Monthly updates providing critical information on industry trends and SOCMA programs and services through the lens of our three strategic pillars – Commercial, Policy and Manufacturing & Operations. The newsletter also highlights our membership and shares your latest news with the industry.
Government Relations Newsletter
Monthly
Government Relations
Essential updates on regulatory issues, including insight and guidance on key issues and how these regulations will impact your business. Also hear what SOCMA is doing as your connector and voice within and across federal agencies and on Capitol Hill.
Events Bulletin
As Needed
Marketing & Communications
Timely information about valuable, upcoming SOCMA events where you can engage with industry colleagues, stakeholders and partners. Receive opportunities about attending, exhibiting, or sponsoring.
Essential Insight from Regional Forums
Quarterly
Membership
The SOCMA team shares key takeaways and insight from regional member meetings across the country. The insight focuses on industry outlook, supply chain and regulatory challenges, among other top-of-mind industry topics.
Specialty Insights
Bi-Annual
Marketing & Communications
Specialty Insights provides in-depth knowledge and analysis of the latest issues impacting the specialty chemical value chain from both SOCMA members and industry experts. The magazine also publishes SOCMA member news and provides the current updates on programs and services across SOCMA’s three strategic pillars.
In-Person Events
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
SOCMA Show
Yearly
Meetings
The SOCMA Show brings the specialty and custom chemical supply chain together to conduct business, find solutions and share best practices. What sets the SOCMA Show apart from other trade shows is our customized support for exhibitors and attendees and year-round resources to help companies connect with business partners and gain visibility within the industry. The event also offers educational programming focused on the latest commercial issues impacting your business.
SOCMA Summit
Yearly
Meetings
SOCMA’s Fall Conference includes the association’s annual meeting and Performance Improvement Awards program. This is the perfect opportunity to bring your team for educational workshops, best practice sharing and general sessions on key industry trends and the most critical business and regulatory challenges to your operations and business growth.
Chemspec Europe
Yearly
Meetings
For more than 20 years, SOCMA has hosted a pavilion at Chemspec Europe to facilitate business opportunities for a dozen member companies on the global stage. Complete with concierge service at a fraction of the cost of having your own booth, all our members have to do is show up and do business, and we will handle your space, marketing presence, food and beverage and greet your guests.
Roundtables
Quarterly
Membership
SOCMA holds Roundtables across the U.S. where there are clusters of members and specialty chemical companies, providing a venue for industry colleagues within the supply chain to network, discuss top-of-mind issues and share best practices. These topics range from C-Suite and commercial issues to environmental, health and safety to the most pressing challenges facing your company and the industry at large.
Member Site Visits
Quarterly
Membership
SOCMA visits member company sites throughout the year to gain a greater understanding of your business and the challenges you are facing. These site visits help our team to further engage with your staff and further define ways we can support your company goals.
Golf Tournament
Yearly
Meetings
Companies from across the specialty chemical supply chain come together once a year to network and support the next generation of chemical industry professionals through SOCMA’s support of the American Chemical Society Scholars Program.
Commercial Tools
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
Lead Sheets
Monthly
Industry Relations
Access potential business opportunities through SOCMA’s Lead Sheets. Whether you have a project you need a partner to complete, or you are a potential source for a requestor, SOCMA’s Lead Sheet Service is a year-round resource to supplement your procurement process. SOCMA has issued nearly 130 Lead Sheets and initiated 350 B2B connections. On average each Lead Sheet receives 3 responses.
Member Services Directory
Year-Long
Industry Relations
This dynamic 24/7 searchable database showcases the deep breadth of SOCMA member company capabilities, chemistries, equipment and services. It is visited daily by companies across the industry looking to identify business partners, capabilities, innovations and process solutions.
Manufacturing Solutions Day
Quarterly
Industry Relations
These 15-minute virtual presentations highlight your company’s unique technologies and expertise to procurement and business development executives. Offered to you at a member-discounted fee, SOCMA guides you through the presentation process, offering tips and techniques to help you successfully and impactfully present your capabilities to industry colleagues and potential business partners.
Specialty Chemical Industry Census+
Yearly – June/July
Industry Relations
SOCMA delivers critical intelligence to your company and the specialties sector through a yearly Census+, conducted in partnership with Vault Consulting, LLC. The information flows through ChemSectors and provides essential and timely analysis for business leaders seeking to understand and anticipate driving forces transforming the industry.
Pulse Polls
Quarterly
Industry Relations
SOCMA monitors key industry trends through quarterly surveys of member companies and companies across the specialty chemical sector to keep the industry informed on changing headwinds to help guide key business decisions throughout the year.
Technical & Safety Programs
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
ChemOps Training
Yearly Subscription
Technical & Safety
ChemOps Training is the go-to source for training. With interactive 3D animations of process equipment, self-guided assessment exercises, user progress tracking and more through the Learning Management System (LMS), this superior, modernized training tool enables you to effectively train and onboard your chemical operators. As a SOCMA member, you receive heavily discounted pricing for this modern training tool that boosts employee retention rates.
ChemStewards®
Ongoing
Technical & Safety
SOCMA’s environmental, health, safety and security management program that promotes improving the performance of employee safety, employee and community health, lowering a facility’s environmental footprint and continuously increasing the security of facilities throughout the supply chain. All SOCMA members who manufacture chemicals in North America are a part of ChemStewards®, or an equivalent EHS management program.
Performance Improvement Awards
Yearly in November/ December
Technical & Safety
This annual awards program recognizes a facility’s outstanding commitment and efforts toward excellence in EHS&S practices and is based on ChemStewards® Five Core Principles. The awards are based on performance and improvement in these areas during a set period of time.
ChemStewards® Audit Assistance
As Needed
Technical & Safety
SOCMA works with organizations to help align their current systems with the ChemStewards program. Our team helps you identify processes and systems you are already doing to minimize the workload.
Regulatory & Legislative Assistance
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
Regulatory Advocacy
Ongoing
Legal & Government Relations
SOCMA works with all federal agencies, including EPA, OSHA, FDA, USTR, and DHS, on key issues impacting your business. Through engagement with agency leadership and lawmakers, SOCMA influences and produces positive outcomes on your behalf and the industry at-large.
Policy Series
Annual – April
Legal & Government Relations
SOCMA brings members together with regulatory and legislative officials for updates and dialogue around top industry issues impacting the specialty chemical industry. This annual event has been held both in-person and virtually.
Individual Member Support
Ongoing
Legal & Government Relations
SOCMA’s Government Relations team works as an extension of your staff to assist with regulatory hurdles and to help advocate for specific issues impacting member companies. SOCMA leverages its relationships with policymakers and regulators to help member companies overcome challenges. We directly connect your company with key regulators in agencies such as EPA, OSHA, FDA, DHS, USTR, among others.
Guidance Materials
Ongoing
Legal & Government Relations
SOCMA’s Government Relations team provides guidance documents and templates to help your company comply with regulations that impact your business. Most recently, SOCMA provided guidance documents and templates to comply with OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard, and throughout the pandemic, SOCMA provided a wealth of information and tools that were readily accessible to help you navigate these uncharted waters.
Town Halls
Ongoing
Legal & Government Relations
SOCMA’s Government Relations team keeps members up to date on emerging regulatory issues through virtual Town Halls, connecting you with subject-matter experts and providing a forum to share compliance strategies and learn from your peers.
Government Relations Committees
Monthly
Legal & Government Relations
SOCMA provides insight and updates on key regulatory issues impacting the specialty chemical industry and member companies through monthly committee meetings focusing on Trade, Environment, Health & Safety and Government Relations Steering.
Labor & Workforce Assistance
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
SOCMA Career Center
Monthly
Communications
The Career Center offers you an opportunity to post job openings on a platform that specifically attracts candidates within fields that support the specialty chemical industry. SOCMA members receive a discounted rate on the postings. SOCMA also offers additional marketing exposure on its social media platforms, driving increased traffic to your job listings.
Connecting with Industry Colleagues
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
ChemSectors Network
Ongoing
Industry Relations
The ChemSectors network provides customized information for different operating verticals. The network serves to help your company accomplish its business objectives, provide customized industry intelligence, and identify stewardship and sustainability best practices for the industry and members.
ChemStewards® Network
Ongoing
Technical & Safety
This network provides your company with updates on ChemStewards®, best practices, feedback and education and networking opportunities.
Women in Specialties
Quarterly
Communications
SOCMA offers a collaborative network for women within the specialty and fine chemicals sector. This group serves to encourage community and bring together this strong network of women across the industry, making connections, fostering curiosity and creating value. The group meets throughout the year via teleconferences and at in-person events like the SOCMA Show and Fall Conference.
Emerging Leaders
Quarterly
Communications/GR
Through the Emerging Leaders Peer Group, SOCMA is dedicated to making sure new leaders within your company not only have the resources for today – but as they grow in their career. SOCMA provides an outlet for professionals moving into management roles to build their network and connect on top-of-mind issues impacting industry and supply chain. The group aims to facilitate comprehensive leadership discussions and educational opportunities throughout the year both remotely and in conjunction with SOCMA regional and in-person events.
Company-Specific Promotion & Support
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
Press Release Distribution
Ongoing
Marketing & Communications
SOCMA offers a discounted rate to post your company news via our PR Newswire distribution service. The SOCMA team also offers editing and facilitates the interaction with PR Newswire on your behalf.
Posting Company News
Ongoing
Marketing & Communications
SOCMA posts your company news about everything from expansions, new employees, product lines, etc., on our website, social media platforms and in our bi-annual magazine, Specialty Insights.
Writing and Editing
Ongoing
Marketing & Communications
Don’t have a writer on your team or have the internal resources to write a press release or article? SOCMA will provide these services to your company for a reasonable hourly fee that saves you from paying a large annual retainer for a PR firm.
Marketing & Communications Strategy
Ongoing
Marketing & Communications
SOCMA’s Marketing & Communications team will work with you directly, or connect you with the resources you need, to develop and enhance marketing and communications efforts for your company.
Advertising, Sponsorships and Company Promotions
Ongoing
Marketing & Communications
As a SOCMA member you have a myriad of opportunities to raise your company’s brand awareness through advertising, sponsorships and promotional opportunities. Advertising opportunities Specialty Insights, SOCMA Show Guide and in SOCMA newsletters. Sponsorships packages are available for all SOCMA programs and events, whether you choose to do a comprehensive sponsorship package or an individual event. You can also promote your company news in our publications, website and on SOCMA’s social media platforms.
Expertise Sharing/Speaking Opportunities
Member Benefits
Timeline
SOCMA Department
Webinars
Ongoing
Marketing & Communications
SOCMA offers multiple opportunities to feature your expertise and knowledge on issues and challenges critical to the industry and your business (i.e., logistics challenges, equipment and procurement, etc.) that arise throughout the year.
Panel Discussions at SOCMA Events
SOCMA Show/Fall Summit
Marketing & Communications
SOCMA looks to members like you first to share expertise on industry topics as part of panel discussions or as featured speakers at the SOCMA Show, Fall Conference and other in-person meetings.
