Saratoga Hospital President and CEO Angelo G. Calbone speaks at an October news conference announcing the intent of his facility to carry out an affiliation plan with Albany Medical Center. Saratoga Hospital and Albany Medical Center have signed a...
Solar-Powered Tugboat Makes Trip On Erie Canal Without Fuel, Delivers Local Products
From left, Phillippe Bourassa and Andrew Sheridan of Cascades Tissue Group, and Ian Germain
of Greenfield Manufacturing/Hullspeed Performance Marine Coatings aboard Solar Sal.
On Oct. 13, Solar Sal, the award-winning
solar powered vessel honored as “best in show”
at the recent Waterford Tugboat Roundup,
became the first-ever boat to traverse the Erie
Canal and deliver a cargo without using a drop
of fossil fuels.
The Chamber of Southern Saratoga County
(CSSC) and several of its member manufacturing
companies were major supporters of the
trip. Quebec-based Cascades, Inc., which owns
tissue manufacturing plants in Mechanicville and Waterford, assisted in the operations, which involved loading six bales (8,000 pounds) of
recycled cardboard from Cascades Recovery’s
Depew, N.Y. facility aboard the boat in Lockport,
then traveling the roughly 320 miles to
Mechanicville for unloading near Cascades
Tissue Group’s local plant.
Hullspeed Coatings of Saratoga Springs,
which applied its signature product to the
vessel’s bottom before its spring launching, also assisted in the journey, with marketing
manager Ian Germain present for both loading
and unloading of the cargo.
Butler-Binley, of Bolton Landing, has a
20-plus year track record of building brands.
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