Pennakem LLC

Pennakem provides full service-manufacturing, pilot facilities, R&D, and worldwide sales and marketing, all focusing on renewable chemistry while developing new and innovative products and processes for customers. Pennakem continues to operate as an autonomous business unit with full service manufacturing, pilot facilities, R&D, and worldwide sales and marketing, all focusing on renewable chemistry while developing new and innovative products and processes for customers. Pennakem is well-equipped and highly capable of executing a wide variety of hydrogenation projects. Pennakem’s line of bio-based products provide performance benefits in our customer’s products & processes. Pennakem can help you meet your performance and sustainability goals with our broad portfolio. The original production facilities in Memphis, Tennessee USA were built by the US Government in 1943 and operated by Quaker Oats. Great Lakes Chemical continued to develop the furfural-based product line and built dedicated facilities to produce Polytetramethylene Glycol (or PTMEG, brand name PolyMEG®), a polymer of tetrahydrofuran used in polyurethane rubber and Spandex® fibers. During this period, the company began to focus on high-value intermediates used in agri, pharma, and other industrial applications.