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Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
Consumer and specialty products company; dominant North American pharmaceutical-grade sodium bicarbonate supplier under the ARM & HAMMER brand; two FDA-registered cGMP Drug Establishment manufacturing sites: Green River Wyoming (trona-ore based, primary) and Old Fort Ohio; produces specific "Hemodialysis Grade" sodium bicarbonate meeting USP, ICH Q7, and cGMP requirements; ~60% of North American dialysis-grade sodium bicarbonate market
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Church & Dwight Green River, WY Plant →
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Pharmaceutical-grade sodium bicarbonate production from Wyoming trona ore (natural sodium sesquicarbonate deposits). Trona mining is the only commercial-scale natural route to sodium bicarbonate; Wyoming holds the world's largest trona deposits. This facility underlies the majority of North American hemodialysis bicarbonate supply.
Church & Dwight Old Fort Ohio Manufacturing →
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Church & Dwight second US sodium bicarbonate manufacturing site in Old Fort OH; FDA-registered cGMP Drug Establishment; produces ARM & HAMMER sodium bicarbonate USP for pharmaceutical and dialysis applications; complements primary Green River WY trona-mining site; provides geographic redundancy in US pharmaceutical bicarbonate supply
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Sodium Bicarbonate — Multiple Grades (ARM & HAMMER)
22%Consumer Products (OxiClean, Vitafusion, Waterpik)
50%Personal Care & Reproductive Health
18%Specialty Chemicals & Animal Nutrition
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Chokepoint2023
[single-source] Church & Dwight Co. (ticker: CHD) — the consumer products company selling ARM & HAMMER baking soda, laundry detergent, and OxiClean — is the dominant North American supplier of hemodialysis-grade sodium bicarbonate USP. Their pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Green River, Wyoming supply dialysate concentrate manufacturers that serve hundreds of thousands of US dialysis patients three times a week. A baking soda brand sits at the center of the US hemodialysis supply chain.
AH Performance (Church & Dwight) ↗Did you know2023
Church & Dwight's ARM & HAMMER Baking Soda — the iconic orange box in every American kitchen — is chemically identical to the pharmaceutical-grade sodium bicarbonate that Church & Dwight produces for kidney dialysis. During hemodialysis, bicarbonate-buffered dialysate corrects the metabolic acidosis that patients develop when functioning kidneys can no longer excrete acid. Church & Dwight supplies ~60% of North American dialysis-grade sodium bicarbonate from its FDA-registered Green River, Wyoming plant. The baking soda your grandmother uses to make cookies rise, the antacid Alka-Seltzer in your medicine cabinet, the rumen buffer fed to dairy cows, and the critical pharmaceutical component inside kidney dialysis machines are all sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO₃) — and ~60% of the pharmaceutical-grade version keeping 500,000 US dialysis patients alive comes from the company that also makes Trojan condoms and First Response pregnancy tests.
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. ↗Origin2012
ARM & HAMMER sodium bicarbonate (Church & Dwight) holds a specific FDA Class 2 Device Recall precedent in the dialysis space: in 2012, the FDA issued a Class 2 recall of Church & Dwight sodium bicarbonate USP lot numbers due to particulate matter contamination that could cause injury to dialysis patients. This recall affected dialysis bicarbonate cartridges across multiple US dialysis chains. The recall demonstrated that pharmaceutical-grade sodium bicarbonate for dialysis is subject to the same device recall framework as medical devices — not just conventional pharmaceutical recalls — because it is used in extracorporeal kidney replacement therapy.
US FDA CDRH ↗Capacity2023
Church & Dwight's TROJAN brand controls approximately 70% of the US condom market — making it the dominant brand in male contraception and STI prevention in America. Church & Dwight also owns First Response, the leading US pregnancy test brand. These two products occupy opposite ends of the reproductive cycle: TROJAN is used to prevent pregnancy; First Response detects it. The same consumer products company that dominates contraception also dominates the test that confirms whether contraception failed — a uniquely complete position in the reproductive health supply chain. Additionally, Church & Dwight's Vitafusion prenatal vitamins (vitamin brand) serves women who confirm pregnancy with First Response and then begin prenatal supplementation — a three-step consumer health journey where Church & Dwight is present at every point.
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