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Mom, can grandma smell these beautiful flowers from way up there?

 
  
CycledLife, Inc. is led by Ed Gazvoda. After reading, in June of 2008, about this "game changing technology", he decided to source better technology and bring it to market. While conducting his due diligence on this opportunity, he discovered several major problems:
  • The capital cost of high-temperature systems ($160,000 or more) was not economically competitive with cremation.

 

 

Ed Gazvoda, ICCFA's Alkaline Hydrolysis Summit

 

  • The world's largest crematory manufacturer obtained distribution rights to a high-temperature systems.
  •  The patent originally owned by WR2 on high-pressure system for human remains were assigned to BioSAFE. Selling or buying a high-pressure system that infringed on these inventions would have potentially triggered a patent infringement lawsuit. Here is a link to the patent.

 

  • The two existing high-temperature systems used for human remains were manufactured by WR2, a company that was capitalized with $40 million and went bankrupt. High-temperature systems produce a highly undesirable byproduct: high-pressure. High-pressure results in these systems being costly to manufacture and requiring a lot of maintenance with attendant downtime. It is important not to equate price with quality when comparing alkali disposition systems. Price is a function of cost of manufacturing - not performance.

 

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    In September of 2010, CycledLife sold its first alkaline hydrolysis system for use in a funeral home by a funeral director. The first CycledLife system was installed and operating at Edwards Funeral Service on January 27, 2011. 

 

  • In October of 2010, the firm that we had contracted with to build our first system accepted an option to acquire its patent pending technology.

 

  • Confronted with the pending sale of the technology, CycledLife decided, once again, to develop even better alkali disposition systems. 

 

  • In February 2011, CycledLife invented its own patentable, low-temperature, the EcoSpa. CycledLife invites funeral directors and entrepreneurs to partner with us to create a market for this cremation alternative.

Ed Gazvoda,

Founder of CycledLife, Inc. and inventor of the next generation of alkali disposition systems

 

Prior to founding CycledLife, he served as chairman of Aardex, a commercial real estate developer. He focused the company on developing sustainable buildings with attributes that improved human productivity. He championed a book on the topic: User Effective Buildings®. He co-founded Hi-5, Inc., a software company, to reduce turnover, increase productivity, and reinforce training of call center workers. As a faculty member of the Univ. of Colorado, he led the technology transfer for the Center for Spoken Language Research. At iBelay’s ThinkArena, a venture capital firm, he sourced solutions, technologies, and people to solve market needs. He founded Demand Technologies to reduce the need for new power plants. He co-founded a company to reduce the primary components of acid rain from combustion (now, NASDAQ: FTEK and CDTI). Other: co-author of the book: The Harvard Entrepreneurs Guide to Making Money; former, president of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization (EO), NYC; former member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO); graduate of Harvard University BA '83; and patent law at the University of Colorado's Law School.
 
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