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ECOPATH OPENS CALIFORNIA OFFICE
Appoints new consultant

To keep up with its rapid domestic growth, Scottsdale-based ECOPATH has opened a California office and appointed Nick Alvino as its newest sales consultant.
Alvino will oversee sales of ECOPATH’s asphalt blending plants in California and throughout the Western United States.
Alvino is also a member of the Rubberizes Hot Mix Asphalt Task Group of California (RHMATG.) RHMATG is comprised of members representing California’s transportation industry, refineries, contractors, engineers plus others, dedicated to building better roads with asphalt rubber.

Originally this article is located in the “Asphalt Contractor” Best Practices in Paving, Preservation and Plant 0perations Magazine dated January 2009.


AMBASSADOR AWARD FOR ECOPATH CONTRACTING, LLC
Ecopath Contracting, LLC has been awarded the Rubber Pavements Association’s Asphalt Rubber Ambassador Award.  This award is in appreciation and recognition for our outstanding and successful efforts in the introduction of asphalt rubber technology in new states and countries.  In particular, for our superior customer service in the highly acclaimed and widely recognized New Jersey DOT Route 95 project placed in 2007.












BIRO NAMED STRATCO’S SENIOR CHEMICAL ENGINEER
Scottsdale, AZ  (October 27, 2008) -- Szabolcs “Yeti” Biro -- recipient of one of the highest awards in chemical technology from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in his native country -- has joined the STRATCO GLOBAL Companies of Scottsdale as senior chemical engineer.
Biro has significant experience in product and technology development programs for the hydrocarbon and petrochemical industries.  He received his Masters and PhD degrees in chemical engineering in Hungary from an IChemE accredited university, and since has worked at Clemson University in South Carolina.
He is the main inventor of a world patented asphalt technology and materials program, and another of his technical solutions is currently going through the patenting process.
ECOPATH® was formed in 2004 to design and develop equipment and technology solutions for the modified asphalt industry, including rubber modified asphalt and polymer modified asphalt.  Today ECOPATH both sells and leases its polymer modified asphalt equipment to companies and governmental agencies throughout the world.

As a member of the STRATCO GLOBAL Companies,  ECOPATH benefits from the experience of STRATCO, Inc., a global engineering and process design firm specializing in blending equipment for the production of grease, lubricants, bio-diesel and other emulsions and reaction processes.  STRATCO’s history dates back to 1928.
STRATCO and ECOPATH are certified WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council) companies.  
For further information, visit:  www.stratcoglobal.com and www.ecopathindustries.com


ENGLAND NAMED SENIOR VP AT ECOPATH INDUSTRIES, LLC
Scottsdale, AZ (October 27, 2008) -- Randall England has been named senior vice president at Scottsdale, AZ’s ECOPATH, where he is responsible for contracting, equipment design and manufacturing of rubber blending equipment.
ECOPATH is one of the nation’s leaders in the manufacture of equipment used for rubberized asphalt, which is increasingly being employed as highway paving material and in other commercial and residential settings.
England comes most recently from a firm in Tempe where he was manager of rubberized asphalt operations.
He is a native of northern California but was brought up in Albuquerque.  He received a business administration degree with a specialty in finance from the University of New Mexico.
While at UNM, England won a national award from the Nissan organization while participating in an internship program.
He has specialized in developing rubber blending processes for the last 17 years.
ECOPATH was formed in 2004 to design and develop equipment and technology solutions for the modified asphalt industry, including rubber modified asphalt and polymer modified asphalt.  Today

ECOPATH both sells and leases its polymer modified asphalt equipment to companies and governmental agencies throughout the world. As a member of the STRATCO Global Companies, ECOPATH benefits from the experience of STRATCO, Inc., a global engineering and process design firm specializing in blending equipment for the production of grease, lubricants, bio-diesel and other emulsions and reaction processes.  STRATCO’s history dates back to 1928.
STRATCO and ECOPATH are certified WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council) companies.
 For further information, visit:  www.stratcoglobal.com and www.ecopathindustries.com.


THODESEN JOINS ECOPATH AS SENIOR CIVIL ENGINEER
Scottsdale, AZ (October 27, 2008)  -- Carl Thodesen has been named senior civil engineer of ECOPATH in Scottsdale, AZ.  ECOPATH is one of the nation’s premier companies in researching and developing polymer modified asphalt equipment for numerous industrial purposes, including road construction.
Thodesen will be responsible for research on product development of polymer modified asphalts, analysis of applicability of asphalt rubber for specific regions and will give presentations on various polymer modified asphalt topics.
Thodesen most recently came from Clemson University in South Carolina, where he received his PhD in civil engineering while working at Clemson’s Asphalt Rubber Technology Service.
 He has authored numerous scientific papers, conference papers and book chapters on the topic of crumb rubber modified (CRM) binder and other pavement performance related topics.  Specifically he has spent much of his time on the development of statistical models for the prediction of CRM binder properties.
ECOPATH was formed in 2004 to design and develop equipment and technology solutions for the modified asphalt industry, including rubber modified asphalt and polymer modified asphalt.  Today ECOPATH both sells and leases its polymere modified asphalt equipment to companies and governmental agencies throughout the world.
As a member of the STRATCO Global Companies, ECOPATH benefits from the experience of STRATCO, Inc., a global engineering and process design firm specializing in blending equipment for the production of grease, lubricants, bio-diesel and other emulsions and reaction processes.  STRATCO’s history dates back to 1928.
STRATCO and ECOPATH are certified WBENC (Women’s Business Enterprise National Council) companies.  
For further information, visit:  www.stratcoglobal.com and www.ecopathindustries.com


STRATCO AIDS NIPPON OIL'S ENTRY INTO U.S. MARKETS
When Nippon Oil - which identifies itself as Japan's number one oil company - recently decided to enter the U.S. market, it utilized the expertise of STRATCO, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona, to design and construct a grease plant at a unique lubricant manufacturing facility, now up and running in Childersburg, Alabama.

"This is the first installation of its type outside of Japan, and allows Nippon Oil to project a stronger presence in the global lubricant market," says John Kay, STRATCO's Engineering Vice President, who guided the grease plant's development. "We're proud to be involved in a project of this scope."

The new Alabama facility has just started providing specialty lubricants for U.S. factories operated by Toyota, Honda and Hyundai. Nippon Oil claims the lubricant plant has capacity to produce 38 million liters of lubricants and 800 metric tons of grease per year.

Both Nippon Oil and STRATCO have long histories in the oil and lubricant industries. STRATCO's goes all the way back to 1928.

Arizona-based STRATCO has been serving Nippon Oil at its other plants in Japan. "We've been involved in Japan a long time," says Diane Graham, CEO of STRATCO. In fact, she initiated the company's first agency contract in that country 25 years ago.

"Doing business throughout the United States and overseas for many years has allowed us to gain expertise and provide leadership in lubricating grease manufacturing technology," Graham states.

Just as the Alabama plant becomes a significant mark of Nippon Oil's entry into the U.S., so too it demonstrates STRATCO's expertise into the grease plant design and construction arena. STRATCO's main notoriety previously has been for its specialty blending equipment.

"There's a rapidly increasing need worldwide for cost effective and environmentally friendly products in our industry. We try to assist in that effort we can," adds Graham.

STRATCO and ECOPATH have scores of grease and asphalt customers throughout the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Designing a lubricating plant for a Japanese firm in Alabama is the latest example of STRATCO's outreach.

For additional information about STRATCO, contact info@stratcoglobal.com