This research grant will be used to optimize its manufacturing process for producing 100% corrugated cardboard based cellulose building insulation, to allow UltraCell Insulation to obtain customer feedback on the product’s performance, and to connect the company with possible future production and distribution partners.
“Both the timing and appropriateness of this award will position our company to commercialize UltraCell’s new, 100% corrugated cardboard-based cellulose insulation manufacturing process,” Mark Brandstein, President and CEO of UltraCell, said. “The whole insulation industry is being challenged with higher building code standards for insulation and a surge in preference or requirements for high performance green building materials to reduce greenhouse gas, just as the feedstock supply for traditional cellulose insulation – newspapers – is precipitously falling as more people get their news via the Internet,” he added.
According to April Richards, Program Manager for the Environmental Protection Agency: “UltraCell Insulation, LLC, was chosen as part of a select group of companies for an SBIR award because their technology shows innovation toward protecting public health and our environment, which is the foundation and purpose of the EPA SBIR program. The company’s technology converts a waste material (cardboard) into a valuable commodity (insulation) while providing the potential for significant energy efficiency improvements in buildings.”
The new patented process, developed in conjunction with the University of Maine’s Process Development Center (PDC), enables utilizing previously unusable Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) to produce high performing cellulose insulation.
The results of the project will position UltraCell to commercialize its product with future production and distribution partners.
UltraCell will enable average citizens to do their part in reducing global warming by using UltraCell to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from their homes and the fuel cost drain from their incomes.
UltraCell Insulation, LLC is the owner of a patented process to produce cellulose insulation using 100% Old Corrugated Cardboard (OCC) with fire retardant chemicals actually impregnated into the cellulose fibers.
