
After a morning presentations by the six finalists and an afternoon of deliberations by the selection committee, ChemGreen Innovation, of Sackville, took home the $125 thousand grand prize: a $100 thousand equity investment from the Foundation, $5 thousand in services each from PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC) and Cox & Palmer, plus a $15 thousand interactive web package from OrangeSprocket. ChemGreen has created a novel process for making plastic that both reduces its toxic emmissions during manufacturing, and is biodegradable. What's more important is their ability to make what's called "soft polymers," or plastics that are flexible, and the most commonly used and disposed of by consumers. Read more...
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