Tag: PCB

Astana, capital of Kazakhstan, hosted from 13th through 16th Marchthe national workshop on the management under safe conditions of the life cycle of dangerous wastes. The event saw the participation of local and national authorities, holders of PCBs waste, private companies involved with the transportation, handling and stocking of dangerous wastes, laboratories, research institutes and organisations, non-government organisation as well as operators at internationalRead more

Upon the invitation of institutional authorities and local Utilities, on 18th April 2011, Vander Tumiatti travelled to Mongolia as expert in the management of electrical equipment with insulating oils and PCBs. The economy of Mongolia (2.736.800 inhabitants over a surface of 1.565.000 km²) is mainly based on considerable natural resources such as oil, coal and copper. Industry represents currently 21.4 %Read more

Following an invitation by institutional authorities and local Utilities, from 29th March through 1st April 2011, Vander Tumiatti was in the Philippines as an expert in the management of electrical equipment with insulating oils. The archipelago of the Philippines includes over 7,000 islands; the economy has a considerable expansion and for this reason, policies for energy efficiency are required toRead more

On 23rd March 2011, at its headquarters in Collegno (Turin), Sea Marconi welcomed a delegation coming from the Republic of Azerbaijan. The working group came to Italy with the objective of deepening the solutions provided by Sea Marconi for the management of the PCBs problem in their Country. Under an economic point of view, Azerbaijan can count on flourishing agriculture andRead more

Monday 7th and Tuesday 8th February 2011, at the Sea Marconi Headquarters in Collegno (Turin) a meeting was held with a Japanese delegation interested to the Sea Marconi’s solutions for the management of transformers contaminated by PCBs in Japan. At the meeting participated Mr Toshihiko Takeo, general manager of JEMA, association of Japanese manufacturers in the electrical area, Mr YoRead more

The topic of decontamination from PCBs is very much felt by the French Ministry of the Environment. In effect, last December, the minister Kosciusko-Morizet reminded that in all Europe, Directive EC no. 96/59 imposed to decontaminate or dispose of within 31stDecember 2010 all the equipment with PCBs exceeding 500 ppm (mg/kg). After this communication, an investigative campaign followed to verifyRead more

On 29th November 2010, a cognitive meeting took place at the headquarters of Sea Marconi in Collegno (Turin- Italy) with doct. Nurlan Yeskendirov, project manager charged by UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) to evaluate the best solutions for the management of the PCBs problem in the generation, transportation and use of electric power in Kazakhstan. Talking of natural resources, Kazakhstan is probably the CountryRead more

A three-day training session on the management of PCBs provided by Sea Marconi to a delegation coming from Mongolia, was concluded with a visit to a work site in Porto Venere. The contacts with Mongolia, matured within a project promoted by UNIDO, started about a year ago. Then in the subsequent months, the need by their side to start a training path finalised toward theRead more

Following an invitation by UNIDO (United Nations Industrial Development Organization), on 25th August Sea Marconi participated in New Delhi to a technical seminar on the “State of the art of alternative technologies for the management and disposal of PCBs. The event represented another step (after those already brilliantly achieved) by the UNIDO commissioners evaluating Sea Marconi as a possible supplier for a technological solution finalized toward the managementRead more

Dopo After 40 years form the STOP to the production of PCBs in the USA and after about 30 years (1979) from the first official regulation on the PCBs problem, the EPA (also designated as USEPA – United States Environmental Protection Agency) is questioning the need for modifying or not current regulations. The document released by the EPA, dated 30th April 2010,Read more