Grace Positions for Growth with Significant Investment in New East Chicago, IN Lab
The East Chicago location is one of Grace’s global manufacturing sites where the LUDOX® colloidal silica brand is produced.
In March 2021, Grace completed construction on our new, state-of-the-art analytical lab in our U.S. colloidal silica manufacturing site in East Chicago, IN.
The East Chicago location is one of Grace’s global manufacturing sites where the LUDOX® colloidal silica brand is produced. In June 2020, a new LUDOX® colloidal silica plant opened in Worms, Germany to meet increased global demand. This substantial investment in the analytical lab comes as Grace continues to see enduring year-over-year growth of its flagship colloidal silica brand LUDOX®.
A key product in Grace’s specialty silica portfolio, LUDOX® colloidal silica is used in a wide range of applications including catalysts, investment casting binders, coatings and refractory additives, concrete, non-stick cookware, and much more. Cited in over 35,000 patents, LUDOX® colloidal silica still has considerable untapped potential for new and innovative uses. Grace’s proprietary manufacturing process produces an extremely narrow particle size distribution and allows LUDOX® colloidal silica particles to be chemically customized, making it a preferred brand for challenging high-performance applications.
Chad Starr, Plant Manager, notes: “The renovation supports the team’s continued quest to uncover new uses for LUDOX® colloidal silica. The new, state-of-the-art lab will be a driving force in Grace’s continued innovation and growth.”
As an active member of the East Chicago community since 2000, Grace has been contributing to the local economy through employment and charitable donations for 21 years.
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Grace's expertise in applying innovative technologies to base materials such as silica and alumina transform them into functional ingredients such as silica gels, silica sols, precipitated silica, zeolitic molecular sieves, and modified silica products that impart a range of beneficial properties to industrial products.
LUDOX®
LUDOX® colloidal silicas are discrete nanoscale spherical particles of amorphous silica dispersed in water.
