Ohio - The Cleantech Hub Of The Midwest

Ohio

The Cleantech Hub of The Midwest

Ohio has the technological expertise, financial resources, and manufacturing assets required to support innovative, high growth cleantech companies.

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Ohio is home to more than 440 businesses and research institutions in the solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and fuel cell industries.

Energy: ADI Wind LLC • Aerodynamic Trailer Systems

Advanced Specialty Materials & Chemicals:

LLC • AHL-TECH • Arisdyne Systems • Ashlawn Energy LLC •

6062 Holdings • ABSMaterials • ADAP Nanotech, LLC •

Contained Energy • Creative Fuels • ECHOGEN Power Systems • Energy Technologies • Five Start Energies • Green

AeroClay, Inc • Akron Polymer Systems • AMIDAC LLC • AquaBlok

Energy Technologies • Greenfield Solar Corp. • Nautica wind

Materials • Catacel Corp. • Cleveland Whiskey • Crystal

Power • Phycal • Quasar Energy • Rapid Charge Technologies •

Diagnostics • Helios Coatings Inc. • MemPro Ceramics Corporation

Recharge Power • Red Lion Bio-Energy • ShadePlex • Smashray

• MesoCoat • MIMflow Technologies LLC • NanoStatistics •

• Solargystics • TCP Inc. • Tremont Electric Inc • Vadxx Energy •

NuVention Solutions Inc. • Orbital Research Inc. • Ovation Polymers

Wireless Environment • Xunlight Corporation

Inc. • Scattering Solutions • Stanton Advanced Ceramics • Stratum

• Blue Spark Technologies • Caralon Global, LLC • Carbolytic

Technologies Inc. • Trivium Technologies

Environmental: MAR Systems Inc. • Mold Sentry • Polyflow LLC

Cleantech in Ohio Fast Facts

a dedicated cluster of more than 60,000 specialized workers directly supporting Ohio has

the state’s advanced energy industry.

The Ohio Third Frontier program allotted more than

$20

Ohio-based cleantech companies attracted more than $500 Between 2002 and 2011,

million in angel and venture investments.

million in grants for Cleantech research,

development, and commercialization, such as

Ohio ranks #1 in the nation for renewable and advanced energy, bringing in more renewable energy

energy storage, biofuel, wind, solar and fuel cell technologies.

facility projects than any other state.

Ohio offers a number of financial incentives to Cleantech businesses including the Energy Conversion Facilities Corporate Tax Exemption, Tax Incentives for Improving Air Quality in Ohio, Energy Conversion Facilities Sales Tax Exemption, and the Commercial Energy Efficiency Rebate Program.

Research & Development Ohio has a strong university system, significant research centers, established industrial corporations, and substantial state funding programs, all of which are contributing to the development of innovative, patented clean technologies.

Research Universities

Research Centers

Industry and Research & Development Leaders

Center for Climate, Energy, and the Environment at The Ohio State University

Battelle Memorial Institute

American Electric Power

Great Lakes Institute of Energy Innovation at Case Western University

NASA Glenn Research Center

Babcock & Wilcox

U.S. Air Force Wright-Patterson Air Force Base’s Air

Dana Holding

Force Research Laboratory

Eaton Corporation

The Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University Center for Photovoltaics Innovation and Commercialization at the University of Toledo University of Akron Research Foundation The Von Ohain Fuels and Combustion Center at the University of Dayton

Ferro Corp., Electronic Materials Systems First Energy General Electric Goodyear Tire & Rubber GrafTech International Ltd. Lincoln Electric Lubrizol NexTech Matierals Novolyte Technologies Owens Corning Parker Hannifin PolyOne Powdermet Inc. Rockwell Automation Rolls Royce SCI Engineered Materials Sherwin Williams Swagelok TCP Lighting Timken

Company Highlights From Select JumpStart Portfolio Companies

Echogen Power Systems is commercializing

Catacel designs and manufactures catalytic heat-

the Thermafficient® Heat Recovery System,

exchanging products made from metal foils with

a thermal engine that transforms waste heat

catalytic coatings for the fuel cell and industrial

into electricity without consuming additional

hydrogen industries. Its high-performance,

fuel or creating additional emissions. In 2010

cost-efficient reactors are lighter and more

Echogen delivered a commercial-scale 250kWe

energy efficient than alternative solutions. To

thermal engine for demonstration test at a major

demonstrate proof-of-concept for a carbon dioxide

Midwest electric utility. The test system achieved

adsorbing reactor that will capture CO2 from

net power output and Echogen is redeploying

power plants and other combustion sources,

the system to a customer facility for long-term

Catacel is adapting its existing heat-exchanging

durability and reliability tests. The company

ABSMaterials is revolutionizing water treatment

reactor platform by coating the internal metal foil

received a $10 million investment from energy

and environmental remediation – an estimated

surfaces with dry sorbent materials and operating

leader Dresser-Rand in 2011 to advance its

$35 billion worldwide market – by providing

it in a unique process cycle. The adaptions could

technology development, including designing and

solutions for removing persistent organic

reduce coal-fired power plant CO2 emissions by

constructing waste heat recovery systems using

pollutants from water and soil. The company

close to 1.7 billion tons annually in the United

Dresser-Rand’s turbo-expanders. Thermafficient

develops reactive glass products and nanosands

States. Catacel was named to the 2010 Inc. 5000

was selected as one of the top new utility

for remediation or site-cleanup of volatile organic

list, an exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-

technologies for 2010 by the Clean Technology

and related spills, plumes or gas discharge.

growing private companies.

and Sustainable Industries Organization.

Its products are fully reversible, highly stable,

For more information visit catacel.com.

For more information visit echogen.com.

hydrophobic, and capable of capturing and recovering a range of hydrocarbons and pervasive solvents. ABSMaterials’s early remediation customers include BP, Haliburton, and BRG Inc. The company is adapting its technology for the remediation of salty fluid trapped in the rock of oil reservoirs, which is extracted during oil and gas production, and the largest toxic byproduct produced by the oil industry.

For more information visit absmaterials.com.