Founded in June, 2003

May, 2004- awarded Small Business Innovation Research phase zero grant

June, 2004- established a coorperative R&D agreement with Long Trail Biodiesel of Johnson, VT

Summer, 2004- Prototype 60 gallon reactor developed

December, 2004- closed on commercial manufacturing site in Winooski, VT

August, 2005- First batch completed in the Winooski biodiesel plant

Guiding principles                           

Our company is based on two main guiding principles:

1. Green or sustainable products and processes have intrinsic value to today's consumers as well as to future generations.  Current business models do not emphasize environmental impacts enough.  Most business practices rob our children and grandchildren so we can have cheap products today.

2. Companies based on renewable resources will ultimately outcompete companies based on exhaustable resources.  Our earth is a closed-loop system.  By working to develop useful products from renewable, underutilized, or "waste" streams we will not "run out" of feedstocks.  In contrast, when petroleum runs out, so will the feedstocks for a huge number of products (including most plastics, paints, fuels, fertilizers, etc.)

Working towards zero-waste biodiesel manufacturing

Byproducts from the biodiesel process are being heavily researched for further use.  As chemists, we challenge ourselves to create value-added products from our own "waste" streams.  We are currently developing methanol recycling and glycerol purification methods.  We are also actively pursuing uses for solid grease including conversion into waxes for candles, fire-starters, snowboards, etc., industrial soaps and specialty ester synthesis for paint and lubricant applications.  The goal of our manufacturing site is to glean the maximum value from our starting materials and to completely utilize our own waste streams or to release only benign wastes.

Our Founder                                   

Scott Gordon, Ph.D.

Scott Gordon, founder and CEO of Green Technologies, LLC, graduated from California Institute of Technology with Bachelor's degrees in biology and chemistry in 1984. He worked for a few years in a small start-up chemical R+D company before entering graduate school at Carnegie Mellon University. Under his graduate advisor Terrence J. Collins, he became interested in green chemistry and magnetic materials. His graduate and post-doctoral work with Dr. Collins in the area of environmentally benign oxidation catalysis was recognized by the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award in 1999. This work also led to eight patents that are now being commercialized worldwide for chlorine-free paper and textile bleaching. In 1998, Scott accepted an Assistant Professor of Inorganic Chemistry position at the University of Vermont (UVM). While at UVM, he also served as the Vermont representative to the New England Green Chemistry Consortium (NEGCC). Through all these years of work, Scott firmly believed that chemistry can solve many of the world’s environmental problems if practiced in a sustainable way. As his tenure at UVM drew to a close, Scott took his research skills and passion for green chemistry into the private sector by founding Green Technologies in 2003. Green Technologies has since become a leader in the biodiesel movement in Vermont as the only commercial-scale producer of biodiesel in the state.