Headquartered in Houston, Texas, privately-held ALTIVIA was founded in 1986 as a water treatment chemical producer. ALTIVIA covers three business segments: petrochemicals, specialty chemicals, and inorganic water treatment chemicals.

Each facility specializes in its own product line of industrial chemicals and intermediates used in numerous petrochemical, agrochemical, pharmaceutical, and water treatment applications. Altivia is the largest merchant producer of phosgene derivative intermediates, and operate the third-largest merchant production facility of phenol, acetone, alpha methylstyrene, and bisphenol-A in the Americas.