Once again we’re doing R&D on plastic media, this time analyzing color for the Emriver Em2 models. This one is tricky because the stuff is post-industrial recycled. We have to keep the cost down, and can’t pick the colors exactly, but must deal with...
We received over twenty 250-pound drums of plastic media this week. Much of this is the specially ground Em4 material, but quite a bit is the standard Emriver Em2 mix. It’s probably safe to say we are now the world’s largest holder of plastic river model...
We had a huge week at the GSA meeting in Houston. We were told many times that we had the most interesting of the hundreds of interesting booths there. Yesterday was super busy as word spread and people sent colleagues and department heads (who hold the purse strings)...
We made geomorphic history today. I’m not kidding. After years of thinking about it and months of research, testing, and working with suppliers, we mixed and ran water through our first color-coded batch of ground melamine plastic media. There are three sizes in...
We’re crazy busy; doing some emergency assessment on the St. Louis creek where a few houses are threatened, building and shipping Emriver models, and of course working on our Em4. We got nearly 2,000 pounds of ground melamine last Friday. It’s sorted by...
