Nalco Champion
{{Infobox company
| name = Nalco Champion, An Ecolab Company
| type = Subsidiary
| industry = Oil industry
| foundation = {{start date |2013|04|10}}
| defunct = {{end date |2020 }}
| fate = Merged
| successor = ChampionX
| key_people = Darrell Brown (President)
| parent = Ecolab
| website = {{URL|https://www.ecolab.com/nalco-champion}} {{Deadlink|date=March 2025}}
}}
Nalco Champion was an American supplier of specialty chemicals and related services to all areas of the petroleum industry. It had corporate offices in Houston and Sugar Land, Texas. It was a subsidiary of Ecolab.
History
The company was formed following the acquisition of Champion Technologies by Ecolab, the parent company of Nalco Holding Company, on April 10, 2013.{{cite press release | url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20130410006395/en/Ecolab-Closes-Purchase-Champion | title=Ecolab Closes on Purchase of Champion | publisher=Business Wire | date=April 10, 2013}}
In 2011, Nalco was the chemical dispersant supplier during the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill. They were confronted by the EPA regarding the chemical harm that their product, Corexit, would have on the Gulf environment. Nalco refused to release the formula of their product.
In December 2013, the company announced plans to construct a new facility in Sugar Land.{{cite news | url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/sugarland/news/article/Nalco-Champion-to-construct-133-000-square-foot-9525456.php | title=Nalco Champion to construct 133,000-square-foot facility in Sugar Land, consolidating its Houston and Fresno operations | first=Zach | last=Haverkamp | work=Houston Chronicle | date=December 27, 2013}}
In 2018, the company opened a plant in Argentina.{{cite press release | url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/inaugura-nalco-champion-planta-en-argentina-678919353.html | title=Nalco Champion plant opens in Argentina | publisher=PR Newswire | date=April 5, 2018}}
In 2020, completed the merge with Apergy create the new company ChampionX, as a result of the SpinOff with Ecolab. {{cite press release | url=https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2020/06/04/apergy-ecolab-nalco-champion-close-deal-championx.html | title=Houston-area energy services businesses close multibillion-dollar merger, name new board members | publisher=BizJournals | date=June 4, 2020}}