UPDATE: January 20, 1997


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Message from US-AEP Director General. Hong Kong hosts Asian Industrial Technology Congress. India company investigates US equipment suppliers. US-AEP facilitates $100K of technology sales to Hong Kong. New York firms market environmental technologies to Asia. Conference proceedings available. Welcome to. . . Message from US-AEP Director General. 'As many of you know, I underwent triple heart bypass surgery last July. Although I returned to work six weeks after the procedure and am in the best shape I've been in 15 years, my doctors have advised me to reduce the stress in my life significantly. I am therefore accelerating my retirement date to May 30,1997, and am reducing substantially my operating role in US-AEP. Effective January 21, 1997, Richard Sheppard will be the Acting Director of US-AEP and responsible for direct management of the project. In the interim, I will be working on a number of specific tasks for USAID. One of these is a paper that will trace the history and development of US-AEP and another paper will focus on USAID's involvement, in general, with the private sector. I will also continue to provide advice and counsel to US-AEP and certain other USAID Bureaus. I would like to take this opportunity to offer my sincere thanks for being a partner in the continuing success of US-AEP. Together, we have enhanced the environmental prospects for Asia.' Hong Kong hosts Asian Industrial Technology Congress. The 1997 Asian Industrial Technology Congress (AITC) was held in Hong Kong January 6-8. The Congress was an integral part of Hong Kong's 'Technology Week' and attracted over 500 participants from throughout the region and across the globe. For the first time, the Congress included Environmental Technology in its agenda. US-AEP supported AITC throughout the development and implementation of the meeting. Gerry Sanders, Program Director of US-AEP's Clean Technology and Environmental Management program, provided valuable guidance as a member of the AITC Steering Committee for the Environment, while Todd Avery, Director of US-AEP's Office of Technology Cooperation in Hong Kong, chaired four of the technical sessions. India company investigates US equipment suppliers. Dilip Chakrabart and Manahar Tolani, co-directors on Aero-Tech Engineers Pvt., Ltd of Mumbai, India, visited leading US air pollution control companies in December under the auspices of US-AEP's Environmental Exchange Program. The business exchange allowed Aero-Tech to investigate potential US suppliers for wet scrubber systems, air blowers, dust collection systems, wet and dry ESPs, and volatile organic compound controls to diversify the company's current product line. Sites visited included Misonix Incorporated and Ducon Environmental (both of Farmingdale, New York), Compliance Systems International (Conshohocken, Pennsylvania), United McGill (Columbus, Ohio), Ceilcote Air Pollution Control (Berea, Ohio), Turner Envirologic, Inc. (Deerfield Beach, Florida), and Merrick Industries (Orlando, Florida). Aero-Tech gave high ratings to all companies visited and is currently negotiating possible licensing agreements and joint ventures with the US firms. US-AEP facilitates $100K of technology sales to Hong Kong. Guidance and counseling provided by US-AEP Tech Rep Todd Avery and contacts made during US-AEP-sponsored conferences and exchanges helped broker more than $100,000 of confirmed sales to Hong Kong of US environmental technologies in December. URG (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) successfully sold a cyclone sampler to Hong Kong University. Desalination Systems (Escondido, California) sold a membrane technology pilot unit to recycle textile rinsing water worth $41,500 to the Hong Kong Productivity Council. Dunwell Engineering of Hong Kong purchased an oil/water separator from Great Lakes Environmental, Inc. (Addison, Illinois) and a micro filtration system from Desalination Equipment, Inc. (Vista, California). JWI, Inc. (Holland, Michigan) and J. Mortensen and Company, Ltd. (Hong Kong) entered into an agent-distributorship agreement for the sale of fitter press technologies. New York firms market environmental technologies to Asia. Empire State Development was awarded a US-AEP Environmental Technology Fund grant to conduct a pollution control business development mission to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. The trade delegation, consisting of six to eight small and medium-sized New York companies, represents air pollution abatement, wastewater treatment integration, and solid waste recycling equipment and technologies. The Environmental Technology Fund is implemented by the National Association of State Development Agencies. Conference proceedings available. Conference proceedings are now available from the fourth International Conference on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, held April 1996 in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The conference was sponsored by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), the United Nations Environment Programme, the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning, and the Environment of the Netherlands, the Environmental Law Institute, the European Commission, Environment Canada, and the Pollution Control Department of Thailand. US-AEP funded the participation of several representatives from Asian countries. For a copy of the proceedings, please contact: Cheryl Wasserman at USEPA via phone: 202-564-7129 or the international networking and capacity building World Wide Web address: http://es.inel.gov/oeca/incb. Welcome to. . . David Swanson who joins US-AEP under the Louis Berger contract as Senior Technical Manager/Deputy for the CTEM Program. He will be helping multi-national companies green their supplier chains, working with industry on Voluntary Business Standards, and strengthening industrial/ environmental extension systems. David brings to the program his experience in identifying and implementing Clean Technology/Clean Production/Pollution Prevention options for industry. He has worked with various industrial sectors, including metal finishing, electroplating, semiconductor manufacturing, printed circuit board manufacturing, printing, and hospitals. Kitti Kumpeera who joins the US-AEP team as the Environmental Infrastructure representative in Thailand. Kitti will be working in partnership with the Kenan Institute/Asia to help facilitate business linkages between US and Thai organizations with a focus on urban environmental infrastructure for water, wastewater, solid, and hazardous waste, continuing the work of former representative Wanida Srichai. Kitti has had a distinguished career in environmental engineering and worked for the past 20 years as the environmental manager for the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT). He has extensive experience in environmental impact assessment, impact mitigation, and monitoring.