RawSource® is a global chemical supply partner specializing in the sourcing, distribution, and formulation support of bulk industrial chemicals and specialty ingredients. Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, we serve manufacturers, formulators, and distributors across every major industrial and consumer market — from oil and gas to personal care to agriculture.
We are not a traditional chemical distributor. RawSource operates as a strategic supply chain partner — one that can locate hard-to-find materials, replace discontinued products, reverse-engineer formulations, blend custom solutions, and manage global logistics on your behalf. Our model is built on flexibility, depth of sourcing, and long-term reliability.
Whether you are scaling production and need stocked bulk inventory, or you are working on a complex reformulation challenge, RawSource brings the global network, technical knowledge, and operational infrastructure to meet your requirements.
To simplify and strengthen the chemical supply chain for manufacturers and formulators worldwide by providing access to quality materials, global sourcing expertise, and value-added services that help customers build better products, reduce risk, and scale with confidence.
RawSource was founded on a straightforward observation: the chemical distribution industry was fragmented, opaque, and often ill-equipped to serve the real complexity of modern industrial procurement. Sourcing decisions were slowed by limited supplier networks, poor visibility into global supply, and distributors who prioritized volume over partnership.
We built RawSource to be different. From the beginning, we invested in building deep sourcing relationships across global chemical markets — in Asia, Europe, the Americas, and the Middle East — allowing us to offer our customers stocked supply on common materials and global reach for specialty or hard-to-source inputs. We layered in technical capabilities: formulation support, reverse engineering, custom blending, and quality review — so we could serve not just as a product supplier but as a true partner in development and manufacturing.
Today, RawSource supports clients across nine major market segments, with a product portfolio spanning silicones, surfactants, solvents, amines, polymers, and dozens of additional chemical families. Our team combines commercial expertise with technical knowledge, giving our customers access to both the supply and the science they need.
We maintain stocked inventory of the chemicals and ingredients our customers use most frequently, and we sustain active supplier relationships across global production markets. When a material is difficult to source — due to supply disruptions, regional shortages, manufacturer discontinuation, or specification requirements — our sourcing team leverages its global network to find a solution.
We work with hundreds of approved suppliers across multiple geographies, and we continuously evaluate new sources to ensure we can offer competitive pricing, consistent quality, and supply security.
Many of our customers come to us with a formulation challenge: a discontinued product that must be replaced, a performance requirement that existing products cannot meet, or a cost target that requires reformulation. RawSource provides formulation development and reverse engineering support to address exactly these challenges.
Our technical team works with customers to understand performance specifications, regulatory requirements, and processing constraints, then develops or identifies the chemical solutions that meet those requirements. We can match discontinued products, optimize existing formulations, and support scale-up from lab through commercial production.
Where standard products are insufficient, RawSource offers custom blending and chemical customization services. We blend silicone systems, surfactant concentrates, solvent mixtures, and other chemical systems to customer specification, providing a single-source solution that eliminates multi-supplier complexity from your supply chain.
Custom blended products are produced with full documentation, quality testing, and compliant Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and can be packaged to your preferred format — from lab quantities through bulk drum or tote delivery.
We manage the full logistics of chemical procurement, including import and export documentation, customs compliance, hazmat shipping requirements, and last-mile delivery coordination. Our logistics team is experienced in both domestic and international chemical shipping, including materials subject to DOT, IATA, and IMDG classifications.
We offer flexible packaging formats — from pails and drums to totes and bulk tanker quantities — and we work with customers to structure delivery schedules that support their production planning.
Every material we source undergoes quality review against specification before release. We provide Certificates of Analysis (COA), Safety Data Sheets (SDS), and technical data sheets for all products we supply, and our technical team is available to support formulation questions, compatibility assessments, and regulatory inquiries.
We are committed to providing materials that perform — and to standing behind what we supply.
RawSource supplies chemical inputs across a broad range of industrial and consumer-facing markets. Our customers span the full value chain — from raw material producers to contract manufacturers to branded product companies.
We supply coagulants, flocculants, disinfectants, scale inhibitors, and pH adjustment chemicals for municipal, industrial, and process water treatment applications. Our water treatment portfolio supports both potable water systems and industrial effluent and process streams.
We supply antifoams, gas sweetening amines, corrosion inhibitors, emulsifiers, and process chemicals for upstream extraction, midstream processing, and downstream refining operations. Our oil and gas portfolio is designed for the operational demands of field use, including performance at temperature, pressure, and chemical compatibility requirements specific to hydrocarbon processing.
We supply resins, solvents, film-forming agents, pigment dispersants, rheology modifiers, and functional additives for architectural, industrial, and protective coatings. Our construction chemistry portfolio includes concrete admixtures, sealant components, adhesive raw materials, and waterproofing agents.
We supply base chemicals, process aids, and functional additives for industrial manufacturing applications including metalworking fluids, release agents, cleaning compounds, and equipment maintenance chemicals. Our lubricant raw materials include base fluids, extreme pressure (EP) additives, and viscosity modifiers for industrial, automotive, and marine lubricant formulation.
We supply finishing agents, softeners, waterproofing compounds, and process chemicals for textile manufacturing operations. Our textile chemistry portfolio supports woven, knit, and nonwoven fabrics across apparel, technical, and home textile applications.
We supply crop protection adjuvants, surfactants, emulsifiers, and specialty inputs for agrochemical formulation, as well as micronutrient and biostimulant inputs for crop nutrition applications. Our agricultural chemistry portfolio supports both conventional and biological crop protection formulation.
We supply silicones, esters, emollients, surfactants, emulsifiers, thickeners, preservatives, and active ingredients for skin care, hair care, color cosmetics, and personal care formulation. Our cosmetic ingredients portfolio includes both functional and performance actives, with sourcing support for specialty and biotechnology-derived ingredients.
We supply surfactants, solvents, chelating agents, biocides, enzymes, and formulation aids for household cleaners, industrial degreasers, institutional disinfectants, and automotive care products. Our HI&I portfolio supports formulation across hard surface, laundry, dishwashing, and specialty cleaning applications.
We supply polymer resins, processing additives, plasticizers, stabilizers, and compounding ingredients for plastic manufacturing and polymer processing applications. This includes polyolefins, engineering resins, elastomers, and specialty polymer systems for demanding technical applications.
RawSource sources and supplies across a comprehensive range of chemical product families:
Fluids, emulsions, gums, resins, and reactive silane coupling agents for industrial formulation, coating, and surface treatment applications.
Anionic, cationic, nonionic, and amphoteric surfactants for formulation in cleaning, personal care, agriculture, and industrial applications.
Industrial solvents, glycol ethers, and process media for coatings, cleaning, and chemical processing.
Primary, secondary, and tertiary amines, alkanolamines, and chemical intermediates for synthesis and formulation across industrial and specialty markets.
Base polymer materials including acrylics, epoxies, polyurethane systems, and specialty resins for industrial and consumer product applications.
Polyether and polyester polyols, MDI, TDI, and HDI isocyanates for polyurethane foam, coating, and adhesive formulation.
Functional additives including defoamers, wetting agents, dispersants, thickeners, biocides, and performance modifiers for formulation optimization.
Organic and inorganic acids for industrial processes, water treatment, food contact, and specialty chemical applications.
Fatty alcohols, glycols, and specialty alcohol raw materials for cosmetics, cleaning, coatings, and chemical synthesis.
Synthetic and natural esters for lubricant, cosmetic, and industrial application.
Sodium-based salts and inorganic chemicals for water treatment, cleaning, and industrial process applications.
Flexible and impact-modified polymer systems for plastic compounding and rubber formulation.
Our global supplier network means we can locate and price materials faster than most procurement teams working independently. We have established relationships on six continents and active supplier qualification processes that continuously expand our sourcing reach.
We are not just logistics. Our technical team can engage with your formulation challenges, help you evaluate material options, and support your product development process with hands-on expertise.
We hold inventory of high-velocity materials and maintain backup sourcing options for critical raw materials — so our customers are not left exposed when primary supply is disrupted.
Every material we supply is accompanied by appropriate regulatory documentation: SDS, COA, technical data sheets, and any required import/export documentation. We support our customers' regulatory compliance processes, not just their procurement.
We work across package sizes from lab quantities to bulk tanker, and we structure our commercial relationships to fit your procurement model — spot, blanket order, consignment, or VMI.
Our goal is to be the chemical supplier you call first, whether you need a routine reorder, a technical opinion, or help solving a difficult sourcing problem. We measure our success by our customers' confidence in their supply chain.
RawSource is committed to operating in compliance with all applicable regulations governing the sale and distribution of industrial chemicals and ingredients. This includes compliance with:
Customers with specific compliance requirements — including conflict minerals, food safety, pharmaceutical, or export control — are encouraged to contact our team directly to discuss documentation and certification support.
RawSource's team brings together commercial, technical, and logistics expertise built across decades of experience in the chemical industry. Our people have backgrounds in chemical engineering, industrial chemistry, supply chain management, regulatory affairs, and global trade — giving us the cross-functional capability to serve customers across the full complexity of their procurement and formulation needs.
We are a lean, responsive organization — which means the people you work with are the people making decisions, not intermediaries navigating internal bureaucracy. We move quickly, communicate directly, and stay accountable to our customers throughout the sourcing and delivery process.
We welcome inquiries from manufacturers, formulators, distributors, and procurement teams across any of the market segments we serve. Whether you need a bulk quote on a stocked material, help sourcing a specialty input, or want to explore a formulation project, our team is ready to engage.
RawSource Inc.
515 E Las Olas Boulevard, Suite 1301
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
United States