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The Corporation was formed
in January 1991 by Lawrence B. Cohen as a manufacturer of unique
proprietary metal organic adhesion promoters marketed worldwide
to manufacturers of specialty rubbers, coatings, abrasives, adhesives,
plastics, and similar specialty chemical end users. For its first
two years the company confined its marketing activities to Taiwan,
Korea, and Western Europe due to a post contractual obligation
which precluded LBC from engaging in activities in the US market
during this time. This marketing was achieved by entering into
agreements with established distributors with whom LBC had long-standing
prior relationships.
By late 1992, Chartwell began to make a significant entry
into the US marketplace with publication of several press releases
introducing its products and with the concomitant establishment
of a network of US sales agents. Today the company is served
by sales agents throughout the US in addition to our international
agents; providing us with a sales staff numbering greater than
seventy individuals. Chartwell is dedicated to continued growth
and expansion of our technology.
The company began with
three liquid products in January of 1991. Our product offerings
now consist of forty different liquid products and six solid
products (Trade name Chartsil). We constantly strive to expand
and improve upon our existing technology.
Our current development efforts are now targeted at:
1. Lower cost
products achieved by going upstream in our processes to begin
with less complex metal
compounds which we then modify in a series of process steps.
2. Higher reactivity products achieved with increased
levels of organoreactive groups.
3. Higher active matter concentrations now exceeding
50% for some grades.
Chartwell Manufacturing
Essentially all manufacturing of Chartwell liquid
products is done at the company's Attleboro Falls, Massachusetts
headquarters in steam jacketed reactors by highly experienced
Chartwell personnel. Quality Control Analysis of the liquid products
is also performed in Attleboro Falls in the company's QC laboratory.
Chartsil solid adhesion
promoters are manufactured in Savannah, Georgia by a toll manufacturer
who has over thirty years experience converting liquid additives
to solid form.
QC of the Chartsil products is also performed at the Savannah
location.
Lawrence B. Cohen Personal
History
Lawrence B. Cohen has been involved in the development
and marketing of metal organic adhesion promoters since 1976
working successively for Union Carbide, Cavedon Chemical, Manchem,
Inc., and Rhone Poulenc. He holds numerous patents on metal organic
adhesion promoters, has published more than 20 technical articles,
contributed Chapters to three books, and has delivered numerous
technical presentations around the world since 1983. |
