About HeiQ ChemTex

Special Formulations – Small Batches – Fast Turnaround

We can support you “from reaction flask to tank truck”.

Developer and Manufacturer since 1983

HeiQ ChemTex develops and manufactures specialty chemicals for the carpet, textiles, paper, coated fabrics, oil field recovery and specialty surfactants industries.

We maintain a full-service research and development staff with capabilities from organic and inorganic synthesis to custom formulating.

HeiQ ChemTex, with operations in Concord, North Carolina and Calhoun, Georgia, is poised to service focus industry demands “just in time” throughout the Southeast USA.

1974: We were established as Chem-Tex Chemical Corporation, a specialty textile chemical manufacturing firm servicing all segments of the textile industry.

1983: We started operation as Chem-Tex Laboratories.

2017: Chem-Tex Laboratories and HeiQ  (Switzerland) have concluded a merger leveraging the proven strengths of each company to form HeiQ ChemTex Inc. and create a world-class integrated global supplier of textile and carpet effect chemicals.

Specialty Products Manufactured

  • Amide Oxides
  • Sulfosuccinamides
  • Sulfates
  • Polyacrylates
  • Sulfosuccinates
  • Betains
  • Specialty Emulsifiers
  • Phosphate Esters
  • Starch-based Processing Aids
  • Starch-based Adhesives
  • Water-based Adhesives

Focus Industries

  • Carpet
  • Textiles–Dyeing & Finishing, Coated Fabrics
  • Recycled Paper
  • Surfactants for Polymer Manufacturing

In-House Process Capacity

Concord, North Carolina

  • 6,500 Gallon Pressure Reactor
  • 5,000 Gallon Pressure Reactor
  • 1,200 Gallon Pressure Reactor with Condenser
  • 500 Gallon Pressure Reactor
  • 150 Gallon Pressure Reactor with Condenser
  • 500-6000 Gallon Mixing Vessels
  • 400 Gallon 25 HP Eppenbach Mixer
  • 122,850 Gallon Fully Contained Liquid Raw Material-Finished Product Storage
  • 25,896 Square Foot Manufacturing Facility

Calhoun, Georgia

  • 6,600 Gallon Pressure Reactor
  • 6,600 Gallon Pressure Reactor
  • 5,000 Gallon Mixing Tank
  • 3,000 Gallon Mixing Tank
  • 2,000 Gallon Mixing Tank
  • 188,100 Gallon Fully Contained Raw Material-Finished Product Storage
  • 29,476 Square Feet Manufacturing Facility