mrplace
Member
OK, I have a lot of good information, and some bad, on Resinol 90C. First, I was miss quoted by a Rep who really did not want to do business with me. Second, Henkel Corporation, aka Loctite, is super secretive with this stuff and absolutely does not deal through distributing channels with this product.
Resinol is sold through the Automotive Division of Henkel, and other Reps from the MRO divisions etc., are not able to sell it. I was able to run a territory rep and speak briefly with him. He almost refused to give me information until I explained our process, practices and products. Then he emails me a truckload of documents to be sure they are not held liable for poor handling practices etc. Then in the same email he tells me I have to have a conference call with their sales and engineering reps to be sure this is the right product for our process (which I only vaguely mentioned to start with).
I finally got upset and emailed the rep and said fine, this product is more trouble than its worth, and it is obvious Henkel is not real interested in selling it.
Now the good news. After my last email, I was quoted a price more in line with our expectations. I was quoted $70 a gallon, with a 4 gallon minimum. Now, I still can not buy it though because I have not jumped through their hoops yet. So I call one of our other vendors/sub-contractors, and guess what, they can order this stuff for me. Not at $70 a gallon, but not that much worse and that cost includes delivery to me. So, Resinol 90C will cost $88.86 a gallon, or 355.44 for the four gallons.
If anyone wants to try and jump through the hoops to save $15 a gallon, I will post all the contact information for Henkle. but as it stands, I would rather deal with the people I know, and that are not near as big a pain in the @$$.
If someone wants to do the homework on container and shipping costs, I might be willing to run a group buy the first part of June, after I get moved in to the new house.
Resinol is sold through the Automotive Division of Henkel, and other Reps from the MRO divisions etc., are not able to sell it. I was able to run a territory rep and speak briefly with him. He almost refused to give me information until I explained our process, practices and products. Then he emails me a truckload of documents to be sure they are not held liable for poor handling practices etc. Then in the same email he tells me I have to have a conference call with their sales and engineering reps to be sure this is the right product for our process (which I only vaguely mentioned to start with).
I finally got upset and emailed the rep and said fine, this product is more trouble than its worth, and it is obvious Henkel is not real interested in selling it.
Now the good news. After my last email, I was quoted a price more in line with our expectations. I was quoted $70 a gallon, with a 4 gallon minimum. Now, I still can not buy it though because I have not jumped through their hoops yet. So I call one of our other vendors/sub-contractors, and guess what, they can order this stuff for me. Not at $70 a gallon, but not that much worse and that cost includes delivery to me. So, Resinol 90C will cost $88.86 a gallon, or 355.44 for the four gallons.
If anyone wants to try and jump through the hoops to save $15 a gallon, I will post all the contact information for Henkle. but as it stands, I would rather deal with the people I know, and that are not near as big a pain in the @$$.
If someone wants to do the homework on container and shipping costs, I might be willing to run a group buy the first part of June, after I get moved in to the new house.