THE STORY: Pawtucket-based Cooley Group is a manufacturer of high-performance polymeric solutions that markets and distributes products in more than 50 countries on six continents. The Cooley Coolpro is a polypropylene geomembrane designed for some of the toughest conditions on Earth. This one is installed in drought-stricken Cape Town, South Africa.
› The underlying textile of the Coolpro was knitted in Cranston and then extruded with a polymer chemistry formulation in Pawtucket
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› Cooley’s first reservoir cover was installed in 1996 over the Bears Hill Reservoir in Victoria, Australia
› One of Cooley’s Coolpro reservoir projects was installed in 2004 and is still protecting the Franzen Reservoir in Oregon
› In 2018, Cooley will produce over 400 million square feet of geomembrane solutions
› Cooley’s water protection and preservation solutions are sold to water authorities, power plant utilities, industrial companies and agriculture companies, among other users
› 200 employees work at Cooley, and it takes the entire team to design, develop and manufacture a reservoir project
Jaime Lowe is a PBN contributing writer.
