Chemistry Placements - Manchester

by Lubrizol

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Deadline: 30th November 2017
Salary: £18,000
Length: Placement (10 Months+)
Roles: Chemistry, Science
Location: North West
City: Manchester

About Lubrizol

The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, combines unique chemistry expertise, formulation and applications capabilities to positively impact the lives of our customers’ end users around the globe.

Our Blackley, Manchester site is home to our Lubrizol Advanced Materials Research and Development centre of excellence. The development of novel Solsperse Hyperdispersents is carried out in the Research and Applications departments, for use in pigment formulations for surface coatings.

Chemistry Placement

As a member of the Research or Applications team, you will be involved in synthesis and testing of materials for end uses such as automotive, general industrial and digital printing. You will also work closely with other departments such as Process Technology and Technical Marketing.

Research Team
A placement within the Research Team at Blackley will consist of working on the synthesis and development of novel polymeric dispersants for paints, inks or plastics, developing the production of large scale samples for customer trials and performing synthetic experiments. You will be asked to keep an up-to-date electronic laboratory note book and to communicate results at meetings and quarterly check-ins.

Applications
As a student in Applications, you will be working on the development, manufacturing and performance testing of new paints, inks or plastics using novel dispersants. As we have a relatively short development cycle, there may be opportunity to be involved in the production of large scale samples for customer trials.

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