Company Profile
Pancopia
Company Overview
Pancopia is an environmental technology development firm dedicated to the profitable recovery of currently wasted resources in a way that helps people, the planet, and profits. The innovative technologies we are pioneering span research and development of new cutting-edge biological urine recycling systems for NASA to recycle urine to drinking water in space, to innovative nutrient management systems for swine production that remove excess nutrients and pay for themselves by increased profits to farmers due to healthier, higher-weight pigs.
We are made up of a small team of highly motivated and innovative professionals focused on identifying new technologies that provide win-win solutions, i.e., ones that improve the environment while also increasing profits for those who implement them. We are lucky to also work with a wide array of expert senior consultants from across industry and academia in multiple fields to leverage ourselves, and create truly innovative engineering solutions to complex problems.
Pancopia’s mission is to identify, grow, and commercialize high-impact environmental technologies, taking them from the laboratory to the marketplace where they can make a meaningful difference.
Company History
Pancopia was founded in 2014 by CEO Bill Cumbie following a 30 year career as a consulting engineer with CH2M Hill, and got its start developing a way to freeze-dry and then rapidly reactivate micro-organisms for biological nitrogen removal in space-based water purification. Since then, Pancopia has continued its work for NASA developing cutting-edge biological wastewater systems for space, and branched out into earth-bound applications - specifically, agriculture. Pancopia has been developing and refining it's nitrogen management system for livestock ('Panoxic') for the past several years, and is set to commercialize this high-impact technology within the next two years.
Notable Clients
NASA, DOE, USDA
Benefits
Pancopia Perks:
-Company-sponsored staff lunch once a week as a perk
Location Perks worth mentioning:
- Pancopia is a 10 minute drive from the 3rd highest ranking public school division (York County School Division) in Virginia
- Hampton (our location) is right on the water! Beaches are always close by.
- Pancopia is located in the National Institute of Aerospace building, which means interesting work is always going on around us