Business View Magazine l November 2022

70 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 11 AZURA ASSOCIATES F ounded in 2012, Azura Associates is a niche engineering firm based in Waterloo, Ontario, that provides services in bioprocess engineering for aerobic and anaerobic microbial conversion systems. The company’s anaerobic digestion practice focuses on food industry wastewater and waste- to-energy applications, including municipal source-separated organics (SSO), agri-food, on-farm, and market food-waste digesters that produce biogas and renewable natural gas (RNG). “Our portfolio of services places us in a unique place within the green economy, where we help project owners actually get what they were hoping to get when they start a project,” says David Ellis, founder and CEO of Azura Associates. “The promise of anaerobic digestion, or waste to energy systems, has been around for hundreds of years but has faced technological challenges like how to deal with corrosion, cleaning the gas, and maintaining biological stability for consistent gas output and revenue generation. “Now, the technology has matured enough for these systems to provide tremendous financial Delivering operational excellence for anaerobic digester facilities