Extensive Knowledge of Manufacturing Processes in the
Specialty Chemicals, Petrochemicals, Aerospace, and Semiconductor Industries

Marketing success results from appropriate assessment of technology, financial, organizational, and manufacturing factors as well as health, safety and environmental issues.

• Touchstone Marketing can support your product/process evaluation.
  
  
• Touchstone Marketing can give you objective readouts on manufacturing issues,
  such as chemical handling, in advance of process implementation.
  
  
• Touchstone Marketing can help you bring into focus a sound basis for the next business plan.
  

Isocyanates

Manufactured from simple building blocks, isocyanates of every degree of complexity are now in use. Formulations exist for a broad range of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, paints and coatings, athletic equipment, household furnishings, clothing, autos and trucks, etc.

• Touchstone Marketing evaluates the impact of key factors on manufacturing practices, blending for specific applications, or uses in third-tier markets.

Olefins

With the introduction of metallocene catalyst technology to olefins manufacturing, many more process technology choices are available. All include lab and online trace analysis for everything from sulfur compounds to hydrides, to oxygenates in order to guarantee product quality.

• Touchstone Marketing has knowledge of the stringent specifications issues that impact product/process technology selection for profitable operation.

Aerospace

Participation in the gas detection instrumentation evaluation and configuration for various hydrazines where they are used for powering the space shuttle guidance systems, Titan rockets and missiles, and the F-16 auxiliary power system, required familiarity with agency processes as well as engineering issues.

• Touchstone Marketing instrumentation needs assessments of all branches of the military provided the information needed for a military/aerospace business plan.

Semiconductor Manufacturing

Front-end wafer processing involves the use of many types of toxics, aside from the almost $700 million-a-year consumption of photoresists. The choice of manufacturing equipment, piping and gas cabinets, ventilation systems, toxics detection instrumentation, and layout of the processing area are all influenced by the chemicals used to produce a particular type of memory chip or microprocessor. The degree of self-insurance against damage to product, equipment, facility, and personnel, and the resulting downtime is measured by the impact of these factors on the price/cost ratio.

• Touchstone Marketing develops input from an interdisciplinary team, and matches that data with the evaluation of external market factors to project facility needs.

Healthcare / Pharmaceuticals: Research and QA Labs

Pharmaceutical production lines and life sciences labs as well as commercial, university, and government research centers are constantly looking at new processing equipment and tools. From high throughput racks and isolation barriers to ductless fume hoods, performance specifications vs. total cost of ownership is the primary equation for integration into research or manufacturing operations. Targeted use of fixed and portable systems for the detection of phosgene and isocyanates, based on these values, assures safe operation of manufacturing facilities.

• Touchstone Marketing works with you on evaluating new equipment and tools for the lab; decreased running costs go right to the bottom line.