When you choose a cleaning product, you're trusting it to protect your facility, your staff, and the people you serve. So, it's worth asking: where does that product actually come from — and who controls what goes into it?

At Buckeye International, the answer is simple. Everything is made right here in the USA. Not just assembled here. Made here — from the chemistry up. And that distinction matters more to you than you might realize.

You Get the Same Product Every Single Time

Most cleaning product manufacturers buy their raw materials from third-party suppliers. That means every time a supplier changes a formula, adjusts a process, or faces a shortage, the product you rely on can quietly shift. You might not notice until performance drops.

Buckeye manufactures its own floor finishes in-house to exact specifications with Renaissance® Performance Polymers. No outside supplier to introduce variability. No guessing whether this batch will behave like the last one. You get the consistent results you planned for and the confidence to train your team on a process that won't change under your feet.

Fewer Supply Chain Surprises

The last few years taught most facility managers an uncomfortable lesson: long, complex supply chains are fragile. When manufacturing is spread across multiple countries and suppliers, delays compound. A disruption halfway around the world becomes your stocking problem.

Because Buckeye manufactures its chemicals, spray bottles, packaging, and dilution control systems domestically there are far fewer links in the chain that can break. When you place an order, it doesn't have to clear customs, wait in a container yard, or depend on logistics networks you can't see or influence. That means more reliable delivery, fewer emergency reorders, and less time spent managing supply uncertainty.

Products Built Without the Chemicals You Don't Want

When a manufacturer controls its entire process, it can make better ingredient decisions — not just the ones that are easiest or cheapest.

Buckeye's Liquescent™ Technology was developed in-house specifically to replace hazardous chemicals like butyl, ammonia, solvents, and alcohol in cleaning formulas. The result is a line of products that perform powerfully while being safer for the custodians using them every day and for the environments they're cleaning.

That kind of innovation doesn't happen by accident. It happens when the same team designing the chemistry also controls how it's made and tested. Your staff benefits every time they reach for a Buckeye product — and so do the patients, students, guests, or customers in your facility.

Vertical Integration Means Doing More With Less

Owning the entire process — from raw chemistry to packaging to the bottle on your cart — doesn't just mean tighter control. It means Buckeye can build sustainability into a product instead of adding it as an afterthought. When one team designs the formula, the packaging, and the delivery system together, they can engineer out waste at every step: concentrated formulas that need less water and fewer refills, packaging designed to use less plastic, and dilution systems that mean less product is used to begin with. That's the advantage of vertical integration — doing more with less isn't a separate initiative, it's built into how the product is made.

Accountability That Doesn't Get Passed Around

When something goes wrong with a product — or when you simply need a question answered — you want one clear point of responsibility. With many suppliers, accountability gets diffused across a web of manufacturers, distributors, and ingredient vendors. You call one number and get redirected to another.

Because Buckeye owns the entire process from product development through packaging and distribution, there's no pointing fingers at a third-party formula supplier or a contract bottler. If you have a question about what's in a product, how it should perform, or how to troubleshoot a result, the people you reach actually made it. That's a rarer guarantee than it should be.

The Bottom Line

"Made in the USA" can mean a lot of things. For Buckeye, it means the research, the chemistry, the polymers, the packaging, and the systems are all developed and produced here — with full visibility and accountability at every step.

For you, that translates to products that perform consistently, arrive reliably, protect your team, and hold up to scrutiny. In facility care, that's not a nice-to-have. It's the foundation everything else is built on.

To learn more about how Buckeye's vertically integrated manufacturing benefits your facility, contact your local Buckeye representative.

With a commitment to developing products that are safer for workers and the environment, Buckeye established itself as “green” long before it became a marketing strategy. For Buckeye, sustainability means providing the most innovative, high performance and cost effective products, packaging, and programs that promote human health and safety.

Products

Green Seal™ Certified Products

Many Buckeye products are Green Seal certified. These products are safer for the worker and environment without compromising product performance. Our Green Seal certified products not only outperform other green products, they also outperform non-green conventional chemistries.

“Green Seal is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to safeguarding the environment and transforming the marketplace by promoting the manufacture, purchase, and use of environmentally responsible products and services.”

Liquescent Technology

To eliminate hazardous ingredients like butyl, solvents, and alcohol bases, Buckeye developed Liquescent technology. This water-based technology has allowed Buckeye to manufacture high-performance products while adhering to our principle of human health and safety.

R-Fit Liners

Gateway’s R-Fit liners are made with the highest quality resins to create lighter, stronger liners with less plastic. They are designed to fit specific trash can sizes, further reducing plastic waste. On average, Gateway customers reduced the amount of plastic reaching landfills by 39%.

Wood Floor Coatings

Reflections Wood Floor Coatings do not require crosslinkers, which contain polyfunctional aziridene. This crosslinker is used by other manufacturers to increase durability, but it has respiratory and nervous system health implications. In fact, many manufacturers that use polyfunctional aziridine warn consumers that it should be treated as a potential carcinogen.

Packaging

Eco and Symmetry 1.25 L bags are manufactured with 83% less plastic than rigid containers. Because our products work more efficiently and our packaging is recyclable and biodegradable, you use less product, and therefore less waste ends up in landfills.

Eco outer box packaging is also made with 41% recycled material, recyclable, and double wall corrugated. Eco inner carton packaging is made from 100% recycled paperboard and 35% post-consumer material.

Dilution Control Programs

Our dilution control systems eliminate direct contact with product and ensure our concentrated products are being used according to manufacturer specifications. Our products, packaging, and dilution control systems are also color and number coded to make them easier and safer for employees to use.

Training

Buckeye programs come with specialized training that focuses on worker and environmental safety. With standardized procedures that reduce product usage, labor, and overall cost, Buckeye is committed to enhancing product performance and safety.

Contact your representative to see how Buckeye programs can improve worker and environmental safety in your facility.

Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program is built on innovation, resulting in the highest quality products that are proven to increase efficiency, produce excellent results, and save money. Renaissance^® Performance Polymers serves as the foundation for the Hard Floor Care Program, creating polymers specifically for Buckeye floor finishes.

Renaissance is Buckeye’s exclusive line of floor finish polymers. Other floor finish manufacturers buy polymers from companies who do not specialize in making floor finishes. Some of these competitive floor finishes lose clarity or become less durable over time. Because Buckeye is committed to providing the highest quality products, it’s important for Buckeye floor finishes to achieve maximum durability and water clear clarity. With Renaissance, Buckeye is able to replicate exact specifications of a polymer for floor finishes giving Buckeye complete control over the characteristics of each floor finish.

Buckeye’s polymer research has resulted in longer-lasting floor finishes that can reduce your facility’s strip out cycle. Renaissance Performance Polymers provides value by eliminating the cost of third-party polymers and creating top-of-the-line polymers that reduce labor costs for the end user.

With state-of-the-art equipment, research, and the highest quality standards, Renaissance helps Buckeye construct floor finishes that consistently provide an enhanced appearance for floors with the least amount of labor. Renaissance Performance Polymers are manufactured in a state-of-the-art polymer production facility. This facility was designed with employee and environmental safety measures in place. Governmental agencies have rated our VOC emissions as “de minimis” (too small or insignificant to be considered).

Beyond Renaissance, Buckeye continues to innovate with its patented Liquescent^® technology, designed to eliminate hazardous ingredients like butyl, solvents, and alcohol bases. Even more recently, Buckeye has incorporated Microban^® technology into its Clarion^® 25 floor finish to inhibit the growth of bacteria on floors. As new technologies emerge, Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program will continue to evolve to bring the best value to customers.

For more information on Renaissance Performance Polymers and Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program, contact your local Buckeye representative.

Did you know that 90% of a floor maintenance budget is spent on labor?

Reducing the amount of labor it takes to strip and refinish floors provides the biggest opportunity for total program cost savings. Buckeye has developed its Hard Floor Care Program with superior products and training in proper techniques to maximize labor savings. With Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program, facilities can save 20-40% of their floor maintenance budget.

Superior Products

Buckeye products are developed with patented Liquescent^® technology. This water-based technology strengthens the cleaning power of Buckeye products and replaces hazardous chemical ingredients including butyl, ammonia, solvents, and alcohol bases. Products like Buckeye’s RipSaw^® Floor Stripper use this technology to remove floor finish in one application.

Buckeye’s floor finishes use Renaissance^® Performance Polymers, specifically designed for Buckeye. Competitors buy polymers from companies who do not specialize in making floor finishes. Renaissance replicates exact polymer specifications for Buckeye floor finishes, which guarantees consistent results for customers. Because of this, Renaissance helps Buckeye floor finishes achieve maximum durability and water-clear clarity.

Clarion 25^® Microban Antimicrobial Floor Finish 

In addition to providing clarity and durability, Clarion 25 with Microban Technology provides 24/7 antimicrobial product protection. When microbes come in contact with the product surface, Microban technology penetrates the cell wall of the microorganism and disrupts the cell, making the microorganism unable to grow and reproduce.

Customized Training

Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program is tailored to your facility. Buckeye representatives provide in-person training to ensure staff members have a solid understanding of proper procedures. One Jacksonville, FL school’s head custodian notes Buckeye’s attention to training, saying, “The reps stand out, always coming by to check on me, offer help, or provide training.”

For schools and universities, Buckeye also provides the Honors^® Custodial Training Program. Available 24/7, this online program is complete with videos and tests to improve staff knowledge. Supervisors can view reports on test scores and conduct facility surveys to see how maintenance has improved over time.

To see how Buckeye’s Hard Floor Care Program can be customized to fit your facility, contact your local Buckeye representative.

Buckeye’s industrial products include heavy-duty degreasers, metal cleaners, and vehicle cleaners. Each product has a variety of applications for effectively cleaning spaces that often contain difficult buildup from grease, oil, and other fluids.

Auto Wash™ , Convoy™, and Aero-Master™ are cleaners formulated for cars, aircraft, and other vehicles. Auto Wash is a liquid foaming cleaner formulated for use in automatic car wash systems while Convoy vehicle cleaner is free rinsing and removes stubborn road film quickly without need for brushing. For aircraft and aerospace, Aero-Master is an odorless, gel-type, heavy-duty cleaner for interior and exterior cleaning of aerospace and transportation vehicles.

Buckeye’s water-based degreasers include ShopMaster^®, ShopMaster HP, and ShopMaster RC. ShopMaster is an industrial strength universal degreaser that can be used in multiple applications. Designed for high-pressure, high-temperature spray systems, ShopMaster HP foam free high pressure system degreaser is a low pH degreaser. ShopMaster RC industrial strength resin cleaner is the final product in the ShopMaster family. It works as a replacement for chlorinated petroleum and other volatile solvents.

Buckeye also provides other industrial degreasers and cleaners, RAM^®, Immersion Cleaner™, and Two-O-One™.

Each of these industrial products are designed with worker and environmental safety in mind. RAM is a Green Seal™ certified heavy-duty degreaser that can effectively remove animal and petroleum greases, fats, and oils from hard surfaces. Immersion Cleaner is a concentrated metal cleaner containing no hazardous ingredients as listed by OSHA.

The ShopMaster family of products and Two-O-One heavy-duty, low foam scrubber and multi-use detergent contain Liquescent^® technology. Buckeye was awarded a family of seven patents for this unique technology. It combines the manufacturing of high performance products with Buckeye’s principle of human health safety.

Buckeye is the innovative leader in the maintenance and cleaning products industry. Clean and maintain your facility with Buckeye products and programs like the Eco^® Proportioning Program. With Eco, dilute a variety of products with the push of a button. Customize the Eco Proportioning Program and other Buckeye programs to fit the needs of your facility. To learn more about all of Buckeye’s maintenance programs, click here.