A Fargo-based business named c2renew is combining agriculture’s leftovers such as sunflower, oat hulls, sugar beet pulp and flax stalks with plastics to create biocomposites that can be used in endless ways.
“Basically, we take residual biomass from different agricultural processes and we manipulate those into fillers for plastics,” said Chad Ulven, co-founder and chief technology officer for the company.
… Full text: www.prairiebizmag.com/event/article/id/15145/group/Business/
Tags: manufacturing, technology, business, agriculture, sunflowers, flax, plastics, crops, petrol
Source
Prairie Business, 2013-07-01.
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c2renew Corporation
North Dakota State University (NDSU)
Society of the Plastics Industry Inc (SPI)
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