|
 AWARDEES BY DIVERSITY.COM
STRATCO, Inc. has been selected as one of the Awardees by DiversityBusiness.com. You have distinguished yourself as one of the top entrepreneurs in the country and are most deserving of this award and recognition.
As an award winner you are invited to attend the “9th Annual National Multicultural Awards Ceremony and Conference”. The event on April 29 –May 1, 2009 brings together America's Top Business Owners and the “Top Fortune 500” companies for promoting business opportunities. We look forward to the celebration along with your team.
 AMBASSADOR AWARD FOR ECOPATH CONTRACTING, LLC
Ecopath Contracting, LLC has been awarded the Rubber Pavements Association’s Asphalt Rubber Ambassador Award. This award is in appreciation and recognition for our outstanding and successful efforts in the introduction of asphalt rubber technology in new states and countries. In particular, for our superior customer service in the highly acclaimed and widely recognized New Jersey DOT Route 95 project placed in 2007.
 BIRO NAMED STRATCO’S SENIOR CHEMICAL ENGINEER
Scottsdale, AZ (October 27, 2008) -- Szabolcs “Yeti” Biro -- recipient of one of the highest awards in chemical technology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in his native country -- has joined the STRATCO GLOBAL Companies of Scottsdale as Senior Chemical Engineer.
Biro has significant experience in product and technology development programs for the hydrocarbon and petrochemical industries. He received his Masters and PhD degrees in chemical engineering in Hungary from an IChemE accredited university and later worked at Clemson University in South Carolina.
He is the main inventor of a world patented asphalt technology and materials program, and another of his technical solutions is currently going through the patenting process.
As a member of the STRATCO GLOBAL Companies, ECOPATH benefits from the experience of STRATCO, Inc., a global engineering and process design firm specializing in blending equipment for the production of grease, lubricants, bio-diesel and other emulsions and reaction processes. STRATCO’s history dates back to 1928.
STRATCO and ECOPATH are certified WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council) companies.
For further information, visit: www.stratcoglobal.com and www.ecopathindustries.com
ECOPATH was formed in 2004 to design and develop equipment and technology solutions for the modified asphalt industry, including rubber modified asphalt and polymer modified asphalt. Today
ECOPATH both sells and leases its polymer modified asphalt equipment to companies and governmental agencies throughout the world. As a member of the STRATCO Global Companies, ECOPATH benefits from the experience of STRATCO, Inc., a global engineering and process design firm specializing in blending equipment for the production of grease, lubricants, bio-diesel and other emulsions and reaction processes. STRATCO’s history dates back to 1928.
STRATCO and ECOPATH are certified WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council) companies.
For further information, visit: www.stratcoglobal.com and www.ecopathindustries.com.
 STRATCO AIDS NIPPON OIL'S ENTRY INTO U.S. MARKETS
When Nippon Oil, which identifies itself as Japan's number one oil company, decided to enter the U.S. market, it utilized the expertise of STRATCO, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona, to design and construct a grease plant at a unique lubricant manufacturing facility, now up and running in Childersburg, Alabama.
"This is the first installation of its type outside of Japan, and allows Nippon Oil to project a stronger presence in the global lubricant market," says John Kay, STRATCO's Engineering Vice President, who guided the grease plant's development. "We're proud to be involved in a project of this scope."
The new Alabama facility has just started providing specialty lubricants for U.S. factories operated by Toyota, Honda and Hyundai. Nippon Oil claims the lubricant plant has capacity to produce 38 million liters of lubricants and 800 metric tons of grease per year.
Both Nippon Oil and STRATCO have long histories in the oil and lubricant industries. STRATCO's goes all the way back to 1928.
Arizona-based STRATCO has been serving Nippon Oil at its other plants in Japan. "We've been involved in Japan a long time," says Diane Graham, CEO of STRATCO. In fact, she initiated the company's first agency contract in that country 25 years ago.
"Doing business throughout the United States and overseas for many years has allowed us to gain expertise and provide leadership in lubricating grease manufacturing technology," Graham states.
Just as the Alabama plant becomes a significant mark of Nippon Oil's entry into the U.S., so too it demonstrates STRATCO's expertise into the grease plant design and construction arena. STRATCO's main notoriety previously has been for its specialty blending equipment.
Most recently, STRATCO's sister company ECOPATH has developed unique blending units which allow its customers to produce well-publicized asphalt rubber road surfaces that are safer, quieter and longer lasting. And STRATCO is now helping roofing manufacturers produce asphalt rubber roofing shingles more effectively.
STRATCO got the Nippon Oil design and construction project by working through Pinnacle Oil of Indianapolis. Pinnacle was responsible for building Nippon Oil's production plant, but STRATCO's lubricating grease expertise was needed for the Alabama facility.
Just as Nippon Oil is expanding into this country as well as into China, STRATCO and ECOPATH are further spreading their wings internationally. ECOPATH, for example, recently placed its asphalt rubber blending units in Spain and Russia, as those nations launch major highway paving projects.
"There's a rapidly increasing need worldwide for cost effective and environmentally friendly products in our industry. We assist our Customers in that effort," adds Graham.
STRATCO and ECOPATH have scores of grease and asphalt customers throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Designing a lubricating plant for a Japanese firm in Alabama is the latest example of STRATCO's outreach.
For additional information about STRATCO, contact info@stratcoglobal.com
|
