What type of seafood does the Chitin Works process in their Cambridge, Mass. plant?
Maryland crab shell team wins top engineering award Baltimore, MD- For cracking open markets for crab shell waste–tons and tons of it from Maryland’s crabmeat industry–a research/business team will receive the Outstanding Engineering Achievement of the year award by the Engineering Society of Baltimore (ESB) on February 20. Their project began in 1995 with a challenge to University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) student to create new compounds from shells left after eating a dozen steamed blue crabs. Now, for teaming up on a large-scale project to process shells, a potential Chesapeake Bay pollutant, the team of UMBI scientists and engineers, state officials and entrepreneurs, will receive the top ESB award. The Society is a consortium of 20 mid-Atlantic engineering societies. At center stage of the project is a new crab shell processing plant, Chitin Work’s America Inc. in Cambridge, Md. It is a direct result of research at UMBI’s Center for Agricultural Biotechnology (C
Jennie Hunter-Cevera is heading to a nonprofit research institute in North Carolina after leading Maryland’s oldest biotechnology research center for nearly 10 years. Under her leadership, UMBI has spun out 10 companies. They include Chesapeake PERL Inc., a Savage biotech that transforms insect larvae into protein products, and Cambridge crab processing plant Chitin Works LLC. Sources: Bizjournals.
