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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Thursday, Feb. 27, 1986
Company vends technology, clothing
By Juli Warren Staff writer
From grease to maternity wear and from China to Japan, one Kansas City, Mo., company is trying to win the market.
The president and executive vice president of Strateco Engineering Inc. spoke to engineering graduate students and presented $2,000 to the department of chemical engineering yesterday afternoon.
The company, which has about 20 employees, sells technology and equipment for grease manufacture and for alkylation, the process that makes high-octane additives for gasoline, according to Diane Graham, the president.
Terry Robertson, the executive vice president and Graham's husband, said that because technology and equipment sales did not lend themselves well to repeat customers, the company expanded its market, both in area and in products.
"We don't get a lot of repeat customers, but we have a reputation for quality." he said.
Stratco has had contracts in China and Japan, according to Graham.
Robertson said he thought China and Japan now needed the company's technology and equipment more than the United States.
China, he said, has few cars, but needs the process for exporting gasoline products.
"They're finding a lot of oil there," he said.
Japan needs the technology, he said, because so many cars are there.
Graham said that on a business trip to China 18 months ago, when she was nine months pregnant, she had the idea of maternity wear for career women. She was having a difficult time finding appropriate clothes.
"They all had that little-girl look," she said.
Graham said her line of clothes also could be worn by women who weren't pregnant.
Under the name Diane's Designs, the clothes are sold by mail order and in some stores in the Kansas City area, Graham said.
The lecture and slide presentation, focused on selling chemical engineering technology, Norman Kolb, Lawrence graduate student, said the business side of chemical engineering sometimes was overlooked.
Diane Graham, president and chairman of the board of Stratco Engineering, talks to her husband Terry Robertson, executive vice president of Strato.
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