23 Results for biosolids
Lystek International has announced that it has commissioned the installment of its low temperature Thermal Hydrolysis Process at the City of St. Cloud, Minnesota, as part of the city’s Nutrient Recovery and Reuse (NR2) Project. “The Lystek system is a key element in the NR2 project and, together with St. Cloud and…
October 05, 2018 @ 11:39am
Burlington, Ontario-based Terratec Environmental, a division solutions provider Terrapure is the recipient of the Water Environment Association of Ontario (WEAO) 2018 Exemplary Biosolids Management Award. The company was awarded for providing a sustainable option for managing biosolids during winter months when farmland application is prohibited and storage is complicated. Instead of disposing of a nutrient-rich…
June 25, 2018 @ 12:53pm
The City of Penticton, B.C. is exploring options to transition away from an ailing composting facility to handle wastewater biosolids to a new solution that can meet current and future needs. City council has recommended that a request for proposal be issued by public works to review the existing treatment method and…
April 18, 2018 @ 9:18am
The Town of Ladysmith's recently upgraded wastewater treatment plant has received an Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (ACEC) award for Engineering Excellence. The award submission was brought forward on the Town's behalf by Opus International Consultants (Canada) Ltd., the engineering firm responsible for the design, construction, and commissioning of the upgraded…
April 17, 2018 @ 11:05am
Kamloops, B.C. has commissioned a stakeholder group to review a potential biosolids strategy that would determine the best uses for the approximately 12,500 tonnes produced annually by the community. City staff have been working with Stantec Consulting Ltd. to devise a long-term plan for management and beneficial reuse of the…
March 09, 2018 @ 9:43am
The California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) will be presenting Canada’s Lystek International Ltd. with a Governor’s Environmental and Economic Award (GEELA) at a special award ceremony held at EPA’s headquarters in Sacramento, California to honour the impact of its biosolids solution. The award will be presented to the company in…
January 17, 2018 @ 2:35pm
Hartland Resource Management Group (HRMG) has been named Preferred Proponent for the Capital Regional District (CRD) Residuals Treatment Facility. The project will be delivered under a design-build-finance-operate-manintain (DBFOM) Public-Private Partnership (P3) model, with a 20-year operate and maintain period. The facility will incorporate the latest processes for stabilizing and drying…
December 13, 2017 @ 10:36am
Canadian biosolids and organics solutions provider, Lystek International, has been awarded a NSERC Engage Grant to collaborate with Dr. Gordon Price, an associate professor at Dalhousie University. Price is a leader in academic research in new technologies for waste bio-conversion and stabilization. NSERC Engage Grants give innovative companies, like Lystek,…
December 07, 2017 @ 9:39am
Canadian biosolids and organics solutions provider, Lystek International Ltd., has announced that it has been awarded a US $1.5 million grant through the California Energy Commission’s Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) Program. The mandate of the EPIC program focuses on funding for the creation of new energy solutions, fostering regional innovation, and…
November 16, 2017 @ 2:19pm
Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Health and Member of Parliament for Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, joined Jenny Gerbasi, president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), to announce $20.8 million in Green Municipal Fund (GMF) grants and loans in support of seven initiatives across Atlantic Canada, including for a sludge dewatering technology. One…
October 17, 2017 @ 12:37pm
Cambridge, Ontario’s Lystek International Ltd. has been awarded a multi-year contract by the City of Petaluma for Diversified Reuse of Biosolids. Under the terms of the agreement, Lystek will accept Class B biosolids generated in Petaluma and convert them into LysteGro®, a US EPA, Class A EQ (Exceptional Quality) biofertilizer…
August 18, 2017 @ 9:41am
Leading biosolids and organics solutions provider, Lystek International, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a two-year contract for Beneficial Reuse of Biosolids Services by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC). Under the terms of this competitive contract, Lystek agrees to process up to 3,500 tons of…
July 19, 2017 @ 7:35am
Calgary’s Organics Composting Facility has achieved substantial completion and will divert dewatered biosolids from one of the city’s wastewater treatment facilities. Maple Reinders announced that on June 29th, the Chinook Resource Management Group, a special purpose company of which Maple Reinders PPP Ltd. is a partner, achieved substantial completion on…
July 12, 2017 @ 11:14am
Bird Construction Inc. announced today that it is part of the Harbour City Solutions consortium selected as the preferred proponent to design, build, finance, operate and maintain, a biosolids management project for the City of Hamilton, Ontario. Bird has a 50 per cent interest in the construction joint venture that…
February 06, 2017 @ 11:30am
With funding from the Ontario Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science, the Southern Ontario Water Consortium (SOWC) is offering subsidies to a limited number of Ontario companies undertaking a technology development project for a technology related to biosolids reduction, resource recovery, or energy generation. Two Ontario companies will be offered…
November 23, 2016 @ 10:39am
The Town of Jasper is in need of an alternative for managing its bio-solids waste now that tests have shown that the compost is unfit for Parks Canada. In the original plan, the treated bio-solids material was to have been mixed with wood chips and used by Parks for site…
September 01, 2016 @ 6:31am
Below is a statement issued by four Canadian professors and water experts in response to a letter to the Hamilton Spectator regarding "the danger of biosolids." The response comes from Drs. Paul Sibley from the University of Guelph, Linda McCarthy from Ryerson University, Chris Metcalfe from Trent University, Jorge Loyo…
August 12, 2016 @ 9:22am
The City of St. Thomas, Ontario has formally approved a $10 million plan to implement advanced biosolids management solutions from Lystek International at its Water Pollution Control Plant (WPCP). This project will convert the facility into a Water Resource Recovery Centre (WRRC). In the current conventional wastewater treatment facility, wastewater flows through…
July 26, 2016 @ 12:16pm
Trojan Technologies has acquired the business assets of OpenCEL of Glencoe, Illinois. OpenCEL is an environmental biotechnology company that offers a proprietary technology which significantly improves processing of wastewater biosolids. Utilized for pretreating wastewater sludge prior to anaerobic digestion, the technology employs high frequency electrical pulses to break open biomass…
November 07, 2011 @ 11:44am
Manitoba is implementing new rules for livestock waste management in response to recommendations made by the Clean Environment Commission (CEC) and the auditor general, Conservation Minister Stan Struthers announced late last week. “When we entered office, we recognized that decades of poor planning, abuse and neglect of our lakes, rivers…
October 19, 2009 @ 8:06am
Xogen Technologies Inc. took a major step towards commercialization of its pioneering wastewater treatment and renewable energy technology with the announcement on September 10 from Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) that a project led by the company has been awarded funding to design, build and demonstrate a pilot project at…
September 24, 2009 @ 8:49am
The Council of the Town of Orangeville last night passed a resolution supporting in principle a proposal from Orangeville-based Xogen Technologies Inc. to pilot and test a new wastewater treatment process at the Orangeville Water Pollution Control Plant. The Xogen technology treats wastewater using an electrolytic process that eliminates biosolids…
January 15, 2009 @ 12:56pm
BIOREM Inc. announced today a new biofiltration media called XLD, the result of five years of extensive research and development with the support of the National Research Council of Canada through the Industrial Research Assistance Program. XLD is targeted at the removal of odours from the handling of biosolids at…
October 16, 2008 @ 10:46am