NTIC-Northern Technologies International Corporation

Northern Technologies International Corporation is in the business of converting unique environmentally beneficial material science into value added products and services for industrial and consumer applications.



NTIC was founded in 1970 in Linolakes,Minnesota. It was started as an oil analyzer instrument business. Later on it expanded to corrosion inhibiting products and corrosion control management services.NTIC is certified to both ISO 9001:Quality Management andISO 14001:Environmental Management Standards. It recently started biodegradable plastics and renewable resource engineering plastics as an extension.

These are the various plants initiated by the National Technologies International Corporation.

Corrosion Management Solutions
Zerust Excor is the greatest firm in the world regarding the corrosion prevention products and the corrosion management services. www.zerust.com


Turning Waste Plastics into Renewable Energy
Polymer Energy is the plant which gives highly efficient and economical process to convert waste plastic into energy. It also won many awards and pocess ISO certifications.www.polymerenergy.com


Biobased and Biodegradable Products

Nature-Tec is the proprietary bio-based and biodegradable plastics and products tailored for single-use disposable consumer and industrial packaging, and durable industrial engineering plastics applications.www.natur-tec.com

Innovative Solutions for Oil, Gas, and Process Chemical Industries
This is a part of the Zerust Excor company which deals with the corrosion and control services and the products.
www.zerust-oilgas.com

Companies like NTIC are best examples of the grreen companies and firms that support the eco friendly concepts and green technologies to prevent our planet from unsustainable state and help to reduce the destruction of the our nature and the wonderful environment which is at the verge of destruction and dilapilation due to the various human activities and the technological advancements.

Apple's new green battery system

Apple is trying to bring out a new system of battery for the future products which will enable the batteries serviceable by the user itself.Apple has given applications for three patents for the construction of the new battery system which is greener than ever.


One of the patents include the structure of the so called 'host machine' which contains the battery charging slots for the entire system.The second application describes how to communicate with other devices by the host machine so that the host machine can monitor the battery conditions and the charge levels using wireless communication.The last one describes about the 'intelligent universal rechargeable batteries'.The batteries comes with pop off end caps so that when the chemicals inside it reaches a level that it can't be recharged in an efficient way, it can be swapped out of it and replace by fresh chemicals.


The new host machine is capable of charging all types of apple batteries whether it is for mobile phone ,mp3 players ipods,Macbooks,desktops,mouse,keyboards,PDAs or any other mobile devices.The new technology describes a magnetic field produced by either the host machineor the mobile device can flip an internal switch within a battery so that the battery provides power only to a matching device.



Apple thinks about the inductive charging which avoids the metal to metal contact over charging.It also provides new secondary power sources to take over the control when the battery is used up or removed from the device.

Gadgets go green at CES

The world recognize the importance of the greenery of our planet and the dangers coming for avoiding that.The best example is that the international Consumer Electronics Show, the world's largest trade show for consumer electronics, starting Monday in Las Vegas, dedicating 3,000 square feet of floor space and companiestouting the energy-saving, earth-friendly attributes of their gadgets.

There will be numerous amount of green gadgets and products which comes to this show which can range from "eco-buttons" that reduce your computer's power consumption, e-lanterns that produce an hour's worth of light if you crank them for a minute, luminous TV screens that use far less energy than standard TVs and even mercury-free batteries that are 94 percent recyclable.


One of the 2,700 exhibitors at the International Consumer Electronics Show will be Japan's Fujitsu Ltd., which will show off a laptop with a plastic case made from corn rather than petroleum products. The company has sold such a model in Japan since 2006, but is now considering taking it to the North American market

Another important company which comes into role here is Z-Power, which has developed a battery technology that it hopes will replace the lithium-ion batteries that power today's laptops and cell phones. Its silver-zinc batteries will show up in laptops from a ''major'' manufacturer in the summer, according to the Camarillo, Calif., company's chief executive, Ross Dueber.

Green peace's assessment of about 50 electronics products found Lenovo Group Ltd's L2440x wide computer monitor, Sharp Corp's LC-52GX5TV, Samsung Electronics Co Ltd 's F268 mobile phone, Nokia's 6210 smartphone and Toshiba Machine Co Ltd's Portege R600 laptop were the greenest in their categories.


Samsung Electronics introduced a flat- screen TV that uses 40 percent less energy because it uses light-emitting diode technology rather than the traditional cathode lamps. LG Electronics Inc devoted part of its CES display to showcasing green products, including a Bluetooth solar car kit and recyclable packaging materials.Toshiba showcased an ion battery designed for bicycle maker Schwinn's electronic bike, which gives up to 30 miles on a single charge.

This year, manufacturers are also touting the energy efficiency of their products to draw consumers who are spending fewer dollars on discretionary products due to the recession.Anyway the gadgets are going to be more greener this year.Even the show itself is changed to green the show this year as changes include working with CarbonFund.org to offset the emissions created by the show, including exhibition space, shuttle buses and 600,000 hotel rooms. 75% of the food containers and utensils used at the Las Vegas Convention Center will be fully biodegradable, attendee literature will be printed on recycled paper, and the number of recycling containers on the floor will be increased.

Ausus EcoBook-The new green trend

Wow.....is it the exclamation you give when you first see this??? Ya this is the new notebook of Ausus called Ausus Ecobook.The main feature of this notebook is as the name suggest it is an eco friendly one.It use mainly bamboo finishing as you can see in the picture.Bamboo can be replenished frequently as it is grown extensively.It helps to reduce the wastage and additional use and pressure on the non-renewable and hazardous hardwares...plastics chosen to manufacture the EcoBook come from recyclable raw materials.Paper is also being used to build the computer enclosure from a form of stiffened card sa shown below.



An LED indicator below the screen changes its light between green and
red to show when you are in a low or high energy consumption setting -
inert peer pressure.Ya this feature is really a green concept which helps to reduce the power consumptions there by reducing the non renewable consumption a little.LEDs themselves are mounted directly behind the product surface to save
waste and there are no paints, sprays or even electroplating used on
its components. Instead the EcoBook exposes the raw materials, keeping
the manufacturing process free of any solvents and hazardous materials.
They claim that Ecobook is 50% recyclable and hence highly eco-friendly.





In the words of the Ausus.....'Evolving from the use of polycarbonate,
aluminum-magnesium alloy, carbon fiber and leather in earlier notebook
models, each material bringing its own unique combination of physical
and aesthetic properties that enhance the look, feel and durability of
ASUS notebooks, the EcoBook is a concept notebook that is the world’s
first to use bamboo paneling. '.........

Green Cycler

We all know this is a situation of global crisis for food as most of the asian and african countries are consuming lions share of the food produced.At this stage of inflation and price hiking there is a high need of avoid the food wastage.The food wastage i9s one of the most unacceptable move in this situation.


Here I would like to introduce an interesting gadget called GREEN CYCLER.It is a gadget used to recycle the wasted or abandonrd food.It can helps to create fertilizers from the waste food to help the growth of some other vegetable plants.Yes it is a concept of recycling food to produce more food.there won't be any odour .Don't worry about that,because air and the soil will absorb it.

Amazing isn't it?Why can't we do our part in reducing food crisis which is becoming a global issue which needs solution. If each one of us think in this way there won't be any food shortage problem to sort out.This is a device or product which uses the concept of food recycling mechanism.All the recycling methods used are of green importance to us.It can actually make the concept of reuse.

Tesla Roadster

You will be heard about the 'Tesla Roadster' the electric car.I have posted about it before also.Now I would like to give a little more details to it.Some of the important features of the car as given by the Tesla motors are as follows

• 100% electric
• 0 to 60 mph in 3.9s
• 13000 rpm redline
• 256 mpg equivalent
• 220 miles per charge
• less than 2c per mile

You people will be surprised to see the advanced design and superior look of Roadster which has the capacity to challenge Ferrari even.Though it looks similar to the conventional gasoline fueled cars it has many advantages of being an electric car.

The Roadster is not bad in the power as well as acceleration.It can even be used as the sports car.The long battery life of 220 miles without chargging makes it superior to any of its contemporaries. The torque and the power curve is given in the chart shown below.