Adam A. McCall

Prisma Renewable Composites LLC provides biotechnological services. Its technology includes lignin-derived thermoplastic co-polymers, polymer blend compositions, lignin-acrylonitrile polymer blends, and its patented lignin fractionation process, evolUTIATM, a process that creates very pure lignin and cellulose streams. The company is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.

IdleAire is a privately-held corporation formed in June, 2000. Corporate headquarters and a research and development center are located in Knoxville, Tennessee. The company is the outgrowth of a challenge originally issued to A.C. Wilson, a Tellico Plains, Tennessee, contractor, by his brother-in-law, a long haul truck driver fresh off a New Jersey run. It so happened that the challenge came during a vacation stay at an RV park. During the night, A.C. tackled the challenge, sketching the first design for an independent, external system that would deliver to a truck cab the same sorts of services inherent in an RV. The next morning he presented his sketches to his brother-in-law. A.C. and his partners located an experienced management team who could form a company and take his idea to market. Since June 2000, IdleAire has further refined Wilson's original design and made significant strides with truck fleets and travel plazas, as well as the federal and state environmental and highway safety entities.

IdleAire Technologies Corp. provides in-cab idle-reduction services to the heavy-duty trucking industry. The company's services include heating, ventilation and air conditioning, or HVAC, electric power, Internet access, satellite television, telephone, and remote delivery of computer-based driver safety and training courses. It delivers these services through their patented ATE Advanced Travel Center Electrification® system, or ATE system, comprised of an in-cab service module connected to an external HVAC unit mounted on a truss structure above parking spaces. The company was founded in June 2000 and is headquartered in Knoxville, TN.