Small Business Opportunities Ideas
Organic Product Manufacturing Opportunity: An Environmentally Sustainable Business

EcoCover is one of the best small business opportunities and ideas ever.

Imagine owning your own small manufacturing business for an organically certified product.

• EcoCover has no direct competitors, there is nothing else like it on the market.
   
• This organic product is patented in 21 countries.
   
• The bulk of the material in EcoCover is waste paper that would otherwise go to landfill
   
• EcoCover replaces plastic film and sheeting used for agricultural, landscaping and garden mulch.
   
• EcoCover is 100% biodegradable.
   
• EcoCover stops weed growth, conserves water, enriches the soil, reduces or eliminates the need for chemical herbicides, reduces the need for chemical fertilizers.
   
• This product is environmentally positive.
   
• EcoCover manufacturing creates zero waste.
   
• New product development is ongoing, such as our new EcoPin™ biodegradable pin and EcoPotTop for container growing weed control.

Read a recent news release about EcoPin™ as a landscape fabric pin alternative.  Visit the EcoPin™ web and request a sample.

Read about the research that shows 30 to 40 percent yield increases over plastic mulch.

Read what the most environmentally progressive city government in New Zealand has to say about the EcoCover product performance from their experience.

See how one of New Zealand's top 100 companies, Farmlands, advertises EcoCover to their 14,000 cooperative members.

What makes EcoCover such an interesting small business opportunity idea? EcoCover is an environmentally sustainable investment that reuses waste, enhances plant growth and improves the soil.  There is no competition for EcoCover.  Plastic resin, made mainly from oil, went up in cost over 20% during October 2005.  Plastic is not sustainable.  Over 30 million acres of plastic are used annually in agriculture and landscaping and over 3 million acres in the USA.  EcoCover replaces plastic.

James Cassidy
CSS Instructor
Faculty Research Assistant - Soil Physics Laboratory
OSU Organic Growers Club - Member/Marketing Director/Faculty Advisor
Oregon State University
 

There are lots of opportunities and ideas available for small business investment.  Are they sustainable?  That depends on your view of the future.  The forward thinking inventors of EcoCover were in the plastic film and plastic mulch business in New Zealand.  Plastic film and mulch are commodities.  EcoCover is brand-able, and patented.  The future will be much different from the cheap energy world of the past 50 years.  Successful businesses and products in the future will be compatible with Mother Nature, have low input costs, be energy efficient and environmentally neutral or positive.  EcoCover meets all of these requirements.

Agricultural productivity improvements will be in great demand as population increases, energy costs rise and environmental wisdom grows to realize that we cannot continue to pollute the planet with poisonous chemicals used in agriculture.

The EcoCover small business opportunity is to purchase a manufacturing plant which you own outright with a license to manufacture patented EcoCover products.

• Approximately US $2.2 million in investment and working capital, 15-25% less for an already established business with facilities, staff and existing cash flow.
   
• A complete automated manufacturing line and ancillary equipment to manufacture the product
   
• On-site installation, start-up and commissioning
   
• Training for your workers and maintenance personnel
   
• The right to manufacture EcoCover products under license.
   
• A head start marketing program so that you can begin sampling and selling the product before the plant is in operation

Besides investment funding, what else do you need?

• A 10,000 square foot (or larger) building or manufacturing floor space
   
• Basic utilities including 3 phase electricity, a source of heating gas (natural, propane, LNG, butane) and potable water.
   
• Material handling equipment (a fork truck) and storage racks
   
• Five plant workers, an office administrator and a plant manager/salesperson

EcoCover has made amazing product development and manufacturing technology progress since early 2005.  The manufacturing plant opportunity in early 2005 was:

• The EcoCover plant on site commissioned (meaning installed, started up, workers trained, trials run)
   
• The manufacturing plant capable of producing mulch mat + weed squares
   
• We had positive results from some early research findings

The present manufacturing plant opportunity is:

• The EcoCover plant on site commissioned (meaning installed, started up, workers trained, trials run)
   
• The EcoCover plant now capable of producing mulch mat, weed squares, EcoCrop mat, EcoCoverRF™ (Hessian reinforced EcoCover) + new derivatives (EcoPotTops), hanging basket liners, etc. with the primary processes all run on the same manufacturing line.
   
• The new EcoPin™ as a stand alone highly profit product, see www.ecopinusa.com useful as biodegradable landscape pins and temporary survey markers.
   
• Additional plant features that include: in line slitting and cutting (at no additional cost) which saves a secondary manufacturing process; new glue system and changeover spray bars; faster output (EcoCrop Mat line speed); new software package for full automatic start up, monitoring, shut down and operation.
   
• Significant new research validating new product claims with outstanding results with more research in process (university research in India and Norway)
   
• Continuing new product development. See EcoCover product developments in process here.

The value added through continuing research and development is as great as the initial offer, and this is all at no additional cost. There are other incentives for the first plant purchasers in North America.  EcoCover is doing everything possible to make this a great opportunity.

If an EcoCover plant investment sounds like a good small business opportunity idea for you, please call 931.962.8665 to discuss or email ron.castle@ecocover-america.com and ask me to call you.  Include your name and mailing address and I will mail you a sample of the EcoCover product.  An executive overview of the product, an executive plant investment overview, a detailed account of EcoCover's development, research reports and other details are all available by email.  Complete a confidentiality agreement and I have a working financial model in Excel, a DVD and other information I can send you.

Would it have been a good thing for you to be in on the ground floor with Microsoft or Wal-Mart or Home Depot or General Electric? If you are interested in a sustainable manufacturing opportunity producing organically certified products serving an essential industry with real growth ahead, the time to talk is now.

Learn more about the EcoCover ground floor opportunity.  Please contact EcoCover today.

If EcoCover is not the right investment for you?  I am offering a finder's fee for referring to me a plant purchaser.  Contact me for details.

Cheers,

Ron Castle
EcoCover Business Development North America

If you are outside North America, please inquire.  I will send you the information and get you connected with the EcoCover sales representative in your area.

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