Catavent WindMill, a revolutionnary alternative energy sources : history

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PROFILE OF SAMBRABEC INC.

Sambrabec inc., a wholly Canadian owned company, has been working in the field of windmill technology since 1985 with total investments of over $1,500,000. The company has been working for four years on the development of a unique windmill technology, which has been patented in Canada, U.S.A. and various countries, and is currently being commercialized in national markets (fish and game clubs, telecommunications, agriculture) and in international markets (Brazil, Haiti, Tunisia, Moroco).

The company was founded in 1984. It has successfully worked on Brazilian and Caribbean markets. Sambrabec inc. acquired the invention of a revolutionary turbine, working with all fluids (water, steam, gas and wind), and has developed a wind application which has major competitive advantages and which opens access to clean, economical and individual energy solutions. Collaboration with universities and state agencies (Canadian National Research Centre) helped to finalize a marketable product. Units have been successfully working for more than eight continuous years.

The SAMBRABEC turbine has the following basic characteristics:

a superior capacity for recuperating the wind's kinetic energy: the SAMBRABEC turbine recuperates a minimum of more than 50% of the energy of the wind;

an ability to perform in quasi unlimited wind speed ranges. The SAMBRABEC turbine is not perturbated by high intensity winds. The SAMBRABEC turbine, by its own concept and design, is self-regulating;

the SAMBRABEC turbine can start with very low winds (as low as 5 to 8 kmh) and is particularly efficient with low speed winds, in terms of energy recuperation, giving it the advantage of being able to perform nearly all the time (minimum of five days out of seven);

the SAMBRABEC turbine is completely silent and does not generate vibrations.

the SAMBRABEC turbine does not call for any specific complex installation. It can eventually be integrated in a building structure.

the SAMBRABEC turbine represents a simple, economic technology of easy maintenance.

The SAMBRABEC turbine has been honoured by the Excellency Prize of TRANSTECH INTERNATIONAL, in a Montreal international event in 1987 amongst technologies coming from 22 different countries, and recently was granted the Excellency Grand Prize for environmental technology, by the Quebec Environmental Foundation and the well known engineer group SNC-Lavalin.

In 1992, Sambrabec inc. concluded in Brazil a Joint-Venture with Brazilian partners, under the name of Braseólica Ltda. Sambrabec completed a transfer of technology and sales began since 1993.

In 1994, Sambrabec inc. undertake the development of a 150 kW unit for the realisation of a 1 MW wind farm that will be installed in Gaspesie. The electricity produced will be sold to Hydro-Québec.

In 1996, Sambrabec inc. establish distribution contracts in Morrocco, in Haïti and in 1997, in Senegal.