Seacole Hires New Purchasing Agent Allin Moroney

Seacole Specialty Chemical Hires New Purchasing Agent to Support Vendor Relationships

Seacole Hires New Purchasing Agent Allin Moroney

In July 2023, Seacole Specialty Chemical hired a talented new purchasing agent to support and build Seacole’s relationships with its vendors and execute the purchase of bulk and packaged goods. 

Allin Moroney brings nearly a decade of purchasing and relationship-building expertise and experience to the Seacole team. Mr. Moroney has a strong background in the chemical distribution industry, with extensive experience in purchasing and managing key vendor relationships. 

As purchasing agent, Mr. Moroney executes the purchasing of bulk and packaged goods for Seacole and generates reports for inventory management, reordering, and customer service. Additionally, he builds and maintains key vendor relationships. His contributions support Seacole’s commitment to providing an efficient and accurate purchasing experience for our vendors and production crew, while working within our values of high integrity, innovative culture, and continuous improvement.

“Our purchasing is in experienced, expert hands with Allin,” explains Seacole President and CEO Gregg Elliott. “He’s a talented addition to the Seacole team.”

To learn more about this key hire or for more information about Seacole’s specialty chemical offerings, email sales@seacole.com or call 763-582-1140.

About Seacole Specialty Chemical

Seacole is a diversified chemical manufacturing and distribution company serving a wide variety of markets including metal finishing, printed circuit boards, microelectronics, parts cleaning, and agriculture. Seacole provides customers technical expertise, attentive customer service, and trouble-free logistics, and also offers industrial contract manufacturing and custom blending services to many chemical providers.


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Surface Finishing Account Manager

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Seacole-CRC, LLC of Plymouth, MN is a diversified chemical manufacturing and distribution company offering essential products and services to a wide variety of markets worldwide. We deliver exceptional value to our customers by offering a unique mix of technical expertise, attentive customer service and trouble-free logistics.

We are currently seeking an experienced, dependable, hardworking Surface Finishing Account Manager.  The primary responsibility of the Surface Finishing Account Manager is to maintain and expand Seacole’s chemical sales at existing customers, and to grow this business through the development of new accounts.  The position is responsible for providing technical assistance at current accounts, and identifying new chemical opportunities in the surface finishing market with either prospective customers or existing accounts. Surface Finishing includes general metal finishing, plating, anodizing, pre-paint, industrial cleaning, POP, and RTR.

Job Requirements & Responsibilities

  • Maintain chemical business at existing customers by providing  information, technical assistance and problem solving skills
  • Target prospective Surface Finishing customers by identifying needs and presenting solutions
  • Maintain a team approach by utilizing  Seacole’s support and technical personnel  and supplier resources
  • Develop relationships with prospects to build trust and confidence
  • Enable communication between prospective accounts and support personnel of company to meet  customer needs
  • Generate proposals and facilitates closing of new business
  • Communicate customer requirements within Seacole
  • Maintain a team approach with Surface Finishing Manager and Customer Service to provide on-going support and management of customers
  • Develop short and long term strategies for growing Surface Finishing business to achieve company objectives, including sales plans and forecasts
  • Develop and maintain a strong working knowledge of supplier products, Surface Finishing  methods, and Seacole’s technical and operational capabilities

Essential Job Tasks

  • Five (5) years sales experience developing new business in the specialty chemical marketplace
  • Bachelor’s degree in engineering, chemistry, business, or equivalent experience
  • Previous experience in surface finishing strongly preferred
  • Experience in applying project management tools a plus
  • Ability to think strategically and develop long and short term sales plans
  • Results oriented and consistently achieves sales plans
  • Self-starter with a “hunter” mentality, yet effective at building lasting relationships
  • Team player who can effectively lead a project development team
  • Ability to effectively communicate, both written and verbal, at all levels of the company
  • Can thrive out of a home office environment away from corporate headquarters

Seacole is an EOE offering a competitive compensation program and an excellent benefit package.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: From $50,000.00 per year depending on experience, plus commission

Benefits:

  • 401(k)
  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Referral program
  • Vision insurance

Schedule:

  • Day Shift
  • Monday – Friday

Language: English Required

Work Location: Twin Cities Metro Area

Please include a resume with your application.  Resumes may also be emailed to humanresources@seacole.com


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Warehousing and Distribution of Custom-Blended Chemicals

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As a member of the National Association of Chemical Distributors (NACD), Seacole is committed to the safe warehousing and distribution of custom-blended chemicals. The distribution and warehousing teams at Seacole have the expertise to store your chemicals safely, saving your company valuable warehouse space at your facility.

Outsourced Custom-Blended Chemical Warehousing

Building a warehouse for chemical products is costly. In most cases, it is more cost-effective and efficient to outsource the warehousing of contract manufacturing chemical products. An expert team manages the Seacole warehouse according to industry best practices.

Once Seacole has formulated and packaged your custom solution, the warehouse team will store it until you need to fill an order. Then, the team will label and blind ship your items to you or your end user while meeting all shipping and handling requirements for your product. 

Responsible Distribution of Custom-Blended Chemicals

After your product leaves our facility, Seacole continues to follow the NACD’s recommendations for Responsible Distribution. By adopting these best practices, Seacole reduces the chance of an accident or environmental incident.

The Responsible Distribution guidelines keep the Seacole team and the public safe. Seacole carriers are experts in the safe shipment of chemicals so you can be confident that your products will arrive at their end destination safely.

Contract manufacturing is a cost-effective solution for companies introducing a new product to the market or streamlining manufacturing operations. Responsible warehousing and distribution are just two steps in Seacole’s ISO 9001:2015-certified contract manufacturing process. To learn more about the contract manufacturing process and how Seacole can save your company time and money, contact Seacole today.


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Three Solutions to Cold-Weather Industrial Cleaning Challenges

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From salt and slush to dust, cold weather presents unique cleaning difficulties. Here are three common industrial cleaning challenges companies face in winter and how Seacole can help clean them up.

Challenge: Dangerous Shop Floors | Solution: Spraydet EL

Staff and guests track ice, snow, and salt into your facility. Leaving slush and salt on the floors can create a slip-and-fall hazard and damage flooring. Using regular detergent to clean floors leaves behind a residue that makes floors even slicker.

Seacole’s Spraydet EL is a low-residue liquid soap. Though many customers use it for precision parts cleaning, its specialized formula is excellent for winter floor maintenance. Spraydet EL eliminates slush and salt without leaving behind any residue. Use with Seacole’s Defoamer O in an electric floor scrubber to ensure no suds are left behind.

Challenge: Dusty Shipping and Receiving Docks | Solution: Total

Dock doors often stay shut during frigid temperatures. Dust, grime, vaporized cutting oils, and metal grinding dust cannot escape and instead settle over dock surfaces. By the end of winter, dock floors, walls, ceilings, and equipment are covered in grime and dust.

Total is a liquid cleaner that can be diluted (or used concentrated) to remove dust and grime from any surface. It is ideal for pressure washers, hand mopping, and as a surface cleaner spray.

Challenge: Industrial Hard Surfaces | Solution: Break

Heavy-duty equipment needs a powerful degreaser to keep it in good working order. Our Break degreaser is formulated to cut through and remove grease, oil, and grime from industrial parts and equipment. It’s powerful enough to pre-treat components before cleaning them in a cabinet washer. Break is also gentle enough to use as a degreasing spray on shop desks, lunch room cabinets, switch plates, and phones.

Got dirt? Seacole has every product you need to keep your shop clean, productive, and safer this winter. Contact the Seacole team today.


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3 Industrial Cleaning Challenges, Solved

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You don’t have to wait until spring to take care of your industrial cleaning challenges. Cold weather presents its own unique cleaning difficulties, from salt and slush to dust. Here are the three biggest industrial cleaning challenges we face in the winter.

Industrial Cleaning Challenge: Dangerous Shop Floors | Solution: Spraydet EL

It’s inevitable that your staff will track ice, snow, and salt into your facility. But leaving slush and salt on your floors can cause a slip-and-fall hazard, not to mention damage your floors. Regular detergent leaves residue behind that can cause even more slipping.

Seacole’s Spraydet EL is a low-residue liquid soap. While many of our customers use it for precision parts cleaning, its specialized formula is excellent for the mop bucket, too. Spraydet EL eliminates the slush and salt without leaving greasy floors behind. You can even use it in your electric floor scrubber with our Defoamer O to ensure no suds are left behind.

Industrial Cleaning Challenge: Stuffy, Grimy, Dusty Shipping/Receiving Docks | Solution: Total

When the weather’s frigid, your dock doors stay shut. Dust, grime, vaporized cutting oils, and metal grinding dust can’t escape and instead settle all over your surfaces. By the end of winter, your floors, walls, ceilings, and equipment are covered in grime and dust.

Fortunately, a single product can take care of every surface. Total is a liquid cleaner that can be diluted (or used concentrated) to blast away dust and grime from any surface. It’s perfect for pressure washers, the mop bucket, and spray bottles as a surface cleaner.

Industrial Cleaning Challenge: Industrial Hard Surfaces | Solution: Break

To truly clean your industrial hard surfaces, no household cleaners need apply. Heavy-duty equipment needs a powerful degreaser to keep it in good working order.

Our Break degreaser is formulated to cut through and remove grease, oil, and grime from your parts and equipment. It’s powerful enough to pre-treat components before cleaning them in a cabinet washer. But, Break is also gentle enough to use as a degreasing spray on shop desks, lunch room cabinets, switch plates, phones, and anywhere else greasy hands leave smudges.

You don’t need to wait until the snow’s melted to start your spring cleaning. Seacole has every product you need to keep your shop squeaky clean. Contact our team today.


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Tips for a Safer, Simpler Copper Alloy Cleaning Process

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Sometimes, cleaning and brightening copper alloys seems more like an art than a science. The slightest adjustment in your process or chemistries can create vastly different results. Switching out your mineral acid wash for an organic one can help you cut down on rinse cycles, improve the safety of your workers, and keep your waste treatment process in-house. Here’s how.

Challenges with cleaning copper alloys with mineral acids.

Mineral acids require multiple rinse steps. When you add steps to any process, the chance you’ll make an error increases. So does the risk of contamination. More rinse steps also make it more difficult to maintain a clean rinse liquid.

Mineral acids are hazardous. They’re unstable, give off harmful fumes, and can add dust to the air that is harmful to your workers. Chelators and phosphates pollute wastewater and require you to treat it off-site, increasing costs.

Mineral acids can go too far. Mineral acids are very potent. There is little room for error when cleaning and brightening copper alloys with mineral acids. Often, this results in over-etching and the need to reprocess your parts.

A safer, simpler solution is to use a methane sulfonic acid based product.

Organic acids are safer alternatives to mineral acids. They are excellent deoxidation agents, so replacing your mineral acid with an organic one won’t sacrifice quality. But organic acids are safer to handle and give off fewer fumes than mineral acids do. Organic acids are also more forgiving during application, which means you reduce the chances you’ll need to reprocess parts.

Our favorite methane sulfonic acid (MSA) based product is formulated by Hubbard-Hall. It’s capable of handling your toughest copper cleaning challenge. But also it’s odorless, easy to handle, and biodegradable, so it’s easy on your employees and the environment.

Hubbard-Hall’s MSA based product cleans and brightens copper in a single step, reducing the number of rinse cycles in your process. And since it requires no chelators or phosphates, you can treat your wastewater in-house, saving time and money. A company case study found that manufacturers could save up to $90,000 a year in waste disposal alone by switching to methane sulfonic acid.

Your copper cleaning and brightening process does not need to be complicated. Contact the experts at Seacole to discover how changing your chemistries could help you improve results, reduce costs, and create a safer work environment.


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