Pilot Chemical Company: Manufacturer of the Month October 2024

What roles are most critical to meeting your production needs?

Our frontline workers - Chemical Operators, Maintenance Mechanics, and Quality Control Lab Technicians are most critical to meeting our production needs. They have the biggest impact on our manufacturing success and are best positioned to anticipate and avoid operational issues to ensure we meet our customer commitments. These employees also have firsthand insights on how we can improve our unit operations and advance our safety, productivity, and quality performance.

What do you love most about the greater Cincinnati region?

Pilot Chemical has been rooted in the greater Cincinnati region since the early 1960s. This region has so much to offer our employees — from major league sports to acclaimed universities and world- class arts and culture, dining, and entertainment. The greater Cincinnati region is a vibrant place to raise a family and grow your career. The area is also home to a diverse and growing business community that includes a number of industry giants in personal care, household goods and manufacturing, among others.

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Location:

Hamilton: Lockland Plant; Sharonville Technical & Innovation Center

Butler: Middletown Plant; West Chester Headquarters

What does your business create?

At Pilot Chemical, we take pride in being a privately owned and independent global specialty chemical manufacturer that provides quick-and-nimble capabilities and high-quality customer service to fulfill our customers’ needs. Pilot Chemical is an industry leader in chemical innovation and safety. Our surfactants, antimicrobials and disinfectants are found in a wide range of applications across industries including household, industrial, and institutional (HI&I); personal care; metalworking and lubricants; oilfield; and emulsion polymerization. Our proprietary core technologies involve alkylation, sulfonation, sulfation and a number of other specialty operations, including the production of biocides and cGMP products. Pilot is certified under both ISO 9001:2015 and the American Chemistry Council’s Responsible Care® program and holds a silver-medal rating with EcoVadis for sustainability. With 70+ years of experience, our experts provide the guidance and insight our customers need to select the right sulfonates, sulfates, surfactants, and more specialty chemicals for their businesses.

What makes you proud to be in the manufacturing industry?

As an industry leader in chemical innovation and the world’s largest manufacturer of disulfonates, we combine ingenuity and science, using our know-how as chemists and engineers to create the essential building blocks of high-performance products. We take pride knowing our products are used in applications that help improve lives by keeping people clean and safe.

What career path opportunities can be pursued at your company?

Fostering a work environment where everyone is safe, heard and feels proud to work for the company is part of our culture. At Pilot Chemical, our employees can grow their careers with us both vertically and laterally. We empower our employees to take the lead in charting their career journey and encourage team members to take on new challenges and mentor those around them. We have had employees start at a manufacturing plant as a Chemical Operator and work their way up into positions on our corporate logistics teams, where they coordinate production planning across multiple manufacturing facilities to optimize our overall output. Their experience in operating our production units provides these individuals with a unique understanding of the constraints and capabilities of our manufacturing plants. For example, we have former Chemical Operators currently fulfilling corporate roles such as Master Supply Planning Leader, Warehouse Planner, and Procurement Specialist. We’ve had other individuals begin their careers as Laboratory Technicians and move on to Chemist and Engineering roles at the plant and corporate levels before moving into manager-level roles on our corporate Technical and Quality teams.