I need to find a couple companies that make Methyl Glucoside(CAS
97-30-3).  I would like the biggest producers, not resellers so I can
get truckload pricing.

Hi nestleceo,

Here are five manufacturing resources for you to contact about methyl
glucoside (CAS 97-30-3). Since I'm not a chemical industry insider, I
can't speak to the relative sizes of these companies, but they all
appear to be manufacturers, so should be able to deal in bulk.

TCI America
Portland, OR 97203
Phone: (503)283-1681 (800)423-8616
Fax: (503)283-1987 
Email: sales@tciamerica.com
http://www.tciamerica.com/body.shtml

Pfaltz & Bauer
172 E. Aurora St.
Waterbury, CT 06708
Phone: (203) 574-0075
Fax: (203) 574-3181
Email: sales@pfaltzandbauer.com 
http://www.pfaltzandbauer.com/

INDOFINE Chemical Company
Belle Mead, NJ 08502
Phone: (908)359-6778 (888)463-6346
Fax: (908)359-1179 
Email: chemical@indofinechemical.com
http://www.indofinechemical.com/

USB Corp.
26111 Miles Road
Cleveland Ohio 44128
Phone: (216)765-5000 
Fax: (216)464-5075 
Email: customerserv@usbweb.com
http://www.usbweb.com/

Pfanstiehl Laboratories, Inc.
1219 Glen Rock Avenue
Waukegan, Illinois 60085 USA
Telephone: 800-383-0126 
Email: pfanstiehl-info@ferro.com 
http://www.pfanstiehl.com

To find these companies, I used a chemical industry search engine
rather than Google or some other generalized methodology:
http://www.chemindustry.com/

I hope my answer fully meets your needs, but if not please use the
Request Clarification feature before rating my answer, and I'll get
right back to you.

Thanks for your question,

ericynot-ga

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Clarification of Answer by ericynot-ga on 15 Jan 2003 07:43 PST

Dear nestleceo,

As an Internet-based Google Answers researcher, I work very hard to
produce useful and correct work for my customers. In doing that, I
must rely upon information provided by websites I locate and study in
the course of formulating my responses.

The companies I listed for you were ones chosen because of their
specific assertions such as "Bulk organic chemicals", "Bulk quantities
of virtually any chemical we offer are availbale [sic] to meet your
needs", and "Pharmaceutical Intermediates & Bulk Fine Chemicals". As a
non-chemist, perhaps I was naively mislead by those blanket
statements, but I posted my answer in the sincere belief that I was
providing what you were seeking. And, I provided five companies,
rather than the requested two, in the hope that the additional
information would better allow you to negotiate the best price.

I am sorry you found my answer to be inadequate. Had you availed
yourself of the "Clarify Answer" feature I emphasized in the last
paragraph of my response, I would gladly have gone as many more miles
as necessary to assure your satisfaction.

I do hope you will use Google Answers again, remembering next time
that this system works best when all of its features are utilized.

Regards,

ericynot-ga

I was looking for an "industrial scale" supplier of the chemical.  We
are talking truck load volumes.  All the suppliers given were small,
laboratory scale producers.  I spent several hours and found that
there is only one american producer of the chemical on a large scale -
Grain Processing Corp.