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“When there’s a shortage in China, the price of these in-
termediates increases,” Dickson explains. “There’s been
quite a turmoil in the last three or four years out of Chi-
na, because the government has not been consistent in
whom they shut down.” The upside is that not only can
NFC offer its customers competitive prices on raw mate-
rials and intermediates due to its reliable sourcing from
its partners in China, it can also provide the type of qual-
ity and reliability in manufacturing that is only available
from a U.S.-based company. “Right now, therefore, there
is a shortage of companies like us that can scale-up new
processes. The reason we succeed is because when we
are working on a new product, our main focus is making
sure that customer is happy with our performance; we
do whatever is necessary to make sure the scale-up is
completed on-time and on-budget.”
According to Dickson, NFC’s current success is priming
it for new growth in the near future. “We are undergoing
an expansion,” he says. “We’re adding reactors for new
products; we’re doubling our warehousing facilities, and
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