It was in the presence of the Minister of Economy, Innovation and Exports, Mr. Jacques Daoust, that the CTTÉI inaugurated its new facilities in front of the Cégep de Sorel-Tracy on November 10. The Québec government contributed more than $2 million to make this project possible.
According to CTTÉI President Dominique Beaudry, "the proximity to the Collège makes it possible to maximize the use of common equipment and facilitates the participation of students and professors in CTTÉI projects. "The new laboratories and test bench facilities are now better equipped to meet the needs of our client companies in terms of waste characterization, product development and innovative waste reclamation solutions. In order to stay abreast of the latest developments in clean technologies, CTTÉI has acquired two pieces of laboratory equipment of which we are particularly proud: equipment using supercritical fluids and wet oxidation equipment.
It seems that our centre is the only one to have this latest equipment in Canada, which brings us a lot of interest from industries interested in green chemistry and opens up many new perspectives in the environmental sector in Quebec," said Hélène Gignac, Executive Director of the CTTÉI. In the centre's evaluation report for the years 2010 to 2015, tabled last June, the Quebec Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research reports on the quality of the centre's interventions and its relevance in terms of innovation, both with businesses and with college students and staff, in order to stimulate research in the college environment.
In the context of the deployment of the circular economy, industrial ecology takes on its full meaning with concrete examples of application in companies. To carry out its projects, the CTTÉI can count on a multidisciplinary team of engineers, chemists and technicians, and some five university and college students participate in its work each year. It is one of the major partners of the Technopole en écologie industrielle de Sorel-Tracy, which aims to position the region in the field of waste management, product development from waste and clean technologies.
