GenTek Inc

GenTek Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures industrial components and performance chemicals primarily in the United States and Canada. The company operates in two segments, Valve Actuation Systems and Performance Chemicals. The Valve Actuations Systems segment provides precision engineered valve actuation systems and components for gasoline and diesel engines used in automotive and light trucks, as well as a range of heavy duty and commercial applications. Its products include valve actuation sub assemblies and components comprising stamped and machined rocker and roller-rocker arms; cam follower rollers; cam follower roller axles; antifriction needle roller bearings; hydraulic lash adjusters; hydraulic flat and roller lifters; mechanical roller tappets; and hardened/machined components.

The Performance Chemicals segment offers value added products to the water treatment, chemical processing, pharmaceutical and food additives, and technology markets. This segment produces aluminum sulfate for potable water and waste water treatment applications, as well as supplies ferric sulfate and other specialty flocculants used for settling and/or separating solids from liquids; and sodium nitrite. It also offers various grades of sulfuric acid, which is used in the manufacture of fertilizers, synthetic fibers, petroleum, and paper, as well as provides sulfuric acid regeneration services to the refining and chemical industries; and pollution abatement and sulfur recovery services. In addition, this segment supplies ingredients used in prescription pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, veterinary health products, and food additive applications; and provides electronic chemicals, including ultrahigh purity acids, caustics, solvents, etchants, and formulated photo ancillaries for use in the manufacture of semiconductor processing chips and computer disk drives. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. As of October 27, 2009, GenTek Inc. was taken private.