Industries Served

Barentz serves customers across multiple industries including Human & Animal Nutrition, Personal Care, CASE & Plastics, Household Care, Industrial & Institutional Cleaning, Pharmaceuticals, and Specialty Intermediates. This includes customers that manufacture products from cosmetics to automotive coatings, plastic bottles to craft brews, pharmaceuticals to computer chips. Our commercial teams are segmented by and dedicated to end markets, providing specialization and pinpoint focus. We understand our markets and have tenured specialists in place to be able to provide solutions.

Our Heritage

A powerful blend of knowledge, entrepreneurship and partnership

Our story begins in Amsterdam with a real entrepreneur: Herman Barentz. The values and the heritage of our founder still inspire us every day.

Leadership Team

One team, one goal, one Barentz

At Barentz, our unique team spirit is derived from our shared passion for knowledge of the challenges that our customers face and finding solutions for them. We can achieve this optimally when every single member of our team feels respected, included, and heard – when all our colleagues can be themselves, using their entrepreneurial skills and giving their all to their work every day.

Corporate Social Responsibility

EcoVadis' Gold Level CSR Rating

Barentz North America, a leading distributor of life science ingredients and specialty chemicals across North America, is proud to announce that it has been granted Gold Level recognition from EcoVadis for its Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) program. This is the sixth consecutive year in which Barentz North America has received EcoVadis certification for its leading ESG program.

The Barentz Difference

Deep technical knowledge, broad portfolio

You can count on us. We have a proven track record executed via a professional sales and service organization that our customers trust. We focus on exceeding their needs with consistent products, consistent delivery, and consistent supply by leveraging four decades of global sourcing and logistics expertise. We thrive on creating success for our customers by partnering with world-class manufacturers, delivering exceptional service, and supplying consistent products on time … and we have the statistics to prove it.