New Oil Skimmer Material Removes Floating Oil in Gulf Oil Spill

CLEVELAND, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Abanaki Corporation said today that its patent-pending Fuzzy2™ material is proving highly effective at removing floating oil from the waters off the coast of Louisiana as part of the Gulf oil spill clean-up. The new material is being used on a disk oil skimmer made by CRUCIAL Inc. and has triple the oil removal capacity of standard disk skimmer material.

According to Abanaki president Tom Hobson, oil skimmers using the Fuzzy2 material are ideal for the core clean-up task in the Gulf, removing floating oil from water.  Some other clean-up activities, however, are leading to the creation of tar balls, a far different and more difficult clean-up task.  The skimmers being deployed in the Gulf cannot be used for picking up the tar balls that are being produced as a by-product of some of the industry's clean-up efforts.

Clean-up activities that create tar balls "may in fact be making the disaster worse," Hobson said.

Unlike other oil skimmer disk materials, Fuzzy2 has a hairy surface that greatly increases its surface area, making it highly efficient at removing oil from the water's surface.

The Deepwater Horizon oil well is gushing thousands of barrels of oil each day into the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion that killed 11 workers April 21.

For more information and to see a video demonstration, visit http://www.abanaki.com/121.

About Abanaki Corporation: Abanaki, the world leader in oil skimmer products, manufactures a wide range of products to remove oils, greases, solvents, and related hydrocarbons from water. Belt and Tube skimmer models are available with removal rates ranging from 1 to 200 gallons per hour in both stationary and portable systems. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, Abanaki has served a global customer base in industries as diverse as iron and steel, wastewater, paper, food processing, automotive, environmental remediation and recycling for more than 40 years. Today, under the corporate motto "Clean Our World™," Abanaki continues to address pollution in industry through innovation, customer commitment, and environmental stewardship within its own operations.

For more information about Abanaki products, call your sales representative at (440) 543-7400 or (800) 358-SKIM (7546), or e-mail: [email protected]. See the full-line of Abanaki products and services online and watch the new product videos at www.abanaki.com.

Contact:

Karen Smidansky

Abanaki Corporation

(800) 358-SKIM (7546)

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Mark Johnson

Goldstein Group Communications

(440) 914-4700

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SOURCE Abanaki Corporation