Chocolate Bayou Facility

Polymer Chemistry Chocolate Bayou is our rail-and-truck-served specialty chemicals facility, located near Alvin, Texas – 35 miles south of Houston. This full commercial plant offers a unique combination of process development and custom manufacturing for both small molecules and polymers in gram, kilogram and multi-ton quantities, and is conveniently located in close proximity to raw materials.

The facility features various high-viscosity stainless steel reactors up to 10,000 gallons, Hastelloy® units that enable work with acid-based products, and a unique distillation tower with 77 HETP for ultra-high purity distillations. The staff of PhD chemists and chemical engineers can create customized solutions to the challenges involved in synthesizing and processing specialty chemicals, particularly monomers and polymers.

Services

Toll manufacturing services

Typical and specialty polymerizations

Specialty small molecule synthesis

Complex and high-purity distillations

Process & product development

Process scale-up

Product commercialization

Comprehensive laboratory support

Production Equipment

Pilot Equipment

Pilot plant of the 100, 200 and 300 units

Several stainless steel polymerization reactors ranging from 6 to 400 gallons

Complete wet laboratory capable of glassware modeling most processes

Storage & Shipping

150,000 gallon tank farm, mostly stainless steel tanks,
5,000 to 25,000 gallons

Rail and truck dock facilities

Analytical Capabilities

Analytical capabilities include gas chromatography (GC),
high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), gel permeation chromatography (GPC), infrared (IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), mass spectroscopy, viscosities (kinematic, dynamic and intrinsic), titration with Ross Karl Fischer electrode, thermal testing
and mechanical testing.