AAK (formerly California Oils)

AAK is a leading provider of value-adding vegetable oils and fats for the bakery, chocolate and confectionery industries, with more than 140 years of experience. With AAK, you have an experienced partner working side-by-side with you to solve your specific formulation challenges.

AAK prides itself on providing value-adding vegetable oil solutions in close collaboration with our customers.

Categories: ManufacturingRaw Materials

1145 Harbour Way S.
Richmond, CA 94804 U.S.

Website

510-233-7660

AC Transit

The Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District (AC Transit) is the third-largest public bus system in California, serving 13 cities and adjacent unincorporated areas in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. AC Transit has been serving the East Bay since 1960, taking over from the Key System and its predecessors, which carried passengers via buses, horse-drawn rail, electric streetcars, and ferries over the previous 100 years. AC Transit’s mission is to connect our communities with safe, reliable, sustainable service … we’ll get you there.

Categories: Transportation

1500 Franklin Street
Oakland, CA 94612 United States

Website

510-891-4777

Allied Propane Service

Founded in 1967, Allied Propane Service has provided a broad range of services to customers in the Northern California Bay Area for over 40 years, with facilities in Napa, Richmond and Dixon.
Our staff lives in the same communities they serve, and understands the needs you have as a propane user. This knowledge and relationship helps us to maintain our position as a front-runner in the local propane industry.
A family-owned business, Allied has a long history of community support and participation, as well as an ongoing corporate commitment to providing an energy-efficient fuel source and preferred propane supplier for area residents and businesses.
Allied offers the green and cost-efficient benefits of propane for most energy needs including:

  • Residential — heating, kitchen appliances, water heating, outdoor heating and cooking, pool heating
  • Commercial — forklift cylinder exchange, stand-by temporary systems
  • Agricultural — frost protection, sustainable weed control, and crop drying for vineyards, farms, orchards and ranches
  • Construction — temporary boilers, generators, heat and lighting; fuel piping design and installation

Categories: Raw Materials

5000 Seaport Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804 

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Auto Warehousing Co.

Auto Warehousing Co. has over 50 years of experience providing the services, installation, and logistic needs of our customers.  From our customers to our associates, all are treated fairly, equally, and with respect.  We believe in empowering our managers, thus allowing them to react quickly to our customers’ needs. AWC continually embrace new technology allowing us to further increase efficiency and responsiveness to our customers’ needs. Continuing education and training is a priority at AWC, so our customers can reap the benefit of the most skilled workforce available.

Categories: Transportation

1311 Canal Blvd.
Richmond, CA 94804 

Website

800-446-0221

BNSF Railway

BNSF Railway is one of North America’s leading freight transportation companies, with a rail network of 32,500 route miles in 28 states and three Canadian provinces. BNSF is one of the top transporters of the products and materials that help feed, clothe, supply and power communities throughout America and the world. BNSF moves those goods more safely and efficiently, on significantly less fuel, with fewer emissions than the all-highway alternative.

Agricultural Products
• In 2018, BNSF hauled 1.2 million carloads of agricultural commodities
• BNSF moves enough grain to supply 900 million people with a year’s supply of bread Consumer Products
• In 2018, 5.3 million intermodal shipments (truck trailers or containers) were transported on BNSF’s rail lines instead of on the nation’s congested highways
• A new car or truck is loaded/unloaded onto a BNSF automobile train approximately every 11 seconds
• BNSF has 1.3 million feet of track in intermodal facilities alone. If spread end to end, it would be the length of 9 ½ Boston Marathons

Industrial Products
• In 2018, BNSF hauled 2 million carloads of industrial products
• In 2018, BNSF moved more industrial products railcars than the entire population of Nebraska
• BNSF hauls enough asphalt to lay a single lane road two times around the equator
Coal
• In 2018, BNSF hauled 1.9 million coal shipments
• BNSF hauls enough coal to power one of every 12 homes in the nation

Categories: Transportation

303 S. Garrard Blvd.
Richmond, CA 94801 

Website

https://www.bnsf.com/

Brenntag

Brenntag North America is part of the Brenntag Group , which entered the chemical distribution business in 1912. Brenntag has successfully expanded to become the world market leader in full-line chemical and ingredient distribution.

ESTABLISHED BUSINESS IN THE UNITED STATES & CANADA

Our U.S. business was established in the 1970’s and the Canadian business in 2000, expanding our business by acquiring strategically placed distributors across North America.

From the first expansion beyond Germany in 1966, through the entry into the U.S. market in the early 1970’s, to their accelerated growth worldwide throughout the past two decades, much of the growth has been enabled by selective acquisitions in key growth areas around the world.

Categories: Raw Materials

860 Wharf St.
Richmond, CA 94804 

Website

510-970-7540

Chemtrade Solutions LLC

Chemtrade operates a diversified business providing industrial chemicals and services to customers in North America and around the world. Chemtrade is one of North America’s largest suppliers of sulfuric acid, spent acid processing services, inorganic coagulants for water treatment, liquid sulfur dioxide, sodium nitrite, sodium hydrosulfite and phosphorus pentasulfide. Chemtrade is a leading regional supplier of sulfur, sodium chlorate, potassium chloride, and zinc oxide. Chemtrade obtains these products from its own production facilities and through long-term marketing services agreements and distributes them to customers around the world. Additionally, Chemtrade provides industrial services such as processing hydrogen sulfide and other by-products and waste streams.

Our business model is intended to mitigate the effect that changes in commodity prices and volumes could have on our earnings. This is achieved through:

Contractual provisions;
Competitive position; or
Product or service differentiation in the market place.

Categories: Raw Materials

525 Castro St.
Richmond, CA 94801 

Website

510-232-7139

Chevron

Established in 1902, the Chevron Richmond Refinery creates products that fuel progress here in Richmond and around the world. From gasoline to jet fuel, diesel and lubricating oils, every one of our products is produced with care by our dedicated team of operators, engineers, scientists and other professionals. Chevron is committed to safe and reliable operations and enabling human progress in our community.

Categories: Raw Materials

841 Chevron Way
Richmond, CA 94801 

Website

510-242-2000