Weekly Business News Round Up - July 27

July 27, 2018

OriginClear launches new division; Grundfos announces virtual conference

OringinClear Launches Modular Water Treatment Division
OriginClear Inc., a provider of water treatment solutions, announced Modular Water Systems, its new division that offers a product line of prefabricated water treatment systems. Daniel “Dan” Early P.E., heads the new division. Modular Water designs and delivers prefabricated wastewater treatment products to customers and end-users that have to clean their own wastewater. It uses Structurally Reinforced Thermoplastic materials to focus on developing water and wastewater collection, conveyance, and treatment systems that have high performance and sustainability. Typical customers include schools, small communities, institutional facilities, real estate developments, factories, and industrial parks.

PayPal Gamifies Sustainability & Saves 10K Gal of Water
This past spring, PayPal tested a new platform called Missions from Benevity, that uses a gamified approach to increase participation in activities designed to boost environmental sustainability at home and at work. Missions makes incentivizes employees to engage in activities like riding their bikes to work, using less water or reducing plastic consumption. Employees track their progress toward being greener, earn badges and rewards and engage in some eco-friendly team building with their co-workers through games and competitions. In just three weeks, the PayPal team saved 998 pounds of waste, 10.683 gallons of water, 29,503 kWh of energy and 11,244 pounds of carbon. Plus, employee donations to charities increased by 64% during the time that these activities were added, as goodness sparked even more goodness. 

Grundfos Hosts Virtual Conference in August
Water, environment and sustainability professionals from all over the world will have the opportunity to learn more about the future of water solutions, as pump manufacturer Grundfos opens up its global customer forum to the world. A first for the event, the Grundfos Forum 2018 will be broadcasting from Suzhou, China through a virtual conference. This will give professionals from all over the world the opportunity to hear from world-class engineers, government leaders, consultants, academics and other key decision-makers about ways to move and manage the world’s water better, under this year’s theme of ‘Intelligent Connectivity’.

Mazzei Injector Co. & Energences Partner
Mazzei Injector Company and Energenecs are teaming up. Mazzei’s patented technologies provide solutions for a wide-range of applications in the water and wastewater fields. This makes it necessary for Mazzei to find a firm to represent them with a broad-based understanding of water and wastewater processes—the hunt has been difficult. Fortunately for Mazzei, Energenecs has a team of talented engineers and technicians with a comprehensive knowledge of the field. And Energenecs prides itself in only supplying efficient and innovative process equipment to their upper Midwest water and wastewater clients, exactly what Mazzei offers—a good fit for them too. “Not only does Energenecs have an exceptional engineering and technical base, but they also have the same company culture that Angelo built Mazzei on… they highly value their relationships and stand by their clients. Another indication that we found the right partner,” said Jim Lauria, VP of Sales and Marketing at Mazzei.

Networking News

  • Stantec promotes David Bedoya to U.S. Northeast Wet Weather Practice Leader.
  • Duperon Corp. hires Lorene Bruns as national sales manager.

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