Sustainability Has Arrived A conversation with Biosynthetic Technologies’Mark Miller

摘要

In 1996,Mark Miller founded a company making environmentally safe lubricants from vegetable oil.”We were green when green was still a color,”he said.Along the way,he learned for himself the well-known weaknesses of these biolubricants.He also discovered the adaptable qualities of the estolide molecule,a biobased synthetic molecule made from organic fatty acids found in plant oils.Then,investors bought an existing firm called Biosynthetic Technologies,which had cracked the processes for extracting lubricant value from estolides.They invited him to join the team.”They needed someone to run the company and take it commercial,”said Miller,now the company's CEO.”I always liked the technology.I liked the molecule.I liked the team.”Today,Biosynthetic Technologies creates biosynthetic base oils for commercial and industrial lubricants.Compoundings spoke with Miller about the present and future of biosynthetic and environmentally friendly lubricants.