Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels (NWABF), known for its expertise
to produce sustainable jet fuel capacity for the financial marketplace and
lender communities, announced that it has selected Black & Veatch, the
global engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) firm as its EPC of
record for its sustainable aviation fuel project. Black & Veatch is also
being hired to complete the FEL2 and Front-end Engineering and Design Study,
(“FEED”), for the Project, prior to the Construction phase. During the FEED,
B&V will assemble the Technologies to process up to 3,000 dry tons per day
of woody biomass into approximately sixty million, (60,000,000) gallons of
Sustainable Aviation Fuel annually.
“We are excited to move forward with Black & Veatch as
we progress on our sustainable aviation fuel project,” says Dave Smoot, Manager
of Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels. “Black & Veatch is a well-respected
company with great experience for these types of projects, and we look forward
to combining our expertise with theirs on our sustainable aviation fuel
project.”
Black & Veatch will be an integral part of the project,
working as the technology and engineering quarterback to vet and validate all
milestones and benchmarks for productivity, efficiency and scalability in the aviation
biofuel project.
“We are excited to work with Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels
throughout the entire project,” said Gary Martin, Associate Vice President,
Black & Veatch. “As one of the most diversified contractors in the
industry, Black & Veatch offers seamless integration of its project engineering,
design, procurement, and construction teams, Black & Veatch is uniquely
positioned to offer NWABF a thorough and comprehensive project approach on the
sustainable aviation fuel project.”
Project Background
NWABF will be the primary provider of sustainable aviation
fuel to help Delta Air Lines become carbon neutral in the years ahead. The
sustainable aviation fuel Offtake Agreement and partnership with Delta Air
Lines involved the airline investing into NWABF’s Project in 2019 to develop
sustainable aviation fuel, (SAF), as well as making carbon offsets.
For more information on the NWABF aviation biofuel project,
please contact us at Chris Whitworth, Project General Manager Northwest
Advanced Bio-Fuels, LLC at www.nwabiofuels.com
CORSIA, the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for
International Aviation, addresses the increase in total CO2 emissions from
international aviation above 2020 levels.
The corsia timeline outlines the mandate which was adopted at the
39th session of the ICAO Assembly in 2016.
CORSIA’s obligations have already started. As of January 1,
2019, all carriers must report their CO2 emissions on an annual basis.
The aviation industry is committed to technology, operational,
and infrastructure advances to continue to reduce the sector’s carbon
emissions. Offsetting is not intended to replace these efforts. Nor would the
CORSIA make fuel efficiency any less of a day-to-day priority.
It is forecast that CORSIA will mitigate around 2.5 billion
tonnes of CO2 and generate over USD 40 billion in climate finance between 2021
and 2035. Learn more about the CORSIA timeline today.
Contact Northwest Advanced Bio-Fuels, LLC to learn more
about our sustainable, cellulosic, commercial scale, ASTM compliant designer
aviation biofuel in Washington State, using a voluminous supply of woody
biomass from local feedstock suppliers.
Every adult will have to deal with plumbing problems of one sort or another if they live in a home or apartment. Simply place the clamp over the hole and tighten. Due to extremely cold temperatures, existing water in the pipes expands and thus causes leakage
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It’s Time to Get Naked, Get Real & Get Raw with David & Erik! Erik is a failed drugdealer who turned his life around. He’s now a successful entrepreneur, a Petra Coach & President of EO New Orleans. Erik’s burning desire for health & wellness started at a young age. This passion inspired him to start Your Nutrition Delivered. YND grew massively providing 25,000 healthy meals to entrepreneurs around the United States. Erik was named Entrepreneur of the Year in New Orleans in 2015 & led Your Nutrition Delivered to a successful exit in 2016. Be sure to listen to the end to hear Erik’s advice for CEO’s.
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It has been said that some business owners have been known to refer to due diligence as “the entrepreneur’s proctology exam.” While this is a crude analogy, it is a good representation of what it feels like when a stranger pokes, prods, and looks inside every inch of your business.
Most professional acquirers will have a checklist of questions they need to be answered if they’re considering buying your company. They’ll want answers to questions like:
Do you have consistent, signed, up-to-date contracts with your customers and employees?
Are your ideas, products and processes protected by patent or trademark?
What are the loan covenants on your credit agreements?
How are your receivables? Do you have any late payers or deadbeat customers?
Do you have any litigation pending?
In addition to these objective questions, they’ll also try to get a subjective sense of your business. In particular, they will try to determine just how integral you are personally to the success of your business.
Subjectively assessing how dependent the business is on you requires the buyer to do some investigative work. It’s more art than science and often requires a potential buyer to use a number of tricks of the trade, such as:
#1: Juggling calendars
By asking to make a last-minute change to your meeting time, an acquirer gets clues as to how involved you are personally in serving customers. If you can’t accommodate the change request, the acquirer may probe to find out why and try to determine what part of the business is so dependent on you that you have to be there.
#2: Checking to see if your business is vision impaired
An acquirer may ask you to explain your vision for the business, which is a question you should be well prepared to answer. However, he or she may ask the same question of your employees and key managers. If your staff members offer inconsistent answers, the acquirer may take it as a sign that the future of the business is in your head.
#3: Asking your customers why they do business with you
A potential acquirer may ask to talk to some of your customers. They will expect you to select your most passionate and loyal customers and, therefore, will expect to hear good things. However, the customers may be asked a question like ‘Why do you do business with these guys?’ The acquirer is trying to figure out where your customers’ loyalties lie. If your customers answer by describing the benefits of your product, service or company in general, that’s good. If they respond by explaining how much they like you personally, that’s bad.
#4: Mystery shopping
Acquirers often conduct their first bit of research behind your back before you even know they are interested in buying your business. They may pose as a customer, visit your website, or come into your company to understand what it feels like to be one of your customers. Make sure the experience your company offers a stranger is tight and consistent, and try to avoid personally being involved in finding or serving brand-new customers. If any potential acquirers see you personally as the key to wooing new customers, they’ll be concerned business will dry up when you leave.
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Marketing Your Painting Business in the COVID-19 Environment
The recent COVID-19 outbreak has caused major transformations in businesses and industries around the world. The need to adapt to the changing times has affected virtually every sector of the global economy. In the case of commercial and residential painting contractors, the current environment offers many new and unforeseen opportunities to enhance company growth, brand recognition, and profits despite the hurdles faced in dealing with a slower economy, social distancing, the need to wear protective masks, and other issues. The following information is designed to help commercial and residential painting contractors market their businesses, preserve or improve their profit margins, and represent their companies as safe, reliable options for businesses, organizations, and private individuals to hire in the current COVID-19 environment.
Build strong brand awareness of your company among consumers
Develop a brand that leaves an indelible impression in the minds of potential customers. In doing so, make certain that your brand clearly reflects your personal values and shows consumers your company’s most winning attributes, such as a strong emphasis on following health and safety regulations in the current global environment. Creating a clearly defined character for your business through well-thought-out brand development will allow your clients to connect and engage with you and your staff and gain a sense of loyalty to your brand. The more consumers become conscious of your brand, the better they will understand your pricing structure, the quality of your work, your emphasis on health and safety, and the personal values that provide the foundation of your operation. In the process, they’ll feel more attracted to your brand and become eager to do business with you.
The level of loyalty shown by customers grows with a brand’s increasing age. So, if your company is relatively new to the market, you’ll need to persuade consumers that your business has much more to offer than your competitors in terms of quality of service, reliability, competitive pricing, and other factors that relate to your specific market demographic. And even if your business has been around for a while, your company will reap abundant rewards if you work to build up consumer recognition of your existing brand.
Instead of just being a logo, a color scheme, or a cover photo on Facebook, a brand represents the way you make your clients feel about your business, and it is developed by using a uniform approach in all the contacts customers make with your company. That being said, you do also need to make sure that you have a consistent and eye-catching logo, a pleasing color scheme, an engaging bio, a standard text or boilerplate, and an easily recognized company name. Some businesses like to alter their logo’s style slightly to suit the characteristics of different networks, depending on the size of the given photo space and the concerns of the specific audiences they’re trying to reach. Whatever you choose to do in this respect, the most important element is to ensure that all of your company’s profiles have a common theme that consumers can always identify as relating specifically to your brand.
The process of building your own brand involves the following basic steps: Carefully study your target audience and competition. Determine your brand’s main focus and personality or character. Select a name for your business that’s easy to recognize and remember. Create a catchy and upbeat company slogan. Decide on your brand’s appearance (colors and font). Design your brand logo so as to be both memorable and attractive. Apply your branding throughout all the phases of your business.
Produce a well-written and highly informative blog
Another one of the most effective methods for building brand identity is maintaining a blog, which provides a focal point for you to give consumers advice, tools, and information related to your field and business. Keeping a blog also has the advantage of increasing your rank on search engines. A well-written and informative business blog can enhance your image as a trustworthy brand and also provide an effective approach that employs content marketing to expand your brand’s online presence.
Produce instructional videos to post on your website and on social media
As the acceptance and use of online video grow worldwide, companies need to create a well-defined strategy for conducting video marketing, especially in the realm of social media. Generating your own attention-grabbing, high-quality video content is the ideal means to stay relevant in the increasingly competitive paint-contracting market. The recent upsurge in new video platforms and formats like IGTV, Vimeo, and TikTok offers vast untapped opportunities for building your brand. In your videos, you can introduce viewers to cutting-edge services that you offer, such as the installation of top-quality whiteboard coated walls in all types of settings.
Contribute to internet forums to engage with current and potential customers
Join forums and tell your company’s story – who founded it, where and how it began, your plans for future growth, and so on. Discuss your company’s values and policies both in the forums and on the ‘About Us’ page of your company website. By implementing this strategy, you can help to present yourself and your business as an efficient and highly conscientious agency through which customers can get their painting work done safely and professionally during the challenging COVID-19 period.
Other ways to improve your marketing strategy
Painting contractors face intense competition in promoting their businesses these days when online marketing is no longer just an option but a vital necessity, and simply having a company website is not enough. It’s now necessary for businesses to have a broad social media presence, create persuasive ad campaigns, and have an effective long-term online advertising scheme. Moreover, in the Covid-19 context, you’ll have to adjust your normal approach to online marketing. Since the pandemic began, online platforms have seen a sharp increase in traffic and sales. You can take advantage of this trend by doing the following. 1. Expand and enhance your existing high-performing ads. 2. Find new sales leads and expand your present email marketing list. 3. Generate new ads for your business and enlarge the size of your target audience. 4. Publish strongly positive customer reviews about your brand.
Conduct an in-depth analysis of your competition
To survive as a company, the quality and service provided by your painting business need to be superior to that of your competitors. Take advantage of the Covid-19 situation to check out what your competitors are doing to adjust to the changing times. All you need to do is search online for painting companies in your area. Then carefully examine their websites to determine what they’re doing that differs from your approach, and feel free to improve and expand on their methods in terms of pricing, services, products, and marketing strategies such as branding.
Choose a niche market and become a specialist in that area
To set yourself apart from the rest of the pack, you need to become the best and most unique brand among the many painting companies operating in your area. And one way to do so is to become a specialist. The various types of painting jobs generally available include interiors, exteriors, private buildings, office buildings, and others. After studying the varieties of work that your competitors are doing, you can choose a specific painting niche among the many categories available. You may specialize, for instance, in installing dry erase coatings in both commercial and residential structures. There may be as few as 1,000 local jobs open in this specialized corner of the market. However, there are probably no more than a couple of contractors offering such a painting service in your area. So, the odds of your being hired are good, especially during the current COVID-19 era, when many people are working and teaching at home, and high-quality Whiteboard Walls in private residences are growing rapidly in use and popularity.
