Almost April

Well I looked up at the calender and it's almost April.  Time flies when you're running a start-up.  I'm trying to get at least one post in each month and I almost missed out on March.  Needless to say, March has been busy.

Here are the highlights for cycleWood since my last post:

• Completed our first phase of compatibility studies
• Started discussions with pilot scale manufacturers
• Attended the Informex conference in New Orleans, which is one of the biggest chemical conferences
• Secured third party logistics partner
• Secured lignin sources
• Started final composition studies

That's just the stuff I can talk about.  We are talking with some large customers as well.  It's very exciting for us.  April is going to a busy travel month for us.  We'll be out of town for 3 of the 4 weeks.  The highlight of April travels will be heading to New York to accept our Edison Award.  We know we've won one, but don't know if it's gold, silver, or bronze.

This past month we were also in Anaheim for the AUTM conference.  We were able to meet up with some of the folks from the University of Minnesota that helped us with our patent license.  We also got to check out WonderCon which just happened to be going on at the same time.  It was an interesting experience.  below are some pics to illustrate what we saw.  We happened to Stan Lee and Lou Ferrigno.

For all the Big Bang Theory fans, Wil Wheaton was also there but we didn't get a chance to see him.  For the Resident Evil fans, Milla Jovovich was there too, but we didn't get in either.  Apparently these people are kind of popular.  There were very long lines to see them.

Things are moving along nicely so far.  Looks like you may be able to get you hands on a XyloBag soon.