[2][3] "Located on a 10-acre campus in Savannah, the Herty Advanced Materials Development Center is a new product and process accelerator, providing technical, market and manufacturing expertise within a 120,000 square foot facility."

Establishing the Savannah Pulp and Paper Laboratory was the idea of Herty, who advocated the creation of a "semi-commercial-scale" laboratory to demonstrate the utilization of southern pine in the production of newsprint and other fiber-based products derived from southern pine.

[4] The Laboratory was located at 512 West River Street and is one of the earliest examples of a public-private partnership in the United States.

[5] Subsequent utilization of the Southern forests spurred economic development in the region, helping the United States become one of world's leading producers of pulp and paper products.

Notable projects included pulping, bleaching and papermaking with bamboo and silage sycamore for the US Department of Agriculture; refiner plate evaluations for Sprout Waldron, white-water chemistry studies for the Dow Chemical Company; pilot scale pulping for various pulp mills; chlorine dioxide bleaching studies for various paper companies, and the production of specialty papers for governmental agencies.