AQUACHEMIE: SKYROCKETING SUCCESS IN THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY!

Subrato and his co-founder Anand Kumar Varadharajulu established AquaChemie, a leader in the chemical manufacturing, sales and services sphere, having gained years of experience at the likes of GE, ExxonMobil, Sabic, and Shell.

Established in 2009, AquaChemie has seen significant growth, particularly between 2020 and 2022 where it saw 45% growth year on year.

Today, the business employs over 200 people, operates three manufacturing units in UAE, KSA, and Qatar, and supports customers across eight countries in the GCC countries, Iraq and India.

Taking their experience from multinational companies such as GE, Subrato and Anand have developed their own style of leadership.

“We believe in leading from the front, supporting our team and encouraging and empowering them,” shared Anand.

“As the company grows our colleagues have the opportunity to grow too. We have retained a majority of our staff since 2009, and many that have left have returned,” added Subrato, “we benchmark our benefits and packages against the leading players in the industry”.

Proudly Customer Focussed

AquaChemie supports a range of sectors including both upstream and downstream oil and gas, construction, paints and coatings, and fertiliser and agriculture.

The business can supply a variety of chemicals including organic and inorganic hydrocarbons, aromatic solvents, alcohols, chlorinated solvent, additives, and oilfield chemicals, to name just a few.

In addition, the speciality chemicals company offers support services such as sulfiding services for hydro-processing catalysts, entire supply chain contracts, analytical services, and waste disposal.

AquaChemie’s USP is that it combines both experienced management with technical understanding, giving it the ability to “speak the customer’s language”. “We pride ourselves on both our reliability and availability,” said Anand, with AquaChemie supporting its customers 24/7, 365.

“Our customers work around the clock, and downtime can be incredibly expensive, so we must support them around the clock too,” he continued, “we are considered partners to our customers rather than suppliers”

AquaChemie believes that its customers are buying performance not a chemical, and so it provides added value by offering further insight such as benchmarking.

From 2020 onwards, industries worldwide have faced significant supply chain issues, which AquaChemie have been able to overcome for its customers.

“Despite the challenges we were able to supply our customers on time throughout the pandemic and onwards. We saw fantastic opportunities to support new customers during this time which optimised our growth,” said Subrato. AquaChemie also works in partnership with its customers on sustainable initiatives, supplying green chemicals for turnaround decontamination of equipment, and has a team dedicated to this area. As well as supplying green chemicals, it supports customers in reducing the CO2 produced by the chemicals used.

A Groundbreaking New Terminal

The business has also been able to implement sustainable measures into the state-of-the-art environmental design of its new chemical terminal at Jebel Ali Port. The terminal serves as a hub to boost the petrochemical trade in the region and outside.

Amongst its features are dedicated API pumps for ship back loading, tanker truck loading, drum filling and inter tank transfers, five semi-automatic drum filling machines and a processing and