Process & Product Development
Greenstock seeks to develop innovative processing ideas and product lines that can be incorporated into the projects that it plans and develops. This can mean the development of a completely new processing protocol that provides competitive advantages over existing processes, improvements to processes and technologies currently in use or the development of new product lines that can provide alternatives to more costly materials used in the same application (e.g., the development of a grain based protein that could replace a dairy or meat-based ingredient). We will always attempt to ensure that our client's project embodies the optimal choices of technology and product lines to ensure its profitability.
These development activities normally are carried out with the cooperation and participation of private, university and/or government laboratories, equipment or technology suppliers, product marketers and end-users. We develop and test our concept on a laboratory scale, produce trial quantities of material at equipment suppliers (this may involve a number of parties at different stages of processing and then provide the resulting product to the end-user. The end result of a successful activity of this sort should be the development of a process for which there is equipment available and a product that has been tested by parties willing to provide a long-term purchase agreement in support of a project. An example follows.
Greenstock was issued U.S. Patent #6,962,722, "High Protein Corn Product - Production and Use", in November 2005. This invention is an innovative approach to the dry milling and fermentation of corn and the resulting production and use of a distiller's grain co-product that contains twice the protein content of the distillers grain produced from traditional dry mill ethanol technology. The processing concept holds the potential to generate significantly more revenue and require far less thermal energy (steam) for each bushel of corn processed than the conventional methodology employed in most dry mill ethanol plants.
Our experiences and expertise extends to the following areas: