The Pine Chemicals Association is a global association of companies engaged in producing and processing chemicals derived from Pine Trees. The pine chemicals industry is one of the oldest segments of the global chemical Industry and use of these products can be traced to early civilization. In the United States alone the industry today directly contributes approximately $2 billion to the US economy and over 11 billion in downstream economic output. About 1,900 workers are employed in the USA alone with a payroll of $93million.

Pine chemicals are key components in adhesives, paper making, printing ink, paints, coatings, road markings, oilfield production chemicals, synthetic rubber production, vitamin intermediates, flavors and fragrances and many other applications. The products are from a clearly renewable and sustainable resource and are environmentally friendly.

The Pine Chemicals Association is a global advocate for the pine chemicals industry and is active in responding to legislation or regulations that could hurt the industry. The Association maintains the ASTM and ISO testing standards vital to world commerce, provides education on industry processes and safety, sponsors conferences and provides global forums to promote gum rosin and turpentine production and forestry practices.