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WEEKLY BUSINESS BRIEFING
NEW BREWERY DEVELOPING IN DOWNTOWN KALISPELL
A new brewery is in the works in down- town Kalispell.
Adam and Amanda Robertson, a husband and wife who live in White sh, recently pur- chased the former American Carpet Center building at 409 First Ave. E. and are renovat- ing the 6,500-square-foot space into a tap- house and brewery.
Copperwood Brewing is slated to open in 2018.
The Robertsons’ enterprise originated in
White sh as a hobby home brewery called
“BrewHaus 651,” which featured a rotating
cast of experimental craft beers. Robertson’s beers earned an enthusi- astic following across the Flathead Valley and beyond. In the summer of 2016, Adam and Amanda decided to turn their passionate hobby into an entrepreneurial pursuit and a new way of life.
“We’ve been dreaming of opening a brewery for a while now and are really excited that our dream is coming true,” Adam Robertson said. “We hope that Flathead beer lovers are looking forward to another option to get a great pint of beer.”
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company apart, Kuhl said.
“By changing the catalyst, we can
change what product is made, so in the- ory you could make any carbon-con- taining compound, from everyday household products all the way to com- monly used fuels,” she said.
Still, the company has a long journey before it can begin competing with tra- ditional chemical suppliers. By the end of 2017, Opus 12 plans to build a reactor with a stack of electrodes that can pro- duce several kilograms of product a day.
Understanding of carbon dioxide conversion catalysis and reactor design has increased greatly in recent years after a lull in research during the energy crisis of the 1970s, and recent discover- ies demonstrate greater product selec- tivity and higher energy e ciency.
However, these discoveries have yet to enable a commercial process due to
Members of the Opus 12 team, pictured from left to right: George Leonard, Kuhl, Nicholas Flanders, Etosha Cave, and Daniel Diaz. COURTESY PHOTO
di culties integrating catalysts into a traditional electrolyzer reactor.
Opus 12 incorporates novel electrode materials into an existing electrochem- icalreactorinordertoincreasethecon- version of carbon dioxide at the cata- lyst’s surface, which will lead to higher reaction rates that are stable over time.
The Opus 12 team has won the Depart- ment of Energy’s Transformational Award as well as multiple grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Energy. They are alumni of the highly selective Stanford StartX accelerator and the Stanford Ven- ture Studio, and have also received fund- ing from the Shell GameChanger pro- gram, the Molecular Foundry at Berke- ley Lab and the TomKat Center for Sus- tainable Energy to further their work toward a commercial device.
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