Cardinal Resources is sharing its sustainable water technology with the world, with the most recent opening of an office in Dakar, Senegal. Nigeria is next.
"We have things going on everywhere," says Kevin Jones, who was in the South Side office this week, between trips to Nigeria and Brazil. "Since the beginning of this year, I've hardly been around. The opening of the Dakar office is a key part of our plans for making a long lasting, positive impact in providing clean water while expanding our export market."
Cardinal Resources was recently named a U.S. Dept. of Commerce Exporter of the Year in the Environmental category by ThinkGlobal Inc., publisher of Commercial News USA, the official export promotion magazine of the U.S. Dept. of Commerce that goes out to more than 250,000 readers worldwide.
The company, which employs 16, has projected more than $25 million in revenue in the coming year. Jones attributes the growth to their successful environment and sustainable approach to water treatment throughout the emerging and developing world.
The West Africa office is focused on the growing sales of the patented Red Bird System, a solar-powered community-sized clean drinking water system that can produce about 10 to 20 gallons of clean water per minute, enough to serve a 1,000- to 2,000-person community. Cardinal Resources hired a team of two local engineers to run the office.
Its Grey Bird system, another approach employed by Cardinal Resources, biologically treats wastewater using a greenhouse-like aqua-garden setting that treats the water while capturing greenhouse gases, which can offset other sources of greenhouse gases.
"It's (the technology) at the takeoff point," he says. "People (in developing countries) are definitely ready for it and seeing the value of a distributed approach to water and wastewater. It's a model that's there. We've seen a real shift in acceptance in the last year."
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Deb SmitSource: Kevin Jones, Cardinal Resources