Biotech Mills

BioTech Mills, Inc. is a private Delaware corporation headquartered in Snow Hill, North Carolina, which develops and manufactures renewable natural plant and plant fiber products. The company owns and operates the largest natural bast fiber processing and manufacturing facility in North America. Our factory locations are in Snow Hill, North Carolina, Eastman, Georgia and Calcutta, India. The company also has manufacturing facilities that provide the largest amount of natural oil absorbents in North America with inventories of over pounds. Our oil spill absorbent products and containment hard booms are shipped globally to contain and absorb even the largest oil spills. Our containment oil spill products meet the latest oil industry specifications for hard booms. Many of our products are made from a plant called kenaf. Kenaf is in the hibiscus family that was grown for fiber in ancient Egypt and Northern Africa in a time span that goes back over years. The kenaf plant grows to over 15 feet tall in 150 days and the crop is planted in the spring and harvested in the fall. Kenaf also converts more greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) than almost any other plant grown in the World.We are truly a green company. Our products help the environment in ways like: helping oil well drilling fluids meet the EPA standards for discharge in our oceans, providing the best in products for oil spill clean up, chemical spill clean up, soil remediation, and soil erosion control. The company also produces kenaf bast fiber products for the plastic composites and plastic extrusion industries. We provide our bast fiber to many of the largest automotive companies in the world and it makes their automobiles lighter and stronger for better safety and better mileage.Our biotech research scientists are developing new technologies that make natural fiber: fire retardent, hydrophobic, hydrophilic, antimicrobial and compounded for better adhesion to plastics.