About Merichem Company

1945

John T. Files & associates purchased a small chemical company (M&M Chemicals)

1947

Filed the papers to officially change company name to Merichem Company

1948

Merichem bought a plant to produce cresylic acids and sodium sulfides near the Houston Ship Channel

1957

Merged with Jefferson Lake Sulfur Company (in 1963 Occidental Petroleum acquired Jefferson Lake)

1965

John T. Files and Merichem employees bought back the cresylic acid and sodium sulfide plants from Occidental, which established a new Merichem Company

1970

Operations and production of cresylic acids are doubled as an outlet for co-products and a dependable environmental service company supported by the refining companies

1972

Merichem purchased its first barge of new barge fleet

1974

Merichem formed Process Technology Division (PTD)

1975

Merichem developed a patented FIBER-FILM® extraction process, resulting in 500 licensed fuels purification units in 40 countries

1976

John T. Files Technical Center in Houston, TX was acquired for research in order to develop new products and processes

1979

Became world leader of pure cresols and domestic producer of cresylic acid

1983

Purchased chemical processing plant on Black Warrior River (BWR) in Alabama, to produce high quality naphthenic acid for refinery co-products

1989

Merichem purchased an office and fabrication shop in Houston, TX where it consolidated its PTD engineering, equipment, fabrication and sales businesses

1994

The Board approved a significant capacity increase for high purity cresols in cresylic acid

1997

Restructured Merichem's operating unit by forming Merichem Chemicals & Refinery Services LLC (MCRS)

Formed a 50/50 joint venture phenolics business, Merisol with Sasol

2001

MCRS acquired Gas Technology Products (GTP) which serves the natural gas industry

2004

MCRS executed the first of what would become a series of large upstream projects in its PTD division

2005

Research, Development and Engineering executed a reorganization that revitalized its research organization and shifted its focus to new proprietary technologies

2007

Merichem's Board authorized a barge construction program to modernize fleet

2009

MCRS opened office in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in order to serve growing customer base