Research & Development
Chemical Research & Development Services
NASD:  PROA

Polymer Research Corporation

2186 Mill Avenue
Brooklyn, NY  11234

Dr. Carl Horowitz
Chairman, President and
Chief Executive Officer

Interview conducted by:
Diane Reynolds, Co-Publisher

CEOCFOinterviews.com
April 2001

Bio of CEO

I am a graduate of Columbia University where I studied under Professor Fink who is a famous authority on Electrochemistry.  After graduating, I enrolled at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn.  At that time, I was studing under Professor Herman Mark, who is the father of Polymer Chemistry and he gave me the introduction into Polymer Chemistry.  After working for 13 years in a battery company in New York, I opened my own company with a partner.  We came out with an idea to do research work for other companies.  After a while, I developed a method of chemical attachment called chemical grafting patents and patent applications, which we are using now to solve problems for other companies.  We do research work for hundreds of different fields.  Chemical grafting is adaptable to any phase of manufacturing for any company who wants to improve their product or make it more competitive or to fulfill government regulations.  We have been very successful in that area and we will continue to do it and we intend to expand in that area in the future.

CEOCFOinterviews – Tell us about your company whether it be products or services.

Dr. Horowitz – We have a method of attachment of different chemicals.  We call these chemicals monomers.  Monomers are building blocks of polymers.  For example, styrene is a monomer.  Polystyrene is a polymer, which consists of chains of monomers of styrene.   However, our process is different.  We’ve taken an existing item, which we call substrate, which belongs to the client, and we grow those chains of monomers on the backbone of the existing item.  For example, if we grow on the backbone of cotton a chain of monomers containing phosphorus and chlorine, that cotton will become permanently nonflammable.  If we grow on the backbone of a plastic like polyolefine we grow on it dye able monomers, the whole polyolefine becomes dyeable.  This is more or less what grafting consists of.  We have numerous patents in that field.

CEOCFOinterviews – How many manufacturing plants do you have?

Dr. Horowitz – We have two.  One is in Brooklyn, New York where we have about 20 scientists working to satisfy the clients’ demands in solving his problem.  Once his problem is solved we come up with a formula and that formula is then offered to the client on an exclusive basis and we manufacture in our plant large quantities of the formulation that we have developed for the client.   The other plant is in Phoenix, AZ where a former employee of our company opened a western branch and she is doing the same thing on a smaller scale. 

CEOCFOinterviews – Do you do this on a global basis?

Dr. Horowitz – Yes. We do this worldwide in almost every country in Europe, in the Far East, North America Australia, Japan and Mainland China.

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