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One of the compa- s “new 3 - = ." . 2 ny‘s facilities in Brazil is pictured right. - >- f ‘ P5 < can MONWVO \ Tf‘ 7~_::, . _; a“ ffi Bth-‘Jurv UPmN ment was researching air pollu- . 3 “Si . 3; Specialrothe Chronicle tion. and noticing that the finest ~»~. 133; , flii if , particles escaped the existing fil- ‘ r \c g . . ‘ “A, . ,:‘ ' " ne good idea can be wonh nation processes. ‘* ?"- O millions. That is what Tur- The fine particulate matter are - ' ' g boSonic Inc. in Waterloo, a usually the worst pollutants. ' ‘ ~ big name in the field of air pollu- Spink noticed that static elec- . â€" tion reduction. is finding with tricity would capture those tiny technologies that they feel are well particles. The problem was how to ' ahead oftheir competitors. get rid of them. The standard proâ€" They supply installations to the U.S. and elsewhere. many are world headquarters here in Water- The company has received cedure of bunting them off releas- natural resource and power gener- opening their purses and things 100 on Parkside Drive. three major contracts in the past es more 002 into the atmosphere. ation markets. are definitely looking up. Their offices are actually a com- month, amounting to approxi- But liquid would flush them off “We have new products that we “There is a huge level of plex of several adjacent units they ‘ mately$6million. the electrostatic precipitators. are introducing," said Edward. demand that is just on the offing have taken over. They have been They announced their latest allowing them to gather more. “One is catalytic gas treatment right now,” said Edward. “We see a slowly growing over the years. here contract in early December. it Thus was born the concept of where we have the first US instal- period of very sustained demand and elsewhere. $1.25-million contract to reduce the wet electrostatic precipitator. Iations. which was a $4.5 million for our products. You read about “We took over a New Jersey particulate emissions from a parti- orWESP. group oforders last year.” the environment every day in the company in 1987." said Edward. cleboard dryer exhaust in Brazil. Spink left UW in 1976 to start With the current recession, the news, one way or the other, “That expanded our technology in November. they were award- TurboSonic. He applied for and past year has been slow for Tur- whether its climate change or base and gave us U.S. locations. ed a pollution reduction contract received patents, and began adver- boSonic. Their estimated annual effects on health. The governments and our US. public company shell. valued at $4 million by an Ameri- tising his product. revenue was about a third of what are improving the regulation We opened our ltalian branch a can green energy facility that will By 1980 the company began to it was the previous year. regime to enforce that goal of few years ago to service the EU. generate more than 100 megawatts see some success. Spink took on “Our revenues and cash flows reduced pollutants." and that's staffed with, I think. of power. They also confirmed a his first employee â€" his son were significantly impacted this Their largest current contract is seven people now." contract for a nitrogen oxide con- Edward. Edward became CEO in past year as a result of our major for a us company, giving them a TurboSonic has cautious plans trol project at a European coal- 1997, and is now head of a large customers deferring capital expen- toe-hold in that large and expand- for further expansion to meet what fired power plant, and growing enterprise. ditures, following the economic ing market. Much of their previous they feel is the growing demand The company was started in the TurboSonic has becomeaglob~ downturn that began in 2008," work has been done in South for their product. 19705, when Donald Spink was a al supplier of air pollution control Edward said. America. one of the world's grow- “We are looking at some incre- professor at the University of and liquid atomization technolo- However, with the economy ingeconomies. mental staffincreases right now in Waterloo in the chemical cngi- gies, with numerous patents to improving and new clean air regu- TurboSonic is a publicly traded the project management field," neering department. The depart- their credit and more every year. lations coming into force in the company listed on the TSX. with its said Edward. . I www.waterloochronicle.ca ., From the latest information on local politics. to minor sports scores, P19 to what’s going on down the street, visit m.waterloochronicle.ca for it all.