University of Montana tech transfer success, Montana Renewables of Missoula to create biomass chemicals.
| June 19, 2008 |  View for printing |
Missoula’s Don Kiely and his son, Jason, have spent their lives in different settings - one in the chemistry lab and one in the forest - but they are teaming up in a new business venture that combines their passions.
Seeking a clean alternative to fossil fuels, the Kielys are part of a new Missoula-based company, Montana Renewables http://montana-renewables.com , that will start producing green “carbochemicals” this fall.
The biomass chemicals, which are derived from plant material, are designed to be used instead of petroleum-based chemicals in an array of industrial and consumer products.
Montana Renewables will use a refining process patented at the University of Montana to make glucaric acid, a biodegradable compound, from raw sugars in corn syrup.
By JOHN CRAMER of the Missoulian
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