Caterpillar Teams Up with CleanAIR to Fight Emissions

The Santa Fe New Mexican - June 19, 2008

Caterpillar Inc., a major manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, clean diesel and natural gas engines and gas turbines, has chosen CleanAIR Systems Inc. of Santa Fe as the Caterpillar strategic alliance partner for emissions-control products.

CleanAIR's reduction technology will be installed on existing Caterpillar commercial engine applications to reduce diesel particulate matter, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and NOx, positioning CleanAIR Systems as the preferred vendor of choice for custom-designed retrofit products, a statement from Caterpillar said.

The alliance encompasses CleanAIR's proprietary technology, custom engineering capability and the company's use of integrated manufacturing in producing diesel particulate filters, diesel oxidation catalysts, three-way catalysts and selective catalytic reduction catalysts, the statement said.

Established in 1993, CleanAIR Systems designs and manufactures complete emissions control systems, including the PERMIT Filter, verified by the California Air Resources Board for Level 3 reduction (greater than 85 percent) of exhaust particulate from prime power and emergency generators, the statement said.

"The deal with Caterpillar has been a long time coming," said Louise Roach, marketing manager of CleanAIR Systems. "We're excited and really working hard right now."

Until no, "Caterpillar has had no one servicing the retrofit market," she said. "They thought about that end of the business themselves but then decided they didn't want to do it."

After a nationwide search, Caterpillar chose CleanAIR Systems from a group of five as the company for the job, Roach said. CleanAIR Systems, which has about 30 employees, will soon move to a newly renovated 30,000 square-foot facility in Santa Fe.