Our History

Pressure Chemical Co. founded in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Specialists in organometallic and novel materials, business initially focused on supplying catalog products to research chemists at universities.

Start of Pressure Chemical’s involvement and core competency in polymer chemistry with work on mono-dispersed polystyrene MW Standards and involvement in the development of the first mono dispersed polystyrene MW standards for GPC.

Pilot Plant Preparation of Polystyrene of Very Narrow Molecular Weight Distribution

Timothy Altares Jr. and E. L. Clark
Product R&D 1970 9 (2), 168-171
DOI: 10.1021/i360034a009

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/i360034a009

Pressure Chemical begins to expand capabilities and services.

Pressure produces a line of cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) (temperature sensitive color changes):

• initially for a defense application
• Serendipitous application for CLCs identified
• Mood Rings.

CLCs grow and are picked up for numerous applications such as medical, cosmetic, security, and other novel materials.

Business focus shifts to service based support of process development/scale up and custom manufacturing.

Multiple commercial products launched:

• TREN
• NPA
• KH

Pressure Chemical retains commercial product capabilities while focusing further on our core strengths of supporting our customer’s process development and custom manufacturing.

Joined the Minafin Group in November 2012

Continue our emphasis on helping our customers achieve success with product development and commercialization.