“我们认识到更高价值的应用，食品加工、园艺，我们需要渗透到这些领域，” Morris说，“打开新市场需要时间，但为这些领域新客户做的初期试验表明是有前途的。”他说。
公司最近聘请了西海岸的推销员来扩大产品的市场范围。但公司仍然面临着来自某些大公司的竞争，如杜邦公司和其他几家生产二氧化氯消毒剂产品的公司。例如，杜邦，提供了多种稳定二氧化氯溶液，但不像Solution 3000，它们必须添加酸来活化。
众所周知二氧化氯非常不稳定。在一定浓度时暴露在阳光下就会发生爆炸。所以运输气体几乎不可能。CDG的Solution 3000以纯净、稳定、可运输的方式把气体溶解在水中，这是它的独特之处。
Up from the ashes: CDG poised to grow after near tragedy
Explosion in 2000 put company in the headlines, now it´s on the cusp of success.
January 14, 2011|By Scott Kraus, OF THE MORNING CALL
decade ago, CDG Technology´s then-promising future was a pile of smoldering ashes at Lehigh University´s Jordan Hall labs.
A pipe filled with sodium chlorite — a key ingredient in the company´s primary product: chlorine dioxide disinfectant — caught fire, torching a laboratory the company was using in cooperation with Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and landing the company in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
A similar fire at supplier Composite Particles in Allentown weeks later put the company´s proprietary technology in doubt.
Now, with new ownership, a reformulated product and several key federal approvals that could open new markets, company officials hope the Bethlehem-based CDG Environmental, which employs 12 people there and at an Allentown plant, is ready to turn a corner and possibly grow tenfold.
"The accident we had was a turning point," said CDG Chief Executive David Morris. "They identified what did cause it, and corrected it."
One of the results of that research is Solution 3000, a stable, shippable, read-to-use liquid form of the CDG disinfectant that won approval late last year from the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and kosher authorities, for use in preventing contamination at food processors and other activities.
The new markets are a significant expansion from the company´s prior customer-base, made up mostly of private and municipal water treatment system operators.
"We recognized the high-value applications, food processing, horticulture, is where we really needed to be," Morris said. Cracking open new markets takes time, but early trials with new customers in those fields have been promising, he said.
The company recently hired a West Coast salesman to expand the product´s reach.
But it still faces competition from some big players. DuPont and several other companies manufacture chlorine dioxide products that are used as disinfectants. DuPont, for example, offers several stable Chlorine Dioxide solutions, but unlike Solution 3000, they must be activated with the addition of an acid.
Chlorine dioxide is highly volatile and has been known to ignite when exposed to sunlight at certain concentrations, which makes shipping it as a gas nearly impossible.
CDG´s Solution 3000 dissolves the gas in water in a pure, stable, shippable form
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