Brunswick, MAINE – During a visit to bluShift Aerospace in Brunswick today, Governor Janet Mills highlighted the importance of the Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan’s investment in innovation to spur economic growth as Maine recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The communities, in three different corners of the state, will develop climate change resilience plans that can be used by any town or city to make adapting to climate challenges more uniform.
As Brunswick-based bluShift nears its crowd equity funding milestone of $500,000, development continues on the startup's bio-fueled engine. Options are cropping up for a remote coastal site that would accommodate launches over the ocean.
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The Finance Authority of Maine has approved an $800,000 FAME Direct Loan to Standard Biocarbon Corp., and the money will help fund equipment for the company s biochar operation at the former East Millinocket mill site.
SBC, the anchor tenant of the new town-owned innovation campus, will use the loan to buy two kilns that will be used to produce biochar, which is a granular carbon substance produced when organic matter is decomposed thermally in an oxygen-starved chamber, a process called pyrolysis.
SBC signed a letter of intent in February with the East Millinocket Industrial Inc. board of directors to locate at the developing innovation and industrial park at the former Great Northern Paper site. The company will initially create eight jobs, with more possible in the future, FAME said in a news release about the financing. The board oversees the mill site, which is owned by the town.
Restaurant-loving couple creates heated cushion to keep eating outside
The Southport couple started Hüga to make al fresco dining less frigid over the winter.
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During the pandemic, Jocelyn Olsen and Colin Greig launched Hüga, a company that makes heated cushions for outdoor seating.
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What started as a Southport couple’s chilly dinner out in Portland in September has become a steadily growing business venture with customers in 15 states, plans to create a line of heated outdoor furniture and new (sort of) professional titles for Colin Greig and Jocelyn Olsen, Hüga’s president of back-end operations and cheek executive officer.