Center tenant CMC to build new factory in Maryville

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CMC President Raymond Riek (at podium) announces his company's plans for building
a new factory in Maryville that will produce ApexCM, a material with a wide range of
applications in the ruber and plastics industry. Northwest President Dean L. Hubbard
is shown at right. The announcement ceremony took place in Northwest's new Center
for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

Carbolytic Materials Company (CMC) executives joined with Northwest President Dean L. Hubbard and other officials today in announcing the St. Louis-based company’s intention to build a new factory in Maryville.

The plant, which is to employ between 20 and 30 people, will be used for the manufacture of CMC’s proprietary ApexCM™ carbon black replacement material, which is produced from shredded automotive tires and has a wide range of applications in the rubber and plastics industry.

In Oct. 2007, CMC signed a memorandum of understanding with Northwest declaring its intention to become the first tenant of the University’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where it will conduct research and development in conjunction with Northwest’s newly formed Graduate Applied Research Center.

“Carbolytic Material Company’s decision to partner with Northwest is a significant step toward making the University and this region a center for a broad range of technologies that will ultimately sustain the environment and improve our quality of life,” Hubbard said.

“We were able to attract CMC because of the unique opportunities our Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship creates for the synergy between the private sector and academic programs.”

CMC President Raymond Riek acknowledged the importance of the CIE, which is located on the Northwest campus, in bringing the company to Maryville, and said he and his team are eager to move forward with construction of the factory in Maryville’s industrial park.

“We’re very excited about beginning production of ApexCM here in Maryville,” Riek said. “With our new manufacturing process, the operations team we’ve built and the new facility, we will be able to produce ApexCM for use in a variety of automotive, construction and industrial applications.”

Joining Hubbard and Riek in delivering brief remarks during the announcement ceremony were U.S. Congressman Sam Graves, state Sen. Brad Lager, state Rep. Mike Thomson and Maryville Mayor Chad Jackson. Others in attendance included Lee Langerock, executive director of the Nodaway County Economic Development Corp.

The Maryville plant will comprise 20,000 square feet of production, testing and office facilities and allow for the waste-free processing of more than 15,000 tons of tires each year while producing 5,000 tons of ApexCM carbon black replacement material.

Carbon black is currently produced through the incomplete combustion of oil and natural gas, and CMC’s use of scrap tires will have a significantly positive environmental impact. Each ton of ApexCM represents 380 recycled tires, 760 gallons of oil saved and 3,800 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions kept out of the atmosphere.

“ApexCM is not only a cost-effective option for rubber and plastics applications, it’s also environmentally friendly,” Riek explained in a company release.”

CMC’s unique process takes place in a controlled environment that generates no odors or emissions. The result is the recovery from tire material of the reinforcing carbon that becomes ApexCM. As an added benefit, the process, which recycles the whole tire, produces oil and gas vapor useable as fuel.

For more information, please contact:

Anthony Brown,
News Bureau Manager
E-Mail: abrown@nwmissouri.edu
Phone: 660.562.1704
Fax: 660.562.1900

Northwest Missouri State University
219 Administration Building,
800 University Drive
Maryville, MO 64468

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