For c2renew, crop residue is an opportunity

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/

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