Harris Group: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide
Company description:
Harris Group Inc. (Harris Group) is a multidiscipline engineering consulting firm with offices across the United States. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington, we have over 200 highly experienced engineers, designers, project managers, and technical support personnel servicing ten industrial sectors including biofuels and bio-based chemicals.
Business Model: Fee for service
Competitive Edge(s):
Harris Group’s history in biorefining dates back to 1994 and the development of a process for converting municipal solid waste to ethanol. Since then, we have worked alongside entrepreneurs, researchers, and project developers on a variety of projects, including traditional corn ethanol and biodiesel, cellulosic ethanol, algae, renewable diesel and jet biofuel, and most recently, bio-based chemicals. Harris Group is a recognized leader in the next generation of biofuels technologies and was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to provide independent oversight on some of America’s first biorefineries. Harris Group provides strategic support from project definition and feasibility studies through construction management and start-up in both greenfield and retrofit applications with core services of engineering and plant design.
Chief Executive Officer: John Marrow
Business development or sales contact: (Name, title, phone, email)
Doug Dudgeon, Ph.D., P.E.
Vice President
Phone: (206) 494-9400
E-mail: doug.dudgeon@harrisgroup.com
Contact for follow up information: (Name, title, phone, email)
Doug Dudgeon, Ph.D., P.E.
Vice President
Phone: (206) 494-9400
E-mail: doug.dudgeon@harrisgroup.com
Product/Service information
Product or Service Brand Name: Engineering services
Product or Service Description: Engineering design services from concept to completion, including concept development, technology assessment, feasibility studies, front-end loading, detailed engineering, construction assistance, commissioning and start-up. We also provide owner’s engineering services and independent engineering assessments for the financial community. Harris Group’s staff covers management and all engineering disciplines, including process, mechanical, electrical, civil, structural, instrumentation, and controls.
Unique Features and Benefits (i.e.,what separates this product from the competition – e.g. cost, performance features).
Harris Group has worked in renewable fuels and chemicals for nearly two decades, and we have been working with biomass since our founding in 1975 in the pulp and paper industry. We know biomass, and we know biotechnology. We also are seasoned veterans of new technologies, and have found success with start-ups and Fortune 500 companies alike.
Voted tops in the EPC category in the 2013 Biofuels Digest Hottest Partners poll, Harris Group provides solutions for the bio-based industry. Our difference is engineered.™
Category: 5-Minute Guide
