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How to Get a Job with PQ Corporation
Start Date: 10/11/2016Start Time: 6:00 PM
End Date: 10/11/2016End Time: 7:00 PM

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PQ Corporation is a leading worldwide producer of specialty inorganic performance chemicals and catalysts. PQ traces its beginnings to a family soap and candle business started in Philadelphia by Joseph Elkinton in 1831. The company began producing and selling "silicate of soda" or sodium silicate in 1861 to replace rosin in soap formulations. Today, PQ is the world's largest producer of soluble silicates.

Potters Industries LLC, is a leading producer of engineered glass materials serving the oil and gas Industry, polymer additives, highway safety, metal finishing, and conductive particle markets.Through its research and technology advancements, Potters has developed product lines that include hollow glass microspheres used as weight-reducing fillers in fabricated plastics, automotive body putties, as extenders in adhesives and paints/coating formulations and are used as sensitizers in industrial explosives.

Potters is the largest producer worldwide of highway safety marking glass beads, metal finishing beads for cleaning and strengthening metals, glass media for grinding and dispersing, glass microspheres for friction and weight reduction in oil drilling applications and metal-coated particles to provide electromagnetic shielding interference of electronic parts. Potters worldwide manufacturing and distribution network supplies its customers from 25 strategically located production points – 12 in the U.S. and Canada, two each in the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Japan and one each in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Poland and Thailand.

There will be Co-op opportunities in several cities throughout the United States.
Corporate housing provided.

We are looking for the next generation of talent, attend our information session; and get to know us. We will provide dinner while you learn about others that have joined our Team as a Drexel Co-op.
Contact Information:
Name: Steinbright Career Development Center
Phone: 215-895-2185
Email: scdc@drexel.edu
Location:
Steinbright Career Development Center, 3201 Arch Street, Suite 250 Conference Room
Audience:
  • Undergraduate Students
  • Graduate Students
  • Senior Class
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