GR Silicate Nano - Fibers and Carbonates

GR Nano's solutions create higher-performing products cost-effectively with increased sustainability and value.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Nanotechnology
  • Location Tacoma, WA, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded December 2005
  • Employees 15
  • Website grnano.com

Company Summary

GR Silicate is in the business of design, develop, and commercialization of products and processes in the burgeoning nano-technology and environmental (carbon capture) sectors. The significance of these products are that they help reduce manufacturing cost, energy consumption, CO2 emissions. Its main customers are manufacturers such as paper, paint, plastics, and cement.

Team

  • Vijay Mathur
    Founder, CTO

    Dr. Vijay Mathur has 35 years of paper and pigment industry experience. He was in the forefront of converting the worldwide paper industry from acid to alkaline papermaking, while working for Weyerhaeuser Company. After leaving Weyerhaeuser, Dr. Mathur worked for Continental Lime (later Imerys) where he was part of the management team responsible for the construction and start-up of several PCC plants worldwide. He has several patents.

  • JIm McCullough
    SVP Plant Operations

    JIm McCullough is an innovative business owner, designer and builder with more than 30 years in the housing industry. After growing a two-man mobile-home installation crew into one of Washington's largest manufactured home retailers, he sold his stake in the company to pursue his passion for designing and building new homes. He is a founding partner in EcoAbode, a Tacoma company which uses advanced technology products to build economical homes

  • Norm Gannon
    VP Administration

    With 26 years of experience in the building and aerospace industries, Norm Gannon helps GRS successfully meet the critical path deadlines for the company's revolutionary products. In 2000 Mr. Gannon received special recognition from the State of Washington for his award-winning tactics center on high customer satisfaction and continuous quality improvement. He is a founding partner in EcoAbode.

  • Miller Adams
    President & CEO

    Mr. Adams was formerly the Vice President for Technology Planning, Acquisition and Evaluation and Global R&D Strategies at Boeing Phantom Works, the enterprise-wide R&D business unit of The Boeing Company. Most recently he was General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs at Integral Systems, Inc., the world leader in satellite command and control systems, which was sold to Kratos Defense & Security Systems.

Advisors

  • Riddell Williams P.S.
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    Grant Thornton, LLP
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Vijay Mathur, Family, & Friends
    Unconfirmed
    Al Solomon
    Unconfirmed
    Miller Adams
    Unconfirmed

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