Alliances help MOP up oil

MOP Environmental Solutions Inc., Bath, N.H., holds the patent on the MOP™ Maximum Oil Pickup oil absorbent and booms, but the small company lacked the capacity to capitalize on the need for its technology in the Gulf of Mexico right now. The company recently formed strategic alliances with two bigger players: Leigh Fibers, Wellford, N.C., which can produce the sorbent material; and Global Sales Co., Columbia, Md., which has production capacity for booms five times greater than that of MOP.