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SoyaWax International is pleased to announce our own Small Business Stimulus Package... 10% or more off single or multiple cases of our PhytoWax brand container or pillar/votive blends of candle wax now through March 15th. That's $58.50 per case on orders of one to five cases.

Microenterprise, small business, and hobbyist candle-makers will enjoy lower UPS shipping charges on new orders. We are pleased to announce that our new rate structure with United Parcel Service will provide significant savings for single and multiple-box orders.

SoyaWax Intl. COO Timlynn Babitsky chats with State Rep. Dwayne Alons at the IPRT Legislative Breakfast. Company President and Chief Scientist Mike Richards chats with a legislator in the background.

3 March 2009, Des Moines, Iowa – SoyaWax International was one of six companies invited to attend this year’s annual Legislative Breakfast hosted by Iowa State University’s Institute for Physical Research and Technology (IPRT). About 55 Iowa state representatives and senators came to see firsthand how state funding provided to IPRT programs provides essential assistance for new and developing Iowa businesses and positively impacts the state's economy.

SoyaWax International management accepts New Business Creation award at Entrepreneurial Development Center 5th Anniversary celebration - Left to right: Lee Clancey, of the Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce; Curt Nelson, of the Entrepreneurial Development Center; Timlynn Babitsky, Jim Salmons, and Mike Richards of SoyaWax International.

"The Entrepreneurial Development Center is a unique and valuable business development resource in Iowa." said SoyaWax CTO Jim Salmons, "In over thirty years of my entrepreneurial career, I can enthusiastically say that I have never been involved in a start-up where we had such a breadth and depth of on-demand, high quality mentoring, technical, and strategic assistance. The EDC has been inspirationally effective in helping us to fast-track our business growth."

All members of the SoyaWax International management team - Mike Richards, Timlynn Babitsky, and Jim Salmons - were on hand at the awards ceremony and networking event.

11 August 2008, Des Moines Iowa - SoyaWax International is one of nine Iowa businesses awarded a Demonstration Fund grant by the Iowa Department of Economic Development. The $150,000 award, the maximum amount available for a single competitive application, was made on the strength of SoyaWax International's proposal to commercialize a new generation of soywax products