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#114 Mark Herrema, Co-Founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies

#114 Mark Herrema, Co-Founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies

FromBigger Than Us


#114 Mark Herrema, Co-Founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies

FromBigger Than Us

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Length:
51 minutes
Released:
Nov 13, 2020
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Podcast episode

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Mark Herrema is the Co-Founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies.
In 2003, Mark co-founded Newlight with a vision of using greenhouse gas as a resource to make high-performance, sustainable materials.
After a decade of research, Mark and his team developed a technology that uses a natural process found in the ocean to make a material called AirCarbon. AirCarbon is a meltable energy storage molecule made in almost all known living things that is strong, meltable, and ocean-degradable.
AirCarbon is now being used to replace plastic in single-use foodware, fashion products, and a variety of other applications. Newlight has been honored to receive recognition as “Biomaterial of the Year” by the Nova Institute, “Innovation of the Year” by Popular Science, and “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. In 2016, Newlight was awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mark graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, and has since garnered over 15 years of expertise in process engineering, polymer functionalization, and strategic business development.
https://www.newlight.com/
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Released:
Nov 13, 2020
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