Need a high purity solvent blend? A new explosion-proof, stainless steel blending system, designed and constructed in-house, was recently put into service for the manufacture of solvent-based blends. The 500 gallon portable, stand-alone unit on a self-contained skid has all stainless steel fittings and tubing and all Teflon gaskets to make it fully compatible with solvent-based blends. It was designed with features to facilitate flexibility including the ability to change the filtration profile and inert gas blanketing. System features include:

• 316L Stainless Steel construction
• Crevice free welds to minimize particulates and contaminants
• Teflon gaskets
• Clean In Place (CIP) capability with Teflon spray ball to insure complete rinse coverage, thereby eliminating cross-contamination concerns
• 500 Gallon Capacity
• Offset Impeller used for optimization of mixing
• Filtration Bank to enable the use of different filtration media from bag filters to eliminate large particles to 0.1 µ cartridge filters
• Headspace purging with inert gas
• Explosion Proof (Class I; Division 1) to insure safe operation
• Solids or Liquids addition hopper
• Statistical Process Control Capability via flow meters and pressure gauges

For more information about our solvent blending capability as it relates to your needs, please call us at (610) 866-4225 or toll free at (877)-7PURITAN.

Puritan Products hit a milestone by achieving their highest sales in the history of the company in August of 2007. To celebrate this significant event, all employees and their spouses were invited to a local restaurant to enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres. The increased business is attributed, in part, to the installation of a new solvent blending system that was built to accommodate an ongoing project with one of our key pharmaceutical customers, and an increase in order volume from one of our key contract manufacturing clients. 

President and General Manager, Lou DiRenzo spoke to the crowd of about 30 people thanking them for their contributions to the record sales month. "I am committed to the success of Puritan Products and want to demonstrate my appreciation to the staff by celebrating successes when they occur", says Lou DiRenzo. The company expects that the new business responsible for this increase in sales will be sustainable, and contribute to the attainment of the revenue figures in the company's five-year strategic plan. As a result of this month's success, Puritan Products is anticipating excellent third quarter performance!

Puritan Products has made a recent investment to improve data management in their laboratory with the implementation of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from Blaze Systems. The system has been installed in our own fully equipped Quality Control Laboratory. 

LIMS is computer software that is used in the laboratory for data management of samples, laboratory users, instruments, standards, and other laboratory functions such as invoicing and work flow automation. Our LIMS is integrated with laboratory instrumentation such as our ICP-OES or Inductively Coupled Plasma-Optical Emission Spectroscopy which detects metals at very low levels, and our new IC or Ion Chromatograph, which is a form of liquid chromatography that uses ion-exchange resins to separate atomic or molecular ions based on their interaction with the resin. The results generated from the instruments integrated with LIMS are fed directly into the system. This allows a certificate of analysis to be automatically generated without the need for the manual input of data.

The indirect benefit of this function is that human error is eliminated, and the process is standardized. This improvement in data management is consistent with our dedication to continuous improvement as required in the ISO 9001-2000 standard. The LIMS enables us to provide our customers complete traceability and audit trails to insure accountability and auditability. The LIMS also facilitates the organization of all analytical results which can be used to perform statistical analysis. Reports are generated using "Crystal Reports" software although data can be expressed in pdf, csv, xml, Excel, Word and other formats that may be needed to accommodate our customers.

The implementation of the LIMS software has given Puritan Products more capability to meet our customers' needs. It ties all lab work to a relational database that can be used to generate different reporting formats, and the data can be used to perform a wide variety of statistical analyses. This makes this software a very useful tool to satisfy the ever changing needs of our customers. 

Since the LIMS is a modular type of system, it has the ability to be expanded as our needs and the needs of our customers evolve. Our investment in this technology demonstrates our commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. It addresses our charge to uphold an important precept in the company's mission statement: Our mission, through empowered employees guided by shared values is to provide high-purity, custom formulated, and specialty chemicals that exceed the expectations of our customers; and to continuously improve our quality systems while doing so. Puritan Products believes the LIMS is a very important tool that will help us exceed our customers' expectations by providing us with the ability to optimize sample turnaround and provide information more quickly.

June, 2007 – Puritan Products, Inc. of Bethlehem, PA is pleased to announce that they have signed a distribution agreement to bring their products and chemical blending services to Mexico.  The signing of this agreement is the result of the company’s participation in a trade mission trip to Mexico arranged through the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development.   Puritan Products’ distribution partner in Mexico is CIPO, S.A. (Commercializadora Industrial de Pharmacos de Occidente SA de CV).  Puritan Products will join CIPO’s line card along with other companies they represent including:  Spectrum Chemical (USA), Camphor Technologies (USA), New Chem (Italy), Hawk (USA), Unipetrol (Spain), ChemSwiss (Switzerland), and Gujarat Glass (India).  CIPO’s field sales force will concentrate on promoting Puritan Products’ high purity, reagent and electronic grade chemicals.  Emphasis will be placed on finding custom chemical blending opportunities that provide a value position for export to Mexico.  CIPO is well connected to the chemical markets in Mexico City, Monterrey, and Guadalajara.  Guadalajara has earned the nickname as “the Silicon Valley of Mexico”.   Both companies believe that the Puritan Products line of chemicals and services is a natural complement to the other product lines CIPO handles.  CIPO has temperature controlled storage and warehouse facilities and maintains their own fleet of trucks and distribution agreements to meet their customers’ needs.  A marketing program is currently underway to introduce Puritan Products to CIPO’s existing customer base.

Puritan Products, Inc.’s new capabilities brochure has won a Gold Award in the design/creativity category at the MarCom Creative Awards competition. The competition, which is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals, recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communications professionals.

The brochure, one of 5,000 entries from throughout the U.S. and several other countries, was designed and produced by Kraemer Schurman Advertising & Design, Inc. (KSA&D) — a full-service marketing and advertising firm located in Allentown, PA.

Employing large-scale, full-color photography of our plant and its people, the 12-page brochure highlights our full range of products and support services. Each two-page spread displays a photo of Puritan employees and attention-getting white type/black background on the left-hand page, and a plant shot with short descriptive copy on the right-hand page.

ABOUT PURITAN PRODUCTS, INC.

Puritan Products, Inc. is a manufacturer of high purity custom formulated and specialty chemicals. These products are used in research and quality control laboratories, universities, and for manufacturing in the pharmaceutical, microelectronics, and other industrial markets. Puritan Products, Inc. is based in Bethlehem, PA and has been in business since 1987. For further information, please visit the website at www.puritanproducts.com.

BETHLEHEM, PA - In support of the company's commitment to industry and community safety, health and environmental stewardship, Puritan Products, Inc. has donated $2,000 to the Lehigh County Hazardous Materials Response Team. The company has directed that these funds be used to purchase new training materials for industry and public emergency response personnel to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage a hazardous materials emergency.

As part of its corporate vision and mission, Puritan Products is committed to being a good corporate citizen and doing what it can to facilitate and promote safety within its industry and in the community. "This investment is being made to improve the training of Lehigh County's First Responders and our community's preparedness to respond to hazardous materials emergencies," says Lou Di Renzo, president and general manager of Puritan Products, Inc.

Puritan Products, Inc. is a manufacturer of high purity custom formulated and specialty chemicals. These products are used in research and quality control laboratories, universities, and for manufacturing in the pharmaceutical, microelectronics, and other industrial markets. Puritan Products, Inc. is based in Bethlehem, PA and has been in business since 1987. For more information, please visit the company?s website at www.puritanproducts.com.