ABOUT US

Boron Specialties develops chemicals, materials, and applications that leverage the unique properties of boron, with emphasis on boranes. We help customers source, use and safely manage boranes at scale.  We specialize in the commercialization of advanced boron-enabled technologies for life science, electronics, energy, and security through process development, market development, product safety, and regulatory compliance management.  In order to expand our capabilities for production, contract research, and application development, we've just completed a boron research laboratory at our facility near Pittsburgh, PA.  Boron Specialties is privately held.

OUR FOUNDER

Fewer than a dozen people in the world have Beth Dryden Bosley's experience and expertise in the product and process development, large-scale manufacture, and hazard characteristics of polyhedral boranes, borane complexes, and organoborane compounds.

She has twenty years in specialty chemical manufacturing and in technical marketing and business development targeting both pharmaceutical and industrial markets. She led the regulatory committee for the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Associates and served as its representative to the US EPA. Until 2009, she was the Director of Sales & Business Development at Pressure Chemical Co. in Pittsburgh. Beth earned a chemistry degree from UCLA under noted boron scientist & Priestley Medal winner Prof. M. Frederick Hawthorne.

THE ROCKET IN OUR LOGO

Boron chemistry has a rich history.  Interest in boron hydride propellants in the 1960’s laid the foundation for the development of many important compounds in commercial use today.  Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, was launched using boron-based fuel.  Several USAF projects, including the Bomarc missile and the XB-70 Valkerie bomber, considered boron fuels in their design phase, and the famous SR-71 Blackbird used pyrophoric triethylborane for emergency engine restarts.  Did we mention the characteristic green flame?

And boron has a high-growth future.  Inorganic and organic boron chemistries are also at the heart of many cutting edge applications in chemistry, energy, materials, and life science.  Our rocket logo reflects the literal origins of many BH compounds, and the rapid ascent of boron-based advanced technology applications that Boron Specialties will help create and commercialize.

THE MOLECULE ON OUR HOMEPAGE

Boron forms beautiful and useful molecular structures, many of which were discovered and described by William Lipscomb and Frederick Hawthorne.  The stylized representation of octadecaborane (B18H22) on our homepage is inspired by Lipscomb’s original hand-drawn elucidation.  

ACTIVE IN OUR INDUSTRY

Boron Specialties is a member of the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates.  In partnership with SOCMA, Beth Bosley has testified several times before the United States House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate in relation to reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act.