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Chinook Sciences is a US and UK based technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery.

Patents
Chinook Sciences holds many patents for it's non-incineration "ultra clean synthetic gas" technology. Which is specifically designed for energy or liquid-fuel generation. They call this technology "Active Pyro®". This is used in their proprietary and patented RODECS® system, which has gone through eight design generations since the year 2000.

Foundation
Chinook Sciences formed in 1998. The company began as a research group led by experts in nuclear, thermal and gas processing and was supporting those industries. The company soon moved it's focus on becoming and technology and equipment provider to metal, industries gasses and environmental industries.

Formation of Chinook Energy
In October 2008 Chinook Sciences announced the formation of Chinook Energy. A division that would exclusively handle their waste to energy technology application.

Announcement of Innovative Environmental Solutions UK LTD.
In March of 2009 Chinook Sciences and European Metal Recycling (EMR) announced a joint venture named Innovative Environmental Solutions UK LTD. (IES), which they would claim is the “first commercial scale enterprise to generate renewable electricity and recycle metal from automobile shredder residue” (ASR).

The proposed venture would process 120,000 metric tons of automobile shredder residue per year using Chinook's patented and proprietary RODECS® gasification system. The RODECS® will gasify the ASR, destroying all harmful emissions, recover all valuable material - primarily metal - contained in the ASR for recycling, reduce greenhouse gases on a net basis (300,000 M tons) and generate approximately 30 MW of renewable electricity, enough electricity to power 21,000 homes.

In February 2010 EMR announced that they had secured planning permission for this plant in the UK town of Bootle in Merseyside, Liverpool.

The significance of the project was highlighted in a scoping opinion produced by the Liverpool city council, which said:

"The EMR plant currently sends some 184,000 tons of SLF to landfill annually. The construction and operation of the proposed gasification plant will remove the need for almost 90% of this disposal, and the associated traffic trips.

"This extra recycling stage will actively support EMR in meeting the requirements of the EU End-of-Life Vehicle Directive (The ELV Directive) where the ultimate goal is to reduce the amount of each ELV going to landfill to a maximum of 5%."

Second ASR to Power Plant in UK
In November of 2009 documents submitted to Sandwell metropolitan borough council surfaced that revealed a proposal to build a second recycling and gasification facility in the UK. This proposed facility would be built by European Metal Recycling (EMR) and use Chinook Sciences’ patented RODECS® gasification system.

The proposed facility would have the capacity to process up to 190,000 tons of waste a year, which would recover metals, plastics and aggregates. The remaining material (wood, foam and plastics) would then be treated using gasification to generate up to 30 megawatt hours (MWh) of electricity. This would leave only 3% (around 5,700 tons) of the initial waste that would be sent to landfill. This would make it one of the largest facilities in the UK dealing with pose-shredder residue from “end-of-life vehicles” (ELVs).

The British Metal Recycling Association (of which EMR is one of the largest members), called for more financial support from the government to help develop the UK’s capacity to recover post-shredd residue in order to meet its ELV goals. The UK has previously fallen short of meeting the target set by the European Union for reusing, recycling and recovering energy from 85% of end-of-life vehicles.

Announcement of Turkey Projects
In March and April of 2010 the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) announced they had approved two loans of $30 million and $75 million for the development of two combined aluminum recycling and renewable energy plants in Turkey. The plants would use Chinook Sciences’ state-of-the-art RODECS® gasification system. The first plants goal is to deliver 60,000 tons of recycled aluminum annually in liquid form and would occupy a 6500 square-meter facility in Tekirdag, outside of Istanbul and would be operated by DT Metal Geri Kazanım Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi. The plant became fully operational in November 2010. An additional $14 million in financial support was secured for this project in April 2010 from CHP and the UK’s official export credit agency The second plants goal is to process up to 41,000 tons of secondary aluminum annually. The construction and operation by ST Hurda Metal Ogutme Teknolojileri Sanayi ve Ticaret AS plans to also build an associated 5.4 megawatt heat capture energy generation unit for the provision of excess power to the local electricity grid.

Nomination for World Technology Award
In October of 2010 Dr. Rifat Chalabi & Harry Perry, founder of Chinook Sciences were nominated by the World Technology Network in the environmental category for their work on the RODECS® gasification system.

Office & Workforce Expansion in UK
The office relocation of Chinook Sciences UK headquarters was announced in October 2010. Moving to a 15,000 sq ft grade A office space in the eco-friendly Nottingham Science Park and the doubling of the workforce from 45 to 90 over the next year.

Department of Commerce Appointment
In November of, 2010 it was announced that William Gleeson, then President of Chinook Energy was appointed to the U.S. Department of Commerce’s renewable Energy & Energy Advisory Committee.

Further UK Expansions
February 2011 saw Chinook Sciences further expand in the UK with a substantial industrial warehouse in Lenton, Nottingham. It was then announced in October 2011 that Chinook Sciences would expand its UK office space in Nottingham Science Park from 15,000 sq ft to 20,500 sq feet. The new space was announced to fulfil Chinook Sciences’ need to expand and upgrade the remote command and control station used to support their partner facilities.

Appointment of new CFO
Chinook Sciences announced the appointment of Harry W. Zike as Chief Financial Officer in March of 2012. Harry W. Zike brings more than 30 years of experience in International Finance and business to the company. Having previously worked with Siemens, Price Waterhouse and Energy Conversion Devices.

Construction begins on Innovative Environmental Solutions Plant in UK
June 2012 saw the announcement that construction had begun on the Industrial-Waste Gasification & Advanced Recycling Facility plant, a joint venture between Chinook Sciences and IES. This plant will produce 40 MW of environmentally sustainable energy and recover over 190,000 tons of other recycled materials.

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