I have been working in the manufacturing and industrial field since completing my bachelor degree in industrial engineering in Israel, and since 2007 in Arizona, USA.
I witnessed the sustainability trends from the early stages of working in manufacturing. I was fortunate to start my career as an engineer in a new $100M plant installation to extract phosphates from phosphate rocks in the southern desert of Israel (Negev). The plant design and installation were executed by an American company which used innovative ideas to build it according to sustainable principles and for environmental protection. The company invested immense resources on special equipment and processes to achieve its eco-efficiency goals, such as water recycling and treatment, dust collectors, energy consumption and transportation.
My green education matured along with my work experience in the manufacturing of concrete products. Old techniques for extraction of raw materials from quarries and mines, water treatment, and the reuse of waste material have been innovatively updated since the 70’s. In the present, we no longer see piles of waste material, but instead we see piles of aggregates available for reuse in different projects. With the development of equipment such as filter presses, flocculants and hydro cyclones, the reuse of water has increased company profits and contributed to furtherance of the sustainable environment. Technical developments such as dust collectors, new filter materials for cement, and aggregate storage have established a new high standard to prevent pollution and air contamination.
Sustainability is now part of our life, part of our social and economic behavior.
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