An Ottawa cleantech company that’s risen from the ashes six years after filing for creditor protection has signed the first customer for its technology that converts trash into energy.
Omni Conversion Technologies – formerly known as Plasco Conversion Technologies – said this week it closed a US$35-million deal to sell one of its waste-conversion units to the Larsen and Lam Climate Initiative, a non-profit foundation led by California philanthropists Chris Larsen and Lyna Lam.
Larsen, a billionaire tech entrepreneur and executive chairman of money-transfer software firm Ripple Labs, is working with a California developer who plans to install Omni’s system at an undisclosed location in the state.