Technical

By:  Bryan Young, Southern Regional Sales Manager

Today’s business climate has everyone searching their systems and processes for cost savings. One of the processes that is often overlooked is colorant waste. After years of working hand-in-hand with many of you, the colorant tote cleanout procedure needs a closer look.

By:  George Midlik, Midwestern Regional Sales Manager

By:  Kyle Schlegelmilch, Field Service Technician

By:  Scott Thompson, Vice President Sales and Marketing

By: Joanne Bednar, Lab and Quality Manager

Mixing pigments together to develop a particular color is as much an art as it is science. Formulating a color for a particular application and desired performance on a specific substrate dramatically increases the challenge in creating the desired product. A company’s technical engineering capabilities will define the quality of color dispersions and performance it can provide each of those markets.

Most of us know what would happen if we sat on a freshly painted park bench or leaned on a freshly painted wall. Coatings, like paints - and also like mulch colorants - need time to dry to “lock onto” the surfaces they are coating. The coatings will adhere to any surface that makes contact with them when they are wet – including the surfaces of droplets of rainwater! Once dry, even if water is later poured on them, the chemical bonds that secure them to a surface remain intact unless chemically broken or physically rubbed off.

By: Joanne Bednar, Lab & Quality Manager

A warranty is an obligation or guarantee that a product or service is as it is factually stated. That being said, what does Amerimulch warranty?

By: Robert Rynk, Agricultural Engineering, State University of New York (SUNY) Cobleskill and Richard Buggeln, Center for Industrial Services, University of Tennessee

Introduction
During the latter months of 2008, with much assistance from Amerimulch, we conducted a survey to better explain the factors that lead to fires at mulch and compost production facilities. We also wanted to learn how to successfully deal with a fire when one does occur. In short, we are searching for the “Do’s and Don’ts” of fire prevention and response.

By: Vince Hundt, Company Co-Founder
Rotochopper, Inc.

Landscape mulch is getting to be a more sophisticated and complex subject every year. Twenty years ago mulch was simply bark from trees. It was what customers got when they asked for mulch. It was cheap and plentiful, like the diesel fuel used to haul it. Then, in 1990 in Cleveland, AmeriMulch invented the idea of colored mulch. That changed everything.