One year ago, Steve Harworth saw the need to provide companies with disposable-yet-sustainable products. Today,
Michigan Green Safe Products employs four people and offers up to 120 different green products.
Those products include biodegradable food containers, such as clear cups made of corn starch, plates made of sugar cane and cutlery made of potato starch.
Michigan Green Safe Products, which is based out of the Recyclean headquarters near New Center, started out with sales of $125,000 last year. So far it has sold $500,000 worth of product to the likes of Cobo Hall, DTE Energy cafeteria in its downtown Detroit headquarters and Masco's cafeteria in its Taylor headquarters. It also supplied products to the Arts, Beats & Eats festival.
"We're only selling to a handful of people now, so we know there is a lot of business out there," says Harworth, the president of Michigan Green Safe Products. "There are not many distributors like us in the Midwest these days."
He says sales are growing significantly each month, and he expects to hit sales as high as $1.5 million within the next year. And he expects to add a few more employees as the company grows.
Source: Steve Harworth, president of Michigan Green Safe Products
Writer: Jon Zemke
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