A small husband-and-wife company has secured a pair of distribution agreements that will give their green product national reach.

The company, BioGreenChoice, also secured a $50,000 Community Development Block Grant loan from CountyCorp Development earlier this month.

The business produces compostable dishes, cups, bowls, utensils and more for use in home and institutional settings. The company’s products can be found at all three Dorothy Lane Market locations and in a cafeteria at the Premier Health Partners headquarters in downtown Dayton, according to CountyCorp officials.

Instead of taking hundreds of years to biodegrade or fall apart, BioGreenChoice founders say their products — made from corn, sugar cane and other natural materials — will decompose naturally without harming the environment and without taking up space in a landfill for extended periods.

“It caught our attention,” Steve Naas, CountyCorp president, told his board of trustees at a recent meeting. “You’re eating on their product. It has potential for something kind of exciting.

BioGreenChoice has won two supply agreements, including a pact with the nation’s largest health care supply chain company, Novation, said Heena Khakhdia, BioGreenChoice president and a former Premier Health Partners business manager. The two-year CountyCorp loan will be instrumental in manufacturing the inventory needed with these new agreements, Khakhdia said in an interview at the company’s Yankee Street office.

“We are in the process of ordering plenty of inventory,” she said.

The larger supply chain agreement, with Novation, provides potential access to more than 65,000 health care industry members, including Dayton’s Premier Health Partners. The other agreement is with Amerinet and Amerinet Choice.

Last year was a good one for the company. The Dayton Development Coalition selected the company for marketing and patent assistance in its Entrepreneurial Signature Program. Naas said that was a signal to CountyCorp that the company was on the right track.

“The company had successfully navigated other fund sources like the Entrepreneurial Signature Program for additional product development,” he said in an email.

Today, with a catalogue of more than 100 products, BioGreenChoice outsources its manufacturing to facilities in China and Taiwan, and to a lesser extent, Thailand and South Korea. The products are made according to the company’s specifications, said Rakesh Rathore, BioGreenChoice vice president and Khakhdia’s husband, as well as a University of Cincinnati biochemist. The couple hopes one day to bring manufacturing to Ohio.

The idea behind the business was to give consumers and dining establishments a sustainable, environmentally friendly alternative to plastics and Styrofoam, which can take up landfill space for hundreds of years, the couple said.