MAFES

The invention converts toxic brines created during the desalination of brackish ground water and acid mine drainage into fertilizers.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location San Diego, CA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2011
  • Employees 3
  • Website glenjohncapital.com

Company Summary

Treating brackish ground water has presented an expensive problem to recover up until the advent of the KNEW process (Potassium Nitrate ex Waste). Water is neutralized through an ion exchange battery to remove all the dissolved ions leaving a water of any required quality. The ions are then converted into profitable fertilizers. The KNEW process is currently the most profitable and environmentally desalination process. 2103 IchemE award winner.

Team

  • Glenn Aubrey Howard
    CEO

    Mr. Howard brings over 50 years’ experience to his position as President & CEO of Glenjohn Capital LLC. Operating in the challenging environment of late 1960s South Africa, Mr. Howard co-founded Glenjohn Chemical Holdings, along with John Bewsey, with a few thousand dollars and sold it 9 years later for over $15mm. Mr. Howard has again teamed up with John Bewsey to form Glenjohn Capital LLC to market a portfolio of innovative technologies

  • Aubrey Howard
    President Marketing & Manufacturing

    Mr. Howard capitalized on his defense force education, training, and experience to found Baywatch Armed Response, a South African security service with a 100% protection rate, which was later purchased by Texas-based ADT International. His interests then took him into microbiology, where he founded several firms, including the largest muffin manufacturer in the Western Cape of South Africa, worked with an internationally recognized scientist to d

  • Kim Teichmann
    COO

    Ms. Teichmann is a lawyer by trade. Ms. Teichmann practiced corporate law at the corporation she co-founded, and later orchestrated the sale of the firm in 2000, at which point she entered into and later received her Masters in the field of Construction and Arbitration Law at Kings College London. She was recognized for her efforts by being awarded the KCCLAand Philip RannerPrizes.

Advisors

  • Kim Teichmann
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Friends and family
    Unconfirmed

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