Ati 2012 Presentation

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ATI Facts

1. Clients in Ontario 225 = 2200 acres 2. In business for 18 years 3. Bags of Growth Media recycled = 12,000,000 4. 40 yard Vine containers recycled = 10,000 5. Cubic yards diverted from the landfill = 800,000 cubic yards 6. Savings to Tax payers = Approximately $4,000,000 7. Increased life of the landfill = 1.5 year plus 8. Only total service company to the greenhouse industry (North America) 9. Invented Greenhouse Recycling services in Kingsville, Ontario 10. Multiple patent pending 11. Internationally Awards from Recycle Council of Ontario & Kingdom of The Netherlands plus Recognition from the Minister of Environment.

13. Family owned and operated business

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ATI Services Grouped Greenhouse Services: 1. Tomato Vine Removal 2. Pepper Vine Removal 3. Cucumber Vine Removal 4. Covering Plastic Removal 5. Ground Plastic Removal 6. Rockwool Removal 7. Vine Recycling 8. Rockwool Recycling 9. Plastic Recycling 10. Clipping Pick-up 11. Trucking 12. Belt rental 3

2007 ATI Removal Management Greenhouse Grower 1.

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ATI Agriculture Technology Inc.

Grower calls ATI to manage removal ATI sales rep. and meet grower for removal plan I. Start date II. Entrance to utilize III. Were to place disposal (40 yard) bins IV. If belting is required ATI equipment manager organizes I. Grinder or bailer II. Tip bins or grapple bucket III. Forklifts or Bobcat.

ATI office organizes I. Orders an amount of 40 yd bins to location II. Confirms total bins with trucking ATI site manager I. Removes product (vines, rockwool, plastic) II. Loads 40 yard bins III. Calls trucking for pickup Trucking I. Takes Contents to ATI recycling company II. Dumps behind greenhouse ATI sales rep.

I. Inspects work for service compliance II. Bills grower for service work, trucking, tipping

Office Management ATI Sales rep.

ATI Equipment rep.

ATI Office

ATI Site Manager

Trucking

ATI Sales rep.

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ATI Facilities 5

B U I L D N G

ATI Greenhouse Recycling And Service Facility Equipment Storage 60wx100L

Cement Pad

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Filed 28 Acres Plastic Mater Roles Loading Dock Machining Shop 40wx40L

B U I L D I N G 1

Cooler 40wx40L

Wood Shop Small Equipment 40wx30L

Fuel Storage

Assembly Shop 40wx50L

Apartment 35wx50L

Building 2

Yard

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Office 40wx30L Lane

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House 2 car garage

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New 50,000 sq ft building For storage of fuels

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ATI Inventory Requires additional indoor storage and processing space 9

Your can see in thee images that currently ATI needs to store incoming product and Finished cleaned bulk product in the current Building. There is simply not enough room.

The additional building decrease the triple Handling and contamination of product From being outdoors.

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Here we can see that some plastic stored indoors and finished product is stored outdoors There is simply not enough room due to the ever expanding greenhouse industry.

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ATI Agri By-Product Redistrubution Expansion 2013

AR3C Partnership

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The new building space will allow for current Product being stored outdoors to be stored Indoors. In addition to need finished product Manufacturing space. The build will be Lange enough to meet the needs of the Greenhouse industry for years to come

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Images focused at The ATI Facility From Ruthven to Cottam

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Driving From Cottam to Ruthven 19

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Driving Into ATI’s Facility

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Neighbors to the left of ATI, view of ATI

Neighbors to the right of 23 ATI, View of ATI

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ATI Services 25

ATI removes the spent vines (1999 to 2001 equipment)

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In 2000 ATI developed another method for vine removal. This process can adapt to any crop for removal. ATI supplies belting to be pulled out down the rows, the crop would then be placed on the belt. The belting has a pipe attached placed in the walkway.

The pipe is placed in the unit. The unit then pulls in the belt (to be used again for another row).

The product falls into the center of the unit and is formed into a bail.

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The bail is very tight and can weigh from 1,000 to 2,000 pounds. The baling system is the fastest removal system in use.

Another attribute is the product on the belt often has metal hooks that will be harmful to chopping units, but for the bailer this is no problem. The bails are then moved via fork lift to a 40 yard bin for disposal.

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ATI built a grinder in 2002 to service a growing demand. This grinder is used in tomato, cucumber and pepper crops. In the greenhouse, grinding is a system that densifies the product but demands more labor and time to perform the job. The cost for this service is slightly higher than bailing service. When there are metal hooks to 29 in support the crops, (these hooks cause damage to the knives) we have a bailer come and do the work

ATI’s plastic bailing unit is used In bailing watering hoses and ground cover. The ground cover is folded in from each row of posts to the center to be pulled in. This is good for the grower because he does not need to sweep the ground of contaminants.

It is folded in the plastic and bailed If there is little contaminants the plastic is Recycled.

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In 2003 ATI entered into the plastic covering service for their customer base. This service is seasonal from July to September. This allowed ATI to utilize some of their current equipment. ATI is working with two companies to install their plastic being sold to the industry. This partnership allows for a full service from sale to to waste plastic disposal. For ATI and the sales companies this partnership provides a competitive edge with a total solution.

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ATI’s equipment is moved using a roll off truck.

The truck uses a flat bed for moving grinders, bailers and skid steers. ATI also has other trailers and pickups for delivery. ATI also has 20 & 40 yard bins that are used to move rockwool or vines. In the off season ATI provides clipping services to greenhouse customers who place cull leaves and fruit in the bin. ATI charges a flat rate per bin.

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The ATI rockwool removal system is used in the greenhouse. Rockwool is placed on belting that is placed between the rows. The rockwool is pulled into the center of the unit and is then expelled to the rear, into a bin on a forklift. The rockwool is then dumped into a 40 yard bin and trucked and tipped.

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A view of the inside Of ATI’s recycling Facility.

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You can see in the piles that the ATI recycling system is very efficient. It is just as effective for rockwool as co-co bag recycling. The plastic is bailed into 2 x 2 x 4 lengths. The bails are sent for reuse. Historically the rockwool and or the co-co was spread on the land for soil enhancement. Separation of rockwool and co-co is sent from the greenhouse location to ATI’s recycling Facility for storage, then sent as needed Sent to other composting companies through out the year as required.

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ATI Rockwool/CO-CO Recycling Unit The new rockwool recycling system far exceeds the old method. Not in the technology, but the fact that ATI can now recycle in the greenhouse. This is not only an asset to the grower but also ATI. The grower will have less trucking expenses and the biggest benefit as compared to land filling. This process will save the grower 20 to 30 % of their costs.

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How does the largest concentration of Greenhouses recycle their Rockwool ?

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Holland Rockwool Recycling Station •All product is stored out doors •All product has a cement base to work from

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This is an operation in Europe. The product stored over 2 years as it composts. The Process is to grind with high speed grinders, compost, trammel, compost, trammel, Compost and trammel one last time. This process takes up to two years and beyond. Not nearly as cost effective as ATI recycling system and ATI system is indoors.

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Trammeled plastic piles. ATI bails their Plastic as it is recycled. When ATI has 120 bails it is then shipped to a end user 42

European recyclers have a clean Products, as clean as ATI’s in fact, But the European's need large areas To compost and the handling Is 5 x’ s compared to ATI’s. This is Why their cost for recycling is 3 x’ s The cost compared to ATI’s.

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Vine and Growth Medium Piles In The Community 44

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ATI Helping Cleaning Up The Community 49

These are tomato bails that were stored at a green house on 77 hwy And ATI came in and processed the 1200 bails in 2 weeks Note that there was a good gravel base to work from.

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A Location in Kingsville was rezoned to a wood yard out door storage of 1,000,000 bags of co-co onsite. The bags of co-co were not allowed on site after the rezoning, they had no way to recycle the bags. ATI shipped the product to their facility cleaning the location..

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ATI working at their facility, recycling the stock piles from the wood yard.

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Without a additional building space ATI is limited to recycling their products and storing The current space available limits the efficiency of ATI and the capacity in which they can service their customers. The recycled product can not be stored on gravel it will become contaminated and not salable. Additional building space is needed.

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Sold Rockwool and Co-co being loaded

Sold Plastic being loaded

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ATI vine collection are were the liquid from the organcs is captured and sold to Local framers as a liquid fertilizer.

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Wind rows of vines. ATI once a year vines Are tommeled once more. Cleaned vines are delivered to farmers as a soils enhancer, any sorted contaminants is land filled.

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ATI’s new bagging system, speeding up the process by 120 days The bags are equipped with a fan to push air at pre-set times throughout the bag for the duration of the composting process (8 weeks).

The PODS are 5' x 200' and 10' x 200'. The PODs can be cut and sealed at shorter lengths meeting any site size or volume restriction. The Ag-Bag system is a cost effective, environmentally benign technology to rapidly process organic material of any kind. It is a flexible and portable composting system with a proven track record.

Why Compost •Diversion of organics from landfills •Reduced cost of waste collection and disposal •Reduced greenhouse gas production at landfills/feedlots •Composting reduces pathogenic organisms, harmful insects, and weed seeds •being released into the environment •Decreases the need for commercial fertilizers •Compost enriches the soil

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Reference Charts 58

Working Seasons 50

Tomato Vine Removal

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Pepper Vine Removal Cucumber Vine Removal

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Covering Plastic Removal

Percent of Work

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Ground Plastic Removal

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Rockwool Removal Tomato Vine Recycling

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Pepper Vine Recycling 20

Cucumber Vine Recycling Rockwool Recycling

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New 2006 Clippings

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Alternative Fuels Demand 100 Natural Gas

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Bio-Fuels

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Coal

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Natural Gas Decline

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Alternative Fuels Increase

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Greenhouse Organic By-Products Life Cycle in Essex County Organic Waste

1,600

From ATI’s beginning providing an option for recycling The greenhouse industry and ATI have eliminated Land filling.

Burning at Greenhouses Stored at Greenhouses

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Landfilled 1,200

ATI Recycling

Total Income

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Acres of Greenhouses

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