CompRex named as finalist in the Wisconsin Governor's Business Plan Contest

CompRex, LLC is one of 13 finalists in the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest for their Innovative dairy wastewater treatment and PFAS removal business plan. CompRex has developed a patent pending diffusion bonded reactor and process that uses supercritical water oxidation to remove over 99% of PFAS in water and wastewater and over 90% on all other contaminants in any wastewater. Removal of PFAS is a growing need as the EPA is considering new regulations for PFAS as many cities such as La Crosse, Wausau, Madison have reported high levels of PFAS. The dairy industry, which their wastewater contains high level of BOD, can not only benefit from the removal of PFAS with CompRex’s system but the treatment process does not use costly chemicals. CompRex’s system can become the one single process suitable for any wastewater stream, the energy put into the system to treat the water can be recovered and used in other areas of a dairy plant reducing the overall energy cost of a plant.

Finalists of the Wisconsin Governor’s Business Plan Contest were narrowed down to 13 from about 200 entries. The contest has been going on four-months with multiple stages. CompRex is looking forward to present their business plan to the many judges and investors at the Wisconsin Entrepreneurs’ Conference June 1. For more information see full story at Diligent (bakers) dozen to present live at Wisconsin Technology Council.

CompRex Receives ASME Certification

CompRex, LLC announced today it that it has received “U” and “R” stamp certifications to design and build industrial equipment in accordance with the ASME Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code at its manufacturing facility at the Coulee Region Business Center in La Crosse, WI. These certifications represent the highest standards in the industry for quality and safety and are accepted in over 100 countries globally. There are only ~2500 companies with these certifications in the US, and only a handful among them are specifically certified to produce equipment using the cutting-edge diffusion bonding process that is being used at CompRex. Dr. Zhijun Jia, CompRex’s CEO, commented, “Today marks a major milestone in the development of our in-house manufacturing capabilities. Our facility opened less than a year ago, and within this short time, we have doubled our footprint and demonstrated our ability to deliver in design, engineering, and production of advanced heat exchangers and reactors for use under extreme conditions. With these certifications in place, we hope to better serve our current customers and expand into new markets.

CompRex Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

CompRex announced today its selection for the 2020 TechConnect Defense Innovation Award based on its compact heat exchanger and heat exchanger reactor technologies.

Entering its seventh year, the annual Defense TechConnect (DTC) Summit brings together defense, private industry, federal agency, and academic leadership to accelerate state-of-the-art technology solutions that will strengthen national security. The TechConnect Defense Innovation Award recognizes the top 15% of submitted technologies as ranked by a selection committee based on the technology’s potential positive impact.

CompRex Moves to a New Facility in La Crosse

CompRex Moves to a New Facility in La Crosse

Today, CompRex, LLC held the ribbon cutting ceremony for its new facility located at the Coulee Region Business Center (CRBC) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. This location will serve as CompRex’s new headquarter and features state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment allowing the production and testing of highly advanced brazed and diffusion bonded compact heat exchangers and heat exchanger reactors.

CompRex worked closely with the City of La Crosse through the La Crosse Area Development Corporation and the CRBC to achieve this new milestone in the young company’s growth.

CompRex Awarded $1.455 Million from ARPA-E for Transformational Energy Technology

CompRex announced today that it was awarded a $1.76 million project from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). The funding, through the High Intensity Thermal Exchange through Materials and Manufacturing Process (HITEMMP) program, will be used to develop new approaches and technologies for the design and manufacture of high temperature, high pressure, and highly compact heat exchangers and components.

$625,000 in State Matching Grants Advance 8 High-tech Small Businesses

Eight innovative small businesses in Wisconsin will receive matching grants to commercialize their innovations, thanks to the SBIR Advance program’s latest round of funding. Seven businesses, selected for Phase I, will receive up to $75,000 each, and one Phase II business will receive up to $100,000.

DOE Awards $148,810 to CompRex for Fracking Water cleanup and reuse study

The US Department of Energy has awarded CompRex a $148,810 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for a Phase I project to investigate the potential for a single-step energy efficient process to remove organic contaminants and inorganic solids from water that comes out of the fracking gas/oil wells.

State Matching Grants to Elevate 8 High-tech Small Businesses

Eight small high-tech businesses in Wisconsin will receive up to $75,000 each to commercialize their innovations, thanks to the SBIR Advance program’s latest round of funding.

The state matching grant program provides assistance to companies in the process of completing a project in the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. This is the 10th round of SBIR Advance funding since this collaboration by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) and the University of Wisconsin-Extension’s Center for Technology Commercialization (CTC) began in 2014.

CompRex Successfully Completes Thermal and Hydraulic Testing of a Supercritical CO2 Demonstration Heat Exchanger

CompRex Successfully Completes Thermal and Hydraulic Testing of a Supercritical CO2 Demonstration Heat Exchanger

Recently, the Naval Nuclear Laboratory completed the initial thermal-hydraulic performance testing of a CompRex heat exchanger and provided test results to CompRex.  The test results exceeded the expected design performance and provide additional proof that the CompRex design and construction methods are suitable for producing commercial size heat exchangers for supercritical CO2 service.

CompRex Successfully Completes Pressure Test of Supercritical CO2 Heat Exchanger

CompRex Successfully Completes Pressure Test of Supercritical CO2 Heat Exchanger

In August 2014 CompRex LLC (De Pere, Wisconsin) was awarded a contract to design, engineer, fabricate and test high pressure, diffusion bonded stainless steel heat exchanger for CO2 power cycle development. Today CompRex announces that they have passes a significant mile stone with the successful hydraulic pressure test of a fabrication demonstration unit representing the intended heat exchanger. A representative scaled-down unit was manufactured for pressure testing. Test results showed that the unit exceeded the expected burst pressure for the design.