Notre histoire
Les premières années
En 1986, l'ingénieur chimiste Michael Gottlieb était déjà un expert reconnu en matière d'échange d'ions pour le traitement de l'eau. Ayant gravi les échelons techniques de grandes marques telles que Permatit et Sybron, il avait plus d'une douzaine d'années d'expérience dans le secteur à son actif lorsque sa femme, Lynne, l'a incité à créer sa propre entreprise, ResinTech.
Working from the basement of his New Jersey home, Mike began importing resin from suppliers worldwide. The family kitchen doubled as the company laboratory where Mike would analyze resin samples to ensure they met his high- quality standards. He used a rented cement mixer to blend cation with anion. His sons were enlisted to bag the resin and ship it - one cubic foot at a time.
A family affair
Mike’s oldest son, Jeffrey, joined the company full time in 1986 as its Chief Financial Officer. A credit analyst for a regional bank in Philadelphia, Jeff had rich experience in global chemicals, wholesale and retail and manufacturing, and Middle Market lending. His first big “deal” in 1991 was to move business operations out of the family home and into a small 10,000 ft² facility a few miles away that included space for a lab, pilot plant, and warehouse.
Mike’s youngest son, Larry, a mechanical engineer, joined the company in 1993 and helped to improve operations and increase capacity steadily. He would leverage his mechanical expertise even more in the years ahead as the company began making filter cartridges and high-purity water systems.
Une affaire de famille
Le fils aîné de Mike, Jeffrey, a rejoint l'entreprise à temps plein en 1986 en tant que directeur financier. Analyste de crédit pour une banque régionale à Philadelphie, Jeff avait une riche expérience dans les produits chimiques mondiaux, la vente en gros et au détail, la fabrication et les prêts aux entreprises de taille moyenne. Son premier grand « coup » en 1991 a été de déménager les opérations commerciales de la maison familiale vers une petite installation de 10 000 pieds carrés située à quelques kilomètres, qui comprenait un espace pour un laboratoire, une usine pilote et un entrepôt.
Le fils cadet de Mike, Larry, ingénieur mécanicien, a rejoint l'entreprise en 1993 et a contribué à améliorer les opérations et à augmenter progressivement la capacité. Il mettrait à profit son expertise mécanique encore davantage dans les années à venir, alors que l'entreprise commençait à fabriquer des cartouches filtrantes et des systèmes d'eau ultra-pure.
Growth and expansion
Over the next three decades, the team steadily expanded the business through reinvestment. Each time they moved to a new facility,it seemed they would outgrow it within a few short years.
They aggressively acquired small, complementary operations and combined the assets and capabilities to form a new business units.
A Regeneration Services division (ACM Technologies) was established to offer offsite resin Regeneration, closed-loop wastewater treatment solutions, and RO membrane restoration.
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A Filterworks division (Aries Filterworks) resulted from acquiring multiple filter cartridge brands (Vaponics, Hydro Components, and others). This division would manufacture standard and custom water purification cartridges and high-purity lab water systems (producing HLPC water and more) leveraging ResinTech premium media - each made in America.
The company purchased more advanced analytic instrumentation and added more technical expertise to create a Lab Services division offering world-class, unbiased resin and water analysis to customers.
Manufacturing
In 2020, ResinTech opened its new state-of-the- art global headquarters and non-solvent cation plant in Camden, New Jersey USA. The 360,000 square foot complex is the first new ion exchange factory in the US in more than thirty years. Inside, it manufactures its own ion exchange resin from scratch to rigid specifications without using solvents.
The factory firmly establishes ResinTech as a premier manufacturer of water treatment products, including ion exchange resin, granular activated carbon, water purification cartridges, and high purity water systems — all proudly made in the USA. Learn more
ResinTech today
ResinTech continues to be a global leader in ion exchange for water purification, helping distributors and operators worldwide improve the quality of their water. The legendary technical expertise Mike Gottlieb established years ago continues to be the standard to which we hold ourselves.
In addition to our headquarters in Camden, New Jersey, ResinTech maintains operations in West Berlin, New Jersey; Forest Hill, Maryland; Sarasota, Florida; Chicago, Illinois; Gardena, California.
Together, our facilities provide millions of cubic feet of ion exchange resin, activated carbon, high purity water systems, and cartridges to customers in over 100 countries every year.
And it all started in a basement.