PINERITE ™ a new product was born

I'm sure you have heard the expression "Necessity is the mother of invention". Well that's what we have here.

Besides making great polishes, we print our own bottles in-house. Plastic bottle printing ink has to be one of the most stubborn clean-up problems ever laid upon man. After trying just about every cleaner out there, Inventor & CEO (Andre Roy) remembered the powdered hand cleaners of yesteryear. He went to the hardware store and bought some old time powdered hand soap and tried it. It worked fairly well, but nothing to brag about. Then he remembered that some heavy duty cleaners have pine oils in them. What the heck, he had a lot of pine material (because of his patented process of recycling DEAD Colorado Pine trees); why not add some pine dust to the powdered hand soap? Well Goodness Gracious, it worked! And a new product was born PINERITE ™

Its name says it all. It's not any ordinary hand cleaner!  Use it when you want a quick and easy heavy duty hand washing after those really dirty projects.

Mill Creek started making PINERITE ™ Hand soap about 2 years ago.  It's really been a hit.  People love the way it cleans and at the same time it’s very gentle on your hands.  If your hands are dry and cracked, you really need to try some.  PINERITE ™Hand Soap is also VERY economical to use.  You should be able to get 100 to 150 washings per jar.  Just wet your hands then put about a 1/2 teaspoon in yours hands then rub them together, you will be amazed at out clean and soft your hands are. 

Yes, it actually has pine powder in the soap.  This isn't your ordinary powdered hand soap of days gone by.  It has all natural ingredients...good for you and good for the environment!   

 Buy some today

Local man creates 'revolutionary' fertilizer

BERTHOUD - Andre Roy is a man of many ideas. But his latest idea is garnering attention from scientists at Colorado State University.

Working in an industrial park in Berthoud, Roy developed an efficient process to turn dead trees into nutrient-rich fertilizer.

"There's no added chemicals," Roy said. "It's just 100 percent natural."

Roy's patented process is now being called revolutionary by forestry and plant specialists at CSU.

"This is the real deal," James Self, director of CSU's Soil, Water and Plant Testing Laboratory, said.

First, Roy, The product which is call Soil Primer (R) works miracles in the garden!

"A lot of the cells have been broken exposing a lot of the nutrients," he said.

Second, the process may provide one solution to the question of what to do with the pine beetle kill.

"If you were to grind up a pine tree without this process, the plants just couldn't utilize the product," he said.

But now, by making the dead trees both usable and profitable, Roy says more landowners will clear out their property.

Roy has been working on this project for three years. The former business owner already has a small amount of product on the market.

"It still needs to be vetted out correctly and it also needs a better manufacturing method," Roy said.

Claiming the process takes a very small amount of energy, Roy would like to see his invention make its way into developing countries.

"As long as they have vegetative matter, they can improve their soil and grow bigger and better crops," he said.

Fort Collins' stores Jax and Green Logic are the only places carrying Roy's product, which is called Mill Creek Soil Primer.

You can also order it online at www.millcreekweb.com.