INVITATIONS FROM ISTAC

Istanbul... a beauty and a legend! Where the two continents meet.

Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, bridges the continents and cultures of Europe and Asia. It has been a focal point of world history over the last two millennia serving as the capital of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Empires. The city's unparalleled natural beauty and historical mosques, churches, synagogues, palaces and bazaars attract visitors from all over the world. The city is now a modern metropolis with pride in its past, confidence in its present and optimism in its future safeguarding the treasures of history while meeting the requirements of 21st century citizens and visitors alike. Istanbul is the cultural capital city of Europe in 2010 and this conference is going to be an event under cultural capital city celebrations in 2010.

As an affiliated company of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, ISTAC, has started many new implementation within the frame of national and international standards as of 1994. Its technical knowledge and experience and technological infrastructure it shares all its experiences with Turkey and Istanbul as priority. Within the scope of waste management activities İSTAÇ carries out municipal and medical waste disposal, packaging waste recycling, construction and excavation wastes management, installation and operation of sanitary landfill areas, treatment of leachate, generating electricity from landfill gas, collecting and disposing wastes from vessels and sea surface, cleaning shores, main arterial roads, avenues and streets, streamside sludge scanning and refinement activities and producing compost from organic wastes and recycling activities.

As ISTAC, we have been supporting the membrane activities in Turkey and constracting two full scale big Membrane Bioreactor + Nanofiltration plants to treat landfill leachate from solid waste disposal sites. They are going to be the Europe’s largest membrane plants for the treatment of landfill leachate. Both plants will have a total capacity of 5000 m3/day.

I invite you to participate to Istanbul Regional Conference to discuss the latest developments on membrane technology and water reuse and hope you enjoy the Istanbul.

Sincerely ,

ISTAC Inc.
Istanbul Environmental Protection and Waste Material Recycling Production and Trading Company, Turkey