Innovation Center

Innovation has made us who we are today; reinventing ourselves through innovation will secure our future and make us who we will be tomorrow.  With a sixty-three year tradition of providing chemical solutions for our customers problems, SASCO has developed, produced, and marketed over twelve hundred products in six diverse markets.  To continue this forward-thinking progression, SASCO has recently opened a new state-of-the-art Innovation and Technology Center, that will house R&D, Technical, and Process-Pilot plant team.  This facility is equiped with a wet chemistry lab, rubber proccesing lab, and analytical science lab.

With hundreds of years of combined industry and research knowledge, SASCO's Innovation Center is staffed for success: Technology Center Leadership:

	Gary Freeman, PhD Director of Technology & Quality Gary joined SASCO in 2006, and currently serves as the Director of Technology & Quality. He heads up the technical teams that are responsible for the research, development, commercial scale-up and quality control related activities associated with SASCO’s various product lines. Gary is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a PhD in Organometallic Chemistry and has 30 years of new product development experience. He has worked in various technical capacities from Senior Scientist roles to Senior Technical Management positions with a number of Fortune 500 companies. His technical expertise spans the areas of surfactant science, colloidal chemistry, inorganic pigment development, mineral processing technology, surface modification technology for particulates and coating formulation science as applied across a number of end-use market areas including detergents and industrial cleaners, wet-end paper chemistry and paper coating technology, architectural paints and industrial coatings as well as reinforcements and performance additives for rubber and plastic composites. His technical expertise in the area of surface modification for inorganic particulates being used in coating, paper, rubber and plastics applications is particularly well recognized. He is the inventor of over 40 US patents, many of which cover commercially successful products and process technologies.
	Walt Lackey Rubber Applications Manager Walt is a 1978 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., and obtained a Masters from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia in 1999. He entered the Rubber Industry in 1980 with Goshen Rubber in Snow Hill, N.C., and has been in the Rubber and Plastics industry for more than thirty years. Walt is an active member of the ACS, the Rubber Division of the ACS and Regional Rubber Groups. He has been published several times and given numerous technical presentations.
	Kelli Lindstrom Research Chemist Kelli is a recent graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Originally from San Diego, Kelli joined the SASCO research team immediately after graduation where she has started her Research Chemist career.