The BCS Customer Service team - Jessica Beggs and Endia Thigpen - hosted a Christmas breakfast at the Sandersville plant.
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BCS had a great time in Vancouver at the Association of Water Technologies (AWT) 2022 Convention and Expo. Turnout for the show was pleasantly increased from the Covid years, and it was good to see everyone again in person! The Vancouver convention center was a beautiful setting, right on the harbour - a fitting backdrop of water. BCS presented our offerings of biocides, along with scale control and corrosion inhibiting technologies such as AA/AMPS copolymers, polyacrylic homopolymers, phosphinocarboxylic acid polymer (PCA), sulfonated phosphinocarboxylic acid polymer (S-PCA).
Come see us next year at the AWT convention, October 4-7, 2023 in Grand Rapids, MI! L to R: Jonathan Denis, VP - Operations; Luke Damian, Product Manager; Melissa McWilliams, Marketing Manager For several years, BCS has enjoyed attending the Specialty Chemicals America show in Charleston. It has been an opportunity to connect with our suppliers, customers, and partners in the chemical industry in a more intimate setting. This year, BCS had our own booth in the lobby of the show! We hope to exhibit again at the show in Savannah in June 2023 to meet more contacts in the industry that may benefit from our polymer dispersant or biocide product lines, or our custom manufacturing, blending, storage, or packaging services.
BCS has been granted a patent from the Republic of Brazil's National Institute of Industrial Property for our method of biocide treatment for industrial applications, namely, mineral slurries and oil field applications. This international patent covers the method of treating mineral slurries to inhibit bacterial growth by adding an effective amount of sodium N-methyldithiocarbamate (a.k.a. metam) or methylammonium monomethyldithiocarbamate (MDTCMA). These chemistries offer more versatility in the biocide treatment package of slurries by addressing changing slurry formulations, regulatory constraints, slurry interactions, efficacy, odor, etc. The mineral slurry can be any type typically treated with biocides, including but not limited to the following slurries containing water: kaolin, starch, clays, calcium carbonate, or titanium dioxide. The patent also covers the improvement in methods of treating adhesives, coatings, and high viscosity suspensions to inhibit bacterial growth.
Contact BCS at info@bcschem.com for more information on our biocide packages! The Georgia Mining Association Board of Directors recognized one of their own, BCS' President Seth Spurlock, as Associate Member of the Year at the 2021 GMA Convention in Ponte Vedra, FL. Seth is a member of the GMA Board and a leader in the Committee for Good Government. In addition to his company providing solutions for chemical needs in the mining industry, he has donated significant portions of his time, expertise, and financial support to the Association and Scholarship Foundation.
The Georgia Mining Association recognized BCS for our safety record at the 2021 GMA Convention. BCS worked 11 years, 11 months between 01/2009 and 12/2020 without a lost-time injury. This achievement in safety is a representation of the impact and focus of the BCS Safety Program. As a chemical manufacturer, safety is of utmost importance and the program strives to maintain this record in the manufacture of biocides and polyacrylates at our plant in Sandersville, GA. New tolled products or contract manufacturing projects are thoroughly vetted and all new chemistries and processes evaluated before implementation. We take this approach to product stewardship to our customers as well; our sales team completes training on proper application of biocides and dispersants - developing in depth understanding of applications like water treatment, preservation of paints, coatings, slurries, construction materials, mineral slurry dispersion. BCS is honored by the recognition of these efforts.
BCS' Vice President of Operations, Jonathan Denis, received the award. BCS was recently granted a patent for a novel use of the biocide MDTCMA (BCS product name MamateTM) in gas and oil well stimulations: Patent No. US 10,793,451 B2. This chemistry can be used to replace biocides such as 2,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione (also commonly referred to as “Dazomet”) which is a known formaldehyde releaser. MamateTM has a 50% concentration of active ingredient which is twice as high as 2,5-dimethyl-1,3,5-thiadiazinane-2-thione, and as such can be applied at a more cost effective dosage.
We would like to recognize our summer intern, Jackson Colley, for all of his hard work this summer! He has been intricately involved in several high-priority product development projects, and we could not be more appreciative of his contributions.
Jackson started his freshman year in 2017 at the Georgia Institute of Technology and plans on graduating in May of 2022. He is majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, with a focus on polymers, and minoring in Physics. In upcoming semesters, he would like to get involved with undergraduate research on COVID 19. Jackson has excelled in his coursework, making the Dean's List three times so far, and maintaining the HOPE scholarship. He is an active member of the Sigma Chi fraternity on campus and served as the Ritualist for a year and a half. In addition to interning for BCS this summer, Jackson's summers have been busy: last year he lived in Metz, France for three months studying at the Georgia Tech campus there and traveling all over Europe; the summer of 2018, he was an intern for BASF at their middle Georgia facilities as a maintenance engineer. The Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University recently announced the recipients of the Spring 2020 Outstanding Student awards. BCS is proud to share that our Operations Manager, Jonathan Denis, has been named the this year's Outstanding Student for the Evening MBA Program.
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