Sectors: Solios is a major air pollution control company established in Montréal since 1982 and serving the heavy industries in Canada, USA and Latin America. The company's expertise is mostly in the design and construction of acid gas scrubbing systems and hot gas particulate control for the following industries: cement plants; industrial boilers; brick industry; primary aluminum smelters; Secondary aluminum furnaces; steel mills. Solios Systems: All-dry, semi-dry and wet scrubbing systems; desulphurization with enhanced all-dry scrubbing system; dry scrubbing for potline gas, anode baking furnace and pitch fume emissions from carbon plants (world leader); evaporative spray coolers; filters with dry sorbent injection; fume filtration with TGT low pressure pulse filter; pulse jet filter (TGT, Sonair); reverse air filter for kiln gas. Company Description: Solios is a subsidiary of the French Fives-Lille Group. As such it has both the technical and financial capabilities of a large international industrial group. With the size and scope of its many contracts, Solios project management group is a highly organized unit with demonstrated performance in bringing projects to completion within the contract schedule and target budget. The company is innovative and has for example worked with the National Research Council Canada (NRCC) over the years and continues to investigate interaction of gas and spray in open spray towers and developed a novel hollow cone atomizer for this application. The company has developed specific equipment and processes applied to aluminum fume treatment and the scrubbing of acid gas such as all-dry, enhanced all-dry, semi-dry or zero water discharge. In the last twelve years, Solios has supplied systems cleaning over 30 million CFM of polluted gas. Projects size range from simple equipment supply to turnkey projects with value up to $30 million. Solios most recent projects include: 2,000,000 ACFM potline gas scrubbing systems for Alouette and Lauralco Aluminum Smelters in Québec. All-dry scrubbing system for the new aluminum can recycling plant of Alcan in Oswego, New York. All-dry scrubbing systems for the Québec (1,000 TPD), Peel Region-Ontario (400 TPD), Fayetteville North Carolina (600 TPD) and Prince Edward Island (100 TPD). Waste to Energy plants; fabric filter and cooling system on EAF for Hylsa Puebla steel mill in Mexico; fabric filter for a cement kiln for Lafarge in Joppa, Illinois and Paviding, Ohio; fabric filters for cement kilns at Cementos Apasco-Orizaba in Mexico and at Cementos Boyaca in Colombia. Keywords: Engineering equipment firm, design & develop systems in air pollution control, industrial kilns & combustion