 Director, Fred Gallagher, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, with a degree in political science.
Fred is a former ombudsperson for former North Carolina Governor Holshouser and founder of Applied Research Group, Inc. He is also a cofounder of Drinkard Research and DMI. With Bill Drinkard they built ARGI into the fourth largest manufacturer of CCA (copper, chrome and arsenate) wood preservatives in the US.
With other partners, Hickory Grove Industries (HGI) was built, utilizing their patented inventions to produce wood preservatives from pyrometallurgical dusts from copper and gold refining.
As ARGI and then HGI, they developed and profitably operated various metal chemical processes that reduced the cost and improved the quality and performance of major inorganic wood preservative, CCA. The team developed an oxide formulation, which reduces manufacturing costs, eliminates air pollution from on-site dissolving, allowing the market to shift from drums to bulk tank trucks. This new oxide standard now dominates North America and is growing throughout the remainder of the world.
Fred is Executive Vice President of Drinkard Research and Development Corporation and of Drinkard Metalox Inc. |
