An Albany, N.Y.-based environmental and engineering firm has announced its intention to increase its service offerings to paper mills and the paper industry.
Spectra Environmental and Engineering, which has a decade-long presence serving the paper industry, has formed the Spectra Paper Industry Team to provide a “range of specialized services required by paper makers for regulatory compliance, and competitive and cost-containment issues,” according to a news release.
“These are critical times with critical trends in the paper industry,” says Peter Desrochers, Spectra’s director of facilities management. “Today, paper mills must maintain compliance in an ever more regulated environment, and still augment manufacturing efficiencies to remain competitive.”
Desrochers says Spectra plans an extensive outreach to showcase the firm’s capabilities and achievements. “We are experienced and ready to address key issues [such as] air emissions compliance, wastewater, solid waste, including BUDs (beneficial use determinations) and efficiency upgrades in manufacturing, and energy management.”
He says Spectra has identified two areas as most relevant, “The first being energy efficiency and energy cost containment, and the second the universe of waste management issues.”
The Spectra Paper Industry Team consists of Desrochers, an engineer and specialist in facilities management; Paul Adel, an engineer focusing on environmental compliance; Michael Moruzzi, architect; Thomas McGrath, an engineer and wastewater expert; and Art Fossa, an engineer and air emissions expert.
The Spectra Group, founded in 1993, provides specialized engineering, design and consulting services for facility renovations including “green building” and energy-saving features and a range of professional services to private and governmental clients in the areas of civil and railroad engineering, architecture, landfill remediation, air quality, water and wastewater and overall environmental compliance matters. The firm employs 70 professional staff at four locations in New York State.
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