About Us

The Center for Pollution Prevention Program (C3P) is a consortia made up of two principal elements:

(1) ITB, Inc. serving as engineering and technical support to accomplish Program/Project/Study Management, Analysis, and Integration;

(2) Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade (Institute of Welding and Quality) (ISQ), to support identification of pervasive needs and technology across Portugal and EU through the 6^th Framework Innovative Research Center and provide potential alternative material technology identification and demonstration/validation testing;

The C3P Director General is General Castelo Branco, who through government, academic, small and medium enterprise associations provides program/project advocacy, and needs and project participant identification.

Key operating elements of C3P are based upon a premise of centralized program/project management and decentralized project execution.  C3P coordinating activity functions include facilitation, analysis, coordination, management, and reporting.  C3P’s approach to project management and integration is a systematic, phased methodology for identification and execution of projects and a set of products resulting in successful project execution and qualification of less or non-hazardous materials and processes.  C3P’s project integration includes details of both technical and business concepts and resource strategy to accomplish project activities.

The C3P is recognized by Ministério do Ambiente de Portugal (Portuguese Ministry of Environment), and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Director of Environmental Management, per the Joint Statement Between NASA and the Portuguese Ministry of the Environment Regarding Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Pollution Prevention Matters signed on September 18, 2002.  The Joint Statement was established through C3P’s recognition of NASA’s Acquisition Pollution Prevention (AP2) Program as a world-class organization to benchmark identifying shared needs and qualifying common solutions that has resulted in adopting the program’s methodology that has been successfully utilized for the past 10 years.  Through the tenets of the Terms of Reference (TOR), the opportunity exists to facilitates partnerships among U.S., Portuguese, and through C3P, EU government, industry, and other government agencies for identifying and integrating commercially available P2 solutions, practices, and procedures into effected manufacturing and maintenance processes and installations.