Specialty carbon.
For air & water.

Our Beginnings, First Decade

• SEA® technologies were initially developed in a collaborative project between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the University of North Dakota (UND) at the Energy Environmental Research Center (EERC) and have been further developed by Birchtech since 2008. From government and academia involvement, the SEA technologies became globally recognized as a “BACT” (Best Available Control Technology) for mercury emissions capture.
• Company Founder, Richard MacPherson, through an affiliation with the UND, obtained the licensing rights to commercialize the SEA technologies and Midwest Energy Emissions Corp (known as ME₂C) was born in 2008.
• In 2012, ME₂C completed a raise with Oppenheimer and became publicly listed on the OTCQB under “MEEC”.
• The Company achieved early commercialization of the SEA technologies, performed numerous in-field demonstrations with major power plants across the U.S. and Canada, and achieved significant growth.
• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) federal mandate enforcing the reduction of certain harmful emissions, including mercury, took effect in 2016 under the MATS (Mercury Emissions Toxic Air Standard) ruling. As a result, our customer base grew significantly across the North American power sector, reaching $32M by 2017. This growth led to the construction of a second manufacturing center in Texarkana to support the expected continued increase in customer growth.
• With over $65M invested in SEA technologies since 2008, the patent portfolio was fully acquired from the EERC in 2017. However, by 2018, the company’s revenues began a sharp decline due to widespread infringement of these patented technologies.
• In 2018, to better align ME₂C’s public perception of the Company’s expansion into new environmental technologies, ME₂C rebranded to “ME₂C Environmental”.