The PureVision
We are developing and licensing its advanced biorefining technologies to rapidly convert diverse non-food biomass into value-added resources to manufacture biobased consumer and industrial products. PureVision is devoted to perfecting and commercializing innovative biomass conversion technologies in order to actualize the vision of economically providing bio-based products to a world, transitioning to a carbon neutral and more sustainable future.
About Us
PureVision Technology, Inc. is a privately held corporation created in 1992 and organized to research, develop, and commercialize cellulosic biomass conversion technologies. PureVision created PureHemp Technology LLC as a wholly owned subsidiary in 2014 to commercialize the PureVision Technology specifically for processing industrial hemp.
PureVision has successfully scaled up its technology from a continuous process development unit capable of handling 120 pounds per day (50 kg) of biomass, to a half-ton per day continuous pilot-plant operation. To demonstrate commercial applications, PureVision is planning to break ground on its first 4-ton per day small commercial biorefinery during 2020. Once proven out at the 4-ton per day scale, plans are in place to expand refining capabilities to a 90-ton per day continuous countercurrent reactor (CCR). These projects will convert biomass into pulp, lignin and sugars , all used to manufacture consumer and industrial products.
History
Since 1992, PureVision has researched, tested and developed technologies for converting cellulosic biomass into pulp, lignin, sugars, ethanol and other bio-products. During 1993 and 1994, the company began to focus on converting waste paper to sugar and ethanol. In 1996, PureVision was awarded a contract from the U.S. Postal Service to conduct an investigative study on converting postal wastes into ethanol to fuel postal vehicles.
During 1999, the company's Chief Scientist Dr. Dick Wingerson developed the PureVision Technology with a focus on producing a purified pulp from biomass. In 2002 Dr. Wingerson received a process patent regarding the unique continuous countercurrent process that removes hemicellulose, lignin and other biomass components from the cellulose.
During 2001, PureVision began working with Western Research Institute in Laramie, Wyoming to undertake bench-scale tests using first- and second-generation batch reactors, which led to designing and building a continuous countercurrent reactor (CCR) process development unit in 2003. Over the next ten years, with financial assistance awards from Colorado and U.S. government agencies and with private sector contracts, CCR development continued with a variety of feedstocks and processing configurations for producing pulp, lignin and sugars from biomass.
In 2012, PureVision completed construction of its continuous half-ton per day CCR and pilot plant at its Fort Lupton, Colorado headquarters. PureVision is currently engaged in client funded programs and internal R&D targeting the conversion of selected species of biomass into products and determining commercial-scale capital and operating cost estimates.
In 2014, PureVision organized PureHemp Technology LLC as a wholly owned subsidiary to advance and commercialize the PureVision Technology specifically for processing industrial hemp. Recent trends legalizing the cultivation of industrial hemp provide new economic opportunities for this highly versatile crop,.
Beginning in 2018 and throughout 2019, PureVision produced hemp pulp that was made into packaging for its Pure Kind BotanicalsTM brand of CBD products, thus becoming the first company to use hemp stalks for packaging it’s hemp flower products. Also during 2019 the Company began working with a domestic and an international paper companies interested in participating in technology scale up and potentially commercialization.
With funding provided by Global 500 clients, friends and family, PureVision now carries out biomass testing at the bench and half-ton per day scales with a focus on advancing to a 4-ton per day fully integrated biorefinery followed by the procurement of a 90-ton per day CCR.