Poloxalene

Drug ingredient

CAS 9003-11-6

This drug ingredient has classified U.S. production volumes. EPA withholds the number as confidential business information.

US productionCBI

Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.

Import value, 2024$742M

Top sourceSouth Korea 22%

At least one company claimed its 2023 production or import volume for this chemical as confidential, so EPA withholds it.

Why supply is unknown

Production is reported production, not a complete census of factories. US production volume is confidential. Production reporting year: 2023. Import value and source-country shares describe a shared customs category, not a separate chemical measurement.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 340242, 390729 · basket

EPA reports by year

2023: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential
2019: US production Zero · Imports 31.8K lb

These shares come from HS customs code 340242, 390729, which covers 77 tracked chemicals in total. They estimate the category's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries

Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2024).

KR 22%South KoreaDE 16%GermanyCN 9%ChinaJP 8%JapanCH 7%Switzerland

Poland
Sweden
Turkey
Brazil
Denmark
United Arab Emirates
Austria
Chile
Argentina
Slovakia
Egypt
Uruguay
Australia
Saudi Arabia
Czech Republic
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Latvia
Philippines
Bulgaria
Finland
Norway
Costa Rica
Portugal
Hungary
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Peru
Lithuania
Georgia
Luxembourg
Romania
Greece

EPA-registered manufacturers (1)

Companies that report making or importing this chemical to the EPA. Registration is US-centric and does not indicate import origin.

Macdermid

Domestic parents -- activity not disclosed (1)

EPA records name a US company for this chemical but do not disclose whether the company made it here or imported it.

Polyventive

1 FDA-registered drug labeler

BASF Corporation

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthConsumer ProductsPaints & Coatings

Downstream UsesNot recorded

FDA Shortage Status

Whether any manufacturer currently reports this drug as in shortage on the FDA Drug Shortages database. "Active Shortage" means at least one presentation has status "current."

No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

Used in 2 sectors as 2 functional roles.

•Surfactant (surface active agent) in Paint and Coating Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product
•Dispersing agent in Wholesale and Retail TradeNot Known or Reasonably Ascertainable

Chemical Identity

CAS9003-11-6

PubChem CIDNot recorded

DTXSIDDTXSID4047597

FormulaNot recorded

Mol. WeightNot recorded

SMILESNot recorded

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID4047597Retrieved 2026-04-06
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2023 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
FDA National Drug Code directoryRetrieved 2026-04-07
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Poloxalene (CAS 9003-11-6) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/9003-11-6/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID4047597. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID4047597 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 9003-11-6. Reporting year: 2023. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 9003-11-6. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 340242,390729 for CAS 9003-11-6. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/