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  The Jury of he EEP Award 2008 awarded the following companies:

The Gold EEP Award 2008
Company: LabMET, Belgium
Innovation: Production of a catalyst by precipiation of Palladium-ions on the surface of bacteria and its application for the removal of POP’s from wastewaters, soils etc.
Catalysts normally have high reactivity due to their very large specific surface. Our technology produces a palladium catalyst by means of an environmentally friendly, inexpensive and simple production process. Palladium ions are reduced and precipitated on the surface matrix of an enabling bacterium. Thus, very small sub-micron sized particles, named BioPAD, are shaped by the cell surface of the bacterium. The superior characteristics of this catalyst have been shown in hydrodehalogenation reactions of many persistent environmental pollutants. Applied in different reactor designs, BioPAD can efficiently remove chlorinated solvents, pesticides, PCB’s and micropollutants out of wastewaters, soils, sediments and contaminated air.


The Silver Award 2008
Company: St1 Biofuels Oy, Finland
Innovation: Etanolix Ò – method: used for production
of sustainable transportation ethanol from waste
The St1’s patented Etanolix® method is a unique way to produce sustainable transportation ethanol from waste. With the same equipment and energy Etanolix® produces also side products like animal feed and/or solid fertilizer. Etanolix® plant is a small scale, easy-to-build, modular production unit. It can be built near to the waste source to minimize transportation. Etanolix® uses food-industry waste as raw-material. Process energy consumption is minimal and it is produced from renewable source. This leads to the unique lifecycle emissions of the ethanol produced by Etanolix®. St1 innovation addresses two major environment issues: waste management and fuel ethanol production.  


The Bronze EEP Award 2008
Company: Pannon Jet Ltd., Hungary
Innovation: Recycling of waste tyres by water jet
The innovative technology performs grinding of waste tyres by ultra-high pressure water jet. The result of process is homogenous fine rubber powder of high purity with average grain size of 0.5mm and less. Its special property is extremely high chemical activity that allows complete revulcanization of the product in original form, without any devulcanization process.The environmental friendly technology opens up new horizons in recycling of waste tyres and other rubber wastes with high added value. Technological water is completely recirculated for repeated utilization. Utilization of rubber powder helps reducing demand for natural and synthetic rubbers in manufacturing of new rubber products.


For more information on the winners of the 2008 edition, on the other seven nominees, on the previous editions please consult the EEP Award section.
 

EEP-award 2007: Jury convenes
September 19 and 20, an international jury consisting of representatives of all eighteen EEP-members and three members of the European Federation of Environmental Professionals (EFAEP) met in Paris to decide who are the winners of the 2007 edition of the yearly EEP-award. This award is sponsored by the international environmental exhibition Pollutec which shall be held end of November 2007 in Paris. During Pollutec, the winners of the EEP-award 2007 will be awarded their prices during a ceremony on November 28. During their stay in Paris the jury was invited by Veolia Environmental Services to visit their facilities at Limay. The jury was duly impressed by some of the presentations of recent Veolia-projects.

10 Nominees EEP Award 2007
At the EEP Award Jury Meeting on 20 September in Paris
the following 10 nominees (short-listed candidates)
out of 72 applications were chosen:

in alphabetical order

Biozone , Finland
Gastreatment Services, Nederland
Hawk Partners, Italy
INETI, Portugal
Maklad Innovative Fluid- & Systemtechnik , Austria
Nanovis, Switzerland
REM Spa, Italy
Rohm and Haas, France
SkySails, Germany
Technovalor, France

The golden, silver and bronze EEP Award 2007 will be presented at
Pollutec in Paris on 28 November 2007 at 12.00 pm.

For more information: EEP-Award section

    EEP Award Winners 2006
At the EEP Award Ceremony in Lyons on 29 November 2006, the Awards of the EEP Award 2006 edition have been announced at the Pollutec TV Stage by representatives of of the EEP (European Environmental Press), the EFAEP (European Environmental Professionals) and Pollutec.

The Jury of he EEP Award 2006 decided to present the awards to the following companies:

Gold EEP Award 2006: Technologie Ekologiczne, Poland
Innovation: T-Technolgy®: Recycling Technology with the use of the method of catalytic processing.

Silver EEP Award 2006: Henkel / Solar Integrated Technologies, Germany
Innovation: Innovative Adhesive System in Flexible Single-ply Roofing Photovoltaic Panel System.

Bronze EEP Award 2006: Paques, the Netherlands
Innovation: Anammox® process for cost effective and sustainable nitrogen removal.

For more information on the winners of the 2006 edition, on the other seven nominees, on the previous editions and on the EEP Award 2007 edition application form please consult the EEP Award section.

    EEP Award 2006: Ten Nominees
At the EEP Award Jury Meeting on 20 September in Antwerp the following 10 nominees (short-listed candidates) out of 75 applications were chosen:

in alphabetical order:

H2 Logic, Denmark
Henkel/Solar, Germany
LegioFreeWater ® systems, the Netherlands
Naskeo Environnement, France
Paques, the Netherlands
Philips Lighting, the Netherlands
OceanSaver, Norway
Technologie Ekologiczne, Poland
Tecnia, Portugal
Thermya, France

The golden, silver and bronze EEP Award 2006 will be presented at Pollutec in Lyons on 29 November 2006

For more information: EEP-Award section.

    July 24, 2006 | EEP-delegation visited Ecomondo 2006 preview
From 12-14 June, an EEP-delegation consisting of journalists of five of the EEP-members, visited Italy for a preview on the coming Ecomondo-show that will be organised by Rimini Fiera from 8 to 11 November of this year. The journalist visited amongst others a facility of Gruppo Fiori in Bologna where several sorts of (non)ferrous metals are being processed.
June 19, 2006 | Israel
Climaton, new affiliated member of the EEP.
Members
June 19, 2006 | Austria
UmweltJournal, new member of the EEP.
Members
January 1, 2006 | Hungary
Környezetvédelem, new member of the EEP.
Members

    EEP Award Winners 2005
At the EEP Award Ceremony in Paris on 30 November 2005, the Awards of the EEP Award 2005 edition have been announced at the Pollutec TV Stage by representatives of the EEP (European Environmental Press), the EFAEP (European Federation of Associations of Environmental Professionals) and Pollutec.

The Jury of he EEP Award 2005 decided to present the awards to the following companies:

Gold EEP-Award 2005: SET, the Netherlands
Innovation: SET: A wind turbine for every private house, no noise, durable and less maintenance.

Silver EEP-Award 2005: Hera Holding, Spain
Innovation: Containerised plant for biogas enrichment to be used as bio fuel for cars.

Bronze EEP-Award 2005: VigiCell, France
Innovation: In vivo Human Cellular BioAlert; in order to study the effects of human health of real situations of environmental expositions or commercialised products.

More information on the winners and the other seven nominees of the 2005 edition, on the 2003 and 2004 editions and the EEP Award 2006 edition application form please consult our EEP-Award section.
Spain
Residuos, new member of the EEP.
Members

Finland
Uusiouutiset, new member of the EEP.
Members

    EEP delegation visits Ecomondo 2005
The EEP delegation together with Alessandro Piccinini (RiminiFiera), in front of the RiminiFiera building to attend Ecomondo 2005 Fair on 28 October in Rimini, Italy.
Jury for the EEP-award 2005 met in Paris
The jury for the EEP-award 2005 met in Paris, France on September 22 and 23 to discuss the 65 entries received for the 2005 edition of this price for innovation in the field of the environment. From the applications, a final reduction was made to ten nominees. The winners of the golden, silver and bronze award will be made public during the Award Ceremony at the Pollutec show in Paris on 30 December at 12pm at the TV stage. The jury consisted EEP members and representatives of the EFAEP, the European Association of Environmental Experts. During their visit to Paris the jury attended a dinner hosted by Pollutec and ARD Ile-de-France (Regional Development Agency for the Paris Region). The EEP-delegation also visited CIRSEE: Suez Research Center to attend a presentation of a Legionella pilot.
Estonia
Keskkonnatehnika, new member of the EEP.
Members
Environment 2005 – Abu Dhabi (U.A.E.)
The third Environmental Exhibition and Conference (Environment 2005) got off to a splendid start January 30, after the formal inauguration and opening by HE Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister for Presidential Affairs of the UAE. For 4 days this event could assemble the major players in this new economic market, which is absolutely booming. read more...

    EEP-delegation visits preview IFAT-fair
An EEP-delegation attended from February 9-11 2005, a preview of the IFAT-fair in Warsaw, Poland. The trip, co-organised by German waste multinational Remondis, focused on the market situation in the new EC-countries. During the preview visits were organised to a water purification plant and a plastics separation installation.
EEP-award Ceremony 1 December 2004
At the EEP Award Ceremony at Pollutec in Lyon on 1 December 2004, the Awards of the 2004 EEP Award edition were announced at the Pollutec TV stage by representatives of the EEP (European Environmental Press), the EFAEP (European Federation of Associations of Environmental Professionals) and Pollutec.

The Jury of the EEP-awards 2004 decided to present the awards to the following companies:
- The winners in 2004

    Jury for the EEP-award met in Lyons
The jury for the EEP-award 2004 met in Lyons, France on September 16 and 17 to dis-cuss the more than 75 applications that have been sent to the jury for the 2004-edition of this price for innovation in the field of the environment. From the applications, a final reduc-tion was made to ten nominees. The winners of the golden, silver and bronze award will be made public during a ceremony at the Pollutec show In Lyons on December 1. The jury consisted of all EEP-members that participated in the award, plus three representatives of the EFAEP, the European Association of Environmental Experts. During their visit to Lyon the jury attended a dinner hosted by Hélène Blanchard, vice president of Environment of the Rhône-Alpes region. The EEP-delegation also visited the CEA/Valrhône facilities in Pi-errelatte where research is being conducted of the process of super critical water oxida-tion.

For more news on the nominees visit the EEP-Award section of this website: EEP-Award.

    EEP delegation visits Abu Dhabi
An EEP-delegation visited 23-28 January 2004 the emirate of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), being invited by the ministry of Information and the Environment Research and Wildlife Development Agency. The delegation, which consisted of the editors of most of the thirteen EEP-magazines, was briefed on a number of subjects that deal with environment and wildlife within the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Topics were: soil-mapping, wildlife in general and programs to prevent extinction of local species, water desalination, wetlands and public awareness. The delegation made several visits to locations throughout the emirate and was received by the minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al Nahayan. Within the next few weeks reports on this trip will appear on the EEP-website under the section News.

- A short summary of the visit
- Reports on this visit from the Abu Dhabi press
- Reports on this visit from the EEP-magazines