https://journalstar.com/business/local/article_43971588-2e19-11df-acde-001cc4c03286.html
A "green technology" company that has been producing and promoting a variety of products made of wheat, sugar cane, bamboo and corn -- from dinner ware to golf tees -- has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Midwest Manufacturing Co. Inc., selling its goods under the Wheatware name from Grand Island, filed for bankruptcy recently, listing $1.3 million in assets and $4.1 million in liabilities.
Featured in August 2008 on an episode of the History Channel's Modern Marvels show, Wheatware apparently has fallen on harder times.
Its CEO, Warren Kirsch, whose address is listed in Huntington Beach, Calif., could not be reached for comment. Kirsch's home at that address was listed for sale on the Internet at $775,000.
With biodegradable clothes hangers, golf tees, coasters, guitar picks, drumsticks and more, Kirsch said in a 2008 interview that the company's mission was to save forests and reduce dependence on oil.
A Californian who said his mother was born, reared and educated in Lincoln, Kirsch said in the interview he had been working on the company since 2004.
The products were sold in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and other nations, Wheatware said at the time
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