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Finally, Deepwater does a small
amount of toll blending. Toll blending
is a specialty service whereby compa-
nies with complex chemical formula-
tions have their batches mixed and
processed into a final product. Tolling
allows a company with a unique for-
mula to send its materials and pro-
cess information to a specialized com-
pany, like Deepwater, for production,
packaging, and in some cases, final
delivery. “We have two, large Hastelloy
Reactors,” Wachnowsky says. “Hastel-
loy is a very high alloy steel that we’re
looking for opportunities to utilize for
those tolling opportunities that would
require cGMP reactive chemistries,
beyond blending, where we can add
value to their business.”
Adding knowledge-based value to the
planet’s naturally-occurring iodine
for the benefit of its customers and
the world at large is precisely what
Deepwater Chemicals has been doing
for decades. “Our expertise is iodine
chemistry,” Wachnowsky says, sum-
ming up. “We’re working with those
people who value the time, efforts, and the resources
we put into helping them develop a new product. There
are very few that do what we do. I won’t say we’re the
only, but there are very few. So it does set us apart.”
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company’s worldwide network. It was founded in 1971
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which allowed customers to drop off packages without
going to a company local branch. The name “FedEx” is
a syllabic abbreviation of the name of the company’s
original air division, Federal Express, which was used
from 1973 until 2000. The company is known for its
overnight shipping service, but also for pioneering a
system that could track packages and provide real-
time updates on package location, a feature that has
now been implemented by most other carrier services.
FedEx Express operates one of the largest civil aircraft
fleets in the world and the largest fleet of wide bodied
civil aircraft; it also carries more freight than any other
airline.
