U.S. Companies Win First China BlueTech Awards

Los Angeles-based, industrial wastewater company OriginClear, and Milwaukee-based, storm water company PaveDrain have won the first China BlueTech Awards. The two U.S. companies offered technology with China market readiness.

The event was co-organized by Mandarin Environmental and BlueTech Research. OriginClear and PaveDrain competed against a field of 30 water and wastewater technology companies from Europe, Israel and North America, which all focused on demonstrating their technology’s readiness for the China market. Entrants included a wide spectrum of small and large capitalization companies with solutions across key industry submarkets, including industrial, municipal, biosolids and storm water. Of the entrants, six companies were shortlisted and invited to have a presence in the BlueTech Innovation Pavilion at Aquatech China, China’s largest water industry expo.

The judges were interested in OriginClear’s water cleanup technology, Electro-Water Separation (EWS), which is based on electrochemistry and can tackle China’s most recalcitrant type of pollutants. Scalable and with a low operational cost, it will be incorporated as a modular add-on to existing water treatment sites in China or built as a standalone process flow.

“Winning this award is a strong endorsement and recognition of the attractiveness of our solution for the industrial wastewater treatment market in China,” said Jean-Louis Kindler, president of OriginClear. “I want to thank everyone involved, especially the very impressive group of competitors whom all deserve equal recognition for their solutions for China’s water and wastewater challenges.”

PaveDrain’s solution for storm water—the PaveDrain system—was created under the premise of allowing storm water runoff from streets, roads, roofs and parking lots to quickly infiltrate into the ground. This removes stress from the sewer systems, can help reduce localized flooding and helps water infiltrate back into the groundwater table. Following more than three years of research and development in North America, PaveDrain is now aligning with China’s Sponge City initiative to bring its infiltration system to China.

“We had been looking for a way to demonstrate our solution to prospective Chinese partners, and the China BlueTech Awards represented exactly the right channel to accomplish this,” said PaveDrain CEO Doug Buch. “We would like to thank the organizers, judges, and sponsors for their time and dedication to accelerating the path to market in China for international water technologies.”

OriginClear and PaveDrain have recently signed agreements with strategic partners in China.

The other finalists in the 2016 China BlueTech Awards include:

• AppliTek: Online analyzers, testing equipment and monitoring solutions for water quality monitoring.
• BDP EnviroTech: A biological wastewater treatment utilizing Biological Double-Efficiency Process (BDP).
• Dais Analytic: A membrane distillation process for water purification.
• Hydro International: Storm water and wastewater solutions leveraging vortex technologies.

Technology submissions for 2017 China BlueTech Awards will be accepted Nov. 1, 2016, to Jan. 30, 2017. The Awards Reception will take place at Aquatech China.

For more information about the China BlueTech Awards, please contact Mandarin Environment’s Ziyu Zhu at [email protected].

Source: WiseOnWater