IFAI Members in Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup News
Ball Fabric Structures, Inc., Cooley Specialty Products, IFAI, Geosynthetic Materials Association:
Boom demand high as gulf oil spill moves to Florida
Brockton Equipment/Spilldam Inc.:
- In an average year, J. Walter Miller's company usually manufactures no more than 10,000 feet of oil boom. But this is no average year. More....
- Brockton Company Making Booms For Gulf - Video: "They look like giant orange noodles." "They're working double shifts now. It's around the clock and that's something that we've never had to do before," company owner James Walter Miller said. They're producing 10 times what they did during the Valdez spill. "It's in very high demand. I mean it's become a black market item," Operations Manager Tim Prevost says.
Cooley Specialty Products:
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Gulf oil spill sparks boom at Cooley - For the last two months, the Pawtucket manufacturer's factory on Esten Avenue has cranked out 20,000 to 25,000 linear yards a week for customers that in turn are assembling the membrane into miles upon miles of floating oil booms.
'MADE IN RI': Pawtucket Company Providing Tools For Oil Cleanup - A Pawtucket company is doing what it can to help in the cleanup, while at the same time doubling its own productivity, saving jobs in Rhode Island.
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I-Corp: Needed Discussion: Halting the Gulf Oil Spill at the Source with Geosynthetics - A great many alternatives have been proposed for mitigating the damage from the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Geosynthetic technologies have certainly been part of active solutions, from oil booms to floating geosynthetic tubes to sock normally used for stopping sediment migration (and, in this case, perhaps filled with human hair). But, so far, these solutions have focused mostly on surface collection of oil. More...
Miller Weldmaster, Value Vinyls, Cooley Specialty Products - IFAI eNewsletter - working double shifts. Jeff Sponseller, Executive Vice President of Miller Weldmaster,"As a producer of machines that make oil boom, I am committing our manufacturing and service teams to get machines built and installed around the clock. The requests we are getting for production are for hundreds of miles of product. I believe most of it is not for oil containment, but for the protection of the coast."
Miller Weldmaster: Business booms at Stark plant
Milliken & Co.: Special Milliken fiber being tested in Gulf to mop up spill--a nanofiber that can absorb 40-50 times its weight in oil and could help in the cleanup of the huge Gulf of Mexico oil.
Photo: Daymon Gardner for the Wall Street Journal
Above, Monterey Mills President Dan Sinykin explains how wool fabric made by his company could help clean oil in the Gulf.
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Monterey Mills uses You Tube to get BP's attention
Click on the photo at left to watch the Wall Street Journal video feature with a portion of the Monterey Mills presentation.
Sinykin posted a video on YouTube and it received 18,000 views in three weeks--plus it got him noticed by BP.
Read the WSJ's story online: Sop Stories: Suggestions Pour In on How to Clean Up Gulf - BP Team Considers Pet Hair, Volcanic Ash, Giant Paint Rollers; Inventors Get a Call
Janesville Textile Company Offers Help to Gulf Coast Clean Up
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MP Containment: "A boom for booms" - Inside a once-deserted airplane factory on Pulaski Road, temporary workers for MPC Containment string, wrap and weld 100-foot strips of fluorescent-yellow containment boom. Until two months ago, the Chicago-based industrial fabric manufacturer had never sold the floating curtains in its 90-year history. But as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, boom production at MPC's six facilities peaked in mid-June at a rate of more than five miles per day. "I don't think we've had a day off," said CEO Benjamin Beiler, "We've already sold, in total, at least 200 miles of boom."
Snyder Manufacturing:
- Snyder Engineered Solutions team develops oil boom and containment fabrics
- Business is "boom"-ing for Liberty plant
- Disaster in the Gulf leads to booming business for tubing
Supertex:
Above, Supertex production of EarthKnit, a high-strength
tubular sock in various sizes that can be stuffed with all
kinds of products. It was used in absorbent booms in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill cleanup.
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- Business is "boom"-ing for Liberty plant
- Disaster in the Gulf leads to booming business for tubing
- Triad companies respond to Gulf crisis - Already sales are spiking, and there's talk of hiring more employees.
- Supertex worked overtime to fill rising orders for high strength knit tubing for absorbent booms used in cleanup of massive Gulf oil disaster--Niche textile producer Supertex Inc. was furiously knitting millions of linear feet of high-strength mesh tubes for environmental service suppliers providing heavily demanded absorbent booms to soak up oil gushing from the crippled British Petroleum well in the Gulf of Mexico. "We've staffed up to meet the increased demand, which will probably grow," said Edward W. Cumins, president and chief executive officer. "Supertex has the capacity to produce hundreds of millions of linear feet of knitted tube annually." In response to the Gulf's crisis, production at Supertex has jumped more than 25 percent.
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Syfilco Ltd:
- Syfilco Ltd. producing 215 oil boom miles per week
- Disaster spins success for Exeter knitting firm - BP's massive oil spill cleanup
Tacoma Tent & Awning Co. Inc.: Oil spill proves boon for Tacoma business
TenCate:
- TenCate part of TIE Technologies Proposed Team Response to U.S. Ecological Disaster in Gulf
- BP and the U.S. Coast Guard are testing a geotechnical solution proposed by a team lead by TIE Technologies, which includes TenCate. This ESCN-TV video highlights a viable solution to keep oil from the shore, contain it and pump it into storage containers for recycling and future use. By using the concept ofwater-blocking-oil," water-filled bladders made of geosynthetic materials. OilDamTM Geosynthetic Tubes are placed in the shallow waters at distances up to 100 feet from the shore to form a barrier mostly impenetrable to oil from sea floor to several feet above sea level. This fixed barrier blocks oil and floating contaminants, submerged soil and tar balls from reaching the shore. At the same time, it allows water to pass back and forth through its base to maintain normal tidal flushing of the shoreline. This allows critical shoreline life to be protected.
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Specialty fabrics industry responds with new fabric solution approved by EPA
Texas Tech University, Nonwoven Material Lab & First Line Technology - The challenges of the GOM spill have brought about a new problem-solving product. At left, Dr. Ronald J. Kendall, Director, TIEHH, Professor and Chairman, Department of Environmental Toxicology explains the breakthrough oil spill absorption capabilities of Fibertect™.
Initial Fibertect Field Test a Success--A preliminary test of Fibertect® on the soiled beaches of Grand Isle, La., has proven it successful at picking up the oily paste washing ashore at beaches and marshes across the Gulf State region. Not only did it clean up the rust-colored crude oil, but also it adsorbed toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon vapors reportedly sickening oil spill clean-up crew members. More on Fibertect...
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Go to Page 2 for additional coverage of cleanup efforts and IFAI response.
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How IFAI members can help
Add your company to the IFAI member supplier list, contact our Information and Technical Services Manager, Juli Case.
Not an IFAI member? Contact Membership Sales Manager Nora McLellan.
Register as a consultant, contractor or vendor; or to submit information on alternative response technology, services, products or suggestions, call 281-366-5511.
Submit a white paper: Coast Guard seeks oil spill technology-Agency appeals to private sector for help: New Interagency Program created to review vendor response solutions for Deepwater Horizon/ BP. IFAI white paper category: "Traditional oil spill response technologies--booms, skimmers, surface collections techniques, absorbents, near- and onshore response and similar approaches." Access to submission material:
Public meetings on Deepwater Drilling and spill response - Meetings led by Michael R. Bromwich, Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEM) are currently being scheduled to occur in August in the following cities: New Orleans, LA, Lafayette, LA, Mobile, AL, Pensacola, FL, Santa Barbara, CA, and Anchorage, AK. Meetings will be held in early September in the following cities: Biloxi, MS and Houston, TX. The meeting format will allow representatives from academia, industry, and environmental organizations to serve as panel members to provide testimony, combined with the opportunity for audience members to provide public comment during the meeting. Additionally, the public will be able to submit comments in person at the meetings, online, and by mail.
IFAI media contact: JoAnne Ferris - Director of Marketing|Communications | +1 651 225 6923 | LinkedIn | Twitter
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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Cleanup--
IFAI Members Respond
The specialty fabrics industry has supplied materials and products for disaster recovery around the globe.
Our association represents the manufacturers who provide the materials and the end products.
View a list of IFAI member suppliers of oil containment products and the components to make them. The list is broken up into three sections:
1) Components such as fabrics
2) End products such as oil boom
3) Related items, such as shelters for workers, canopies for Vessels of Opportunity,etc.
Interested agencies may contact our members directly or contact IFAI, 651-225-6923. |
