NORAM specializes in development, commercialization, and supply of leading-edge chemical processes and environmental technologies. These proprietary technologies are typically sold in the form of equipment and engineering packages which are implemented by the end-users' engineering and construction contractors.
This private Vancouver-based company, established in 1988, has completed projects for municipalities and large multi-national clients on five continents.
Through its staff of engineers, designers, and project management personnel, NORAM has substantial experience in wastewater treatment, sulphuric acid, acid recovery and concentration, nitration, electrochemical, pulp and paper and bleaching chemicals technologies.

What's New at NORAM

NORAM Engineering & Constructors Ltd (Vancouver) and ECO-TEC Inc. provided the first industrial installation of a chloride removal system, which selectively removes chlorides from the black liquor cycle of a pulp mill. High chloride concentrations cause recovery boiler plugging and corrosion, reduce steam generation, drive up energy costs, and result in expensive shutdowns. The novel system employs a special amphoteric sorption resin in a modified ion exchange column, capable of removing both anions and cations simultaneously from solution. Chloride removal rates exceeding 90%, and CO3 and SO4 make-up losses of less than 4% have been achieved at the mill. The first of two 10.5 ft diameter sub-surface shaft reactors is nearing completion at the Xingping wastewater treatment facility in China. Drilling on the second shaft for the 13.2 MGD facility is expected to commence in early 2008. The plant is designed around NORAM's proprietary VERTREAT™ activated sludge technology. NORAM's sulphuric acid technology has been selected for two large acid plants for the Ambatovy Nickel Project in Madagascar. NORAM's technology licensee, Bateman Engineering N.V., has signed a contract with Dynatec Madagascar SA for the engineering and procurement of the plants, each with an initial capacity to supply 2,750 tonnes per day of acid, to meet scheduled mine production in 2010. *For more information see www.batemanengineering.com NORAM signs a contract with HuChems Fine Chemical Corporation of Korea for the supply of a NORAM technology package including the design, proprietary equipment, and commissioning services for a new 150,000 metric tonne per year mononitrobenzene (MNB) plant to be located in Yeosu, Korea. NORAM and AIR PRODUCTS have formed a joint venture named Siloxy Ltd., an environmental company that will commercialize proprietary enabling technologies particularly in the non-wood pulping sector. Siloxy's target markets are pulp mill paper manufacturers seeking to improve environmental and economic performance around process water and effluent treatment. *For more information see Press Releases NORAM has announced the successful startup of the second North American Paprilox® Process at a pulp mill in the United States. The Paprilox® process allows Kraft pulp mills to increase yield, allowing for production increases or reduced chemical consumption. *For more information see Press Releases The 13,300 sq.ft NORAM Research Centre is currently under development in Burnaby, B.C. The new facility will function as a technology incubator, with laboratory and pilot plant facilities for early-stage process technologies. BATEMAN Engineering N.V. has been granted a license by NORAM, making it the exclusive licensee for NORAM's sulphuric acid plant technologies in the sub-Saharan area. In terms of the agreement, NORAM will provide proprietary technology and equipment based on its proven North American and European track record. BATEMAN will contribute project execution drawing on its 85-year history, including over 1,000 projects in more than 50 countries since 1980. NORAM has supplied a technology package including the design, proprietary equipment, and commissioning services for a 200,000 metric tons per year mononitrobenzene plant for Tianji Coal Chemical Industry Group Co.'s new aniline facility in Lucheng, Shanxi Province, China. The NORAM plant is the first world-scale adiabatic MNB plant in China and makes Tianji the largest merchant producer of aniline in China. Worldwide, two other plants are under design, while a third is under construction. A large gas heat exchanger at J.R. Simplot's Pocatello, Idaho, sulphuric acid plant has been replaced with NORAM's patented Split Flow (SF™) exchanger. The advanced design allowed shop fabrication in stainless steel, and yielded a unit half the weight of the old exchanger, and with 50-percent fewer tubes. The unit is in service and has met all process and pressure-drop guarantees. *For more information see Publications The ABC Plaza shopping mall in São Paulo, Brazil recently commissioned a new wastewater treatment facility, using NORAM's patented VERTREAT™ technology. The plant was designed by NORAM and constructed by a Brazilian licensee of the technology, General Water SA (www.generalwater.com.br). *For more information see www.generalwater.com.br