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This year marks 40 years that Conversion Technology Inc. (CTI) has been in business. CTI was founded by PH Haroz in 1986 as a firm to design systems for the conversion of waste material to energy and useful byproducts. We completed the design and installation of a system fueled by cotton seeds halls to generate process steam and cogenerate power. We also designed a few systems enabling cotton gins to generate all the energy it needs for drying the raw cotton by converting the cotton waste to energy using cotton waste to provide energy for cotton gins. This is where the name Conversion Technology came from. While designing those projects we had to address environmental problems for those systems, mainly air pollution. In the middle 80’s, energy prices were falling down sharply after the energy crisis of the 70’s (the same period as we are now in after the energy crisis of the last couple of years. Another proof that history repeats itself). On the other hand, demand for environmental and safety consulting increased dramatically with new regulations. Continue reading “CTI Turns 40! A Word from the Founder” →