Mihama Has Completed the Commissioning of Its 10,000 Pound Per Day
Startech Plasma Converter Facility in Japan and Has Started Processing
WILTON, Conn., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Startech Environmental Corporation
(OTC Bulletin Board: STHK), a fully reporting company, today announced that
Mihama Incorporated has completed the commissioning of its new,
state-of-the-art, 5 ton-per-day Plasma Converter Processing and Technology
Center to safely and irreversibly destroy PCBs and PCB contaminated materials.
Operations started recently in the Mihama facility in Himeji, a city of about
one half million people located near Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe. Besides
processing, the new Center will also be an important part of Mihama's Plasma
Converter marketing and sales programs.
About Mihama
Mihama Inc., the Startech Environmental distributor headquartered in
Nagano-Ken, Japan, is a well established manufacturer and seller of automotive
parts and accessories. Mihama's customers are eminent international companies
including Toyota Motor Corporation, General Motors, NTN Corporation and major
trading companies that include Toyota Tsusho, to name a few. With its new
facility, Mihama is now expanding into the commercial processing of wastes.
What are PCBs
"PCBs" is the abbreviation for a family of manufactured industrial
products called polychlorinated biphenyls. PCBs come in many forms. They are
molecular products comprised principally of chlorine and carbon atoms.
The major use of PCBs has been in industrial electric equipment especially
in transformers, capacitors, voltage regulators and electromagnets. In
operation, these devices produce undesirable heat and PCBs help to remove that
heat while operating as an effective non-flammable dielectric (an electrical
insulator). PCBs have also been used in hydraulic systems, as plasticizers
and as additives in lubricants. Among PCBs' important industrial
characteristics are its chemical stability and its resistance to degradation.
It is these very resistant and robust characteristics that make PCBs so
persistent and troublesome in the environment.
PCBs are dangerous and harmful, and PCB concentrations have been found in
water, soil, animals, plants and the food chain all over the world, even in
the polar ice caps ... a testament to the atmospheric transport of global
contamination. Concentrations have also been detected in the fatty tissue of
humans, animals and fish. PCB biomagnification concentrations have even been
found accumulated in "mother's milk."
Why are PCBs harmful
PCBs are pernicious materials that enter the body through the lungs,
digestive system and even through the skin, and tend to accumulate in the
fatty tissues of the body. The World Wildlife Fund reports that, "PCBs
interfere with many biological functions, including the immune system, the
nervous system and several endocrine systems, and fetuses appear to be
particularly vulnerable to these actions. Chronic low level PCB exposures can
cause liver damage, reproductive abnormalities, immune suppression,
neurological and endocrine system disorders, retarded infant development, and
stunted intellectual function.
Of the estimated 3.4 billion pounds of PCBs that had been manufactured
worldwide (not including the PCBs in the former Soviet Union) by 1989, almost
two-thirds remain in use or in the environment."
About Startech -- a Waste Industry and Energy company
Startech Environmental is a Waste Industry and Energy company engaged in
the production and sale of its innovative, proprietary plasma processing
equipment known as the Plasma Converter System(TM). The Plasma Converter
System safely and economically destroys wastes, no matter how hazardous or
lethal, and turns them into useful and valuable products. In doing so, the
System protects the environment and helps to improve the public health and
safety. The System achieves closed-loop elemental recycling to safely and
irreversibly destroy Municipal Solid Waste, organics and inorganics, solids,
liquids and gases, hazardous and non-hazardous waste, industrial by-products
and also items such as "e-waste," medical waste, chemical industry waste and
other specialty wastes while converting many of them into useful commodity
products that can include metals and a synthesis-gas called Plasma Converted
Gas (PCG)(TM). Among the many commercial uses for PCG, it can, for example,
be used to produce "green power," alcohol fuels and also hydrogen for sale.
The Startech Plasma Converter is essentially a manufacturing system
producing commodity products from feedstocks that were previously regarded as
wastes. Startech regards all wastes, hazardous and non-hazardous, as valuable
renewable resources.
For further information, please visit http://www.startech.net
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements regarding the Company's plans and expectations regarding the
development and commercialization of its Plasma Converter(TM) technology. All
forward-looking statements are subject to risk and uncertainties that could
cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Factors that
could cause such a difference include, without limitation, failure of the
customer to obtain appropriate financing for the project, general risks
associated with product development, manufacturing, rapid technological change
and competition as well as other risks set forth in the Company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements
contained herein speak only as of the date of this press release. The Company
expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any
updates or revisions to any such statement to reflect any change in the
Company's expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on
which any such statement is based.
SOURCE Startech Environmental Corporation
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