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Ohio Based Technology to Create Green Jobs for Ohioans
DUBLIN, OH – May 17, 2010 Today, FirmGreen, Inc. (FGI) announced a partnership with Guild Associates, Inc. (Guild) to export green energy technology to Brazil. Soon, the landfill gas (LFG) cleaning equipment that served as a backdrop for the event will create up to 135 green jobs for Ohioans and citizens of other states. The announcement followed a tour at Guild’s factory located in Dublin, Ohio, attended by John Carney, Dublin’s State Representative in Ohio House of Representatives’ 22nd District, Franklin County Commissioner Paula Brooks, FirmGreen CEO Steve Wilburn and Michael Mitariten, VP of Guild. Also present for the event was Manoel Antonio A. Avelino da Silva, Chairman of Gás Verde AS of Brazil, along with Gary W. Johnson, Executive VP of its sister company Arcadis US, Inc.
State Representative Carney stated, “We are excited to be adding Ohio green collar jobs here in Dublin, Ohio given the commitment of this great city to economic development and job creation. Congratulations to Guild Associates and FirmGreen for their vision and innovative spirit in furthering Ohio’s quest to become the nation’s leader in Green Technology.”
After the announcement, FirmGreen, Inc. and Gás Verde AS of Brazil signed an agreement under which FirmGreen will supply its patented CO2 Wash® equipment to Brazil. Guild will fabricate FirmGreen’s equipment at its Ohio factory, to be installed at the Novo Gramacho Landfill near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Manoel Antonio A. Avelino da Silva, Chairman of Gás Verde remarked, “We are very pleased to work with FirmGreen and Guild to supply the gás cleanup technology for this important landfill project at Novo Gramacho.”
In addition to creating skilled jobs for Americans, use of the green energy technology will displace the use of non-renewable natural gas and will reduce annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at the Brazilian landfill by an amount equivalent to taking almost 275,000 vehicles off the road.
"FirmGreen is pleased to support Governor Strickland’s green initiative for Ohio using green technology developed in Ohio that will create jobs here in Ohio,” said FirmGreen's CEO Steve Wilburn. “Today the world faces volatile oil prices which threatens our economic well being, and concerns about dire consequences resulting from climate change caused by CO2 pollution. Environmental and political issues have emerged as the production of biofuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel, affect our already strained global food supplies. FirmGreen and its patented, alternative fuel producing technology, offers a sustainable, cost-effective pathway to help address these issues.”
“This is a very important project and positions Guild and FirmGreen in the international marketplace. We are pleased that FirmGreen showed confidence in our ability to fabricate their CO2 Wash unit for Gas Verde‘s project. The combination of our proven nitrogen rejection system with FirmGreen’s technology is impressive,” said Roy Brown, President of Guild.
FirmGreen obtains pipeline quality natural gas in an environmentally responsible manner by processing LFG with its CO2 Wash technology to a purity that meets or exceeds OEM standards for biomethane. The patented technology was developed in Ohio by Acrion Technologies, Inc.
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Headquartered in Newport Beach, CA, FirmGreen, Inc. (FGI), is a privately held, integrated energy company participating in the global green energy business. FirmGreen® provides proven technology for bringing renewable energy and fuels to the market.
Guild Associates, Inc. offers high quality and operator-friendly gas purification systems through the use of adsorption based-technologies. Guild engineers and fabricates modular plants at their facility in Dublin, near Columbus, Ohio. Visit the company website for more information: www.moleculargate.com.
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To learn more about FirmGreen’s renewably sourced CNG — biomethane branded as gCNG®, click here.
To find out more about the benefits of our waste-to-fuel projects, click here.
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