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From a Jobsite Trailer to a State-of-the-Art Facility: Our Next Chapter in Central Indiana
Posted by Joel Cookston, Nov 1, 2025 12:46:31 PM
Over a decade ago, our story began in the most unassuming of places—a job site trailer parked in a bean field on a quiet Indiana country road. A small, determined team came together with a bold vision: to take an obscure material known as colloidal silica and prove its ...
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