Company: CHD
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000950170-25-019801
Chunk: 52

Company: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-13
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 52
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Animal Nutrition Products 

Since the ARM & HAMMER Animal Nutrition business began in 1972, with its launch of ARM & HAMMER baking soda as a feed additive to help dairy cows produce more milk, we have built a leading portfolio of nutritional supplements designed to help improve the health and 

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productivity of dairy cows.   In addition, we market a line of high-quality protein and amino acid products, including BIO-CHLOR® and FERMENTEN®, which are designed to help reduce health issues associated with calving, as well as provide needed protein to ensure proper growth and milk production.  During the first quarter of 2024, we exited the MEGALAC supplement portion of our Animal Nutrition business.  Net sales of the MEGALAC business for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $7.6 million and $38.1 million, respectively. 

Over the last several years, we have expanded our product offerings to include unique prebiotics and probiotics.  CELMANAX® Refined Functional Carbohydrate is a yeast-based prebiotic that helps ensure a well-functioning gastrointestinal track in dairy cows, beef cattle, poultry and other livestock.  CERTILLUS® is a family of probiotics products used in the poultry, dairy, beef and swine industries.  During the second quarter of 2024, we sold our Passport food safety business, Passport Food Safety Solutions, Inc.  Net sales of the Passport business for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 were $6.4 million and $13.0 million, respectively.

Specialty Chemicals

Our specialty chemicals business primarily encompasses the manufacture, marketing and sale of sodium bicarbonate in a range of grades and granulations for use in industrial markets. In industrial markets, sodium bicarbonate is used by other manufacturing companies as a leavening agent for commercial baked goods, as an antacid in pharmaceuticals, as a carbon dioxide release agent in fire extinguishers, as an alkaline agent in swimming pool chemicals, and as a buffer in kidney dialysis.  

We and Occidental Chemical Corporation are equal partners in a joint venture, Armand Products Company, which manufactures and markets potassium carbonate and potassium bicarbonate for sale in domestic and international markets.  The potassium-based products are used in a wide variety of applications, including agricultural products, specialty glass and ceramics, and potassium silicates.  Armand also manufactures a potassium carbonate-based