To better serve our customers – and potential customers – we are realigning and streamlining Taminco’s North American distribution system for high-performance paint additives Advantex® and Vantex®-T as well as our premier line of Synergex® additives for metal working fluids.

Customers in the western United States, including Oklahoma and Texas, are now served by TCR Industries of La Palma, CA. TCR has partnered with Taminco for a number of years. Expanding their territory was just one way we could show TCR how much we appreciate their hard work. It was also a perfect opportunity for us to really enhance Taminco’s customer service efforts.

Customers in the eastern half of the country are now served by the TH Hilson company, based in the Chicago area. TH Hilson has been a preferred distributor of specialty chemical materials more than 30 years, and a trusted partner with Taminco for the past several years. We have come to expect amazing results from TH Hilson, and we are confident that our customers in Hilson’s expanded territory can expect great things from their new distributors. If you want to get to know the folks at TH Hilson a little better, why not check out their page on Facebook. Visit www.facebook.com/th.hilson, and be sure to tell them Mike sent you!

If you weren’t able to attend my presentation this week at the 18th International Colloquium Tribology conference in Esslingen, Germany, I have posted my slides from the presentation above.

You can download the complete paper, The Use of Adducts of N-Alkylalkanolamines (AAA’s) with Alkenyl Succinic Anhydrides (ASA’s), AAA carboxamines and structurally unique AAA’s as Emlusifiers in Metalworking Fluids, by visiting our sister site, SpecialtyAmines.com.

Mike Gernon

I’m in Barcelona this week for a metalworking fluid symposium hosted by the Independent Union of European Lubricants Industry. This important symposium for the global metalworking fluid industry is an opportunity for industry experts, academia and government to work together toward understanding the current critical challenges that face the industry.

On Thursday, Sept. 15, at 3:40 p.m., I will speak on the topic of minimizing metalworking fluid VOCs and maximizing the lifetime of metalworking fluids.

Taminco’s Synergex® alkylalkanolamines continue to provide enabling benefits to metalworking formulators. In addition to significantly boosting performance, Synergex® additives actually extend the life of your metalworking fluids. My presentation will provide an overview of the enabling physical properties (e.g., interfacial tension modification, film formation on surfaces, biostability, vapor pressure, etc.) of the Synergex® alkanolamines, along with a number of new formulation strategies that allow for production of the best fluids. In addition, some new N-alkylalkanolamine derivatives will be discussed.

If you’re in Barcelona this week, I hope you’ll make it to the symposium at the Hotel Meliã Barcelona.

For those who may have missed my presentation during the STLE commercial forum in Atlanta, we’ve posted a raw video with slides here for your review.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

In this video, I talk with technical consultant Guy Verdino about the added value and advantages of using Synergex amine additives for metalworking fluids.