Technical Applications Center Corporate History

Our Technical Applications Center encompasses The company that is known today as Esprix Technologies a 7000 square foot facility that houses a formulating was born as a division of the international fine chemicals and analytical laboratory, a pilot toner production area, business of the Koch Chemical Company, a and a print studio with end-use Electro-Photographic wholly-owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, Inc., (laser) printers, Inkjet Desktop printers, and Inkjet of Wichita, Kansas. In 1982, this division became an Wide-Format printers to support Esprix's growing independent entity, known as Nachem, Inc. Based portfolio of digital imaging chemistries. in Braintree, Massachusetts, Nachem flourished as a worldwide supplier of fine chemicals. One of the Esprix's Toner Technologies Laboratory is the companies represented by Nachem was Yorkshire Laboratory only independent toner laboratory in the United Chemicals PLC, based in Leeds, England. Services States and has an in-house Pilot Production Facility for manufacturing and testing toner The new company experienced rapid growth and formulations as well as performing comparative relocated to larger facilities in Rockland, Massachusetts raw material analysis within formulations. in 1990. The following year, the businesses within Yorkshire-Nachem were differentiated by the creation Another facet of TAC is the addition of controlled of the Esprit Chemical Company, a new division with atmosphere brazing (CAB) ovens used for testing a focus on non-Yorkshire produced performance and development of flux systems used to produce chemicals. In August 1993, the Esprit Chemical automotive heat exchangers. Company, an independent entity no longer affiliated with Yorkshire-Nachem, Inc. established its new Capabilities headquarters in Sarasota, Florida. As a separate company, Throughout the chemical industry we have seen Esprit achieved success in a number of product areas. a growing trend to consolidate R&D efforts and In the year 2000, Esprit Chemical Company evolved into technical teams for a variety of reasons. As a result Esprix Technologies in order to more clearly define itself there is mounting pressure to quickly develop and as a provider of state-of-the-art technology and materials. implement new chemical formulations in order to keep up with market demands. This encumbrance has forced companies to outsource and look to their key suppliers for additive support capabilities.

Esprix’s collaborative laboratory team works closely with our customers to develop, modify, and test new Locations: and existing formulations for both pulverized toner and inkjet receptive substrate coatings. In addition, Esprix Technologies our vast array of raw materials enables us to perform 7680 Matoaka Road | Sarasota, FL 34243 | U.S.A. comparative analysis within these formulations. Phone 941.355.5100 | Fax 941.358.1339 [email protected] Independent Contract R&D Projects and Consulting Services are also available. Network Mumbai, India | Tokyo, Japan | Shanghai, China Atlas Suntest XLS+ QEA PIAS® 3

Hosokawa PT-X Beckman Coulter Multisizer 4 Inkjet and Laser Print Center with Image Analysis Testing Equipment Analytical Laboratory for Physical • Desktop Inkjet Printers and Thermal Property Testing • Wide Format Inkjet Printers • Laser Printers and Copiers • Capillary Rheometer Shimadzu Flowmeter Silverson L4RT-W Metler TGA-DSC 3+ • Image and Print Analysis for Viscosity Evaluation • QEA PIAS II with UV Optics • Multisizer Coulter Counter for Wet Chemistry Laboratory Utilized • X-Rite SpectroDensitometer for Color Particle Characterization for Inkjet Receptive Coating Output Measurement • Epping Q/m Mono for Mono-Component, Formulation Development on • BYK Gardner Spectro-Guide for Color Magnetic, and Non-Magnetic Developers Specialized Media and Gloss Measurement • Vertex Triboelectric Tester for Charge to • BYK Gardner MPOR Tester for Coating Thickness Mass Ratios (Q/m) • Silverson High Sheer Lab Mixer for Mixing, • Spherical Stylus Scratch Tester for Scratch Emulsifying, Homogenizing, Disintegrating, • Hosokawa Powder Flow Tester Adhesion Analysis and Dissolving • Metler TGA-DSC 3+ • Atlas Suntest XLS+ benchtop Xenon Tester Lab/Pilot Toner Production Facility • Scanning Electron Microscope • Mixing Stations for Wet Chemistry • Light Microscope • Coperion/Buss Kneader System TCS • Ohaus Moisture Balances (Toner Coating Systems) • Instron for Material and Structural Testing • Various Drying Ovens and Furnaces • Fitzmills • Corona Treaters to Change the Surface Energy • 10L, 40L , 150L Henschel High Intensity Mixer of Certain Substrates • Trost Air Impact Pulverizer and Micron Master • Brookfield Viscometers for Viscosity and for Particle Size Reduction Torque Measurements • Donaldson Accucut Classifiers to Disperse and Separate Ultra Fine Particles • Vorti-Siv RVM-22E Ultrasonic Sieve

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