How many people currently work at the tech park? What do they do?
There are currently more than 500 people employed at the tech park by a variety of private and public organizations including Dow, MATRIC, CDI, Bayer, WVU, EDS and others. Technologies under development at the park include: coal to chemical products, coal liquefaction, natural gas and water treatment, polyethylene, polyurethane, biomass and renewable energy, engineering, computer services and many other industry boosting technologies. The tech park also houses the Chemical Alliance Zone’s incubator, which is designed to support high tech start-up organizations through the early stages of development. Four companies are currently in the incubator including Progenesis Technologies, a biotech start-up from Marshall University focused on the development of new polymers using biotechnology process.
