Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc.
Terragon develops and commercializes innovative technologies to enable habitats to treat their waste and wastewater locally and safely, in order to recover valuable resources and reused them at the site where waste is generated. Terragon researches and engineers highly innovative waste treatment systems which anyone can operate safely, economically and without special training. Terragon also offers its know-how and expertise in the thermal treatment of waste to companies around the world.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Water Treatment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 2004
- Employees:
- 11-100
- Turnover:
- $1,000,000 US - $10,000,000 US
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
Total Resource Utilization (TRU)
Enabling Zero Waste Discharge Habitats
Most people manage the waste they generate by exporting it to others. Whether by garbage truck or by sewer, their only responsibility is to transfer waste away from their habitat. Most current waste treatment technologies support this approach.
For many communities and habitats, the conventional approach to waste management is not practical. Examples include ships, isolated communities, resorts, hospitals and numerous other habitats that, for various reasons, cannot transfer their waste to others.
- Tired of paying others to take care of your residual materials?
- Discouraged by the high cost of energy and water at your location?
- Interested in responsibly managing your by-products to safeguard your environment?
- Facing regulatory restrictions that are challenging to meet?
- Responsible for improving sustainability in your organization?
Terragon has developed unique equipment (MAGS & WETT) and approaches to address these concerns. Our solutions will allow you to recover valuable resources from your solid and liquid waste streams, whether they are ordinary, hazardous or highly contaminated.
If you are faced with managing residual materials or liquid streams originating from a production facility, a business, a marine vessel, a remote habitat, a clinic or hospital, a military or civilian operation, a hotel or home, contact us to discuss our unique solutions for these and many other situations.
Terragon was created to develop simple appliances ...
Terragon was created to develop simple appliances that enable any habitat to treat its own waste locally with no environmental damage and with significant benefits from the recovery of resources contained within the waste. In this way, what was previously considered as waste becomes repurposed and has value since it can be used to generate useful resources.
Terragon’s unique appliances enable the Total Resource Utilization (TRU) habitat as well as the Zero Waste Discharge habitat, leading to reduced environmental impact and contributing to a revolution in resource management.
Our Team
Highly Skilled and Dedicated
Terragon employs 40 highly qualified and committed individuals at its Montréal, QC location. Nearly half of these persons are engineers, many of whom have advanced degrees and various specializations, including:
- Mechanical & electrical design
- Process design
- Materials science
- Automation
Terragon’s highly skilled teams are responsible for:
- Product development
- Product design
- Manufacturing and assembly
- Customer training
- Technical support
In collaboration with a select group of partners, Terragon manages the business development and commercialization of its products in 5 strategic markets.
Most of Terragon’s senior employees have been with the company since its inception in 2004, and all employees are company shareholders.
Awards
MAGS and WETT have been recognized by numerous awards bodies over the last several years including:
2017 GreenTec Award Winner
The award ceremony of the GreenTec Awards takes place once a year and has shown good sense for identifying future-orientated ideas since its foundation in 2008.
Lloyd’s List North American Maritime Innovat...
Lloyd’s List North American Maritime Innovation Awards 2016 for WETTTM-O
The Innovation Award recognises an innovative project or technology which has demonstrated or has verified potential to move shipping forward.
Lloyd’s List North American Maritime Innovat...
Lloyd’s List North American Maritime Innovation Awards 2016 for WETTTM-O
The Innovation Award recognises an innovative project or technology which has demonstrated or has verified potential to move shipping forward.
2015 Ship Efficiency Awards under the category, &l...
2015 Ship Efficiency Awards under the category, “The One to Watch” for MAGS
The One to Watch category considers the potential of a commercially viable project, concept or technology which can lead to significant progress in advancing maritime energy efficiency and environmental impact reduction.
2014 Lloyd’s List North American Awards Tech...
2014 Lloyd’s List North American Awards Technical Innovation award for MAGS
This award is for any company or individual that can demonstrate a technological innovation that has led to a meaningful advance for the shipping industry.
2012 Globe Award for Excellence in Emerging Techno...
2012 Globe Award for Excellence in Emerging Technology
The award is presented annually to Canadian companies that excel in sustainable business practices and progressive development in technology and services.
Applications
Terragon’s unique products and solutions to reduce environmental impact and recover resources onsite have been adopted by many organizations around the world, both on land and at sea in different types of commercial and naval vessels.
Did You Know?
Water scarcity
Only 2.5% of all water on Earth is freshwater, and 70% of it is frozen. Despite this, world water usage continues to grow rapidly, due to an increasing global population and expanding industrial and agricultural activities. It is estimated that by 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in regions of absolute water scarcity, and 2/3 of the population could be under water stress conditions.
Water contamination
In addition to freshwater supply limitations, an additional concern is the deteriorating quality of available freshwater resources, due to increasing contamination by discharged effluent. There is a growing realization that traditional wastewater treatment approaches are not entirely successful. Biological treatment is unable to treat some wastewaters and is incapable of removing some contaminants, including pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) and priority pollutants from industrial and agricultural activities. Some of these contaminants find their way back into our drinking water, and can result in eutrophication of surface bodies of water.
These water challenges are leading to strong interest in new approaches to:
- Reduce freshwater consumption
- Effectively treat wastewater
Terragon’s innovative WETTTM technologies offer the potential to do just that, and are capable of removing harmful nutrients and degrading refractory compounds that remain untouched by many other approaches.
Water recycling and reuse, once of interest primarily for arid regions, is now a priority issue in many cities and industrial environments, and in specific situations such as ships, remote camps, hotels, islands, and isolated communities.
Wasting Our GHG Savings Potential
The materials Canadians throw in the trash every day are impacting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a colossal way. Every year, 54 Mt of GHGs are emitted from the waste sector, mainly due to the release of methane from landfills. Methane has a global warming potential 21 times greater than carbon dioxide. At the 2015 Paris Climate conference, Canada endorsed the goal of holding global warming to no more than 1.5°C, a very ambitious objective. Meaning, at the very least, that Canada must surpass the late Conservative government’s target of 30% below 2005 carbon dioxide equivalent levels by 2030. The result: a drop from today’s 726 Mt of GHG emissions to at least 512 Mt of GHG in 14 years.
Basically, if Canada removed every single car and truck from the road, every train from the track, and every plane from the sky, we would still be about 25% away from the targeted goal. Clearly, each area of Canada’s economy is going to have to cut back drastically; one can practically hear the “what about our economy” groans. However, there is one area where we can significantly affect GHG reductions almost immediately and benefit economically in the short term. It is an area where we are literally throwing away GHG savings potential: the waste sector. If Canada applied a TRU, Total Resource Utilization, model to its waste sector, whereby each waste stream is treated according to maximum recovery potential within the community where it is generated, meaning local reuse, composting, recycling and energy recovery, the entirety of GHG emissions released by landfills could be avoided completely, representing 25% of the current GHG reduction goal.
Local energy recovery from waste is possible through multi-fuel energy generating appliances. Terragon’s Micro-Auto Gasification System (MAGS) offers the possibility of zero discharge, or TRU habitats, playing a complimentary role to reuse, composting and recycling of materials. Even if MAGS simply replaced every Canadian landfill, it would account for 13% of Canada’s GHG reduction goal. This amount is equivalent to 51% of emissions from the total GHGs generated by the entire waste sector. MAGS alone improves Canada’s GHG footprint in a significant way, but more is needed in the form of a total waste revolution. Other reusable resources Canadians dispose of every day include water; technologies such as WETT allow us to reuse grey water in our homes reducing potable water consumption by up to 85%. We need to take ownership of all our resources to reduce Canada’s carbon footprint, water and waste included; it’s time to quit throwing away our carbon savings!
Markets
Conventional waste management has limitations. The traditional method for managing waste has been to collect it and transfer it far away from the generating community to a landfill or a waste processing facility such as an incinerator. Similarly, conventional wastewater management calls for the transfer of used water to a centralized treatment facility where it is later discharged back into the environment.
What happens when a community or organization is forced, or chooses, to treat and eliminate its own waste and manage its own water resources? This is a common occurrence for certain situations, for example remote communities, military bases, industry and hospitals.Terragon allows waste and wastewater generators to convert these resources into energy and reusable water. Instead of paying to have waste removed by others, these waste streams can actually reduce costs within an organization or a habitat.
Some niche waste cannot be transferred conventionally and requires specialized and costly disposal. Terragon offers generators of industrial by-products, hazardous and pathological waste and wastewater streams an onsite and cost effective solution.