T2 Laboratories, Inc. (T2)2
was a small privately-owned corporation located in Jacksonville, Florida, that
began operations in 1996. A chemical engineer and a chemist3
founded T2 as a solvent blending business
and co-owned it until the incident. From 1996 to 2001, T2 operated from a warehouse located in a
mixed-used industrial and residential area of downtown Jacksonville. T2 blended and sold printingindustry
solvents; it also blended pre-manufactured MCMT to specified concentrations for Advanced Fuel
Development Technologies, Inc. (AFD), a third-party distributor