Category: News

Handling a History-making Hurricane Season

The year 2020 is bound to be a year for the history books and this hurricane season will be no different. Forecasters and experts alike have agreed that this will be an above-normal storm season in the Atlantic. Along with a higher than normal storm activity its also been noted that the hurricanes in the... Read more »

ChemCeed Unveils New Division, CF Products, to Supply Cleaning Products

ChemCeed is announcing the formation of a new division, CF Products, to better serve and grow its offering of janitorial cleaning, and disinfectant products on the local and regional level. CF Products will carry a line of janitorial products that will initially include an all-purpose cleaner, surface cleaner, floor cleaner, toilet bowl cleaners, and hand... Read more »

Extracting CBD Oil

CBD oil and other CBD hemp products have taken the nation by storm. CBD oil seems to be advertised everywhere, along with the many benefits that is claimed to come from this product. But what is CBD oil, where does it come from, and how does this extraction process work? CBD stands for cannabidiol. CBD... Read more »

Formulating for Cold Weather – Plastic Formulation and Lubrication

Cold weather can take a serious toll on even highly durable products. Plastics tend to crack when temperatures drop too low, and engines can seize if they don’t warm up quickly enough. Cold weather performance products are specifically formulated to resist this kind of damage. This typically requires additives that lower a material’s freezing point... Read more »

STLE Nashville Top Five Restaurants

ChemCeed’s President, Mel Enderes, and Director of Operations and Sales, Katrina Geissler, will be exhibiting at the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) Annual Meeting in Nashville, TN on May 19th-23rd. The five-day event will feature over 500 technical presentations, application-based case studies, best practice reports, discussion panels and a trade show.  The meeting... Read more »

Proposed Tariffs and ChemCeed Prices

With all the uncertainty surrounding the current US trading relationship with China, it is a good time to review where we are with the proposed US and Chinese tariffs.  The proposed US tariffs listed approximately 1,300 separate tariff lines which still have a long process of reviews and public hearings before the Office of US... Read more »

Chemceed Receives WBENC Certification

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wisconsin – May 16, 2016 — ChemCeed ChemCeed LLC, a worldwide chemical distribution company, received national certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Development Center– Chicago, a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). WBENC’s national standard of certification implemented by the Women’s Business Development Center–... Read more »

Microbead Ban Passes House

A bill to ban the manufacture or sale of personal care products containing small plastic particles known as “microbeads” by the year 2019 was passed by the U.S. House following a December 7th vote.  The bill (HR 1321) was introduced by Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) an proposes banning microbeads manufacture beginning July 2017 and... Read more »

Advancement In Non-Stick Surfaces

LiquiGlide, a company started by Kripa K. Varanasi, a professor of mechanical engineering at M.I.T., and J. David Smith, a graduate student of Dr. Varanasi’s, has developed a non-stick coating which traps a lubricant on a rough surface.  Similar research has been done using superhydrophobic surfaces, where air is trapped on the rough surfaces, allowing... Read more »

Key-Protein Identified In Dandelion Rubber Production

In a joint effort, researchers at Münster University, the Münster branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Technology IME, the Technishe Universität München (TUM) and TRM Ltd. (York, UK) have found what they believe to be the key-proteins involved in the production of rubber in dandelions.  They were able to demonstrate using... Read more »