Aliron Philippines and Guam Project

Two new ventures in Guam and the Philippines bring Aliron to the Pacific Rim.

After more than a decade of providing management healthcare services to the US Dept of Defense and Veterans Administration, Aliron's President, Corazon Alisuag embarked into a new horizon that deals with environmental technologies to solve industrial and hazardous wastes in developing countries in the Pacific Rim. Faced with problems of health care waste management, Aliron took the initiative to go into these countries where the technology is most needed to solve the problem.

This year alone, Aliron has been awarded a contract by the Guam Power Authority to do soil remediation treatment in its location in Agat, Guam. Aliron purchased a 13-acre industrial property and set up a Thermal Desorption Plant for soil remediation. Aliron's Executive VP, Ron Grow spearheaded the shipment of the Aztec Machine that will be used in the processing of contaminated soil. It is a process that cleans up the soil of contaminants and restores it to its pristine state. Other industries in the area have followed suit to avail of the services provided by Aliron in the environmental cleanup. In addition to soil remediation services, Aliron locally distributes cleaning supplies and solutions ranging from oil sponges to pads and rolls, booms, socks, sweeps, pillows to spill cart kit as part of its overall thrust to clean up the environment.

Further to the East, Aliron has also started to venture in the Philippines by introducing the first of its kind Industrial and Hazardous Waste facility in Calamba, Laguna. This facility was chosen as it is surrounded by numerous manufacturing industries in the area as well as being located in a specially designated economic zone under the administration of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority. A Thermal Oxidation Plant is now underway at Carmel Ray Industrial Park II, Calamba, Laguna. Aliron leased a 10,000 sq meter facility (land and building) to house the machine where it plans to carry out its day-to-day operations. In the US, Aliron commissioned a New Jersey company, HTT to design, build and install a rotary kiln machine with scrubber that will help solve the problems of disposal of the industrial wastes generated by manufacturers in the area. Cora Alisuag, President & CEO, Ron Grow, EVP of ALIRON INTERNATIONAL, INC. with the HTT President, Steve Parker have flown several times to Manila to meet with government regulators for compliance with the Philippine laws and to explain the technological capability of the machine. They also met with waste generators in the area to brief them on the purposes and services to be offered by the facility once it starts operation.

In order to facilitate and jump start the project, Aliron awarded several contracts to local fabricators in the Philippines to manufacture some of the component parts of the rotary kiln machine. With respect to licenses and authority to operate locally, Aliron's representatives have been securing them from various agencies and shall be completed in time for the facility's operation most likely to commence by November of this year 2003. In addition to this, Aliron will put up a sophisticated video monitoring device that would capture "live" the waste management operations in the Philippine facility at Aliron's headquarters in Maryland. It will monitor the facility where the well-trained personnel of Aliron shall handle the off-loading and eventual processing of the waste materials into rotary kiln machine.

Given the advantage of pioneering this technology in the Philippines, Aliron will be the first to show case this model facility around the country. Undoubtedly, it may well be the start of one of its kind that will eventually mushroom in the entire archipelago and perhaps into other neighboring Asian countries.

Both projects are first of its kind in the two regions: the entire Marianas Islands and the Philippines.