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| CURRENT ITDC PROJECTS Projects are at the heart of the ITDC experience. Projects are initially identified by the ITDC principals or its Board. The Directors and the ITDC Board, take advantage of their diverse backgrounds to anticipate and identify projects that showcase regional strengths in Arid Lands Livability (a multi-disciplined approach that includes ecological, plant, and agricultural sciences along with materials, chemicals, electronics, and optical sciences), Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Economic Development. The projects are, for the most part, identified by ITDC principals. From time to time, interns will come up with an idea worthy of evaluation. Then the projects are evaluated by interns in conjunction with ITDC principals and the respective technology experts resident at the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and within the local entrepreneurial community. The interns bring the latest ideas and concepts from top graduate schools to bear along with the energy, enthusiasm, and the intellectual curiosity needed to make a project successful. ITDC identifies choice public/private/educational projects. • Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) Strategic Plan The purpose of the CEAC Development Project is to improve state, national, and international visibility of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Center, to commercialize the technology, and to speed the diffusion of green house technology to farmers in Arizona and to use the technology as a platform in developing and newly industrializing countries to create sustainable economic development. To that end the following projects are also currently being fulfilled: • GROLive GROLive was formed by ITDC to provide training and consulting in greenhouse technology. By utilizing in-house management and financial capabilities and contracting with CEAC of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona and others for technical expertise, GROLive responded to a request from Syngenta Seeds to train a class on the latest relevant developments in the industry. In its first initiative, GROLive hosted over 40 growers and seed sales people from Mexico, Guatemala, Idaho, Arizona, and California. The response was positive, and we hope to conduct more classes in the future. • Sonora Transplant LLC Sonora Transplants is ITDC'S first spin off, an Arizona Limited Liability Company established to grow grafted tomato transplants. The business plan consists of three phases: the first phase produces grafted transplants for large greenhouse tomato growers (eg. Eurofresh) and produces the companies cash flow; the 2nd phase (develops transgenic grafts that are disease and drought resistant for United Nations, USAID and other NGO programs in developing economies; and, the 3rd phase takes advantage of our experience in transgenics to provide a contract manufacturing facility that grows proteins for the pharmaceutical industry. The necessary equity has been committed, we prequalified for a loan, and the local start up will begin trials of our first grafted tomato transplants with customers in July 2009. • Arid Lands Sustainable BioEnergy Institute ITDC has hired an intern jointly funded by the private sector and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Now complete, this project has been defining, establishishing, and determining: 1. Expertise resident in southern Arizona in the biofuels/bioenergy arena. 2. Competitive advantages of local/regional expertise in the biofuel/bioenergy sector. 3. Vision, mission, objectives, and outcomes. The White Paper presented to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is a road map to create innovative energy solutions independent of fossil fuels in conjunction with the College of Engineering, the College of Science, Eller College of Management, and the UA Office of Technology Transfer. The Co-Executive Directors are Don Slack Ph.D., University of Arizona, Professor in Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering, and Ron Richman Ph.D., ITDC, Chief Operating Officer. • Advanced Ceramic Technologies ITDC is has validated the work being done by Advanced Ceramic Technologies (ACT), the first composite materials producer to develop and commercialize a family of advanced ceramics that have higher strength, hardness, and toughness than conventional ceramics under standard conditions and at elevated temperatures. ACT has obtained exclusive rights, and owns 4 patents that cover composition of matter as well as process. Overall, we have 13 patents covering the various phases of development and manufacturing. ACT is dedicated to developing and commercializing new advanced ceramic materials and tribological materials (ceramic materials that are resistant to dry friction and wear) and processes for a wide variety of product applications in the industrial and defense industries. Markets include ceramic and composite materials for Molten Metal, Oil Fields, Pharmaceutical, Medical, Petro-Chemical, Automotive, Aerospace, Energy, and Defense Industries - all at lower cost and higher quality with a more environmental footprint than the alternative materials. ACT currently in talks with a Japanese ceramic powder company, and we expect positive results in the future. • CarbonTech Tucson LLC In the US today, over 15,000 landfills have been closed due to overflow of urban waste, and the number grows every day. CarbonTech Tucson, our second ITDC spin off limited liability company, proposes to construct and operate a sanitary, sustainable, and environmentally inert Landfill Facility to productively re-use, recycle, and/or remediate tons of daily organic solid wastes that are otherwise not recycled. Such a reoccurring waste-to-energy stream opportunity lowers noxious emissions, conserves energy, reduces dependence on petroleum, and taps into renewable energy mandates. CTT Fuel is an IP protected composite organic and plastic waste product that substantially out-performs raw organic fuels. A wide variety of traditionally waste cellulosic organic material is employed in an IP protected formula to double the thermal (btu) value compared to raw biomass to 10,000 btus per pound (equivalent to coal). At the same time, the CT CompositeTM combustion offers substantial reductions in toxic sulpher, nitrogen, Volatile Organic Compounds along with a 75% reduction in particulate matter and carbon monoxide. WRE, is a biomass electric power company who is a finalist in Tucson Electric Power's Renewable Energy Power Purchasing Request for Proposal. The Arizona Corporation Commission mandates that electric power companies in Arizona burn up to 15% renewable energy by 2015, and TEP will negotiate with three of the five finalists and sign a Renewable Energy Electric Power Purchase Agreement. If WRE is chosen as a finalist, CarbonTech Tucson will be funded to provide the renewable fuel for WRE. |
| ITDC assigns interns to work in interdisciplinary, cross-professional teams, and monitors their progress closely. |
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