MyCelx has 17 employees and distributors in 10 countries for marine products, including absorbent mats, that Mixon says pick up far more oil and far less seawater than booms and mats now used for oil spill response. MyCelx has 500 customers, including oil and gas companies, refineries and shipping companies, Mixon says. They use MyCelx products to remove hydrocarbons from water. The products have also been used in large oil spill response efforts in Canada, Europe and Australia, Mixon says. "But we haven't been able to break into the U.S. oil spill business," Mixon says. The U.S. business "hasn't kept up with new technology."

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