Cleaning Up the Environment

The reality is that the intensity of human production and the needs to feed and cloth our population will always require the use of resources. We have to be controlled in our use of these resources and the output from production of these items though because the planet has a very fragile ecosystem. The resources we use and the waste we put out can tip the balance and lead to wide spread devastation. Fortunately humans have been putting very significant effort towards being very responsible in both of these areas. Efforts are underway to clean messes from the past and to ensure our water and air stays clean. Such efforts are very intensive and very expensive though and if we continue to pump out pollutants it will hit a point where our cleanup efforts simply can’t keep up. This is why it is absolutely vital to ensure that the water and air that is discharged from our production plants and power plants are filtered on the way out. This will alleviate the need for very expensive clean up efforts. Activated carbon filter devices can achieve this goal. Activated carbon has amazing ability to absorb all types of pollutants and can help stop pollution at the source before it leaks into the environment.

Transforming Macadamia Nut Shells to Activated Carbon

Big Island Hawaii, has numerous farms which grow macadamia nuts. Heaps of macadamia nut shells are laying around which the farm owners try and dispose off by paying $5 per ton. Some farms at times burn the shells to dry the nuts. Other than this the farms have no use for the nut shells. If not disposed off, the nut shells will keep piling up and will take at least 15 long years to biodegrade. If this same waste is bought by a company at $ 10 per ton for conversion to activated carbon, the farmer owners will be only too happy.

Taking advantage of the ready availability of the main raw material for manufacture of activated carbon, Big Island Carbon LLC, which is a $20 million company, is setting up a plant on a 4 acre plot on Maluokalani Street in Big Island. Big island Carbon hopes to complete the construction of the plant in 10 months time with a work force of 100 men and be ready for production.

Once the plant is operational, the company hopes to lift 10,000 tons of these macadamia nut shells every year. This is just 40% of the available shells, so raw material should not be a problem. The company hopes to produce 1000 tons per annum of activated carbon. Activated carbon can be sold at $1.5 to$4 per pound, depending on the quality.

Calgon Carbon Announces Fourth Quarter Results

As a routine practice Calgon Carbon Corporation announced its Fourth Quarter Results and for the year ended December 31,2008. As per the report released by the company’s President and chief Executice Mr.John S. Stanik, Calgon the they have registered growth in all fronts for both the fourth quarter and for the year which was possible through increase in price of activated carbon, higher demand and spent control.. The details of report is as follows:.
• Net income of $7.9 million for 4th quarter-2008
• Net sales $102.4 million for 4th quarter-2008
• % Growth 6.3 (Comparison between 4th quarters of 2007 and 2008)
• Net income for the year 2008 was $38.4 million
• Net sales for the 4th quarters of 2007 and 2008 was 33.0%, versus 29.7%
• Net income for the year 2008 was $38.4 million
There was a negative impact on the financial performance of the company due to the stronger dollar conversion rate. Calgon Carbon Corporation is a global leader in services and solutions for water and air purification. They produce activated carbon which is mainly used for the water filters and air filters. The head quartets of Calgon Carbon Corporation are situated in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In spite of record performance, the company directors did not announce dividend to its share holders for the present quarter.

Calgon Carbon Corp. makes almost double profit in its 4th quarter

A well-known company that manufactures water and air purifying systems named Calgon Carbon Corp. has declared that they have earned profit that was more than double on higher margins and all cost controls. This announcement was made on Friday February 27 and the profit mentioned was for the company’s fourth quarter. According to the report, the company made $7.9 million throughout the quarter that ended on December 31 as compared to $3.8 million that it made at the same period last year. This report excluded the earnings that are involved in the business in process that has been estimated up to $8.3 million in the latest quarter for which the profit was announced.

In fact people are also giving importance to water and air purifiers because there have been lots of hazardous diseases due to water and air pollution. It has become important to get rid of chemicals too from our drinking water and that is possible with the activated carbon or activated charcoal water purifiers. The company’s operating profit in its activated carbon unit during the latest quarter is $14.1, which is 36.1 percent of rise. Even after loosing $132,000 during the same period of time last year, the equipment segment reported a profit of $2.5 million.

However the sales have come down to almost half as compared to last year’s and the consumer segment lost $370,000 whereas the same segment profited last year by $478,000. Yet the total annual profit of the company was $38.4 million as compared to last year’s $15.3 million.

Recession does not affect Calgon carbon

Calgon carbon, a European based carbon industry has increased its revenue more than it expected. The calgon carbon had many of its plants in Europe and it is the maker supplier of activated carbon. The company is basically an American based company. It has sixteen manufacturing centres and twenty three developing centres all over the world. It mainly produces activated carbon and which is used for multiple purposes. The ultra violet rays are used in the production of activated carbon. The activated charcoals are used in various consumer products such as carbon clothes and also in the manufacturing of activated charcoal. Such an American based company had shown its income doubled in the fourth quarter. In the previous year it showed the income of nearly four million dollars and now it has increased its income to nearly eight million dollars thus by increasing eight cents per share. Now the total revenue of the company had gone up to nearly 102 million dollars and had a steep rise of eight percent compared to that of the last year. John Stanik the CEO of the company congratulated the employees for this growth. He also quoted that the company is servicing the increased need of the activated carbon last year. He also give credit for the sales group for this growth. In the 2007 the company had reported the overall income of fifteen cents in each share and now in this year it had shown the net increase of nearly 31 cent per share which is merely a double of last year.