The employees at CoMeTas are pro environment and improved life quality.

Instead of taking the car to work, many employees have chosen to bicycle instead and for each day one employee bicycle to work the CoMeTas team enhances the chances to win the competition “”We bicycle to work”.
The competition is for all Danish companies and has previously inspired many Danes to bicycle to work.

Follow CoMeTas bicycling statistics here on the table below, where the kilometers bicycled by the team per day is shown.

For more information on the event, see this website.

”In order to service our clients the best possible way CoMeTas has collected all activities regarding R&D and external projects in one section named: “Innovation & Technology”.
Specifically, this new section will comprise:
- Engineering: Our staff has extensive experience in operating and designing membrane units both industrially and pilots. Furthermore CoMeTas has thorough knowledge in testing new applications in a lab facility or as rental of pilot units.
- Innovation projects: CoMeTas is involved in a growing number of customer projects, including EU-projects, which helps us push the boundaries of our technological capability.
- R&D: We are continuously performing R&D-work on both our Catalysis Technology and our Silicon Carbide Membrane Technology in order to adapt to customers demands.

Customers will hopefully benefit from this new section by an increased focus on their application, and a better overall service level.”
- Thomas Eilkær Hansen, Head of section

Read more about the section here.

CEO Jens Husted Kjær was last week on the Danish radio in a business broadcast.

Click to hear the show:
www.dr.dk/P1 (in danish)

It is the last 10 minutes of the show regarding CoMeTas and CoMeTas Brazil.

CoMeTas is participating in a new environmental project called TyGRe. The project has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme.
During this project recycling of used tires for energy production and production of silicon carbide powder will be developed. CoMeTas will be testing the silicon carbide powder for production of ceramic filters.

Read more about the project at the website www.tygre.eu

CoMeTas will be present at Filtech this week, specifically at our booth A7. We would like to extend an invitation to all interested parties to stop by our booth and meet our membrane specialists. Our team of application engineers will be available for a chat about our technology and the possibilities of applying our membranes to solve your problems. If you would like to meet with us, please send an email to info@cometas.dk, and we can supply you an invitation card for free admission to the exhibition.

CoMeTas was present at Euromembrane 2009 in Montpellier, France, along with other ceramic membrane producers.

One of the major topics was abrasion resistant membranes. According to other manufacturers, improvements have been made to other ceramic membranes, where abrasion is being tested with silicon carbide particles. The hardness of silicon carbide apparently makes it a good choice to challenge the materials and prove the hardness.

We’ve taken it a step further and manufactured the membrane itself in silicon carbide – with unmatched resistance, durability and flux.

At CoMeTas we are eager to provide the best possible service to our customers and other parties that might be interested in our products.

We have experienced that the industry is not yet that familiar with dead-ended filters, such as our own Aqua Solution membrane. After numerous requests, we have therefore chosen to make our operation guidelines available here.

We hope this will increase the awareness of the ease of operating a filtration system with an Aqua Solution membrane inside.

Please contact Application Engineer Kenneth Højrup Johansen on khj@cometas.dk for more information about our Aqua Solution products.

Aqua solution is our dead-end filter solution for liquids with lower amount of suspended solids, which yields a more cost efficient filtration performance compared to other filtration principles.

One of the applications of our Aqua Solution is filtration of water from pools and spas. In pool and spa applications Aqua Solution will replace conventional sand filters, which use up much more water, energy and chemicals and the same time does not filter bacteria and virus.

CoMeTas in Denmark has worked closely together with Provital to bring these membranes to market. Provital integrates the superior membrane technology in a compact, light-weight system. Provital is a young campany, and they recently recieved financial support from International Center of Innovation at the University of Aalborg in Denmark. The money has been earmarked to polishing of the business model and bringing the products to market on a larger scale.

See the article from the Danish newspaper Nordjyske here.

On March 1st CoMeTas Brazil was founded. Through the last months, we have been busy getting CoMeTas Brazil off to a good start, and so far everything looks very promising. Today, the CoMeTas Brazil website was launched:

www.cometas.com.br

Please check out the new website for information about the focus areas of CoMeTas Brazil and contact the managing director of the company, Jan Poul Sørensen, directly for more information: jan@cometas.com.br.

Yesterday, the Danish minister of Environmental Affairs, Troels Lund Poulsen, visited CoMeTas´ facilities in Bagsvaerd, Denmark. At the visit, the Minister was presented with CoMeTas´technology portfolio and also the environmental problems the technology can solve.

CoMeTas develops and produces two Cleantech Products:

• Ceramic membranes for water filtration with increased durability and performance, which e.g. makes it economically feasible and technically possible to decrease the discharge of oil into the sea from offshore oil production.

• Catalytic coatings, which lowers the regeneration temperature of the diesel particulate filter without increasing the emission of NO2 to the atmosphere, which is normally the case with catalytically coated filters. NO2 can be recognized by its distinct smell and is toxic by inhalation.

At the visit the minister initiated a discussion about some of the regulatory opportunities in the future. There is a continuing discussion in Denmark about regulations on discharge of produced water from offshore oil platforms and the minister was very interested in CoMeTas membranes for oil/water filtration, which will make it possible to lower the dispersion levels.

CoMeTas was happy to be able to inform the minister that there is actually a economically feasible solution to solve the problem with produced water.
See pictures from the visit on Flickr