Oshtemo\’s Marketing Technology Service wants to help with Kalamazoo River

Oshtemo’s Marketing Technology Service wants to help with Kalamazoo River oil spill cleanup
Published: Friday, July 30, 2010, 9:54 AM Updated: Friday, July 30, 2010, 9:57 AM
A small Oshtemo company says it wants a chance to show government, corporate and environmental experts that it can help clean up the oil in the Kalamazoo River.
The company, Marketing Technology Service , says its prototype fabrics are capable of soaking oil off the Kalamazoo River and wiping it from animals that have been coated with the sludge.The company is offering six rolls of its Gorilla Oil Grabber fabric for free to the Kalamazoo River clean-up.
We know it works, said Jim Hanson, who owns the company with his wife, Beth. The fabric has not undergone any government testing and is patent-pending.
Hanson said they have not had any luck in getting through to Enbridge Inc., the company responsible for the oil spill, or government officials to offer the fabric for use.
Hanson said the fabric, made of plastic fiber capable of absorbing 15 times its weight in oil, has been available since the second day of the British Petroleum oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
We were just never able to get anyone to get back to us, Hanson said.
Hanson said the oil-collecting fabric is based on pretty simple rules of chemistry.
Likes attract likes, he said. Plastic is petroleum-based and the fibers we make are going to be friendly to other petroleum. Its very, very oil-loving, but it doesnt love water.
The fabric is strong and you can wring the oil out of it and put it back in the water to absorb more, he said. You can also incinerate it or properly dispose of it. Oil spill in Kalamazoo River

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