Subject: Thermal/Catalytic Market News
Here are excerpts for the month of May in the Updates to Thermal/Catalytic World Markets. The updates reflect only some of the new additions. The analysis and revenues are constantly revised. For more information, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/air.html#N007 .
THERMAL/CATALYTIC UPDATE
May 2005
Northeast Biofuels Contract to Lurgi
Empire Biofuels Targets Groundbreaking Later This Year
Empire Biofuels LLC, Seneca Falls, NY, expects to break ground in the second half of 2005 on a 15-month project to construct an $80-million, 50-million-gal-a-year ethanol plant. The EPC contractor is a group of companies owned by TIC Holdings Inc., Steamboat Springs, CO: TICThe Industrial Co., Casper, WY; T.E. Ibberson, Hopkins, MN; and Delta-T Corp., Williamsburg, VA.
Green Plains Renewable Gets Tax Exemption in Iowa
Shenandoah, IA City Council approved a resolution granting Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc. a 15-year, 100 percent tax exemption. The proposed ethanol plant would bring about 30 jobs. ...
Eight Billion Liter Ethanol Exports from Brazil by 2010
Brazilian state run oil company Petrσleo Brasileiro (Petrobras) plans to invest $330 million in logistics required to export 8 billion liters of ethanol annually from 2010 ...
..Golden Triangle's Craig plant will install a thermal oxidizer that reduces VOC emissions by 95 percent from the feed dryers and meets new restrictive limits for NOx, PM, CO, and hazardous air pollutants. In addition to emission control requirements valued at about $2 million, the facility will also pay a civil penalty of $30,000. The penalty amount is similar to the amounts paid by other ethanol companies in previous Clean Air Act settlements.
WOOD PRODUCTS
Martco Limited Partnership has placed two orders with Pro-Environmental, Inc. for air abatement systems to handle the dryer and press emissions at two OSB mills located in LeMoyen, LA and Oakdale, LA
INDUSTRY NEWS
CECO Environmental Corp. announced it has received five new orders totaling in excess of $2.25 million dollars. The orders include a $900,000-regenerative thermal oxidizer for an ethanol production facility in the midwest; $550,000 for chip collection systems for two aerospace manufacturing facilities in the midwest and the pacific northwest; an order in excess of $450,000 for a dust collection system for a power plant in the Midwest and an order in excess of $350,000 for ventilation work for an automotive plant in the Midwest
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