BCPC vs HRI Comparison

Balchem Corp is engaged in the development, manufacture, and marketing of specialty performance ingredients and products for the food, nutritional, feed, pharmaceutical, agricultural, and medical sterilization industries. The segments include 1) Human Nutrition and Health segment provides human-grade choline nutrients and mineral amino acid chelated products through this segment for nutrition and health applications. 2) The Animal Nutrition and Health segment provide nutritional products derived from its microencapsulation and chelation technologies in addition to the essential nutrient choline chloride. 3) The Specialty Products segment includes re-packaging and distributing a number of performance gases and chemicals for various uses, notably ethylene oxide, propylene oxide, and ammonia.

Herc Holdings is an equipment rental company that was spun out of Hertz Global in 2016. It is currently the third-largest equipment rental company (4% market share) in North America, after United Rentals and Sunbelt Rentals, with a fleet size of $6.4 billion. It serves commercial and residential construction customers, the environmental sector, industrial entities, and entertainment production companies. During much of its 50-year-plus history, the company has rented equipment such as aerial lifts to its customers for intermittent use. More recently, it has broadened its catalog to include a host of specialty items. Separately, Herc Holdings' strategy now incorporates long-term rentals to industrial customers where Herc maintains its own staff at the customer site.