ECOfluid Awarded One Of Canada's Top Ten Cleantech Companies
Vancouver, British Columbia - ECOfluid Systems Inc. ("ECOfluid" or "the Company") announced today that it has been selected by the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation (OCRI) as one of this year's winners for Canada's Top Ten Cleantech Companies Competition.
Commenting on the award, Mr. Karel Galland, P. Eng., President and Founder said "We are delighted, and very proud, to be selected as one of Canada's top ten cleantech companies. ‘Giving water new life' is our motto and with our technology we believe we can do it more cost effectively than any other mechanical technology available today."
About ECOfluid Systems Inc.
ECOfluid designs, builds and operates wastewater treatment plants based on its patented Upflow Sludge Blanket Filtration - USBF technology for municipal, industrial, and real estate development applications with over one hundred installations throughout Canada, the United States and the Caribbean.
The underlying strength of the technology is that it uses biological processes, including biological nutrient removal to meet new regulatory restrictions on nitrogen and phosphorus effluent content. The resulting compact bioreactor substantially reduces equipment size and costs, while achieving high quality treated effluent suitable for reuse in non-potable and industrial applications. ECOfluid's patented USBF technology is considered to be one of the most affordable and effective wastewater treatment systems in the world today and was cited by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) as "an important environmental process revolution".
The company has won a number of awards and accolades in the past. In 2002 the University of California, Davis rated the USBF technology as the highest ranked biological treatment system out of almost seventy technologies reviewed. In 2006, Frost & Sullivan awarded the technology Packaged Wastewater Treatment Technology Leadership of the Year Award, and at the 2007 Environmental Industry Summit in California, ECOfluid won the Technology Merit Award from the Environmental Business Journal."
SOURCE: ECOfluid Systems, Inc.