Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
TURI provides grants to academic researchers to support efforts to find and develop safer alternatives to harmful chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
TURI offers grants to help Massachusetts businesses adopt safer alternatives to toxic chemicals.
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
Various chemical substances are used in industry as product
materials and process chemicals. As issues related to the environment and human health are considered important, possible risks of
production processes need to be identified and reduced at the
process design stage (Cano-Ruiz and McRae, 1998; Chen and
Shonnard, 2004).
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
Inner-Tite Corporation replaced its existing parts degreasing equipment with two entirely enclosed
Forenta® degreasing units. The new degreasing equipment has reduced air emissions of
trichloroethylene (TCE) by 97% and will save the company over $12,000 annually in avoided chemical
purchases.
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
As Massachusetts businesses reopen, they face the need to clean and disinfect to prevent COVID-19
transmission. Certain cleaning and disinfecting chemicals have been linked to acute and chronic illnesses,
including asthma.
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
The Institute annually provides direct funding to Massachusetts industries on a matching basis
for toxics use reduction (TUR) feasibility and technology studies. The matching Grants
Program was initiated in FY 93 to facilitate the development and use of innovative techniques
that reduce the use of toxic chemicals or the generation of toxic byproducts in Massachusetts
businesses
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
The objective of this project is to synthesize single crystal
silicon carbide fibers without the use of any toxic chemicals. This
would be accomplished by following a two step procedure. The first
step is to grow single crystal silicon fibers using the Czochralski
technique.
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
The Massachusetts Office of Technical Assistance and Technology (OTA) offers assistance in reducing the use of
toxic materials, improving environmental performance and promoting economic growth. The Technical Assistance
Revisited case studies are the result of an effort to measure the effectiveness of the Commonwealth’s program of
helping companies to reduce toxics use through onsite visits.
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
SUMMARY
Case Study
at Poly-Plating Inc.
Poly-Plating designed and installed integral repurification equipment which filters,
recycles and concentrates wastes for reclamation. This equipment reduced acid purchases to
1%of 1989 levels. Reclaiming and recycling has cut disposal costs by 98%
Industry/Sector: Metal Manufacturing
The University Research in Sustainable Technologies program is a joint project of the Toxics
Use Reduction Institute (TURI) and the Center for Environmentally Appropriate Materials
(CEAM) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, with support from the Commonwealth’s
Strategic Envirotechnology Partnership (STEP).
