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CRTC Overview
July 23, 2019

Dave Walter
Agenda
 Background
 CRTC History
 Products
 Key Projects
 Q&A

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Dave Walter
 35 year career with DuPont
 Wide variety of locations and roles
 Engineering, sales, marketing, leadership
 Six Sigma BB & Certified PMP
 Global Business Manager in DuPont Building Innovations
 Retired from DuPont 2016
 Became CRTC CEO in July 2017

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CRTC
 501(c)3 Not For Profit Corporation

 We design, develop and make products that utilize carbon fiber scrap

 We are a cleantech company focused on 2 things:

 Eliminating carbon fiber scrap from going to landfill

 Creating jobs in Clallam County

 Started in 2015, in current building since Aug. of 2016

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Carbon Fiber
 We repurpose virgin carbon fiber scrap (rCF)
 Most comes from Toray CMA in Tacoma
 Normally goes into 777X and 787
 Very strong & tough
 Wide variety of applications

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CRTC
 25K sq. ft. manufacturing and development center
 Over $2M in state-of-the-art equipment
 We manufacture products we design
 We also do development for others
 Co-housed with Peninsula College
 Earn AA degree
 Advanced Manufacturing & Composites

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Products

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SwiftNet™ Portable Pickleball Net
 Light – only 13 pounds
 Very strong & durable
 Sets up in under 3 minutes!
 CRTC design and development
 2 patents
 Shipped almost 2,000 so far
 Great customer feedback

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The Olympus Bench
 Seat, back & legs are all rCF

 Very strong & durable

 Inset for a ceramic plaque for memorials

 Also great for business advertisement

 City of PA converting wood benches

 Also selling to others

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The Olympus Bench
 The customization capability is powerful

 This is a great fit for schools and universities

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Pal’s Place™ Bench

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Removable Deck Railings
 Quick pop out railing

 Carbon fiber plate in top and bottom

 Can remove railings to clean or paint

 Can also add in decorative railings for holidays

 Fence Quarter is the Marketer

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Doinker® Archery Stabilzers
 rCF tube that counterbalances a bow

 CRTC did the development work to manufacture

 Leven Industries does all the sales and marketing

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Benaroya Wood Panels - wood & rCF
 For Octave 9 remodel at Benaroya
Symphony Hall in Seattle

 Walnut veneer bonded with carbon fiber

 Backside of the surround theater screens

 Can be shaped into a curve

 Flexible, light and strong

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Orthotic Springs
 Used in an orthotic brace - helps people walk again

 Working with our partner Fabtech Systems

 Trying to get support for the VA Hospitals to use

 This will be a great benefit to veterans

 The VA spring uses Boeing scrap

 Other springs use Toray scrap

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Special Projects

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Mega-Trend
 About 7B people in the world today

 UN estimates - by 2100 there will be 11B (57% growth):

 Asia - 4B to 5B
 ROW - 2B to ≈ 2B
 Africa: 1B to 4B

 Big stress on the earth

 How can people be fed more efficiently?

 We need to rethink

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Vertical Farming
 Grow kelp and shellfish

 Maximizes space

 Does not require irrigation

 No fertilization or run-off

 No pesticides

 No herbicides
Bren Smith - Executive Director: GreenWave
 No land & Owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm

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Vertical Farming
 Kelp is the 2nd fastest growing plant in the world

 Up to 2 feet a day!

 Kelp can have:

 More iron than red meat & more calcium than milk

 Mussels and scallops are packed with Omega-3

 A vertical farm the size of WA State:

 Could feed the world!

Bren Smith - Thimble Island Oyster Company

 Seaweed $6B global business (World Aquaculture Society Estimate)

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Vertical Farming = Restorative Farming
 Kelp enables significant marine life
 Kelp are the trees of the ocean
 They help to deacidify the water and remove nitrogen
 Adult oysters can filter 30 - 50 gal. of water a day!
 Restorative farming could ultimately help the Orca population

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Marine Cable
 Plastic cable is used today
 It degrades and sheds over time
 It can entangle significant marine life

Dead pregnant sperm whale in Sardinia

4/1/19. Had ingested 49 pounds of plastic

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rCF Marine Cable
 Use carbon fiber as a cable
 Can be cleaned with high-pressure steam
 Does not shed
 Cannot entangle marine mammals

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CEF3 Grant
 CRTC received CEF3 grant from WA State DOC
 Will purchase pultrusion machine
 Allows CRTC to make prototype cabling
 Proof of concept

 Customer tests

 Working with PNNL - Sequim

 Applying for grants
 Will need investors to fully scale

Photograph: Mark Conlin/Alamy

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Advanced CLT Project

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Mega-Trend
 The growing population will need shelter
 The global income gap will continue to grow:
 The need for economical housing will increase globally

 We need structures that:

 Go up quickly

 Are durable

 Are efficient

 Support multi-families

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CLT’s
 Cross Laminated Timber
 Layers of wood boards
 Layers oriented 90◦

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Thermal Modification
 Wood heated to about 400◦ F

 Oxygen free environment

 Removes sugars & lignin's
 Stabilizes wood - no warp or cupping
 Provides rot resistance
 Provides mildew and bug resistance

 More environmentally friendly

 vs. pressure treated lumber

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Advanced CLT
 Thermal modification in CLT wall panel
 Enables use of less desirable species
 Coastal Western Hemlock

 Add carbon fiber strips to increase stiffness

 Makes for a very stout wall!
 CRTC patent pending process
 Working with the Port, WSU, UM & Tribes Carbon fiber strips
In full length of panel

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Advanced CLT
 Beauty of wood - no drywall

 Quiet - noise mitigation

 Rot, bug & wind resistant

 Energy efficient - up to R32 in wall

 250 sq. ft. small home erected in 2 days

 1,800 sq. ft. - flat packs in 4 containers
 8 days to erect

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Advanced CLT
 Multiple Applications:
 Portable or disaster housing
 Multi-family housing
 Schools with reconfigurable walls
 Small homes & off-grid housing
 Highly durable low-income housing
 Military housing - esp. tropical areas

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Advanced CLT Investment
 Combination of Timber and Tech
 CRTC will do the initial development and proof of concept
 Mini CLT mill and thermal mod facility in the area will be required
 Applying for grants to develop
 Investors are needed in order to scale
 Huge global market
 $100M annual potential, scalable across US/globe

 Thermally modified wood also sold for flooring, siding & decking

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Summary
 We have made a lot of progress - great facility and people
 4-year anniversary in August
 We have developed some cool products
 We are positively impacting lives
 21 full time team members
 Still a lot of work to do
 Trying to scale up as fast as possible
 Quote

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Orthotic Springs Testimonial
I received my orthotic from the VA a week ago. I suffered a traumatic
injury on a US Navy ship in 1983 and was to the point of scheduling
amputation. Instead, for Fathers day, I took a walk with my 24 year old
Daughter for the first time ever. THANK YOU! - 06/21/19

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 Thank You
The CRTC Team
(we proudly have 5 military veterans on our team)

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Q&A

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Q&A

Dave Walter
dwalter@crtc-wa.org
360-819-1203 (office)
360-477-1560 (cell)

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