https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-quebec-companies-try-plasma-technology-to-produce-greener-fumed-silica/ how much did the fumed silicon project progress since its announcement a year ago ?
how can you convince pyr to work on the project ,i wonder .
hpq has the patent but doesn t know what to do with it .
if you can t work it it remains pretty useless .and theoretical.
so where is hpq with this ? Fumed silicon project was announced ayear ago .
time for an update in state of the art fume silicon production :)
Article is still worth reading .
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The project is currently in its trial period, and is expected to produce 50 tonnes of fumed silica in its first year, starting in July, 2022. HPQ Silicon holds intellectual property rights for the reactor process through its subsidiary, HPQ Polvere, and the process is patent protected.
“Scaling up these types of processes is our specialty at PyroGenesis, but we know there’s going to be a lot of fine tuning to before we’re making kilos and kilos of this stuff that is of the right quality for our suppliers’ needs,” said Jean-Ren Gagnon, lead process engineer at PyroGenesis Canada. Financing
PyroGenesis announced it had secured an additional $630,000 from Technoclimat, a Quebec government green energy fund, to develop low-cost, environmentally friendly fumed silica processes. This follows a grant of $700,000 from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, an arms-length federal foundation, announced in May. According to PyroGenesis, this brings the total value of the project to about $5.3-million, including the sale of intellectual property to HPQ Silicon for $3.3-million