The following details my interaction with companies that manufacture terpenic resins.<\/p>\n
Arizona Chemical: While I was writing the review on terpenic resins I made multiple attempts to contact their president, C. Kees Verhaar.\u00a0 After sending about four (unanswered) emails and then several letters I did finally get a phone call from Mr. Verhaar (while I was proctoring a chemistry lecture and thus unable to field it).\u00a0 Despite returning the call promptly I ran into a dead end.\u00a0 To be honest, I was very surprised that this didn\u2019t result in follow up of any sort.\u00a0 Had Arizona cooperated they would have been showcased in the book chapter itself.\u00a0 It is ironic that it was chemists from this company (some 30 years ago) that had written the most extensive reviews on terpenic resins (prior to mine); however, this time around Arizona Chemical didn\u2019t contribute a single data point, photograph, or schematic.\u00a0 Seeing that the chapter appeared in a book focusing on green chemistry one has to wonder what these people are thinking; that is, if renewable polymer chemistry is truly an area of interest for them why wouldn\u2019t they contribute to it?\u00a0 My hope is that word will reach Mr. Verhaar about my upcoming book and he will look me up and make a contribution to it.<\/p>\n
DRT:\u00a0 I sent several requests to this company for information on terpenic resins and never generated a single response.\u00a0 Maybe they don\u2019t make these products anymore?<\/p>\n
Yashura:\u00a0 Nothing more than the same sort of behavior as witnessed with DRT and Arizona Chemical.\u00a0 I made multiple attempts to get them to provide some information to me for my book chapter on terpenic resins.\u00a0 Maybe they only speak Japanese?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The following details my interaction with companies that manufacture terpenic resins. Arizona Chemical: While I was writing the review on terpenic resins I made multiple attempts to contact their president, C. Kees Verhaar.\u00a0 After sending about four (unanswered) emails and … Continue reading