Press Releases For: Industry / Awards
National Tissue Company Rolls Back Onto Future 50 Award List
National Tissue Company, a leading national manufacturer of tissue, towels, wipers and napkins for the away-from-home market, has been honored once again with a Future 50 Award from the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce (MMAC) and its Council of Small Business Executives (COSBE). Moreover, by virtue of being a rare three-time winner National Tissue has achieved the prestigious “Master Mettle” status. 2011/10/21
Real Tech Receives Deloitte Technology Green Award
“The Deloitte Technology Green 15 Award recognizes those Canadian companies that offer solutions to global environmental challenges by creating intellectual property and technology that reduce society’s environmental impact,” said Richard Lee, National Leader, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Industry Group, Deloitte. “Companies such as Real Tech Inc. are creating technology solutions that have a significant environmental impact and demonstrate a compelling return on investment, despite facing tough economic times. In doing so, they are helping position Canada as a global leader in the development of commercially viable green technology.” 2011/10/19
WERF Recognizes DC Water’s Biosolids Project
The Water Environment Research Foundation (WERF) recognized DC Water with its Award for Excellence in Innovation Tuesday afternoon for its Biosolids Program, which will cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically, produce more energy, and create higher quality biosolids - all combining to save millions of dollars annually when facilities begin operating in 2014. 2011/10/19
Sterlitech Named Among 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies
This week Sterlitech Corporation, a leading manufacturer and distributor of laboratory filtration equipment, was recognized by Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the 100 fastest growing private companies in Washington State. 2011/10/18
Nova Thermal Named GCCA Global 30 Semi-Finalist
NovaThermal Energy (www.novathermalenergy.com) today announced that it has been chosen by the Global Cleantech Cluster Association as a 2011 Later Stage Award Top 30 semi-finalist. Inclusion in the GCCA Global Top 30 reflects the strong market position of the company in the renewables sector, and signifies its innovative technology is gaining a foothold in the new global green economy. NovaThermal Energy was nominated for the GCCA Later Stage Award by CleanTech Alliance Mid-Atlantic (CAMA) (www.cleantechma.org) in May 2011 for its geothermal alternative solution. 2011/10/13
American Water Receives EPA Excellence Award
American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE:AWK), the largest publicly traded U.S. water and wastewater utility company, today announced it is a recipient of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2011 WaterSense Excellence Award, announced on October 5. The award was presented in recognition of the company’s role as lead partner with the EPA in the agency’s “We’re for Water” consumer education campaign. 2011/10/13
ABSMaterials Founder Receives Breakthrough Award
Dr. Paul Edmiston was one of eleven innovators accepting a Popular Mechanics 2011 Breakthrough Award at a New York City ceremony Oct. 10. Edmiston, CSO and Co-Founder of ABSMaterials, Inc., took home the prize in Materials Science for his invention of Osorb® glass materials to treat and clean water. 2011/10/12
Bio-Microbics Receives 2011 Kansas Exporter of Year Award
On September 22, the Kansas Governor, Sam Brownback, visited its headquarters location to honor Bio-Microbics with the 2011 Kansas Exporter of the Year award. The company, founded in 1996 to commercialize wastewater and stormwater technology for decentralized homes and communities, is well represented in over 60 countries worldwide. 2011/10/03
FPI Mag Flow Meter Receives Innovation Award
McCrometer is pleased to announce that Grandview Media’s Flow Control Magazine has selected the revolutionary FPI MagTM (Full Profile Insertion) Electromagnetic Flow Meter as one of the Innovation Award winners. The Flow Control Innovation Awards program is an annual competition designed to recognize the year’s most compelling advances in fluid handling technology. 2011/09/30
Public Works Employees Receive Lifesaving Award
Eighteen Pierce County Public Works and Utilities employees will receive the Governor’s Lifesaving Award for rescuing a fallen construction worker who was swept into the sewer system earlier this year. The wastewater utility workers will be honored at the Governor’s Industrial Safety and Health Conference Sept. 28 at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center for their direct roles in the rescue. Nearly 30 workers in all, plus West Pierce Fire and Rescue, assisted at the scene. On March 21, 2011, a contractor’s employee working on a county construction project became untethered while working inside a 6-foot-diameter sewer pipe. The force of the wastewater in the pipe knocked him down and he traveled more than a half mile through the underground tunnel to the Chambers Creek Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, where county workers were able to locate him and pull him to safety through a manhole. 2011/09/12
