Welcome to Haviland Products Company. J. Bernard Haviland, a chemical engineer founded a small laboratory and chemical supply company in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1934. Over time, Haviland became one of the largest employee-owned chemical distribution companies in the United States. What started out as a small research and testing lab is now Haviland Enterprises, Inc., a major manufacturing corporation with two separate divisions, 220 employees and over 600,000 square feet of manufacturing space. Haviland is also ISO 9001:2000 certified with a reputation for being one of the country’s foremost authorities on chemicals, quality control, workplace safety and environmental protection.
We are also very proud of becoming an ESOP company in 1997. In fact, Haviland Enterprises was named “Michigan’s ESOP Company of the Year” in 2004. Our employee-owners take great pride in maintaining our high level of excellence.
Haviland Enterprises consists of two separate divisions: Haviland Products Company and Haviland Consumer Products. Haviland Products Company serves the industrial market with custom formulation, specialty blending, packaging and distribution of a wide variety of chemical products, including industrial cleaners, specialty products for anodizing, electroplating, and basic chemicals for the pharmaceutical, food, waste water, automobile and other general manufacturing industries. Haviland Consumer Products formulates, blends, packages, and distributes more than 85 different swimming pool products for more than 75 different private label customers, serving some of the country’s largest mass marketers of private label products.
Haviland Contoured Plastics, a subdivision of Haviland Consumer Products, manufactures spiral-wound and blow-molded plastic hose for the swimming pool and commercial applications.
Haviland Contract Manufacturing, a subdivision of Haviland Products Company formulates, blends and packages a multitude of industrial, household and pharmaceutical products for many Fortune 500 companies. Every day, more products manufactured by Haviland are arriving at your local store’s shelves.