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ViSTAT™ Air Filter Technology Featured in New Company Website

IPAC has spun off its ViSTAT Air Filter Technology to a new company, BioActive Technology™. The new company is a subsidiary of IPAC created in 2025 to market a new bioactive filtration technology that actively inactivates airborne pathogens. An ablative polymer coating is the foundation of ViSTAT™ Advanced Pathogen Defense, the first product developed by BioActive Technology. Actualized during the COVID-19 pandemic and refined through award-winning research, ViSTAT air filter technology represents a breakthrough in air filtration. Beyond ViSTAT [...]

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IPAC Ablative Coating Technology Team to Present at ACS 2024 Spring Meeting

The IPAC Ablative Coating Technology Team is set to present their award winning, patented ViSTAT™ ablative technology at this year’s 2024 American Chemical Society Spring Meeting.  Dr. Ralph Dacey, Jr., Robert Roth, and Thomas Kennedy will discuss this unique antiviral, antibacterial coating technology. Aggressively tested on HVAC filters with excellent results, this technology has an endless range of everyday coating applications from hospital surfaces to airports and beyond.  Don’t miss this ground breaking presentation during the ACS 2024 Spring [...]

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Supply Chain Report Features IPAC’s latest Coating Technology used in HVAC filters

IPAC Unveils Revolutionary Bioactive Filtration Technology, Elevating HVAC Industry Standards: International Trade Council Report INDUSTRIAL POLYMERS & CHEMICALS, INC. (IPAC), a pioneering manufacturing company based in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, has developed a groundbreaking bioactive filtration technology. This innovative approach, leveraging biocidal polymer systems, is set to transform the effectiveness of residential and commercial HVAC filters in combating airborne viral and bacterial pathogens. #IPACTechnology Click here to read the entire post For more information, please contact Susan Dacey, IPAC President & CEO at sdacey@industrial-polymers.com

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IPAC Whitepaper Introduces HVAC filtration to reduce the airborne transmission of infectious disease

Scanning Electron Microscope micrograph of ablative polymer pathogen inactivating coating on fiberglass filter at 154X What started as a contest during the COVID-19 Pandemic has grown into a patented HVAC Filtration System.  In addition to the multi-billion-dollar Air Filtration Market, IPAC’s award winning ViSTAT™ ablative technology has endless everyday coating applications, from hospital surfaces to airports and beyond. IPAC’s safe, new bioactive filtration technology dramatically improves the efficiency of viral inactivation by HVAC filters.  In addition, this technology does not impair [...]

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Industrial Polymers and Chemicals Certified By the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council

IPAC CEO, Susan M. Dacey Industrial Polymers and Chemicals, Inc. is proud to announce the company’s certification as a Woman’s Business Enterprise (WBE) and as a Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). “IPAC is honored to join the ranks of Women Owned businesses across the U.S. and around the world.  Together with these amazing entrepreneurs, the company looks forward to serving customers across all industries, bringing over 60 years of manufacturing experience, dedication and [...]

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IPAC’s Small Business Survival Story

It’s been a challenging time for everyone this past year, and small industrial businesses are no exception.  IPAC has been reporting on its innovative PPE initiatives during the pandemic and this work continues.Fiberglass reinforcements for the Abrasive Industry remain the company’s core business but the pivot to PPE in the form of Level 2 and Level 3 Isolation Gowns and a patent pending filter system have helped the company survive during the pandemic. Collaborations with the Massachusetts Manufacturing Emergency Response [...]

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IPAC – Tufts Medical Center Donation

Industrial Polymers and Chemicals, your fiberglass reinforcement supplier pivoted this past spring to answer the PPE call during this COVID-19 pandemic.  By using its expertise in Specialty Cutting, IPAC manufactured over 1 million isolation gowns for Healthcare workers in Massachusetts this summer.IPAC has expanded its Specialty Cutting capabilities across all industries with an additional high capacity Lectra cutting machine.IPAC continues to bring safety to the community, donating isolation gowns to Boston’s Tufts Medical Center in their continued fight against [...]

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One of IPAC's VISTAT filter prototypes

IPAC Wins Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge

As reported in an earlier blog, IPAC had been selected as one of eight finalists for the Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge. The competition which still continues in a 4th and final phase, has been designed for participating companies to identify and grow innovations to slow the spread of COVID-19.   We are happy to announce that IPAC has been awarded the winner of the third innovation pitch competition held October 30, 2020 by the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) and Lever, Inc.    The $25,000 Grand Prize will be used [...]

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IPAC Selected in Top Eight for Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge

In its continued commitment to manufacture PPE, IPAC has been selected as one of eight finalists for the Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge.  This is the third in a series of innovation pitch competitions organized by the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) and Lever, Inc. The purpose of the competition is for participating companies to identify and grow innovations to slow the spread of COVID-19.  The Challenge concludes with a virtual pitch on October 30, 2020.  The $25,000 Grand Prize winner will [...]

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A cutting Machine at Industrial Polymers and Chemicals

IPAC Awarded $158,000 Grant by Baker-Polito Administration for the Manufacture of PPE

As IPAC continues to focus its efforts on the manufacture and distribution of PPE during COVID-19, the company has been awarded a $158,000 Grant by the Baker-Polito Administration. The company currently manufactures isolation gowns for the medical industry and is actively engaged in the manufacture of other critically needed PPE in the Commonwealth. For IPAC’s continued commitment and innovation to manufacture PPE, the company has been selected as one of eight finalists for the Mass COVID-19 Health and Safety Challenge organized by MassTech and [...]

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