Costs Sanexen does not sell equipment, but rather seeks local partners to operate the process under license or in a joint venture. In Canada, this service is billed on the basis of a price per tonne for contaminated transformers. Prices vary according to the volume and the initial degree of contamination. The Decontaksolv technology was developed in Canada by Sanexen Environmental Services Inc., with the participation of Environment Canada's Saint-Laurent Centre and the Quebec Environment Ministry. The process has been in use for thirteen years and two units have been built.
Units are modular and transportable.
Decontamination work was carried out during the first ten years, by bringing the decontamination equipment to the sites where PCB inventories were located. Up to now, more than 9,000 metric tonnes of material have been decontaminated. In Canada, use of the process requires a certificate of authorization from the provincial Environment Department for either a mobile unit at the client's site or a fixed treatment centre. These technological fact sheets are based on the information provided by the same organizations that have conceived and perfected the technologies. The dissemination of this information should by no means be perceived as an Enviro-Access guarantee.