Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2

CARBER was established in 1995 and was based in Canada. Since then, CARBER has grown exponentially. The original services included the CARBER Weld Test and CARBER Isolation services tools which allowed customers to benefit from the technology by saving time, increasing safety and reducing costs associated with traditional methods of testing a weld or isolating a line for hot work. The company as a whole has revenue of approximately 55 million dollars a year and growing.*The nature of this applied research and product development project with Lambton College to provide process based industry including Oil and Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Biochemical and Water and Wastewater with a safer piping maintenance technology for monitoring through an Isolation Tool with remote monitoring capabilities using wireless technology. *The use of the developed system will result in a safer place for works performing hot work on contaminated piping, less damage to isolation tools and faster service to minimize down time for customer requiring new welds or isolation lines for hot work. *To meet customer's needs, several isolation monitoring units will be developed in this project. Each unit will have unique embedded features to enable safe and reliable isolation work. The central distributed monitoring facility will be designed and developed. A large scale test platform will be selected and the developed technologies will be tested in real industrial conditions. CARBER and Lambton College research team will select, design and install the data monitoring instruments and validate the integrity of collected data under various operating conditions.*CARBER believes this project would be instrumental in raising the company revenue streams by at least 3 to 5% immediately and possibly as high as 10% ($5M) over five years and create 10 new employment opportunity for each maintenance work.*