Company Overview ebizchem Inc. is the world's largest global Internet exchange for chemicals and plastics. It provides the only real-time window on the entire market for all types of chemicals and plastics, enabling companies to convert product needs, surpluses and shortages into instant trading offers that reach a global market.

Every day, buyers and sellers of petrochemicals, plastics and polymers, basic industrial chemicals, fine and specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemical from around the world, meet online, in real time, to conduct business. ebizchem brings together three user communities: suppliers of chemicals and plastics, buyers who use chemicals and plastics in manufacturing operations, and intermediaries who assist clients in buying and selling chemicals and plastics.

More people from more companies around the world are using the World Chemical Exchange. In fact, many of our members use it daily. They've learned through experience it's just a better way to buy and sell. Members of the World Chemical Exchange gain access to new markets, profit from reduced transaction costs, and obtain up-to-the-minute market information. Members find trading partners, negotiate pricing, and complete transactions efficiently and effectively.

Along with real-time access to supply and demand information, ebizchem offers extensive online information resources, including a daily news wire service, a monthly newsletter about e-commerce, coverage of industry events, and a reference library. ebizchem also offers My ebizchem, a personalized home page where you can monitor the World Chemical Exchange and industry market activity. Founded in 1995 by John Beasley and Jay Hall, ebizchem's first offering was an online suppliers directory. In 1997, they expanded the services to include online transactions between buyers and sellers.

In 1997, John and Jay joined forces with Patrick van der Valk, founder of BetaCyte, to expand the company's services. Key to this expansion was the ebizchem Classifieds, an online bulletin board where users placed ads to buy and sell chemicals. Billions of dollars of chemical transactions were hosted through the Classifieds. Its success spurred the development of the World Chemical Exchange, which debuted in July 1999. Today, the World Chemical Exchange hosts transactions between thousands of members and companies in over 103 countries. In early 1999, the company relocated to San Francisco. Today, ebizchem has more than 100 employees with offices in San Francisco, Houston, Philadelphia, London, and Singapore.