Renco Corporation Launches RencoMed. New Products Focus on Advancing Patient Hygiene and Infection Control
Manchester, MA, November, 2006 - RencoMed is a subsidiary of Renco Corporation, a leading supplier and manufacturer of industrial safety and polymer products with custom-engineered solutions. RencoMed is proud to introduce the only disposable health care products providing water-proof protection of IV catheter sites. RencoMed's next-generation polymeric solutions, the IV-Sleeve and the IV-Glove, reduce the incidence of infection and improve patient hygiene. Both products are quickly becoming care delivery staples in healthcare and convalescent facilities.
Renco Corporation Introduces Products Made From
Butadyl
Material Suitable for Many Situations
Requiring Hypalon¨, Neoprene, Nitrile, or Latex
Manchester, MA, August 19, 2002 - Renco Corporation, a
privately held supplier and manufacturer of drybox gloves,
fingercots, ports, and other safety products, announced today the
successful introduction of its line of Butadyl products to its
expanding list of industrial products.
Butadyl, which is a carboxylated acrylonitrile butadiene rubber
with polymer additives, was recently developed to serve as a
cost-efficient potential material replacement in products made
from Hypalon¨, Neoprene, Nitrile, or Latex. Butadyl is often used
in situations where vaporized hydrogen peroxide (VHP) is present,
and it also offers strong resistance to most aromatic
hydrocarbons, petroleum solvents, oils, fats, acids, and greases.
To view all of the products made from Hypalon¨, Natural Latex,
Neoprene, Nitrile, and Butadyl that are available from Renco
Corporation, or to find out more about the characteristics of
Butadyl, please visit the Products section of www.rencogloves.com.
For updated product numbers and pricing, please contact Renco
Corporation at (978) 526-8494.
About Renco Corporation
Renco Corporation is a
world-leading supplier and manufacturer of industrial products and
provider of custom-engineered solutions. Renco offers a wide range
of drybox and isolator gloves and sleeves made from polymers such
as Nitrile, Butyl, Hypalon¨, Latex Rubber, Neoprene, Viton¨, and
Butadyl. Renco supplies port, static control, and fingercot
products, as well as its patented Titeline¨ connector system, to
leading manufacturing and R&D facilities worldwide. Renco also
produces custom-designed products, such as containment bags for
NASA's International Space Station and customized forms for
Argonne National Labs. The company has over 1,200 customers in 20
countries, including the US Government, Merck, Fairchild
Semiconductor, Dupont, Motorola, 3M, Samsung, Astra Zeneca, Ford,
Texas Instruments, and leading universities worldwide. For more
information, visit http://www.thomasregister.com/byebye.cgi?http://www.rencogloves.com.
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Renco
Corporation Re-Launches www.rencogloves.com
New Website Also Includes
OrderOnline
Manchester, MA, August 12, 2002 - Renco Corporation
today unveiled the new design of its website, www.rencogloves.com.
The re-launched website includes a new look-and-feel and new
information on recently introduced materials and products.
Users will also now be able to place Request-for-Quotes (RFQ)
through www.rencogloves.com by using the site's OrderOnline
feature. Since quantity and reseller discounts are available for
many of Renco's products, this feature will allow users to send to
Renco an RFQ that is customized to the customer's quantity level
requested and reseller/end-user/consumer status.
The website lists most, but not all, of the products available
from Renco. The company often supplies and manufactures products
that require customization and will continue to do so in the
future. Customized orders and inquiries can still be directed to
Renco via phone or fax.
The new website was developed by Web-Kare, LLP, which is
located in Raymond, NH, a web design and search engine
optimization firm.
About Renco Corporation
Renco Corporation is a
world-leading supplier and manufacturer of industrial products and
provider of custom-engineered solutions. Renco offers a wide range
of drybox and isolator gloves and sleeves made from polymers such
as Nitrile, Butyl, Hypalon¨, Latex Rubber, Neoprene, Viton¨, and
Butadyl. Renco supplies port, static control, and fingercot
products, as well as its patented Titeline¨ connector system, to
leading manufacturing and R&D facilities worldwide. Renco also
produces custom-designed products, such as containment bags for
NASA's International Space Station and customized forms for
Argonne National Labs. The company has over 1,200 customers in 20
countries, including the US Government, Merck, Fairchild
Semiconductor, Dupont, Motorola, 3M, Samsung, Astra Zeneca, Ford,
Texas Instruments, and leading universities worldwide. For more
information, visit http://www.thomasregister.com/byebye.cgi?http://www.rencogloves.com.
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Growing Global Net Bridges Gap Between Small N.E.
Businesses, International Customers
By D.C Denison
Boston Globe
April 22,
2001
Richard Renehan first explored the possibility of
selling his products overseas in 1991. "I remember carrying a
briefcase filled with gloves around Madrid, calling on possible
distributors," said the president of Renco Corp., a manufacturer
of specialty industrial gloves based in Manchester.
Today, Renehan is still pursuing foreign business,
not only in Spain, but also in Israel, China, France, England, and
Switzerland. International sales now account for 20 percent of his
business and are increasing. But Renehan no longer has to carry
samples around in a briefcase. He's doing most of his prospecting
from a perch in front of a computer connected to the Internet.
"Our first contact from many international customers
often starts with, 'We found this product on your Web site...' "
Renehan said.
By contrast, overseas exports were never part of
Michele Meek's early business plans. When Meek launched
BuyIndies.com, a distributor of hard-to-find independent videos
and DVDs, she planned to limit her market to the United States. "I
wanted to keep it simple," she said from her office in Winchester.
Yet within days of her launch, in January 2000, the international
orders started arriving by e-mail from Japan, Canada, and the
United Kingdom. As a result, Meek is working to expand her
company's computer systems to automatically determine whether she
has the rights to sell a film to a foreign customer.
Many small and medium-size New England businesses
are finding themselves in the same position as Renehan and Meek,
dealing with international markets that are suddenly more
accessible than ever, primarily because of the growth of the
Internet and the ubiquity of e-mail. For some companies, the
opportunity to expand overseas is irresistible. Other businesses
are almost reluctant to enter foreign markets but are pulled into
dealing with export issues by the global reach of the Web.
Small businesses like BuyIndies.com soon discover
that they don't really have a choice: If your company is
accessible via the Web (which is, after all, short for World Wide
Web), it's difficult to put up domestic barriers. "I discovered
that if your business is on the Web, you're going to be reaching a
worldwide audience whether you want to or not," Meek said. "You
have to be prepared for how you're going to handle it."
Fortunately, international trade information has
never been more plentiful. Many early Web-based business models,
like vertical marketplaces and narrow informational portals, were
built around the concept of global trade. The US Commerce
Department is also taking an interest in online exports, after
studies showed that more than half of international orders
received by small businesses go unfulfilled. From the department's
perspective, there are two "digital divides": one between those
who have computer access and those who don't and another between
companies that know how to use e-commerce tools and those that do
not.
This second digital divide will be the focus of a
daylong conference this Friday at Boston's World Trade Center
hosted by the Massachusetts Export Center, a government-funded
export information clearinghouse. The conference, "E is for
Exports," is designed to encourage "global sales powered by the
Internet."
"There is still an information gap," said Michelle
O'Neill, the Commerce Department's assistant secretary of commerce
for information technology industries, who will be the keynote
speaker at the conference. "We believe that there's a great
potential for many small businesses to expand overseas, but not
enough companies are taking advantage of it."
Of course, many of the challenges facing US
exporters are not new. Finding trade partners, researching
markets, dealing with tariffs and shipping charges - all are
unavoidable complications that accompany the export process. But
today's exporter can leverage a number of Internet resources that
were unavailable just a few years ago. Market research, for
example, is one area that has moved online. Sites like
Exportall.com, Export Hotline, and Trade Compass all attempt to
aggregate important and relevant information for US businesses.
The Commerce Department has also collected export-related
information into a single interface at www.export.gov.
Tony Luzza, international channels manager for
Ipswitch.com, a software company based in Lexington, uses the
Internet to explore new markets for the company's popular Internet
networking software and e-mail server products. "We're on the Net
looking for resellers and distributors who carry products that are
synergistic to ours," he said. "Then we try to get them to add our
software to the line of products they carry. That strategy has
really worked out well for us." According to Luzza, Ipswitch's
initial entries into international markets were almost
accidental.
"It was kind of reactive on our part" Luzza said.
"People from other countries would visit our Web site, order some
of our products, and we'd say, Sure, why not?' " But in 1998, the
company started building an international reseller network. Since
then, international sales have risen to between 25 and 30 percent
of the company's revenue.
"We now have distributors all over the world,
including many in Latin America and along the Pacific Rim," Luzza
said. "Fortunately I deal with most of them by e-mail. I'd never
be able to handle the time differences."
Renco's Renehan begins virtually all of his
international efforts with online research. "I'm always on the
Internet, checking out markets, and boosting our recognition," he
said. "I was on last night, researching patents."
Recently a number of Web-based industrial
marketplaces have sprung up, offering companies like Renco a more
focused environment for research and marketing. VerticalNet, one
of the best-known business- to-business online marketplaces, has
58 industry-specific online areas. Renehan has listed his company
with VerticalNet's "Pharmaceutical Online" marketplace. He has
also participated in an industry magazine's "virtual tradeshow" on
the Web. Although Renehan was not particularly impressed with the
results ("we got a few leads," he said), many analysts think that
industry sites that range across borders are the future of
Internet-based international trade. Recently, Forrester Research
in Cambridge issued a report claiming that "cross-border
initiatives by eMarketplaces will help push global online exports
to nearly $1.4 trillion in 2004."
Norwell-based Zildjian Co., which manufactures
cymbals and other percussion-related instruments, has little need
for Internet research or online marketing sites. A family-owned
business that traces its roots back 375 years to Turkey, Zildjian
exports their cymbals to 175 countries. Nevertheless, when Colin
Schofield, Zildjian's vice president of worldwide marketing, first
encountered the Web, he saw an opportunity for a new international
marketing effort.
But Schofield's vision did not include using the
Internet to sell directly to the company's customers. According to
Schofield, most drummers believe that each cymbal's sound is
unique, which eliminates mail order and Internet sales. The
Zildjian customer wants to hear the cymbal before he or she buys.
Zildjian also has an extensive international network of dealers
and distributors. The company is not interested in alienating this
powerful group by attempting to eliminate the middleman. Instead
Zildjian devised an Internet plan that addressed a vexing
international challenge.
"Our strategy was to go directly to our customers -
with information," Schonfield said. "We sell over 650 different
cymbal models. Most of our dealers and distributors don't have the
time or the resources to stay on top of all those products. So we
decided to use the Internet to reach our customers directly, so
they could bring the information to dealers."
Two years ago, Zildjian launched a redesigned site
that users could access in six languages. A prominent "Local
Contact" box directs users to the closest Zildjian outlet,
worldwide. The only products that can be purchased on the Zildjian
site are low-ticket accessories such as T-shirts and hats. All
other commerce is routed to the regional dealers.
At the same time, Zildjian created a private
Internet site to streamline contact with its worldwide dealer
network. Schofield said overseas business during the last two
years has risen from 35 percent of total sales to 45 percent.
Although Zildjian has made other changes in their international
operation during that time, Schofield credits the company's
Internet strategy with providing a significant share of the
increase. According to Paula Murphy of the Massachusetts Export
Center, Zildjian's approach is likely to become more common.
"Zildjian isn't trying to do everything," Murphy said, pointing
out that very few items are actually sold on the company's site.
Although the early promise of the Internet was
unlimited access to world markets, it may turn out that successful
international campaigns will be restrained and tightly focused.
The combination of the Internet's deep resources and the size of
the overseas market are enough to overwhelm many small and
medium-size businesses.
And many Internet and e-commerce technologies are
still not ready for prime time, creating minefields for companies
new to the Internet. The Commerce Department's O'Neill
acknowledges that there are still some aspects of online
international trade that are in flux. "It's not all rosy out
there," she said. O'Neill specifically cites intellectual property
rights, privacy, and online payments as areas that are still being
worked out.
For smaller businesses, these areas might involve
more time and money than many are able to afford. Renco's Renehan,
for example, is wary of ambitious online payment products.
"There's a lot of hype about online electronic payments, but I'm
not really sure that they are worth the trouble," he said. "Right
now my customers are using wire transfers and credit cards and it
works pretty well. It works good enough."
Like Zildjian's Schofield, Renehan is picking his
spots in the international marketplace. "The Internet has been
great for research," he said. "Our Web site has been huge for
us..."
The challenge for Renehan and other small-business
executives is finding the right level of involvement in online
global markets. That process begins when a company starts thinking
of global trade as more than simply distant deliveries, said
Murphy. "Exporting today is about more than just processing the
shipment," she said. "The shipping is the easy part. We're trying
to get companies to make exporting a permanent part of their
business strategy."
D. C. Denison can be reached by e-mail at
dcdenison@globe.com.
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Renco Corporation Expands Product
Offerings
Cites Increased Industry Demand and
Cost-Effectiveness
Manchester, MA, January 17, 2001 - Renco Corporation
announced today that it has expanded its product base by offering
Extendo-Clean Safety Gloves, CleanHeat Gloves, ESD Gloves and
Fingercots, and Sandblast Gloves. Renco has produced some of these
products in the past, mostly in customized, one-time projects, but
the company wants to expand their offerings to match the increased
demand expressed by its customers.
The Extendo-Clean Safety Gloves are made from PVC and provide
arm-length (24") chemical splash protection. They are equipped
with elastic cuffs and are Class-100 cleanroom packaged. These
gloves are a good cost-effective solution for users that are
handling chemicals either in an isolator or in the open
environment.
The CleanHeat Gloves can withstand temperatures up to 500ˇC.
These new Class-100 processed and packaged gloves are made of
yellow Tenkora fabric and come in either a 16" or 24" length.
Renco offers various static dissipative gloves and fingercots.
Washed with reduced ionic extractables and low particle levels,
this ESD material offers 2x10 ohms/sq. inch average surface
resistivity for rapid bleed-off of any charge. The gloves and
fingercots are suitable for handling Class I and II electronic
devices, dramatically reduce losses from voltage overstress, and
allow virtually no static build-up on the hand. Both gloves and
cots are black in color, are powder-free, and are packaged in
conductive bags.
Renco's R-831 Series drybox/sandblast gloves are produced from
natural rubber for glovebox applications requiring the comfort,
dexterity, and chemical resistance of natural latex. The standard
products in the R-831 series are designed for 8" diameter ports
and are 31" long with beaded cuffs, but are available in custom
lengths.
For updated product numbers and pricing, please contact Renco
Corporation at (978) 526-8494.
About Renco Corporation
Renco Corporation is a
world-leading supplier and manufacturer of industrial products and
provider of custom-engineered solutions. Renco offers a wide range
of drybox and isolator gloves and sleeves made from polymers such
as Nitrile, Butyl, Hypalon¨, Latex Rubber, Neoprene, Viton¨, and
Butadyl. Renco supplies port, static control, and fingercot
products, as well as its patented Titeline¨ connector system, to
leading manufacturing and R&D facilities worldwide. Renco also
produces custom-designed products, such as containment bags for
NASA's International Space Station and customized forms for
Argonne National Labs. The company has over 1,200 customers in 20
countries, including the US Government, Merck, Fairchild
Semiconductor, Dupont, Motorola, 3M, Samsung, Astra Zeneca, Ford,
Texas Instruments, and leading universities worldwide. For more
information, visit http://www.thomasregister.com/byebye.cgi?http://www.rencogloves.com.
Titeline¨ is a registered trademark of Renco
Corporation. Hypalon¨ and Viton¨ are registered trademarks of
DuPont Dow Elastomers.
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