Facility

Stepan Company Maywood NJ (DEA Coca Processing)

The only DEA-authorized coca leaf processing facility in the United States. Imports ~100 MT/year of dried coca leaves from Peru under Schedule II DEA registration and UN INCB quota. Performs cocaine alkaloid extraction: (1) decocainized coca leaf extract sold to The Coca-Cola Company as a natural flavoring, and (2) isolated pharmaceutical cocaine sold to Mallinckrodt for use as an FDA-approved topical anesthetic in ENT procedures. Stepan acquired this site from Maywood Chemical Works (which had the Coca-Cola contract since ~1903). Site also has FUSRAP environmental legacy from WWI-era thorium/radium processing. Not a LABSA production site — Stepan's primary surfactant plants are in Millsdale IL and elsewhere — but this NJ facility establishes Stepan's unique regulatory position.