Reade Advanced Materials Distributes All Over the World

The commitment to international trade that earned Reade Advanced Materials of East Providence the Rhode Island 2005 Exporter of the Year award is evident on its a multi-lingual award winning website, www.reade.com, which the company established on May 1, 1995.

The super site now has over 1,500 pages, and has an offshore disaster recovery site located in the Caribbean. It is user-friendly and contains just about everything a prospective customer could be looking for, even conversion tables, chemical references, interactive particle tours and sieve and grit charts.

Reade Advanced Materials is an ISO 9001 Global Distributor and value-added processor with two locations in the United States, and a new location in Panama South America. Reade opened the Panama office following a very successful participation in the 2002 Secretarial Trade Mission to Mexico.

Reade Advanced Materials now distributes all over the world, and has experienced annual export sales increases of more than 20 percent for the past five years.

The Reade family business was formed in Wolverhampton, England. The family manufactured pharmaceutical chemicals under the name Reade Brothers Co. Ltd., which was founded in 1773. Just over one hundred years later, Elizabeth Reade, a successful industrial chemist, relocated the family specialty chemical manufacturing business, RMC, to North America.

In 1905, RMC began size reducing non-ferrous materials to manufacture a conductive paste product. This marked the beginning of an extremely successful venture in the particle business for the Reade family. In 1941, the RMC Metal Powder division was opened in Lakehurst, New Jersey. The company manufactured and delivered a large amount of non-ferrous metal powders to various government and industrial markets all over the Americas. During the Civil War, the RMC Metal Powder division received two U.S. Army/ U.S. Navy “E” awards for excellence.

Despite the success of RMC, Charles Reade Sr., the sole owner of the business at the time, sold one hundred percent ownership interest in RMC to a large American customer. RMC is now a division of Magnesium Elektron, which is headquartered in England.

In 1983, Charles F. Reade, Jr. established Reade Advanced Materials as a new family business unit. Reade Advanced Materials is a successful manufacturer, value-add processor, and global “factory-packed” distributor of higher technology metal, alloy, mineral, ceramic, polymer, composite, enzyme, nano, and custom compositions.

On November 18, 2004, the employees of Reade received the award of excellence for community outreach from General Gordon Sullivan, the president of the Association of the U.S. Army. A volunteer military chaplain, Reade provides on-call pastoral care services to the National Guard, Reserve components, and other soldiers around New England.

In the summer of 2005, Reade is plans to participate in a trade mission to Brazil in conjunction with the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation and the U.S. Department of Commerce. The mission will provide the opportunity for Reade to meet with Brazilian customers and prospect among higher tech Brazilian companies.