Business View Magazine | August 2019

83 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 and coatings for the composites industry there and Revchem distributes them, in addition to products we buy from others.” Revchem has approximately 100 employees and satellite distribution centers in Costa Mesa, San Fernando, and Stockton, California, and a large distribution center in Tumwater, Washington that services clients in the Pacific Northwest, including Seattle and Portland. The company distributes over 4,000 different products from 200 suppliers, and its business model calls for the very best service it can offer to its customers, which is: “order today, deliver tomorrow.” “Our inventory fill rate is 96-97 percent and we, typically, can take an order late in the afternoon, with a high probability we have it in stock, and deliver it the next morning, so our customers are making product out of it less than 24 hours after the time they’ve ordered it,” Pendleton explains. “Ninety-five percent of our product is delivered on our company-owned, semi-trailer trucks, and we process 150 -plus orders a day. pictured above Company President, Pete Pendleton REVCHEM COMPOS I TES , INC . Our 13 field salespeople are well-trained to help manufacturers deal with technical resource issues, understand laminate schedules, sort through issues related to building the products. So, quick delivery, good inventory, high tech support, and we deliver when customers ask, not when it’s scheduled for their area, which is a different business model than the competition. Revchem, historically, has always tried to add value. We’ve got an extremely competent technical sales force to go out and help the end user apply the product, engineer it correctly, use the right products for the right applications, and make suggestions from a waste management and environmentally-sound perspective. A current challenge for the company concerns the application of California’s Proposition 65, formally known as Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, which requires the state to maintain and update a list of chemicals known or suspected of causing cancer, birth defects, or