Family-Focused Investment & Support
First Hyperion provides duration-focused family money and support to family-built, value- and values-based chemical-distribution businesses.
Our founders—many of whom have built or provided the funding for successful family-owned and start-up businesses, recognize a growing need to connect the largely family-owned chemical distribution businesses in ways that preserve their legacies, ethics, and trust, but that provide additional scale, patient capital, and digital expertise.
First Hyperion’s current partners are strategically located in heartland and growth-oriented, stable law-governed locations.
We proudly support ACD as member and sponsor.
Americhem
Heartland company serving core industrial and transport sectors;
Geographically advantaged to reach a wide range of customers;
Working to enhance current rail access, bringing it on-site;
1M gallon on-site storage capacity enables meeting just-in-time and unusual orders;
On-site blending and laboratory facilities a major differentiator;
Employee loyalty includes children following parents to join the Americhem team;
Strong relationships with suppliers underpin ability to serve customers reliably;
Focus on duration financial and operational management; company owns its land .
Dakota Maverick
Family founded, family led, family values:
Operating in one of the country’s fastest growing business regions;
Strong demand from US energy sector (which produces 16% of global energy);
Built on customer and financial growth, not debt;
Customer references and old-fashioned cold calls drive growth;
Long length of employee retention mirrors similar length of customer retention;
Maintaining a large inventory supports ability to meet just-in-time delivery needs;
Exclusive North American distributor for thioglycolic acid for Arkema Global;
Flat hierarchy and employee retention enable understanding customers;
All employees empowered to make customer-service decisions;
Leading track record for reliability;
Key for compounds essential to customers’ businesses;
Key competitive advantage in markets for generic compounds.
Cone Solvents
Frontier
To us, No does not mean No; it means keep calling.
Strategically located in one of the country’s fastest growing regions;
Provides compounds essential to core human needs: agriculture, energy, transport, pharmaceuticals, environmental management, sanitation;
Distribution centers connected to rail spurs, enabling intake from large suppliers and enhancing price competitiveness and safety;
Stable, multi-decade client relationships built on reliability, bespoke service, delivery speed, and trust;
Full suite of services including, laboratory, custom blending, specialty chemicals, drum and bulk deliveries, sales and distribution pricing.
John Taylor
President, Cone Solvents and Frontier Logistical
We do not need two stories. Our sustainability story is the same as our durable value-creation story: we get the molecules of life and get them where they need to be, as reliably, safely, cost-effectively, and flexibly as possible.
We partner with people who believe in building durable companies that treat their people—employees, suppliers, customers, communities and future generations—honorably.
First Hyperion supports its duration story by:
our dream team
