GRRO Press Release
GRRO's Tempest Drying System Receives International Patent Pending Status
Thursday, September 25, 2003
GLOBAL Resource Recovery Organization, Inc. (GRRO) today announced that it has received a Notice of Allowance from the European Patent Association for its GRRO Tempest Drying System technology. The Notice of Allowance means that once GRRO reviews the formal patent filing and pays a small fee, the Patent Office will issue a patent for the Tempest This is the first international patent filing for the Tempest Drying System.
The GRRO Tempest Drying System is an innovative system for separating water from waste material. This completely mobile system uses high speed air and cyclonic forces to shear water from the material. The Tempest processes materials such as paper sludge, industrial sludges and biosolids, and animal waste so that it can be beneficially reused. The Tempest also process municipal biosolids into a Class A product in accordance with U.S. EPA 40 CFR Part 503.
With the addition of Dominick O'Reilly in Ireland as a GRRO Stocking Dealer, GRRO is set to hit the ground running overseas. O'Reilly's corporation, Universal Environmental Techniques, Ltd., will handle Tempest sales in Ireland and the United Kingdom. O'Reilly's D-55 Tempest will arrive in Ireland in the winter of 2003. Mr. O'Reilly has numerous contracts in place in the biosolids industry. As Loran Balvanz, GRRO's President, notes "the issuance of this patent will only strengthen GRRO's unique solution for processing industrial wastes and municipal biosolids. We have truly developed a process that provides beneficial reuse solutions at a fraction of the capital and operating costs of competing technologies.
"GLOBAL Resource Recovery Organization, Inc. (GRRO), is an environmental solutions company that develops and markets cyclonic technologies and products that provide environmentally friendly and cost effective alternatives for waste disposition. GRRO has engineering offices in Houston, Texas; Bradenton, Florida and New Providence, Iowa. To answer any questions about GRRO and it's technologies, please visit our website: www.grrotempest.com; email: tcollins@grrotempest.com; or call Terry Collins at 641-497-5260.