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IWEX Innovation Awards
IWEX Innovation Awards reflect the quality of UK water technology: with over fifty entries, the judging panel were faced with a monumental task in choosing the winners
reflect the quality of UK water technology: with over fifty entries, the judging panel were faced with a monumental task in choosing the winners The criteria which entrants were asked to demonstrate in their submissions covered the reason and rationale for development of new products or technology, its ability to meet prescribed standards and approvals, those qualities which the entrants, themselves, judged as being innovative, details of the target audiences for promotion and utilisation and the measurement of the success of the product or service since entering the market
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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In every case the companies submitting their entries were clearly able to impress the judges with their responses to meeting this criteria, but, as the well-used phrase goes, there had to be one winner and one highly commended entry in each of the six categories.
In the "Best Distribution Hardware Technology" category, the wining entry was from Advanced Sewer Products Limited for their new drain stopper, the "Camstopper", with the highly commended place being awarded to Subterra for their "Subcoil" lining system for water and gas mains.
For the "Contribution to Environmental and Sustainability" Award, which received the greatest number of entries, the highly commended entry went to Akristos Limited for their submission covering the use of water treatment residues as alternative raw materials for the brick industry, whilst the winning entry was received from Hydro International.
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Hydro's entry was its Stormwater Package, which provides a controlled, contained and cleaned solution to problems created by global urbanisation.
The thirds award covered "International Markets" and was won by Severn Trent Services Metering Services for their "SmartLink" water and electricity metering project instituted in Egypt and sponsored by USAID in response to fundamental changes in utility provision management.
The Highly Commended place was judged to be that from Black and Veatch for their Wastewater project in the United Arab Emirate of Ajman.
Yorkshire-based IEGT submitted their Hawkeye integrated system to monitor the performance of Combined Sewer Overflows into the fourth category "Most Effective Monitoring and Control System" which took first place, whilst the CEMA Limited CEMAStar, a universal pumping station controller was selected as the highly commended entry.
The category for the "Most Innovative and Effective Multi Utility Service" drew considerable interest from entrants and after much deliberation, the judges awarded the top accolade to Biwater Treatment Limited for their fully managed, modular, multi-utility management system, with the combined entry from Severn Trent Metering Services and Horstmann Controls being cited as highly commended.
The final category "Innovative Processes Technology" was awarded to Purac for its "sonix" sludge treatment technology, which employs concentrated ultrasound to break up or sonilyse biological cells, thereby releasing their content for further processing.
For their work with a major water and wastewater utility company, Vexamus Water were awarded the highly commended status for their investigation into unsatisfactory intermittent discharges from sewage treatment works.
Commenting on the entries for the 2003 IWEX Innovation Awards, following the presentations on Wednesday 12th November, Rob Lozowski, Director of theTurret RAI Water Portfolio reflected on both the number and quality of entries received and the task with which the judges were faced.
"IWEX is a forum for the presentation of technology, products and services for the water and wastewater treatment sector and throughout its history as an exhibition, it has become regarded by the industry as a showcase of all that is current.
By extending the scope of the event to include an Innovations Award programme, the categories of which reflect the current demands of the sector, we have proof-positive that IWEX does indeed receive the support and provide the opportunity to address the most current trends in the market.
We are grateful to all companies, which took time to author and submit entries.
To the winners and those highly commended entrants we offer our congratulations and to those whose entries were not selected, we would emphasise that the quality of all entries made judging extremely difficult and that those entries not selected were still of outstanding quality.".
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