Structured around techology licensed from Ohio State University, EnergyEne, Inc. is an industrial materials company working on the development, improvement, and commercialization of sustainable rubber and biomaterials. A platform for sustainable production of high Quality Natural Guayule Rubber Latex, Guayule is grown as a dry-land and irrigated commercial crop: highly suited to semiarid conditions; requiring less water than traditional cropping, with every bit of the plant being utilized. The firm's CapEx & OpEx light Guayule biorefinery model produces high value latex, natural rubber, and a suite of high value bio products from integrated breakthroughs in harvesting, processing, conversion, and product applications. EnergyEne's latex has superior properties that exceed both natural & synthetic Latex. The properties includes: Improved form, fit, feel, and function; Stronger - harder to tear and less likely to puncture; Strechier - Gloves fit better, the wearer's hands fatigue less; More Flexible and Eliminate the Type 1 Latex allergic responses. The Firm's plan is to use Guayule Natural Rubber emulation first in medical devices; second consumer products; and third in industrial sectors. Continuing basic research to improve the yield from the plants and the process, managementnote that rubber is essential to nearly all manufacturing and product sectors, ranking fourth overall for industrial natural resources, The International Rubber Study Group (IRSG) predict a shortfall of 1.5 to 3 million metric tons by 2020 potentially resulting in significant disruptions and economic losses in the U.S. Additional barriers to increasing worldwide production is that new plantings of Hevea require significant lead time (5+ years) before the plants mature enough to tap. Clearly, more sustainable, domestically available, and rapidly scalable alternative sources and approaches are needed to fill the predicted shortfalls. Hevea rubber is handled and marked-up many times (as many as 29) before an end-product is produced. EnergyEne expects to limit the product handling (from farm to end product) to less than five intermediaries.
