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Scripps News visits Triadelphia, West Virginia, a small town of just over 600 people, where carbon foam is manufactured for the aerospace industry.
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Scripps News visits Triadelphia, West Virginia, a small town of just over 600 people, where carbon foam is manufactured for the aerospace industry.
Scripps News visits Triadelphia, West Virginia, a small town of just over 600 people, where carbon foam is manufactured for the aerospace industry.
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Staff Writer Photo by Joselyn King Building blocks made of CFOAM, a coal byproduct, are displayed at the Touchstone campus in Triadelphia. TRIADELPHIA — Buildings in the future may someday be constructed from a West Virginia coal byproduct, with locally made CFOAM blocks replacing concrete blocks. The problem with using CFOAM in mass quantities always has been that it takes a while to produce, and can be costly, explained Rudy Olson, general manager of CFOAM LTD. on the Touchstone campus in Triadelphia. But CFOAM LTD received in late December a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of...