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the operating pressure and reduce the amount of refrigerant needed by up
to 40 percent.The excess refrigerant can then be reclaimed and either sold
or stored for future use.
Company Profile
Halozone Technologies Inc.is a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange
traded under the symbol "HLZ." The Blue Bottle technology is licensed
exclusively to Halozone by Praxair (formerly the Linde Division of Union
Carbide Canada Inc.). Halozone's Deputy Chairman,Dusanka Filipovic, P.Eng.,
was the Linde Division's manager of new business development and is the coinventor
of the Blue Bottle technology, developed between 1986 and 1990. In
1991 Filipovic left Linde to found Halozone.
Halozone has three distinct marketing and sales divisions:
• The Refrigerant Division whose mandate is to capture, reclaim and sell
refrigerants,
• The On-Site Division, whose products are on-site, turn-key recovery
systems, and
• The Thermco Canada Division, offering technologies such as the
Te r m i n a t o r. These technologies improve operating efficiencies where
refrigeration costs are a significant percentage of total energy costs and the
refrigeration units are under heavy load and in continuous use. This
operating environment is commonly found in the food processing, retail
and warehousing sectors.
Source of Technology
• The Blue Bottle technology was developed by the Linde Division of Union
Carbide (now Praxair Canada Inc.). Union Carbide does not manufacture
or market CFC products, nor is it involved in the recycling sector. The
company decided to license the technology in order to commercialize it
rapidly. As co-inventor and a Union Carbide executive, Ms. Filipovic was
the obvious choice as licensee. The main component, Halozite, is a
patented modification of the adsorbent zeolite.
• Full scale, commercial, on-site recovery units have been designed and
developed with the assistance of M&W, a U.S. engineering firm.
• In 1989, Thermco entered into a partnership with the patent holder and
inventor, Jerry Nivens of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.The inventor
has remained involved with Thermco and is assisting in continued product
development.
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