Manufacturing Industry
KTM tries to jump-start degradables market.(Brief Article)
Plastics News, March, 2002 by Toloken, Steve
Tim Colonnese had just returned to the United States in 1997 from several years working in Asia. He was looking for a job when he got a call from a business acquaintance, a Michigan State University biochemistry professor, who had a business idea. So Colonnese flew from Florida to Lansing, Mich., on a cold February day, met the man and watched him pop a foam packing peanut in his mouth.
He says he remembers thinking: ``I flew up here to watch this guy eat Styrofoam?'' That's when the foam-eating colleague, Melvin Schindler, popped another peanut into a glass of water. The foam dissolved and Colonnese was hooked. Five years later, Colonnese is president and chief operating officer of KTM Industries Inc., a small Lansing-based firm that is trying to...
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