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Developers


A.O. Smith Engineered Storage Products Company
Dave Friederick
345 Harvestore Drive
DeKalb, IL 60115
Tel: 815/756-1551   Fax: 815/756-1659
Email: dfriederick@aosmith.com
Web: http://www.slurrystore.com  Exit EPA

Year Established: 1951
# Biogas Projects: 53
# Employees: 143
# Farm Projects: 17

A.O. Smith performs feasibility assessments, and designs and installs biogas systems. A.O. Smith has designed biogas systems for 7 farms in the U.S. and 10 farms in Europe. Examples include: 1) Huntington Dairy, a 600 cow dairy in Cooperstown, NY; and 2) University of Florida, a 500 cow dairy in Gainesville, FL.


Agri Bio Systems
Richard Vetter
2333 Tara Drive
Elgin, IL 60123
Tel: 847/888-7854   Fax: 847/888-1484
Email: rvagribio@aol.com

Year Established: 1983
# Biogas Projects: 7
# Employees: NA
# Farm Projects: 7

Agri Bio Systems performs feasibility assessments, and designs and installs biogas systems in the U.S. and internationally. Examples of biogas systems in the U.S. include: 1) Lindstrom Farm: a 50 cow dairy farm in Welch, MN; 2) Leefer Farm, a 1,000 cow beef confinement farm in Carlinville, Il; 3) Smith Farm, a 70,000 broiler poultry farm in Princeton, NC; 4) Naser Farm, a 1,000 sow finishing swine farm in Sibley, IA; 5) Hamiliton Farm, a 450 sow finishing farm and 120,000 layers poultry farm in Iowa Falls, IA; 6) Huntington Dairy, a 300 cow dairy farm in Cooperstown NY; and 7) Cushman Farm, a 600 cow dairy in Franklin, CT.


Applied Technologies, Inc.
John F. Kouba
16815 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Brookfield, WI 53005
Tel: 414/784-7690   Fax: 414/784-6847
Email: jfkouba@ati-ae.com

Year Established: 1989
# Biogas Projects: 25
# Employees: 45
# Farm Projects: 1

Applied Technologies, Inc. has co-sponsored seminars on anaerobic treatment of agricultural and high strength wastes for the past 8 years, and designs its own anaerobic contact process. Applied Technologies, Inc. designed a complete mix digester for Maple Leaf Farms, a poultry farm in Franksville, WI.


Environomics
Richard Mattocks
5700 Arlington Avenue, Suite 17A
Riverdale, NY 10471
Tel: 718/884-6740    Fax: 718/884-6726
Email: utter@compuserve.com
Web: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/utter/ Exit EPA

Year Established: 1981
# Biogas Projects: 17
# Employees: 2
# Farm Projects: 16

Environomics has designed 15 farm-scale biogas projects. They include plug-flow digesters for 7 dairy facilities throughout the U.S., ranging in size from 30-1,000 cows. Depending on the farm, the biogas is used to generate electricity, and to fuel boiler systems. The remaining farm-scale projects include mixed digesters for 8 swine farms throughout the U.S. for farrow-to-finish farms, ranging in size from 1,000- 3,0000 sows. The swine farms use the biogas to generate electricity. In addition, Environomics is highly experienced in the following activities: permitting, utility negotiations, public relations, feasibility studies, and publications.


Feldmann and Associates
Terry Feldman
11191 Carolyn Court
East Peoria, IL 61611
Tel: 309/699-6962   Fax: 309-699-6964
Email: tfeldmann@aol.com

Year Established: 1995
# Biogas Projects: 1
# Employees: 2
# Farm Projects: 1

Feldmann and Associates collaborated with AgSTAR to design a complete mix digester for Apex Pork in Rio, IL, an AgSTAR demonstration farm. Feldmann is focused on advising farmers to increase production efficiency and improve manure handling methods.


Fox Engineering Associates, Inc.
Dale Watson
1531 Airport Rd.
Ames, IA 50010
Tel: 515/233-0000   Fax: 515/233-0103
Email: dwatson@foxeng.com
Web: http://www.foxeng.com Exit EPA

Year Established: 1961
# Biogas Projects: 10
# Employees: 30
# Farm Projects: 2

Fox Engineering specializes in environmental and civil engineering services for industrial, municipal, and agricultural sectors. Work involves dealing with water, wastewater, soil, and air media issues. Fox has designed a digester for Crawford Farm (Demonstration Project), a swine farm in Nevada, IA.


Hadley and Bennett, Inc.
Spencer Bennett
P.O. Box 517
Henniker, NH 03242
Tel: 603/428-3851  Fax: 603/428-3851
Email: bennettfarm@conknet.com

# Biogas Projects: 6
# Employees: 1
# Farm Projects: 6

Hadley and Bennett, Inc. designs and builds anaerobic digesters. Examples of projects include: 1) Hadley Farm, a dairy in Henniker, NH; 2) Foster Brothers, a dairy in Middlebury, VT; 3) Tait Farm, a veal farm in North Whitefield, ME; 4) Shugah Vale, a dairy in Claremont, NH; 5) Curtin Brothers, a dairy in Oneida, NY; and 6) Bruce Farm, a dairy in Oldensburg, NY.


Lock Four
Stacy Gettier
P.O. Box 474
Waverly, VA 23890
Tel: 804/834-8317
Email: swg@erols.com

Year Established: 1991
# Biogas Projects: 4
# Employees: 1
# Farm Projects: 4

Lock Four performs feasibility assessments, and designs and installs biogas systems. Examples include: Barham Farm, a 4,000 sow farrow-to-wean farm in Zebulon, NC; 2) Apex Pork, an 8,600 head finishing swine farm in Rio, IL; 3) Boland Farm, a 2,000 head nursery swine farm in Williamsburg, IA; and 4) a 2,800 head farrow-to-feeding swine farm in South Boston, VA.


R.M. Service & Associates
Robert M. Service
110 East Bremer Avenue, Suite A
Waverly, IA, 50677
Tel: 319/352-0132   Fax: 319/352-5765
Email: rnsa@mchsi.com
Web: www.bartlettuniversity.com/energy.php Exit EPA

Year Established: 1973
# Biogas Projects: 1
# Employees: 15
# Farm Projects: 0

Energy consulting and product development focused on electric power plant development (portable & stationary 70-700 Kw) and on hot water heating system development, all using low cost and agricultural waste fuels. Fuel conversions, audits, fuel surveys, arbitration/mediation technical support, and community development planning.


Resource Conservation Management, Inc.
Mark Moser
P.O. Box 4715
Berkeley, CA 94704
Tel: 510/658-4466   Fax: 510/658-2729
Email: astro166@worldnet.att.net

Year Established: 1984
# Biogas Projects: 20
# Employees: 2
# Farm Projects: 20

Resource Conservation Management has designed 20 farm-scale biogas projects. Examples include: 1) Apex Pork (for AgSTAR), a swine farm in Rio, IL with a covered, heated, mixed lagoon; 2) Freund Dairy (for AgSTAR), a dairy farm in East Canaan, CT with a plug flow digester; 3) AA Dairy (for AgSTAR), a dairy farm in Candor, NY; 4) Martin Hog Farm (for AgSTAR), a swine farm in South Boston, VA with a covered lagoon; 5) Barham Hog Farm (for AgSTAR), a swine farm in Zebulon, NC with a covered lagoon; 6) Craven Dairy, a dairy farm in Cloverdale OR with a plug flow digester; 7) Cal Poly Dairy (for AgSTAR), a dairy farm in San Luis Obispo, CA with a covered lagoon; 8) Palmer Hog Farm, a swine farm in Yell County, AR with a covered lagoon; 9) Tohoku Farm, a swine farm in Aamori Prefecture, Japan, with a mixed digester; and 10) Langerwerf Dairy, a dairy farm in Durham, CA with a plug flow digester.


Sharp Energy, Inc.
Roy Sharp
24684 Road 148
Tulare, CA 93274
Tel: 559/688-2051   Fax: 559/688-1111
Email: rsharp6368@aol.com

Year Established: 1983
# Biogas Projects: 12
# Employees: 2
# Farm Projects: 10

Sharp Energy, Inc. consults, designs, and sets up the most effective and efficient waste management and energy production systems. Sharp Energy developed systems for the following farms: 1) Royal Farms, a 16,000 head swine farm in Tulare, CA; 2) Sharp Ranch, a 5,000 head swine farm in Tulare, CA; 3) Sharp Enterprises, an 8,000 head swine farm in Caruthers, CA; 4) Petrorio Farm, a 3,000 head swine farm in Skopje, Macedonia. Sharp Energy designed the covers for the following farms: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (an AgSTAR Demonstration Farm), a 300 cow dairy in San Luis Obispo, CA; and Laurenco Dairy, a 1,200 cow dairy in Tulare, CA.


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