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Lawrence, Kan. - Icorium Engineering Company has been awarded a $1.2 million Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II grant from the National Science Foundation to scale a breakthrough technology that could dramatically reduce the climate impact of...

 Lawrence, KS — January 2025 — Icorium, has been named one of 10 Kansas City Startups to Watch in 2025 by Startland News. In its tenth year, the Startups to Watch list highlights 10 emerging companies and entrepreneurs expected to make headlines in the coming year....

Lawrence, KS- Icorium Engineering Company, a climate-tech startup and University of Kansas spinout, announces the expansion of its R&D operations in Lawrence with the addition of two recent KU Chemical Engineering graduates. The additions bring Icorium’s headcount...

Lawrence-based sustainable engineering startup and KU spinout company, Icorium Engineering, won 5th place overall and took home more than $180K in prizes at the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), held April 4-6th at Rice University in Houston, Texas....

The NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) is a federally funded program that teaches best practices in entrepreneurship to scientists, engineers, and researchers to speed commercialization of their research. Icorium co-founders Kalin Baca and Dr. Mark Shiflett, participated...

Article courtesy of KU Innovation Park Lawrence, Kan. – Icorium Engineering Company, a sustainable engineering startup and spin-out company from the University of Kansas, is one of just 42 student-led startups from around the world selected for the prestigious Rice...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3PkrEuzh9E&source_ve_path=MzY4NDIsMjg2NjY Video and Article Courtesy of KU Innovation Park Staying cool is making us hot. And the demand isn’t cooling off, either. “Cooling protects people from rising temperatures,...

Under the next stage of the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act’s hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) phase-down, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is calling for the reduction of many of the common commercial refrigerants, including R-404A, which is...

The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) implementation of the next stage of the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act calls for the phased reduction of several refrigerant mixtures with high Global Warming Potential (GWP). GWP is a standard...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to implement the phase-down of high-GWP refrigerants enacted by the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act. 2023 marked the beginning of the phase-out of the commonly used refrigerant R-410A in new HVAC...