Chattem Chemicals, Inc. manufactures a variety of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and performance chemicals used in consumer and industrial markets. Our products are used world-wide in an extensive range of custom formulated products and industrial applications such as chemical and pharmaceutical intermediates; as rheology modifiers in the printing ink, coating and grease and lubricant industries; as food additives; and as proprietary catalysts and/or catalyst carriers and components in chemical foaming and acid scavenger formulations for the plastics industry.