Dynamic businesses with scalable technologies that will make a difference.

The world is engaged in a monumental move toward new technologies and businesses which embody both environmental responsibility and sustainable economic solutions. We are committed to doing our part with companies that represent the very best in their respective disciplines. Our current business portfolio is comprised of eight companies within four focused market sectors.

Forest Products

Manufacturer of Torrefied
Wood for Use as a Coal Supplement/Substitute

Manufacturer of
Superior Quality Paper for
the Publishing Industry

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Water Treatment

Providing Water Treatment Processes to the Oil
and Gas Industry

Water Treatment R&D
and Sales Platform Facility

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Renewable Energy

Developer of Small Scale
Solar Array Deployments

75 Megawatt
Biomass Power Plant

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Recycled Resources

Manufacturer of Recycled Plastic Flake and Preforms for the Food and Beverage Industry

Developer of Renewable
Proteins for the Agricultural
Feed Industry

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Sustainable Forest Products Technology
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Forests provide energy generation and paper products from the ultimate renewable resource. Our forest product technologies preserve the vitality of forests and revitalize industries with clean and sustainable products offering superior performance. Torrefied wood provides an alternative fuel source for generating energy, while our sustainable and renewable papermaking business creates products that meet precise functional requirements.

Torrefied Wood Manufacturing

Thermogen is a manufacturing company that employs a proprietary microwave technology to produce torrefied wood products for commercial energy generation by utilities.

Problem

Burning standard fossil coal, a non-renewable fuel, burdens public utilities and communities by producing noxious emissions and exceeding regulatory goals for reduction of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

Solution

Thermogen Industries manufactures an economical, sustainable and carbon-neutral torrefied wood fuel that can supplement the use of coal in existing facilities, reduce harmful emissions and meet newer, more stringent clean air standards.

torrefied wood manufacturing

Torrefaction

Our torrefaction process involves changing the properties of wood using microwave technology, not heat. Microwaving the wood creates a product which burns cleaner and has the same BTU heat output as coal.

Aurora Black alternative fuel products

Aurora Black®

Our clean fuel called Aurora Black® offers advantages for specific applications and meets the Federal definition of a Renewable and Alternative Fuel, and significantly reduces sulfur oxides, nitrogen oxides, and greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable fuel technology plant

Co-Exists with Coal

Aurora Black® functions seamlessly alongside other solid fuels, such as coal or by itself to optimize performance and reduce costs. It provides improved boiler efficiency and performance, and is compatible with existing equipment.

Paper Manufacturing

Great Northern Paper is known as a producer of high-quality papers using a sustainable and environmentally responsible business model.

Problem

Publishers are demanding consistent high-quality papers at competitive prices for standard and specialized printing needs.

Solution

Great Northern Paper provides high-quality paper at a competitive price using raw materials that contribute to superior performance for a variety of printing and publishing needs.

Renewable forest products production

Over a Century of Papermaking

For over 100 years, Great Northern Paper has served the publishing industry with its high-performance papers, making it one the most experienced and reliable paper manufacturers in North America.

Sustainable paper products from raw fiber materials

Sustainable Raw Materials

Great Northern Paper receives virtually all of its raw fiber material from the millions of acres of the great north woods of Maine. Our strategic mill location ensures a reliable and consistent fiber source, assuring competitively priced products and shipping costs.

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Superior Paper Products

Based on demand, we have the flexibility for producing a variety of paper grades for specialized printing needs. Our unique paper formulation enhances physical properties for optimized products that meet the needs of specific printing applications.

Water Treatment technology
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Water is a vital resource that increasingly relies on inventive reclamation techniques for ensuring a reliable source. The ability to clean contaminated water from the oil and natural gas industry depends on innovative water treatment technologies, systems and facilities. The end product from our water treatment process is clean, reusable water.

Water Treatment Installations

Clean Runner is a breakthrough technology system that provides comprehensive treatment and reuse of produced and frac water generated from the oil and natural gas industry.

Problem

Cost effectively treat high volumes of contaminated water produced during oil and gas extraction operations.

Solution

Provide an inexpensive high volume system that captures and removes all contaminants from incoming produced/frac water and meet or exceed regulatory standards.

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Innovative Approach

Clean Runner's innovative and proven water reclamation technology, PetroCleanse®, revolutionizes how the industry can reduce its environmental impact and meet or exceed EPA standards.

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Dedicated Treatment System

Clean Runner is a dedicated treatment system that is scalable for the volume of water produced in the oil and gas field. Specific to operations, a Clean Runner system is designed that employs an optimal combination of technologies, depending on the exact wellhead profile of the produced water.

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No Accumulated Waste

The Clean Runner system incurs no accumulated wastes or liabilities and allows for safe and environmentally conscientious disposal of all contaminants.

Water Reclamation Facility

Red Desert is a working prototype water reclamation facility in Wyoming with physical structures and processes that are repeatable and scalable to other locations.

Problem

Produced water from oil and gas exploration in the Red Desert Basin exceeded available methods of disposal.

Solution

Cate Street Capital constructed and installed a strategically located, first of its kind, high volume water treatment facility utilizing Clean Runner's proprietary treatment process.

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State-of-the-Art Facility

Red Desert is a state-of-the-art process building and training center with a water storage capacity of 500,000 barrels. It serves as both an R&D laboratory for advancing technologies and a working sales platform where produced water is currently being processed.

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Proprietary Technology

Red Desert utilizes the proprietary high-volume and low-cost Clean Runner water treatment process that allows oil and gas producers to save money by reusing and recycling their water for secondary purposes, while also substantially reducing their environmental impact.

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Accessibility

Red Desert has year-round, 24/7 operating capabilities. The facility also provides continuous computerized monitoring and reporting for incoming, in-process, and outgoing water.

Renewable Energy Technology
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Electrical energy is a resource with ever-growing
needs that demands renewable and affordable
generation sources for sustainability. Solar collection and
low-grade biomass materials provide two of the most
cost-effective processes available today for reliable electrical
power generation. Our state-of-the-art technologies and facilities
ensure dependable sources for generating electrical power.

Solar Technology Deployment

Sunlight Partners is a developer of small-scale solar array deployments that deliver energy to public utilities and communities.

Problem

Increasing electrical power generation capacity in the United States using inexpensive, practical and scalable alternative energy options.

Solution

Sunlight Partners continually identifies and develops small scale solar energy projects using non-productive land and underutilized power lines to quickly permit, interconnect and generate electrical power for access by utilities.

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Proven Solar Technology

Sunlight Partners utilizes the most cost effective and proven technologies in all of its solar array installations and alternative energy projects.

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Unique
Distribution Model

Proven solar technology generates power at the distribution end of the electrical grid. This approach minimizes the need for additional transmission lines. Solar energy plants are a maximum of 1 to 5 megawatts and designed to integrate seamlessly into communities.

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Making a Difference

Focused on distributed generation projects which take advantage of existing electric company infrastructure — shortening development time and putting renewable energy to use at lower cost. Sunlight Partners' systems capture solar energy efficiently with cutting edge design to fuel communities, as well as improving the environment.

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Renewable Power Generation

Burgess BioPower is a state-of–the-art 75-megawatt power plant that burns sustainable biomass to generate electricity.

Problem

Efficiently and economically generate electricity from sustainable resources while complying with stringent regulatory and emissions requirements.

Solution

Burgess BioPower was designed to use woody biomass as a sustainable fuel source, and the plant was engineered to comply with all requirements for renewable energy generation content and emissions.

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A New Life

The Burgess BioPower plant is a repurposed former pulp/paper mill with an existing infrastructure and an established fuel supply. The electrical generation process is sustainable because the plant uses biomass exclusively as a perpetually renewable energy source.

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Breath of Fresh Air

The new wood-combustion technology is far more efficient than similar coal facilities. The technology also reduces the plant's emissions resulting in greatly improved air quality by reducing nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and mercury emissions, as well as greenhouse gasses.

PSNH and renewable biomass energy

Committed Purchase Agreement

Public Service of New Hampshire, the State's largest utility, has committed to purchasing 100% of the electricity produced with an approved 20-year power purchase agreement. Burgess BioPower also has secured a 20-year fuel supply agreement, as well as a long-term ash disposal contract.

Recycled Resources Technology
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Reusing resources through recycling is key to promoting and creating a more sustainable world. The unique ability to produce sustainable plastic containers and organic agricultural products relies on our innovative recycling and manufacturing approaches. The resulting cost-effective and high-performance end products utilize raw materials that otherwise would be discarded.

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Plastic Recycling & Manufacturing

Purified Plastics is a manufacturer of recycled plastic flake and preforms for the food and beverage packaging industry.

Problem

Reduce plastics in the waste stream and increase the volume of recycled food grade plastics used for consumer packaging.

Solution

Purified Plastics’ utilizes innovative processes and equipment in order to recycle waste plastic into raw materials and then produce up to 100% recycled plastic FDA approved preforms for the food and beverage industry.

renewable plastics technology for growing demand

Meeting Growing Demand

Growing demand for plastics, coupled with an increased focus on sustainability have led companies to rethink how much recycled content they should be putting into their food-grade containers. Recycled content for containers has two principal advantages – lower cost and higher sustainability. Purified Plastics meets these challenges with state-of-the-art equipment and raw material supplier partnerships.

recycled plastic products

Ready Customers and Suppliers

Purified Plastics has chosen the Eastern U.S. corridor as its initial target market, having formed exclusive supplier agreements with several large consumer products customers in the region and secured a recycled plastic supply source that is critical to its success.

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Efficient Operations

By cutting steps out of the traditional supply chain and manufacturing process, Purified Plastics requires less energy and time with lower costs, while producing a superior, sustainable FDA-approved recycled PET through is own in-house recycling and manufacturing operation.

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Renewable Proteins

Organic Nutrition Industries develops renewable proteins for the agricultural feed industry.

(ONI is at present in research & development and is an example of Cate Street Capital's commitment to providing sustainable solutions for our planets environmental challenges)

Problem

Improve availability, quality and sustainability of food resources for a growing, global population.

Solution

Organic Nutrition develops and produces high protein products for use by the agricultural and aquatic farming industries through a patented process for converting organic food waste into feedstock.

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Seizing a Market Opportunity

Organic Nutrition has developed a scalable process using organic waste to convert insects into valuable feedstock products. This accomplishment overcame historical viability and scalability barriers that have prevented entomologic protein from participating in the global agricultural feed market.

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Comprehensive Process

As a manufacturer of insect-based feedstock products, Organic Nutrition's innovations cover the spectrum of activities associated with the breeding, rearing, and processing of insects into feedstock and other types of products. Discarded organic waste will be recycled into food for the insects, and the non-invasive insect larvae will convert the food into organic proteins and other salable products.

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Strategically Located

Plant facilities are located near feedstock sources and product end users, reducing both transportation distances and distribution carbon footprints.