| arizona international trade development, tucson economics, import , imported , importing , importer , export , exported , exporting , exporter , international trade , international trading , WTO, news arizona international trade development, tucson economics, import , imported , importing , importer , export , exported , exporting , exporter , international trade , international trading , WTO, news arizona international trade development, tucson economics, import , imported , importing , importer , export , exported , exporting , exporter , international trade , international trading , WTO, news arizona international trade development, tucson economics, import , imported , importing , importer , export , exported , exporting , exporter , international trade , international trading , WTO, news |
| .. |
| . |
 |
| Current ITDC Projects |
 |
| . |
 |
|
 |
|
|
 |
 |
 |
| 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 continues work on a number of 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 Controlled Environment Agriculture Center ("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 Sonora Transplants is an Arizona 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 capital has been obtained and we hope to begin producing our first transplants by the end of 2008. Profit from this company will be reinvested into new CEAC and ITDC projects and Sonora Transplant’s investors and employees. ITDC is commencing a number of new projects. • Bio Fuel Center ITDC is currently hiring an intern jointly funded by the private sector and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. This intern will develop the necessary documentation as well as the necessary support to develop a Bio Fuels Institue at the University of Arizona. The intern will define/establish or determine: 1. Determine the requirements for establishing an Institute 2. Establish the appropriate paperwork to initiate the formation of an Institute 3. Define the Mission, and objectives and outcomes of the institute in conjunction with the appropriate personnel (determine who the appropriate personnel are), Both short term and long term a. Who is the constituency? b. Who are the stakeholders? 4. What needs will there be to establish the Institute a. Both physical and financial 5. What potential sites might exist 6. What are the potential funding sources and what needs to be done to secure those funds 7. What are the required approvals 8. Is a board of Directors a necessity or something worthwhile having a. Who would be its members b. What are the expectations • 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. ACT’s 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 being evaluated by 5 companies and two venture capital firms. • Landfill-to-Solid Fuel Technologies In the US today, over 15,000 landfills have been closed due to overflow of urban waste, and the number grows every day. Western Renewable Fuels LLC, propose to construct and operate a new Carbon TechTM 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 conserves energy, reduces dependence on petroleum imports, taps into renewable energy mandates by 36 states, and creates carbon credits. CT CompositeTM 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 11,000 btus and more per pound (equivalent to coal). At the same time, the CT CompositeTM combustion offers substantial reduction of toxic CO, NOx and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) gases that produce health threatening low-altitude ozone and greenhouse gas along with a 75% reduction in particulate matter and carbon monoxide. CT CompositeTM contains negligible mercury, arsenic, or other heavy metals, and CT CompositeTM contains negligible traces of sulfur, the mineral that produces health menacing particulates from smoke and incomplete combustion and sulfur dioxide acid when combined with moisture in the atmosphere. This reoccurring supply is less than half the price of compliant coal and can be burned in coal fired boilers without expensive retrofits. In conjunction with Western Renewable Fuels LLC, ITDC is developing a proposal for Pima County that will allow the county to decrease the number of land fills required while providing revenue for the refuse. The refuse will be turned into fuel which will turn be bought by TEP to enable them to gain carbon and renewable energy credits. • Solar Energy Conversion Technologies In conjunction with Deluge, Inc. ITDC is attempting to commercialize a reverse osmosis system that utilizes a solar pumping system at high pressure with a high pressure membrane that cuts the cost of RO water by one half from over 6 cents pr gallon to 3 cents per gallon while increasing efficiency from 30-40% to over 80%. The technology can aid in local water and effluent treatment, desalination of sea water, as well as for petroleum producing and electricity generation companies. ITDC is developing a demonstration project in which a municipality takes waste water and purifies it through high pressure RO and pumps the water back into the ground water system thus, gaining additional water credits while replenishing the aquifer with pure water. |
| ITDC assigns interns to work in interdisciplinary, cross-professional teams, and monitors their progress closely. |
 |
| ITDC - 520.299.4551 info@inno-tech.org |