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McCord Consulting Group

MCG BioComposites, LLC
3425 Sycamore Ct. NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
Phone: (319) 378-0077
Fax: (319) 378-1577
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MCG BioComposites, LLC began operations in August 2007 by Founder and President/CEO Sam McCord and Partners Dean Reck, Technical Sales Manager and Phil Neville, Manager of Recycling to provide sales, marketing and commercialization of materials that are biobased. Mr. McCord started the new company to handle the growth of the biobased materials and to keep the his other business, McCord Consulting Group, Inc., separate entities, but affiliated for additional services to the customer base. MCG provides Executive Search, Business Development Consulting and Business Acquisition Search to the plastics industry nationwide. The two companies offer a unique and effective combination of critical business services.

How It All Began
Mr. McCord has been a long time member of the Society of Plastics Engineers and has served on the Board of Directors for the Iowa Section in all capacities, including a three year term as a Vice President on the Executive Committee of SPE International from 2005 to 2007. His involvement with SPE has allowed him to become acquainted with many companies and professionals in the plastics industry worldwide. While serving as President of the SPE Iowa Section in 2004, he was asked to be involved with the Iowa Biomass Working Group by Jay Olson, Global Polymers Technology Manager, Deere & Company, to provide representation to the plastics industry since there were no members on the board. It was comprised of farmers, academia, government and manufacturers in the metals industry. This group was formed by the Advanced Manufacturing Research and Collaboration Cluster to promote the use and commercialization of bioproducts materials and to collaborate of the research and development as well as knowledge sharing of technologies. The end result was to encourage the state, county and local entities to purchase Iowa bio-renewable products. Through his direct involvement with this group, his skills were utilized to help two private entities with the commercialization of biobased materials using switch grass and kenaf fibers which were being grown locally in southern Iowa.

Key Partners Added

Dean Reck joined the firm in June 2007 to provide technical assistance in the development of material compounding of the biobased products through the selection of various compounders to develop Master batches. Also to work with companies that specialized in custom injection molding, compression molding and thermoforming that provide molding of plastic parts for the OEM’s that would have an interest in using bioresin as part of the Green Initiative.

Phil Neville joined the firm in late 2007 to help with the overall operations and to run the plastics recycling part of the business. Phil provides the coordination of purchasing of the plastic resins like, polyolefin’s, polypropylenes, high density polyethylene’s, which are then sold directly to our customers or made into bioresin pellets with addition of biomass materials, i.e., corn cob flour.

William (Bill) Porter joined the firm as an Associate in August 2008 to help with product development, custom formulations of biobased materials for commercial and industrial applications and market intelligence.

The Future
MCG BioComposites has positioned itself to aggressively pursue numerous opportunities in the Green Economy through their Strategic Planning and strong customer base.