In the market since 1981

Close enough to help.
Connected enough to source.

Four companies under one name, 45 years in materials, and producer relationships that reach well beyond our home market.

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The Clubhouse, Kontich — SOD.DEL headquarters

Who we are

One name, four companies

SOD.DEL is the group behind SOD.DEL BNL, Distrivrac and Districhem. Together we act as agent and distributor for leading international producers of industrial minerals and speciality additives, serving European industry.

Our goal is to improve the economic and ecological sustainability of the industries we supply — by helping customers find the most cost-effective solution for new and ongoing developments, by shortening the chain between producer and plant, and by making every step of it transparent.

We are deliberately both things at once: local enough that you have a named contact and stock in your region, international enough that when a grade only exists at one plant in the world, we can get to it.

Four values shape how we work. We are proactive — we identify challenges and opportunities before they arise, rather than reacting once a line has stopped. We are ambitious, going the extra mile and pushing boundaries to get a result. We are engaging, building the collaborative relationships that make a supply chain work. And we are reliable: we keep our promises, and deliver quality and high-level service consistently.

Vision & mission

We empower industries with essential materials that shape the world.

We provide quality raw materials, speciality chemistry and proactive service through trusted partnerships — driving growth, innovation and positive impact across the industries we supply.

Then

A minerals distributor

Carbonates, kaolins, talc, quartz and refractory minerals, sold on consistency, volume and a supply route that holds.

Now

Minerals and specialities

The mineral base plus functional chemistry — rheology, surface, resin, pigment and flame-retardant systems from international principals.

Partners

Umicore & Lamberti

Metal-organic driers, naphthenic acids and adhesion promoters from Umicore; polymer beads from Lamberti. Both now core to the range.

Reach

Ascotec and beyond

Partnerships beyond the mineral base — anticorrosion and speciality chemistry — extend the range we can put in front of a formulator.

How the business has changed

We stopped being only a minerals house

We built the company on industrial minerals and that remains the volume base. But the questions customers bring us have moved upstream: not "what does this filler cost" but "how do I hit this property".

That pulled us into speciality chemistry — additives bought for function rather than for tonnage — and into a different kind of technical work. It also changed what we need from a supplier network: fewer, deeper relationships with principals whose laboratories we can bring to the table.

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