Donald T. Pine

Chemtan President

President's Message

May 2021

What a difference a year can make since April 2020. Chemtan has survived the 2020 Covid 19 Pandemic still standing and operational. I cannot say we thrived, but we learned some lessons and became a stronger more resilient company. But now we face an even bigger challenge from the unexpected rapid increase in demand countered with empty supply chains, a flurry of relenting price increases from raw materials, freight rates, and packaging costs to the chilling impact of shortages forcing Force de Majeures following the Texas Ice storms last month, further diminishing the prospects of meeting customer expectations for delivery of goods.

Our silver lining is the optimism that things will get better and hopefully by end of this summer the market challenges we face will begin to soften.

We face each day one at a time with continued resolve for finding the best solutions for problems we never faced before, and on a scale which is world- wide.

It is our hope as the vaccines on the market become more available and are administered into the far reaches of the world it will be fast enough to overtake the mutations generated and slowly rid this world of the pandemic which has turned our world upside down.

To those many who have lost loved ones our hearts and prayers go out to you. We have become closer as a world by learning that humanity suffers in the same ways, but also can be united in the belief that a better day will come.

Respectfully,
Donald Pine