufacturer providing high-quality products and services to the personal care; household, industrial and institutional (HI&I); metalworking and lubricants; oilfield; and emulsion polymerization industries. Its proprietary core technologies involve alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation and a number of other specialty operations, including the production of biocides and cGMP products. Pilot, an industry leader in chemical innovation and safety, owns the most state-of-the-art continuous sulfation process in North America, is a leader in quaternary ammonium compounds, and is the world’s largest manufacturer of disulfonates. Pilot is certified under both ISO 9001:2015 and the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® program. Pilot is headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, with additional sites located in Ohio, Texas, New Jersey, and Mexico.
First American Equipment Finance – Coffee Break Sponsor
First American Equipment Finance, headquartered in Rochester, NY, is a wholly owned subsidiary of City National Bank, an RBC company, and ranks among the largest equipment finance providers in the United States. We deliver equipment financing solutions to thousands of commercial borrowers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
First American’s Life Sciences division has served cutting-edge organizations for over a decade. This specialized expertise enables us to understand the industry’s unique challenges and develop customized financing solutions for mission-critical investments.
Whether you are acquiring advanced equipment, upgrading technology, or implementing new systems, our financing programs are tailored to support your growth objectives by improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing profitability.
Mayer Brown – Breakfast Sponsor
Mayer Brown is a full-service law firm positioned to represent the world’s major corporations in their most important and complex transactions and disputes. We are recognized for delivering top-level legal advice and seamless and integrated service across all practices, products, regions and industries. Our dedicated Global Chemical Industry Group comprises over 80 lawyers with first-hand knowledge of the sector’s key technical, operational, strategic and commercial dimensions, enabling us to develop legal and commercial strategies that match the realities of the chemical industry. We assist our chemical clients in a wide range of transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution matters, including M&A, joint ventures and other complex transactions, mass torts, product liability, environmental and commercial litigation, chemical regulatory compliance, antitrust and competition, risk management, investigations and compliance, government and international trade, intellectual property and tax concerns.