GFS Chemicals Inc
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Formerly called
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G. Frederick Smith Chemical Company |
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| Founded | 1924 in Urbana, Illinois, USA |
| Founder | G. Frederick Smith |
| Headquarters | Powell, Ohio, USA |
| Website | www |
GFS Chemicals Inc, formerly known as G. Frederick Smith Chemical Company, is a privately owned specialty chemical company with headquarters in Powell, Ohio and manufacturing facilities in Columbus, Ohio. It was founded by G. Frederick Smith in Urbana, Illinois in 1924, and moved to Ohio in 1928.
GFS Chemicals currently serves over seventy countries and a variety of industries, including: Alternative energy; energy storage; pharmaceuticals; biotechnology; electronics; etching; and environmental and research analytics. The company has approximately 100 employees. Its various divisions are managed by three separate units: Organic Specialty Materials, Inorganic Specialty Materials, and Analytical Reagents & Research Chemicals Catalog Division.
The Smith Chemical Company was started in G. Frederick Smith’s garage in Urbana, Illinois as a result of his use of magnesium perchlorate as a super drying agent. Smith enlisted the help of his brothers Allyne (who studied engineering at Ohio State) and Clarence (who worked for a local newspaper).
Orders quickly outpaced their ability to fill them. In 1928 G. Frederick Smith Chemical Company moved to Columbus, Ohio on McKinley Avenue, and began to sell magnesium perchlorate under the trade name "Dehydrite" for A.H. Thomas Co., later Thomas Scientific. G. Frederick Smith Chemical Company would become one of the leading perchloric acid and perchlorate salt producers in the world.
University of Illinois graduate student Charles Getz, in an attempt to store milk anaerobically to prevent spoilage, accidentally invents the world's first aerosol dispensed product, instant whipped cream. He and G.F. Smith found nitrous oxide to be the most suitable gas and started the Aerated Products Company, later known as Instantwhip. The company was later turned over to G.F. Smith’s son Clifton, although Getz would retain the patent.
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