State Funding Supports Development of Environmentally Friendly Insulation
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
ORONO — A June 14 Maine Technology Institute (MTI) awarded of $99,780 will help provide momentum for efforts by a South Bristol company to develop a new building insulation fiber from recycled paper and paperboard.
The University of Maine’s Process Development Center (PDC) received the MTI grant for this project, a collaborative effort involving Green Comfort Safe Inc. in South Bristol along with Zeomatrix, an Orono-based product development company that engineers environmentally friendly products.
Richard Munson of South Bristol is Green Comfort Safe’s board chair. He says the MTI grant is another important step toward commercialization of Celluborate, the patent pending cellulose insulation that his company is developing as part of this partnership.
Specifically, the MTI grant will fund initial product certification testing at the UMaine PDC, which has a 25-year history of working with private and public technology developers, mostly in the forest products industry.
“The Process Development Center allows businesses to leverage their resources in ways that can help them get to market effectively and quickly,” says Michael Bilodeau, the center’s director. “With state support and our business partners, we are anxious to continue the development Celluborate technology, which has significant potential as a safe and efficient insulation product.”
More information is at the Green Comfort Safe website.