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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Methane is produced by decomposing trash that can be used to produce electricity or heat. Currently, most landfills do not make enough methane for energy production to make it worthwhile. Therefore, these landfills burn (flare) the methane away. Russell Chinelli, Ph. D., a professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, invented a process... Read more »
