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Mobius Technologies -- Can A Powder Save The Gulf?

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Number of Employees: 8 Based In: Lincoln, California Founded: 1998 Funded By: LESS Limited and angel investment. Audacious Five-Year Plan: Sales from $50 to $80 million by 2015. Kevin Costner isn’t the only person dreaming up oil spill cleanup ideas. The California-based Mobius Technologies believes that it might have a solution. The company's main business is selling recycled polyurethane foam powder to different industries in a variety of indutrial applications. But Mobius is now trying to get BP’s attention -- to use a powder they make called micronized polyurethane powder (MPU). Mobius creates MPU by grinding recycled foam from things like desk chairs and car seats. How could it help the Gulf oil spill? The non-toxic powder is said to soak up 85 percent of oil it comes in contact with and can be reused up to three times. Though a full-scale test is still pending, Mobius has earned the backing of U.S. Representative Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) to get the powder tested by BP right away. The EPA has also backed MPU. -- Sherry Shen, Huffington Post Submitted By HuffPost User: strt15:
"Mobius is making recycling a reality by developing valuable technology and creatively bringing this technology to the global marketplace. We have focused our efforts to bring sustainable value to the plastic foam industry first. Towards this end, we have developed, manufactured, and commercialized a new way to recycle the foam used in the furniture and automobile industries. We have commercialized this technology in the United States and Europe and are currently expanding into South America, Australia and Asia. We are very proud to have partnered with The Dow Chemical Company to help globalize this form of recycling. "

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Number of Employees: 8
Based In: Lincoln, California
Founded: 1998
Funded By: LESS Limited and angel investment.
Audacious Five-Year Plan: Sales from $50 to $80 million by 2015.

Kevin Costner isn’t the only person dreaming up oil spill cleanup ideas. The California-based Mobius Technologies believes that it might have a solution. The company's main business is selling recycled polyurethane foam powder to different industries in a variety of indutrial applications. But Mobius is now trying to get BP’s attention -- to use a powder they make called micronized polyurethane powder (MPU).

Mobius creates MPU by grinding recycled foam from things like desk chairs and car seats. How could it help the Gulf oil spill? The non-toxic powder is said to soak up 85 percent of oil it comes in contact with and can be reused up to three times. Though a full-scale test is still pending, Mobius has earned the backing of U.S. Representative Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento) to get the powder tested by BP right away. The EPA has also backed MPU. -- Sherry Shen, Huffington Post



Submitted By HuffPost User: strt15:
"Mobius is making recycling a reality by developing valuable technology and creatively bringing this technology to the global marketplace. We have focused our efforts to bring sustainable value to the plastic foam industry first. Towards this end, we have developed, manufactured, and commercialized a new way to recycle the foam used in the furniture and automobile industries. We have commercialized this technology in the United States and Europe and are currently expanding into South America, Australia and Asia. We are very proud to have partnered with The Dow Chemical Company to help globalize this form of recycling. "

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