Civil in the news: Civil Engineering spinoff company Ostara poised for growth

Wednesday, July 20, 2016 | By Lindsay Cashin

Ostara, the clean-technology startup that began as a research project led by Professor Don Mavinic, was featured in the Vancouver Sun. The article quotes adjunct professor Troy Vassos, who said that Ostara’s technology has “the ability to generate (phosphorous) crystals perhaps more economically than competitors.”