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The Seydel Companies, Inc.

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Type
  
Public

Website
  
Seydel.com

Founded
  
1907

Area served
  
Worldwide

Headquarters
  
Pendergrass

Number of employees
  
50

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Industry
  
chemicals, manufacturing

Key people
  
Scott O. Seydel (President)

The Seydel Companies, Inc. is a producer of specialty chemicals used primarily in the textile and apparel, paper and packaging, personal care, agriculture, and metalworking industries. Seydel-Woolley & Co., Chemol Company, Seydel International, and JRS Manufacturing are the four companies comprising the whole of Seydel.

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It is currently based in Pendergrass, Georgia.

History

The Seydel Companies, Inc. was founded by brothers Herman and Paul B. Seydel in 1907 under the name Seydel Chemicals The company relocated to New Jersey in 1910, then expanded into West Virginia in 1919. The Seydel-Thomas Company was formed in Atlanta by Paul B. Seydel in 1923, which soon became Seydel-Wooley & Company in 1924. After World War II, Paul V. Seydel authored the book Textile Warp Sizing, a widely used industry textbook. In 1963, John R. Seydel expanded the company to include toll manufacturing, merged with the AZ Products, and launched Seydel International to export products globally. In 1966, the Seydel Companies acquired Chemol Company, Inc.

Awards

The Seydel Companies, Inc. has repeatedly won the Environmental Protection Agency's Waste Wise Partner of the Year Award

List of Awards:

  • EPA’s Waste Wise Small Business Partner of the Year: 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006
  • Waste Wise EPA Climate Change Program Champion, 2002
  • Waste Wise EPA Small Business Program Champion, 2002
  • The Boy Scouts of America Environmental Award 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003
  • The Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Fast Tech 50 Award 1990-2001
  • The Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, Large Business of the Year, 2006

    • Community Involvement

    The Seydel Companies, Inc. is involved with the following community efforts:

  • Jackson County Business Association
  • Jackson County Chamber of Commerce
  • Georgia Chamber of Commerce
  • Jefferson IDA
  • Athletic Team Sponsorships and Booster Clubs
  • Partners in Education
  • Georgia Special Olympics
  • Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepers

    • References

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