Barentz hires Alvaro Santiago as Junior Product Development Chemist in Canada

June 8, 2021

Barentz, a leading distributor of life science ingredients and specialty chemical solutions throughout North America, is excited to welcome Alvaro Santiago to our laboratory team as Junior Product Development Chemist. He will support sales efforts in the petroleum and paper industries through laboratory-based investigations in the Barentz Client Solutions Laboratory.

Alvaro brings with him experience as a laboratory analyst conducting research and quality control in the Petroleum, Food Production, and Pharmaceutical industries.

"We are very excited to have Alvaro and the experience he brings to our Client Solutions team," Ana Zattoni, Laboratory Manager said. "The expansion of our laboratory helps improve our capacity and will help us provide the ever-growing value driven support for our customers and principals"

About the Barentz Client Solutions & Laboratory
The Barentz Client Solutions team utilizes industry experience and access to a wide range of supply partners to develop custom chemical solutions for the paper and petroleum industries. Our client partners include small independent companies to large multinationals in which we have developed a range of custom products from food contact packaging surface treatments, sustainable plastic replacement paper coatings, to a wide range of oilfield technologies for drilling, well services, production, and safer solutions to the heavy oilfield cleaning markets. Our client solutions approach is centered around creating measurable value-based solutions for our client partners.

About Barentz
Barentz is a leading global life science ingredients and specialty chemicals distributor for the Human Nutrition, Pharmaceutical, Personal Care, Specialty Industrial, and Animal Nutrition markets. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Barentz distributes ingredients for products to small- and medium-sized enterprises and large customers globally. The Group sources branded specialty ingredients from leading manufacturers worldwide and its ingredients experts provide value-added technical support (including pre-mixing, blending, customized formulation and testing) from its state-of-the-art, customized formulation centers and application laboratories in EMEA, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

Established in 1953, Barentz has operations in more than 60 countries with a strong presence in Europe and Asia, and a growing presence in North America and Latin America. With a turnover of 1.5 billion the company employs around 1,500 people worldwide and serves over 21,000 customers. For more information, please visit: www.barentz-na.com.