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UTC alum Kacee Hedrick, front center, who graduated with a bachelor\u2019s degree in chemical engineering in 2020, leads a group of UTC chemistry faculty and students on a tour at Colonial Chemical in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Pick a shampoo or conditioner from Walmart. Any Walmart.<\/p>\n

Even though the Colonial Chemical name is not on the label, there\u2019s a good chance the molecules are from the South Pittsburg, Tennessee-based company, which is home to 16 current University of Tennessee at Chattanooga graduates\u2014nine of them with undergraduate degrees in chemistry or chemical engineering.<\/p>\n

In 2021, when UTC needed to replace an aging device called an ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem with mass spectrometer (UPLC-MS), an expensive apparatus for analyzing molecules, Colonial Chemical chipped in about $55,000 of the estimated $170,000 cost.<\/p>\n

The device determines what molecules and their concentration are in samples provided by Colonial Chemical, which specializes in developing surfactants most common in detergents, shampoos and soap. Those molecules are then sold to manufacturing companies.<\/p>\n

Surfactants\u2014soaps, in Colonial\u2019s case\u2014are chemical compounds that decrease the surface tension or interfacial tension between two liquids, a liquid and a gas, or a liquid and a solid. Surfactants function as emulsifiers, wetting agents, detergents, foaming agents or dispersants.<\/p>\n

\u201cColonial has been a great partner for the chemistry program,\u201d said Dr. Gretchen Potts, head of UTC\u2019s biology, geology and environmental science department and UC Foundation professor. \u201cSeveral of our graduates are employees, and they have collaborated on analyses with Dr. [Steven] Symes,\u201d a UTC chemistry professor. \u201cThe connections from that relationship resulted in financial support for the purchase of a new UPLC-MS. The instrument is an excellent tool for analysis and as an undergraduate program, chemistry is fortunate to have it available in our labs for use by our students and faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among Colonial Chemical\u2019s UTC graduates are Jason Santola (2005 chemistry), Andrew Lawrence (1995 master\u2019s in psychology: industrial\/organization), Paul Moreland (2017 biology), Megan Blevins (2016 chemistry, 2019 chemical engineering), Kacee Hedrick (2020 chemical engineering), Katie Fox (2020 human resource management), Zechariah Avello (2016 chemistry), Carmen O\u2019Hagan (2017 communication), Madison Holt (2017 chemistry: biochemistry), Derek Phillips (1999 psychology), Robin Williams (2018 business administration: finance), Corey Barker (2016 chemistry), Krista Carson (2021 chemistry), Molly McEnery (2014 chemistry), Jordan Taylor (2020 chemistry) and Hunter Lowery (2021 biology).<\/p>\n

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Symes said the UPLC-MS is a powerful instrument with various applications, including allowing Erlanger Health System doctors to analyze metabolites in the bloodstream for early cancer detection.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need a sensitive instrument like this,\u201d Symes said. \u201cStudents get research training on an industry workhorse instrument, and a drug-testing lab uses this for athletes. Students learn the ins and outs and how to set it up.\u201d<\/p>\n

When chemistry professor Dr. Keenan Dungey, who heads the chemistry and physics department, came to UTC three years ago, he found a spectrometer that was 15 years old and required frequent cobbling.<\/p>\n

The new device is \u201chuge for us but smaller than some,\u201d Dungey said, adding the technology can take a tanker-truck load of product and change the reactants to make a new product.<\/p>\n

Zack Avello, Colonial Chemical\u2019s analytical chemist manager in the research and development lab, graduated from UTC in 2016 and moved to Memphis before returning to the area and taking a job at Colonial Chemical through a Potts connection.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are plenty of us who came from UTC. It\u2019s a nice feeder system that produces awesome students. That relationship is very important to us,\u201d Avello said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Coots retired from Colonial in 2019 after nearly 20 years and now teaches a general chemistry lab at UTC.<\/p>\n

He said the UTC relationship with Colonial bloomed through university contacts with professors like Drs. Doug Kutz and current faculty member Thomas R. Rybolt, whose wife played against Coots and his wife in a local tennis league.<\/p>\n

Among the UTC graduates at Colonial are O\u2019Hagan, a regional sales manager and a 2017 communication graduate responsible for Colonial sales in eight northwestern states. Last year, she was president of the Marion County Chamber of Commerce at age 25.<\/p>\n

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Coots noted that among UTC\u2019s graduates, Avello runs the analytics in the R&D lab, Santola is head of quality control and McEnery was an intern and now heads the formulations group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are the kind of things Colonial benefits from and that we hope to continue,\u201d Coots said.<\/p>\n

Dr. Lucas Moore, vice president of research and development at Colonial Chemical, said the 16 UTC (he\u2019s from the University of Alabama) graduates work in his department and in engineering, human resources, quality control, purchasing, sales and safety\u2014\u201cacross the whole company. \u2026 We use UTC\u2019s UPLC mass spectrometer. It\u2019s very expensive. It doesn\u2019t make sense for us to have one, so we pay a rental fee\u201d for the one it helped buy UTC. \u201cWe can make new molecules and sell these products to companies that make shampoos, detergents, conditioners, etcetera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coots said Colonial\u2019s fingerprints can be found universally. \u201cSurfactants are Colonial\u2019s main products and they have a lot of them.\u201d He explained that \u201csurfactants\u201d is a contraction for the term surface active agents. \u201cSurfactants are used for any product in cleaning of any kind, anywhere from the gamut of cleaning airplanes to shampoo or cleaning chicken plants. They also are very helpful in metal lubricants for activities like cutting, drilling and forming metal. They cut down on friction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moore sums up Colonial\u2019s commercial influence. \u201cWhen you go to Walmart or Costco, you won\u2019t see Colonial\u2019s name on the products, but we\u2019re in soaps, conditioners, personal care wipes, car wash detergents, oil and gas agents, paint emulsifiers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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