About Us
Our Story
In 2015, an innovative concept to create paper from leftover wheat stubble came to commercial fruition with the establishment of Sustainable Fiber Technologies (SFT).
CEO and Founder Mark Lewis has spent his entire career in the pulp and paper industry. His senior thesis at Colorado State University, in fact, addressed pulping corn stover. Mark created SFT to further develop the technology he had begun many years before. Since its start, SFT has refined and expanded the capabilities of its technology to pulp non-wood fibers, ranging in its use of agricultural residue in such things as wheat straw, sugar cane, miscanthus, arundo donax, and more.
The company aids in the implementation of the environmentally friendly and sustainable Phoenix Process™ for pulping, as well as engineering and training help in the operation of such facilities. The Phoenix Process has been used in the production of sustainable packaging, molded products, tissue and toweling, printing and writing paper.
Expansion of such technology is always on the horizon with the capable and energetic team of engineers employed by SFT. The compostable, all-natural, gluten-free pulp and paper products that SFT is able to produce are sustainable in their purpose as well as the process.
Meet our Team
We are passionate about sustainability
Mark Lewis
Founder & CEO
Mark is the founder of Columbia Pulp, the founder and CEO of Sustainable Fiber Technologies, Phoenix Pulp and Polymer and Sustainable Green Chemistries. Mark has over 40 years in the pulp and paper industry.
His experience spans research, Weyerhaeuser and GK Carbonate; manufacturing Weyerhaeuser, Noram Testing Equipment, sales and marketing, various entities and academia where he spent seventeen years at the University of Washington.
Currently there are over 20 employees within the SFT family of Companies. He is also the inventor of 6 issued patents and 3 patents pending.
Tyler Campbell
Director of Engineering
Tyler holds a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Pulp and Paper Engineering from University of Washington. He has 14 years in the paper industry with expertise in research and development, process and equipment design, operations, and project engineering.
Relevant work positions include Pulping and Utilities Assistant Superintendent at Nippon Paper’s Port Angeles Mill for 5 years, and Design and Consulting Lead Process Engineer at Direct Contact LLC for 2 years.
Tyler has been with SFT for over 7 years, and currently oversees the engineering and implementation of all licensed mills.