Organic Growing Systems, Inc. (OGSI) is an advanced organic fertilizer manufacturer. Their manufacturing facility is located in Monticello, MS. Their truly organic (poultry litter based) fertilizer uniquely positions OGSI to leverage the U.S. consumer’s ever increasing desire for organic foods. The United States fertilizer market is estimated to exceed $48 billion dollars. OGSI has a competitive advantage in its lower cost of production, greater product effectiveness, use of Chitin, and its environmental benefits.

Organic Growing Systems, Inc., combines knowledge that goes back to early farming practices with modern organic molecular chemistry. The result is the formulation of a truly organic fertilizer that meets the needs of all growers. Whether one is a backyard gardener, a turf farmer or a golf course manager, a flower grower or a vegetable farmer or even a representative of a governmental entity trying to protect the environment, the use of our TOP Organic Fertilizer will meet all needs.

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Industrial Grain Products (IGP)

Industrial Grain Products is a basic manufacturer of specialty binders and polymers. These products are derived from the novel processing of naturally occurring raw materials such as grains, starches, cellulose, and proteins.

The company has been a long time supplier of specialty binders used to form animal feed ingredients into pellets, cubes, blocks, flakes, briquettes, etc. The various binder products are sold under the SUPERPOWDER, NUTRI-BINDER and NB trade names.

Specific market areas of interest to Industrial Grain Products include animal feed additives, aquaculture products, building product materials and specialty industrial additives that cover various types of markets.

Industrial Grain Products also provides custom processing services to various customers. Manufacturing capabilities include high pressure/high temperature reactors, drying, cooling, milling, micronizing, sizing and packaging equipment. Bulk storage and handling equipment such as bins, augers, conveyors, pneumatic air systems, etc. are available.

Primary manufacturing operations are located in Lubbock, Texas. This site also includes laboratories, warehousing and offices. Other support facilities are located in Houston, Texas, and Lafayette, Louisiana.

Laboratory facilities are available for technical sales support, quality control/quality assurance, process development, and research and development. Industrial Grain Products maintains an aggressive research and development effort. New products, product lines, and process improvements are under continual development.

Excellent rail and trucking services are available to Industrial Grain Products. The Lubbock, Texas plant has in-plant rail sidings and truck loading facilities. Both bulk and packaged products can be easily handled by truck or rail. Export orders can normally be trucked to the Port of Houston within 10-12 hours. Far East shipments can be handled quickly and conveniently through most if the West Coast port facilities.

The company utilizes some novel processing operations that were originally covered by a number of U.S. patents. Industrial Grain Products has made an effort to continually expand and improve upon the original technology. It has licensed some of the process technology to several international companies. In addition, Industrial Grain Products exports its product throughout the world from its U.S. facilities.

Industrial Grain Products has built a reputation for providing high quality, high performance products that meet all environmental, safety and health regulations. The company's goal is to be a technical innovator in all of its market areas.

INDUSTRIAL GRAIN PRODUCTS
P.O. Box 81892
Lafayette, LA 70598
Tel: 337-232-1977
E-Mail: sales@industrialgrain.com

ChitinWorks America, LLC (CWA)

ChitinWorks America, LLC is an early-stage biopolymer development company. It was organized to manufacture and market industrial grade chitin and chitosan derivatives. These biopolymers are extracted and converted from seafood waste such as crab shell, shrimp shell, lobster, squid and other types of exoskelton-containing animals. Most of this seafood waste is currently being disposed of in landfill operations on a global basis. Extraction of this valuable series of biopolymers assists in the reduction of waste currently going into landfills on a global basis.

Chitin is the second largest, naturally-occurring polymer in nature-- next to cellulose that comes from plants. Chitosan is novel in that it is cationic--one of the few biopolymers exhibiting a positive charge. This unique, natural sourced series of biopolymers are expected to grow into a major industry at some point in the future.

The conventional methods of extracting and converting chitin into chitosan and its derivatives is well known. However, CWA has focused on developing new and novel, low-cost processes. Some of these new processes drastically reduces or eliminate the use of the normally very high concentrations of harsh chemicals used in the extraction process. In other instances, the new processes reduce the amount of energy and chemical requirements used in the conventional processes.

Chitosan derivatives, in the form of glucosamine, is a well known nutraceutical ingredient and represents a $1 billion + market in the U.S. alone. Chitin/chitosan has a long list of uses and potential uses such as quick-clotting bandages, agricultural applications, and water treating polymers. However, its large-scale uses have been limited due to (1) high cost (2) general availability in quantity, and (3) consistent quality. CWA entered the chitin/chitosan market with several specific and different goals in mind. The first goal of CWA was to be "the" low-cost, industrial-grade producer of chitin/chitosan through several steps.

CWA, through Venture Chemicals, Inc. had identified a specific series of potential uses of these biopolymers as oil and gas drilling fluid additives. An Industrial-grade chitin/chitosan having specific performance properties is required to formulate specialty drilling, workover, and completion fluids used in oil and gas well drilling. VCI, for example, has identified some 17 potential applications in the drilling fluid additive market. At this time, only the first one of these applications has been successfully commercialized. One key application involves the use of specially-designed biopolymer as a key component of the AphronICS(tm) fluids in which the group holds a dominant patent position. This latter application has not been commercialized at this point, but is expected to be brought along in the near future. It is expected that these biopolymer derivatives can and will replace a number of the current synthetic derivatives currently used in drilling fluids.

In addition to selling chitin/chitosan based products to the drilling fluid market, the company has developed initial sales into the organic fertilizer market and the water/waste water treating market. Because of it being a source of natural biopolymers that are non-hazardous and readily biodegradable, the products are expected to gain wider acceptance in many more industrial markets as the key limitations mentioned above are reduced or eliminated.

CWA meets the group's interest in converting naturally-occurring materials into high-performance specialty products by processing and re-cycling what are normally waste, by-product streams with improved environmental processes.