UTT, Signature Win Soybean Use Awards

Dalton, GA, May 30, 2012 -- The United Soybean Board recently recognized the partners in Project Yellowstone by granting them the “Excellence in New Uses” award for 2012.

The award recipients included Jim Evanoff of Yellowstone National Park as well as Doug Giles of Universal Textile Technologies and John McIntosh of Signature Crypton Carpets, who accepted the award on behalf of their respective companies for producing the Yellowstone Collection of carpets.

The United Soybean Board reserves the Excellence in New Uses award for industrial companies using soybean oils in new and innovative ways.

The award is given only once every several years.

Yellowstone National Park collects plastic bottles discarded in the park and recycles them through US-based recycling partners. Universal Textile Technologies then takes this recycled material and combines it with soybean polyols to create BioCel and EnviroCel carpet backing systems used in the Yellowstone Collection.