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MEMBER PROFILES |
Associate Member ProfilesAMEC EARTH & ENVIRONMENTAL, INC. (http://www.amec.com)AMEC Earth & Environmental, Inc., a subsidiary of AMEC plc, is a full-service environmental science and engineering consulting firm providing a comprehensive range of high-quality services, including human health and ecological risk assessment, air and water resources, and environmental engineering solutions. AMEC scientists are highly regarded for their expertise in preparing scientifically rigorous critiques of proposed regulations, negotiating health and ecological issues with regulatory agencies, providing expert witness testimony and litigation support in civil actions, and conducting over 500 human health and ecological risk assessments that have evaluated all major classes of chemicals in virtually every environmental matrix. AMEC also offers services in pulp and paper process engineering, geotechnical engineering, and materials testing. AMEC Earth & Environmental has more than 2,000 scientists, geologists, engineers, biologists, and environmental planners located in 90 offices worldwide. AMEC’s Portland Maine practice opened in July 1998. Since that time it has grown to include more than a dozen professionals comprised of toxicologists, risk assessment scientists, ecologists, and air and water modelers. These professionals have a unique expertise in assessing the health and ecological effects of contaminants in aquatic environments. Many of Portland’s clients are pulp and paper companies and other Fortune 500 companies on projects involving regulatory toxicology and risk assessment issues. Recently, however, the Portland practice has expanded to include two senior process engineers who have years of experience in designing and retrofitting paper machines and mill processes. These two professionals are supported by a team of pulp and paper engineers located in the eastern US and Canada. With this expansion, AMEC’s Maine office is well equipped to provide turnkey environmental, regulatory compliance, and engineering services to the pulp and paper industry. BERCEN, INC. (http://www.bercen.com)Bercen, Inc. is a 35-year old company that manufactures specialty chemicals for the pulp and paper industry. Headquartered in Cranston, Rhode Island, Bercen is one of the largest suppliers of ASA and provides a complete broad range of coating additives such as lubricants, insolubilizers, surface sizing agents and saturants for the paper industry. Bercen also has the only patented specialty lubricants for the coating industry. Bercen also offers a complete range of the paper coating additives. Bercen has 60 employees and two manufacturing facilities—one in Cranston, Rhode Island and one in Denham Springs, Louisiana. CIANBRO CORPORATION (http://www.cianbro.com)In 1946, 40 years after 11 year old Raphael Cianchette boarded a passenger ship alone in Naples, Itlay, bound for America, four of his sons, Carl, Ken, Bud and Chuck Cianchette –locked arms to build a construction empire. With Ken’s and Bud’s army savings for seed money and Chuck’s 1934 pickup truck as the company vehicle, Carl launched the family enterprise. Incorporated in 1949, Cianbro, now an employee-owned company, is one of the East coast’s largest civil and heavy industrial construction and construction services company with gross annual sales in excess of $300 million and over 2,000 team members. Winner of AGC’s Build America Award, ABC’s Excellence in Construction Award and ACOEM’s Corporate Health Achievement Award, employee-owned Cianbro is recognized nationally for its safety and wellness programs. For over 50 years Cianbro has provided services in the following areas: automated distribution centers, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, fabrication and coating, food and beverage processing, fossil fuel, hydro and nuclear power plants, hospitals, large building complexes, parking garages, pulp and paper, semiconductors, transportation and marine infrastructure and water and wastewater facilities. ENSR INTERNATIONAL (http://www.ensr.com)ENSR, a Sustaining Member of NCASI since 2000, and charter MPPA Associate Member, has served the pulp and paper Industry with comprehensive environmental, health, safety management and due diligence services for 30 years. Engineering News Record has named ENSR to the “Top Twenty” All-Environmental Firms from 1994-2005. ENSR has received Environmental Business Journal business achievement awards from 2001- 2004, as well as the BP HSSE Diamond Award and Textron Environmental Remediation Partner in Excellence Award. A full-service environmental firm founded in 1968, ENSR (wwww.ensr.com) provides clients comprehensive consulting, engineering, remediation and related services in 60 technical disciplines and 100 project specialty areas. ENSR has 45 US offices with a client focus on multinational industrial corporations, forest products and energy companies, mergers and acquisitions. ENSR has completed over 80,000 air, water, and waste-related environmental projects, and has conducted projects for over 50 forest products companies in North America and Europe. We have worked at every mill location in Maine during that period and continue to provide services that address and resolve technical environmental issues. ENSR Portland, Maine: To serve the needs of forest products companies and other clients in Maine and Atlantic Canada, ENSR has maintained an office in Portland since 1995. From there, ENSR coordinates and provides the following services for the pulp and paper industry, Capital Project Permitting, Air Quality Permitting and Engineering, Ambient Source Sampling, Water Resources Management, Integrated Restoration/Regulatory Site Closure, EHS Management Consulting, Environmental Process Engineering, Environmental Permitting and Compliance, Due Diligence for Property Transfer, Environmental and Social Impact Assessments, Health/Ecological Risk Assessment and Industrial Risk Modeling/Planning. GUILFORD RAIL SYSTEM (http://www.guilfordrail.com)Guilford Rail System is a fully integrated transportation system comprised of four railroads. As an overview, the system is comprised of the Maine Central Railroad Company, the Boston & Maine Corporation, the Portland Terminal Co. and the Springfield Terminal Railway Company. On the inbound routes, the products transported include raw materials to the mills in the form of clay, chemicals, wood pulp and pulpwood logs. Once the product is finished and ready for market, the railroad moves the paper in boxcars or intermodal, which means in containers or trailers on flat cars. GRS is also affiliated with GMX, which operates a 117,000 square foot warehouse in Devens, MA to serve as a staging area for our “forwarding paper program”, as well as intermodal facility at Devens and in Waterville, Maine. This service allows the mills to stage their paper closer to certain markets by storing and subsequently transloading this paper to truck for just-in-time delivery, and to ship and receive products via rail to truck and vice versa. Guilford Rail spends $20 million in payroll and employs 400 people at a substantial salary per year, including great benefits. In 2004, the company spent $3.5 million on the purchase of 141 new “paper quality” boxcars to supplement the fleet. From January to November’s end this year, 147 MEC 75-ton cushioned under frame boxcars have been completely “rehabbed’ at the GRS Waterville, Maine backshop facility. The program includes truck repairs, side post and side sheet reinforcement as well as strengthening the sliding doors. The final touch is a complete paint job, inside and out. The total to be “rehabbed” is 200 cars. Moving product by rail is not the only thing the company does. In addition, Guilford Rail is also affiliated with other smaller companies within Maine. GRS is the only railroad affiliated with a processing plant to manufacture new railroad ties and to dispose of the old railroad ties through a process that, in turn, recycles the ties into electricity to run the turbines for the manufacture of the ties. The company is opening a quarry in Embden, Maine as well. HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. (http://www.acs.honeywell.com)Honeywell International Inc, headquartered in Morristown, New Jersey, serves the Maine pulp and paper industry from its Westbrook, Maine office. This office is home to sales, service and project personnel who serve industrial process control customers in the northeast. Honeywell offers pulp and paper customers integrated process control solutions for the entire mill. The systems include quality control, distributed control, cross direction control, mill instrumentation, advanced sensors, cameras, and mill information. The Honeywell team engineers many of these solutions in Maine and uses the local team to install, integrate, and commission the systems into the paper mill. Having a development team of 10-15 engineers in state provides customers with valuable local support. In addition Honeywell employs roughly 40 service personnel in the State of Maine, many of whom are assigned to mills on a full-time basis. The service team is responsible for maintaining Honeywell and third-party systems and becomes part of the overall mill efficiency and quality effort. Honeywell takes pride in the qualifications, continued training, and process expertise of its service personnel. Manufacturing facilities in North Vancouver British Columbia and Phoenix Arizona support the local Honeywell team. HYSTER NEW ENGLAND (http://www.hysterneweng.com)Hyster New England is the distributor of Hyster Lift Trucks in New England. Hyster Company has placed their trust in Hyster New England to represent them for over 35 years. Hyster New England has four facilities throughout New England, totaling over 160,000 square feet, with 170 full time employees. Headquartered in North Billerica, MA, Hyster New England has locations in Scarborough, ME; Concord, NH; and Berlin, CT. Hyster New England is one of the largest Hyster dealers in the Nation. Hyster New England’s primary line is Hyster Lift Trucks. Hyster New England provides sales of new and used lift trucks to buy or lease, rentals, parts and service for Hyster equipment. Hyster New England also provides parts and service for all competitive forklift trucks. Hyster New England has a Rental Fleet of over 400 trucks to cover short and long term requirements. Hyster New England has over 2 million parts for all brands of material handling equipment and remanufactured parts. They also provide service for all brands of material handling equipment. Hyster New England is more than just a lift truck distributor. Hyster also provides construction forklifts, aerial work platforms, rough terrain forklifts, specialty forklifts, industrial batteries and chargers, service and parts for this equipment, as well as storage solutions and allied products. J.D. IRVING, LIMITED (http://www.jdirving.com)J.D. Irving, Limited is a family owned business that began over 120 years ago. The company’s roots can be traced to a sawmill in Boutouche, New Brunswick, Canada. Although J.D. Irving, Limited began as a forest products company, it is now a diversified company involved in industries construction, shipbuilding, modular home manufacturing, agricultural services, food services and petroleum products. The company also operates an integrated sea, rail and transportation network that serves markets in Canada, the U.S., the Caribbean and Europe. In addition, the company produces a wide range of forest products including newsprint, tissue, corrugating medium and Kraft pulp. J.D. Irving owns and operates sawmills in New Brunswick, Maine, Nova Scotia and Quebec. The company also owns 3.5 million acres of forestland in Maine, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia and manages another 2.5 million acres of crown land. J.D. Irving’s home office is located in Saint John, New Brunswick. The company also operates a chain of home improvement stores in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. The company has 15,000 employees. NALCO COMPANY (http://www.nalco.com)Nalco is a provider of integrated water treatment and process improvement services, chemicals and equipment programs for industrial and institutional applications. The company serves more than 60,000 customer locations representing a broad range of end markets. It has established a global presence with over 10,000 employees operating in 130 countries supported by a comprehensive network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and research centers. In 2003, Nalco achieved sales of $2.8 billion. Nalco’s grade-based offering focuses on reducing total cost of operation, increasing machine productivity, improving sheet properties and enhancing finished product performance. Nalco’s grade-based offering provides specific solutions to the tissue and towel grades, mechanical grades, printing and writing grades, and board and packaging. Nalco also focuses on water-related problems in areas of the pulp mill and paper machine by managing the water chemistry to achieve significant reductions in fiber and energy consumption. Nalco’s fiber management approach provides opportunities to reduce customers’ total cost of operation and utilize a broader range of recycled fibers while improving the quality of the pulp delivered to the paper mill and the stability of the process. Nalco for 75 years has been investing in innovation. In addition to the research center in Naperville, Illinois, Nalco recently added the Papermaking Center of Excellence in Helsinki, Finland. This expands Nalco’s ability to conduct technical research in the chemical and mechanical interfaces in papermaking. NATIONAL SEMICONDUCTOR (http://www.national.com)National Semiconductor has operated in South Portland, Maine since 1987 and employs 600 people. The facility specializes in the manufacture of integrated circuits, or “chips.” The chips are made on 8-inch silicon wafers, and each circuit drives the electronics for products such as cell phones, DVD’s, video displays, digital cameras and many other consumer electronic products. The Maine-made silicon wafers are shipped to southeast Asia for final finishing and shipment to our customers, including Apple, Motorola, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, and Samsung. In July 2005, Intel auditors who visited National’s South Portland facility ranked it as equivalent or better than their tier 1 suppliers and their own manufacturing plants. National maintains strict process control procedures and prides itself on the comprehensive training provided to all employees on job skills, safety, and quality. Plant Manager Paul Edmonds told employees, “Intel’s audit was among the most thorough customer audits our facility has been through, and we came through with flying colors.” National is committed to being an asset in the communities where our facilities are located. By actively partnering with local organizations, we help offer solutions to improve the quality of life in our society. National recently committed over $1 M to a new Science in Action Initiative for K-12 science teachers who are teaching hands-on, inquiry-based science. In Maine, professional development is being offered through our partner, the Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance. Additionally, all Maine teachers are eligible for grants ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 to purchase materials to strengthen their hands-on classroom curriculums (http://www.nsawards. com). NEW ENGLAND ORGANICS (http://www.newenglandorganics.com)Established in 1983, New England Organics specializes in creating cost effective beneficial uses and recycling options for residual byproducts and wastes of the pulp & paper industry. New England Organics employs 45 people in the northeast and manages over 400,000 wet tons of residuals annually. With a home office in Falmouth Maine, New England Organics operates the largest composting facility in New England. Its parent company, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CWST), owns 9 landfills in the northeast that are available to customers. Focusing on such pulp & paper residuals as sludge or short paper fiber, woody wastes, precipitated calcium carbonate, lime mud, lime grits, green liquor dregs and ash, New England Organics provides turnkey service. Residuals services include permit application, lagoon clean-outs, collection, transportation, processing, and final distribution/recycling or landfill disposal. Operations include composting, farmland application, land reclamation, topsoil manufacturing, product sales and marketing. New England Organics also provides ancillary services such as oversight of regulatory compliance, risk management, comprehensive insurance and superfund indemnification, and public education. Through its affiliate, Pine Tree Waste, the Company offers traditional mill trash collection, recycling and disposal. Landscapers, golf courses and the “green” industry benefit from the more than 90,000 cubic yards of “residuals -derived” compost sold each year under the trade name. Hundreds of farms and private and municipal landfill closures have also benefited from these recycling efforts by reducing their costs and obtaining high performance materials. New England Organics has been recognized with a number of awards for outstanding service including:
PAVILION TECHNOLOGIES INC. (http://www.pavtech.com)Pavilion Technologies provides the pulp and paper industry with Advanced Process Measurement and Control Solutions. Pavilion’s Performance Management technology leverages the mill’s existing QCS and DCS investments to provide pulp and paper manufacturers with a capital-efficient approach to maximize production efficiency, produce higher quality products, control costs and meet environmental regulatory requirements. Founded in 1991, Pavilion Technologies provides Advanced Process Control (APC) solutions and environmental compliance solutions for leading manufacturers in the petrochemical, cement, ethanol, dairy and paper industries. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Pavilion has approximately 140 scientists, engineers and Staff operating in throughout the US, Europe and Australasia. Pavilion capitalizes on a portfolio 100 plus patents covering the fields of Predictive Modeling, Sensor Validation, Property Prediction, and Process Optimization. Pavilion’s technology is used every day by more than 350 of the largest enterprises in the world to increase production, enhance product quality, achieve environmental compliance, and enhance profitability. Pavilion provides the following services for the paper industry: on-line scanning sensor validation and calibration, paper quality measurements for on-line control, asset performance, advanced process controls, product performance characterization, and paper mill continuous emissions monitoring. SAFE HANDLING, INC. (http://www.safehandling.com)Founded in 1989, Safe Handling has quickly grown to become the leading bulk transloading and chemical processing company in the New England region. Safe Handling provides distribution services for a wide variety of raw materials including finished roll paper, plastics, minerals, food grade products, industrial chemicals and specialty chemicals. Distribution services include railcar transloading, inventory management, repackaging, chemical and raw material manufacturing, custom blending and transportation provided by Safe Handling’s own fleet of trucks and certified drivers. With facilities in Auburn, Maine and New Stanton, Pennsylvania, Safe Handling is ideally situated to serve the paper industry in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada. Safe Handling is ISO 9001:2000 Certified and a Proud Partner in Responsible Care. Safe Handling recently announced that they are partnering with the University of Maine and the Maine Technology Institute on a full feasibility analysis for the construction and operation of a forest products biorefinery. A biorefinery can produce liquid fuels, steam, electricity, high-value biologically based chemicals and other products using renewable forest-based resources. Safe Handling will be working with a number of nationally recognized experts in bio-product development in order to bring world-class talent to this Maine project. This project represents the first of its kind in North America. In addition, Safe Handling recently purchased 147 acres in Auburn, ME for a facility expansion including 100 new railcar spots and 250,000 square feet of new industrial buildings and warehouses. This is in addition to their existing 60-acre facility in Auburn with more than 125 railcar spots. This $10 million project expansion is called the “Port of Auburn Intermodal Facility” and will provide Safe Handling with the space it needs for future growth. SEVEE & MAHER ENGINEERS (http://www.smemaine.com)Sevee & Maher Engineers (SME) is in its twentieth year of providing professional services to the pulp and paper industry. SME’s 15 licensed professional engineers and 4 certified geologists specialize in the following areas: landfill engineering, groundwater remediation, infrastructure engineering, environmental permitting, construction engineering, water supply engineering, site remediation and wastewater treatment. Sevee & Maher Engineers has a full-range geotechnical testing laboratory to support its client’s needs and project staff. The company also provides field construction testing equipment and personnel. SME’s environmental technicians can provide on-site and in-situ analyses of air, water and soil media for a wide variety of parameters. SME provides consulting services to a variety of industrial and manufacturing facilities up and down the east coast. SME personnel are licensed in Maine, New Hampshire, Georgia, Massachusetts, Colorado, Ohio, South Carolina, Florida, New York, Michigan, North Carolina and New Jersey. SPRAGUE ENERGY/MERRILL’S MARINE TERMINAL (http://www.merrillsmarine.com)With terminals in Searsport, Portland (Merrill’s Marine Terminal) and South Portland, Sprague is uniquely situated to provide for the import, export, specialty processing and fuel needs of Maine’s pulp and paper industry. Sprague has experience in providing cost effective materials handling solutions for Maine’s forest products industry including: pulp (importing, exporting, unitizing), finished paper (newsprint, directory print, coated paper), lumber, container loading and drayage, wood chip, bark mulch, caustic soda, china clay (kaolin) and waste paper. Additionally Sprague has over 135 years experience providing industrial fuels including: residual fuel oil, natural gas, coal, petcoke, tire derived fuels, heating oil and diesel fuel. Sprague’s state of the art logistic capabilities combine the use of multi-model transportation (ship, barge, rail, truck) with EDI capable tracking software to provide automated updates of inventory levels and order status. Founded in 1870, Sprague annually handles over 3 million tons of bulk and break bulk materials as well as distributing more than 40 million barrels of petroleum products and 135 billion cubic feet of natural gas in a safe and environmentally sound manner. SYNAGRO (http://www.synagro.com)Synagro is the largest recycler of organic residuals in the United States. Synagro offers comprehensive residuals management services to paper mills from management of daily residuals production to lagoon maintenance. Synagro funds an extensive research and development program specifically for developing innovative markets for residuals generated from the papermaking process. By developing sustainable market outlets for the Maine paper mills, Synagro can reduce costs for residual management, helping each mill add more profit to their bottom line. Synagro is committed to servicing the residuals needs for the Maine pulp and paper industry. Whether it is paper mill sludge, lime mud, dregs, wood or coal ash, or any other organic residual, Synagro can develop a management program. Synagro also has capital to invest in a mill to make residuals into products and to capitalize and install de-watering equipment, dry ash handling systems, rail spurs for moving residual products into distant developed markets, or any other necessary equipment or technology. Whatever is needed to turn residuals into a product, Synagro can do it. TAMBRANDS MANUFACTURING COMPANY (http://www.pg.com)Tambrands, located in Auburn, Maine, began operation in 1968, and was acquired by Procter & Gamble in 1997 as part of the global Tambrands Inc. business. Tambrands is one of 42 P&G plants in the U.S. and produces Tampax tampons primarily for the North American market. The Auburn facility is the only plant in North American that produces Tampax products. The plant has 445,000 square feet. Facilities include: fiber processing; material receiving and storage; finished product making, packing, warehousing, and shipping operations; machine shop; office space; engineering space and quality lab. The plant currently employs about 600 men and women. Procter & Gamble, founded in 1837, is a Fortune 500 consumer products corporation marketing more than 300 brands to five billion consumers in 140 countries. These brands include Tide, Crest, Pantene, Pringles, Pampers, Iams, Olay, Vicks and Tampax. The Tampax® Tampon is the product manufactured here in Auburn. P&G has on the ground operations in over 70 countries and employs more than 95,000 people worldwide. The plants direct payroll is about $22 million dollars annually. In addition, Procter & Gamble contributes over $50 million annually to the Maine economy in purchases of material, freight, supplies, and services. Hundreds of additional people are employed providing those purchases. P&G paid over $5.2 million in state and local taxes in calendar year 2004. Contributions to local charitable, educational, and civic organizations by the plant and its employees total over 160 thousand dollars each year. P&G is committed to operating in an environmentally responsible manner. The Company has an Environmental Quality Policy, which publicly affirms this commitment and unites P&G people around the world in fulfilling it. Though P&G is already widely recognized for its environmental leadership, it continually focuses on improving the environmental performance of its products, packages and processes. THE FIBER RESOURCE GROUP, INC. (http://www.tfrg.com)The Fiber Resource Group, Inc (TFRG), founded in 1996, is a full service secondary fiber and paper brokerage company headquartered in Beverly MA. During the summer of 2004 TFRG opened a warehousing facility in Madawaska, ME to offer additional services and increase its base of operations in northern Maine and eastern Canada. The intent of TFRG was to establish a long-term viable operation, while creating jobs in Aroostook County, ME. One year later, in the summer of 2005, The Fiber Resource Group of Maine, Inc (TFRG of ME) was established as a separate entity. In order to help further its commitment to the local community TFRG of ME opened its newest operation, a full service converting and warehousing facility, in Van Buren, ME. The Van Buren state of the art warehousing facility is rail served and strategically located on the US/Canadian boarder. TFRG of ME offers recycling, converting, roll cutting, warehousing, transloading and related services to paper mills and other customers in northern Maine, eastern Canada and elsewhere. TFRG supplies paper to a wide range of customers throughout North America and abroad. WOODARD & CURRAN (http://www.woodardcurran.com)Woodard & Curran is more than just an engineering firm. The company, founded in 1979 by Al Curran and Frank Woodard, also specializes in operating plant facilities across the country. Woodard & Curran offers a host of other services, including water and wastewater treatment, river modeling, permitting, geographic and environmental information systems, operator training, hazardous waste, and air compliance/treatment. Woodard & Curran works with industry, government and municipal clients to design and manage operations efficiently. The company has assisted the pulp & paper industry for over 25 years. Woodard & Curran’s engineers, scientists, and operations specialists focus on cost-effective, strategic, and tactical solutions. Woodard & Curran employs 460 people and has offices in Bangor, Portland, Manchester, NH, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Atlanta. |