Car coating manufacturer up and running in Colfax

Pasha Pavlo Rudenko works in his garage laboratory in Colfax Tuesday, March 7.

It's game on for a Colfax man with a new product to aid old cars in longer use.

Pasha Pavlo Rudenko, who earned a doctorate degree from WSU in materials science in 2014, started his company Tribotex in 2010.

Its product is Carboss, a self-forming carbon coating which aims to reduce metal wear in engines.

The idea came out of research Rudenko did as a graduate student at WSU.

“We found something that would be wrong not to commercialize,” he said. “It can make a big difference in the world.”

The product is a syringe w...