Back From the Summer

I'm back from my three month hiatus.  Actually, it wasn't much of a hiatus.  It's just been really really busy around here.  Lots of traveling and meetings has put the blog on the back burner for a bit.  So let me give you a quick run down of the last few months.

We, cycleWood, have been traveling to and fro Dayton, OH quite a bit.  We scaled up our gram scale process up to several hundred pounds.  Let me tell ya, that was an ordeal.  We powered through it though, spending many late nights working on this project.  It was pretty rewarding though to get in there and get our hands dirty.  Not just our hands, pretty much everything.  It was exhausting, but fun.  We've also set everything up for our next big hurdle, making bags and film.  We did several trial runs to produce pellets and we also produced some pressed films.  So far everything looks very promising.  The blown films and bags will take place in less than a couple of weeks.  We've overcome quite a few significant challenges already and are sure to come across a few more, but we are encouraged by the progress we've made so far.  We showed our samples to our technical adviser who has 35 years of working with lignin and he was astonished at what he saw.  He said he never thought he would see anything like what we produced in his lifetime.  Pretty amazing!

So that's pretty much what's been going on.  I think I will post shorter posts more frequently.  At least more frequently than one every 3 months.