Saltworks Co-Founders Winners of Top Forty Under 40 Award

December 19^th, 2011

Saltworks Technologies’ founders are among the top 40 up-and-coming business leaders under 40 years old according to Vancouver’s premier business publication.

The annual Business in Vancouver Forty Under 40 Awards profiles inspiring professionals in British Columbia including innovators, entrepreneurs, corporate go-getters and not-for-profit leaders. Winners are chosen based on values such as achievement, experience and innovation, vision, leadership, and community involvement.

Saltworks founder and CEO Ben Sparrow and president and co-founder Joshua Zoshi were selected for this year’s award. The 2011 BIV Forty Under 40 Awards take place in Vancouver on January 25.

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Saltworks Technologies is a leader in the development and delivery of solutions for industrial wastewater treatment and lithium refining. By working with customers to understand their unique challenges and focusing on continuous innovation, Saltworks’ solutions provide best-in-class performance and reliability. From its headquarters in Richmond, BC, Canada, Saltworks’ team designs, builds, and operates full-scale plants, and offers comprehensive onsite and offsite testing services with its fleet of mobile pilots.

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Saltworks Delivers Desalination Plant to the Canadian Forces

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Saltworks Delivers Desalination Plant to the Canadian Forces

November 22^nd, 2011

A remote operated desalination unit, designed and built by Saltworks Technologies, has been delivered to the Canadian Department of National Defence.

The Department of National Defence hired Saltworks for the design and construction of the remote operated unit. Saltworks’ automation capabilities, quality construction and experience with Pacific Ocean seawater provided the company with a competitive advantage for the project.

“Our team is very proud to deliver a well-designed and robust water maker to Canada’s forces,” said Ben Sparrow, Saltworks’ CEO. “We are currently involved in a number of important projects, utilizing existing technologies such as reverse osmosis while also demonstrating innovative technologies with cost and energy advantages.”

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Saltworks Ranked in Top 10 Emerging Cleantech by Corporate Knights

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Saltworks Ranked in Top Ten Emerging Cleantech by Corporate Knights

November 17^th, 2011

For a second consecutive year, Corporate Knights Inc. has ranked Saltworks Technologies in the top 10 emerging privately-held cleantech companies in Canada.

Corporate Knights, a Canadian-based media and financial products company focused on clean capitalism, is best known for its annual rankings including the Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada, the Corporate Knights Cleantech 10, and the Next 10 emerging Canadian cleantech companies.

Saltworks Technologies’ second year in the Next 10 ranking emphasizes the company’s continued growth in providing sustainable and economic solutions for desalination and brine treatment.

“We are thrilled to be recognized once again by Corporate Knights. At Saltworks, our goal is delivering economic water technologies that benefit the environment. Corporate Knight’s acknowledgement reflects our ongoing commitment to sustainability,” said Joshua Zoshi, President at Saltworks.

The Next 10 were selected by an advisory panel of Canada’s foremost authorities on cleantech. Corporate Knights unveiled the Next 10 list yesterday morning at the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Toby Heaps, CEO of Corporate Knights Inc, said these cleantech innovators are showing how Canadians can get more economic bang-for-their-resource buck, opening the way for a cleaner more productive economy.

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Saltworks Reports Scale Up and Brine Treatment Solutions

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Saltworks Reports Scale Up and Brine Treatment Solutions

September 26^th, 2011

Saltworks Technologies Inc.’s (“Saltworks”) expansion of products in desalination and brine treatment continues to gain momentum. With its patent portfolio growing, Saltworks offers a variety of novel solutions from increasing freshwater recovery to concentrating wastewater for existing inland plant operators.

The Saltworks team is currently constructing a containerized hybrid system for the Canadian oil sands. It incorporates reverse osmosis and the company’s thermo-ionic technology. Thermo-ionic desalinates the reverse osmosis reject to allow recovery of additional fresh water while reducing the reject volume for economic disposal. Thermo-ionic uses Saltworks’ ion exchange stack—a flexible device that can also be used for other membrane processes such as electrodialysis reversal. Discharge volume is further reduced by the company’s newly developed Saltmaker which produces solid salt. This end-to-end solution is particularly relevant to inland desalination operators with wastewater management issues.

A story on the project and Saltworks’ scale-up was recently featured in Desalination & Water Reuse, a premier trade magazine. Following the DWR article, Saltworks executives presented the company’s hybrid brine management technology at both the 2011 International Desalination World Congress in Perth and at the 26th Annual WateReuse Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona.

“The greatest concerns facing customers are economical solutions to brine management and providing a robust technology for produced water treatment. Saltworks has developed solutions for both,” said Saltworks’ Vice President, Malcolm Man.

At the International Desalination World Congress in Perth, in addition to presenting a technical paper on Saltworks’ brine treatment solutions, Saltworks’ CEO Ben Sparrow and president Joshua Zoshi showcased the company’s commercial-scale ion exchange desalination stack.

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Saltworks Enters Teaming Agreement with SPX Cooling Technologies

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Saltworks Enters Teaming Agreement With SPX Cooling Technologies

June 15^th, 2011

Saltworks Technologies and SPX Cooling Technologies, a global manufacturer of cooling towers and air-cooled condensers, have entered a teaming agreement to provide evaporation towers and engineering support for Saltworks’ energy efficient desalination and salt water treatment process.

The core of Saltworks’ breakthrough technology, called Thermo-Ionic™, works by harnessing low grade solar or waste heat to evaporate saltwater to create a concentrated solution. The system uses the energy contained within this concentrated salt solution to drive the desalting process.

Saltworks and SPX Cooling Technologies are developing an evaporator tower driven salt-maker to work alongside this Thermo-Ionic technology. Built largely from plastics, the salt-maker accepts highly concentrated salt water, removes remaining water, and produces solid salt.

Saltworks’ President Joshua Zoshi says using an evaporative tower in their Thermo-Ionic process allows Saltworks to create a hyper-saline solution in a compact footprint.

“We are delighted to be working with SPX Cooling Technologies. Through this collaboration we will deliver an economic solution for addressing customers’ desalination and salt water treatment needs while leveraging the strengths of a company with over 100 years in the cooling tower business.”

In addition to standalone operation, Thermo-Ionic™ can hybridize with conventional desalination, such as reverse osmosis, to increase freshwater recovery and reduce discharge volume which is particularly important for inland operations.

Currently Saltworks is constructing a demonstration plant to showcase their end-to-end solution for a Canadian oil sands project.

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Saltworks Gains Investments from Leading Canadian Energy and Mining Companies

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Saltworks Gains Investments From Leading Canadian Energy and Mining Companies

June 14^th, 2011

Saltworks Technologies announced that they have received CDN$2.5 million in funding from Cenovus Energy Inc. (“Cenovus”, TSX, NYSE: CVE) through its Environmental Opportunity Fund. The fund assists companies to develop technologies that focus on water and energy efficiencies such as Saltworks’ breakthrough desalination process.

Saltworks also received an investment from Teck Resources Limited (“Teck”, TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK). Teck is Canada’s largest diversified resource company, committed to responsible mining and mineral development with major business units focused on copper, steelmaking, coal, zinc, and energy.

“Investment from two premier Canadian firms in the energy and mining space demonstrates their commitment to energy efficiency as well as the potential that Saltworks’ innovative technology offers,” said Ben Sparrow, Chief Executive Officer at Saltworks.

Cenovus Energy is a Canadian, integrated oil company. Judy Fairburn, Executive Vice-President of Environment and Strategic Planning at Cenovus said, “Water is a precious resource and its availability is a critical issue around the world. The ability to convert saline water into usable fresh water could change how we use water in the oil sands and provide communities with sustainable, safe sources of water.”

Saltworks’ energy-efficient desalination and saltwater treatment process uses its patented Thermo-Ionic™ technology. Thermo-Ionic removes salt from seawater and brackish water by harnessing low-temperature waste heat or solar energy to help drive the process. The technology greatly reduces the amount of energy required for desalination, providing significant cost savings to customers and a much lower impact on the environment. Saltworks has also co-developed a solid salt maker, which accepts Thermo-Ionic’s highly concentrated discharge and produces solid salt.

Saltworks’ scalable, robust desalination plants can provide benefits in coastal or inland operations. Saltworks’ product is specifically well-suited for inland operations as it desalinates industrial reject and brackish water with higher freshwater recovery and reduced environmental footprint.

The company’s facilities, located in Vancouver, encompass proprietary membrane and desalting device manufacturing, desalination system production, and Canada’s first fully permitted seawater desalination plant with zero liquid discharge capability. The Saltworks team recently cut the ribbon on their factory and membrane manufacturing facility.

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Saltworks Exhibits Clean Technology at International Climate Summit

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Saltworks Exhibits Clean Technology at International Climate Summit

November 17^th, 2010

Saltworks Technologies showcased its innovative desalination technology to world climate change leaders during the third annual Governors’ Global Climate Summit in Davis, California.

Saltworks’ Thermo-Ionic™ desalination technology produces freshwater from seawater using 80 percent less electricity than current commercial methods.

Both California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell met with the Saltworks’ management team at the Global Pavilion during the two-day summit, November 15 to 16. The pavilion was set up to showcase green technologies and their effective solutions to climate change to the estimated 1,500 attendees of the summit.

Malcolm Man, who is VP of Business Development at Saltworks, and Director Jack Gin met with the leaders to explain the energy efficiency of the breakthrough technology and the multiple applications for the process.

“We are very excited to have had the opportunity to describe to Governor Schwarzenegger how the Thermo-Ionic desalination technology will reduce California’s carbon footprint while also solving the state’s freshwater scarcity problem,” said Mr. Man. He added, “Premier Campbell was extremely happy to see how a made in British Columbia technology is having a critical role in helping world leaders reduce their carbon emissions goal.”

Saltworks’ patented technology has freshwater production applications for irrigation, municipal, and industrial use. The technology can also economically and sustainably treat waste saltwater produced by inland desalination plants and industrial processes.

Hosted by Governor Schwarzenegger, the Global Climate Summit brought together top leaders of local, regional, national, and international organizations with the theme of “Building the Green Economy”. The goal of the summit was to broaden partnerships through an increased understanding of environmental and economic challenges as the world continues to grow a clean, green economy.

Saltworks Technologies is a clean technology company based in Vancouver, Canada. The company currently operates an energy-efficient desalination pilot plant, taking seawater from Vancouver harbour and producing freshwater at a rate of 1,000 litres per day. Saltworks is currently developing a larger 50,000 litre per day plant for waste saltwater treatment in an oil and gas application.

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Saltworks Placed in Top 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders

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Saltworks Placed in Top 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders

November 13^th, 2010

The Corporate Knights, a magazine focused on prompting and reinforcing sustainable development in Canada, listed Saltworks Technologies one of the Next 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders for 2010.

Corporate Knights, which annual rankings are trademarks of the publication, has been following cleantech companies since 2007 highlighting the ones certain to make it big. The Next 10 represent Canada’s best companies in the cleantech market.

Saltworks Technologies was chosen for its breakthrough desalination technology that uses up to 80 percent less energy than current commercial processes.

Saltworks’ process employs an innovative thermo-ionic energy conversion system that harnesses solar energy to drive the desalting process. Applications for Saltworks’ technology include producing drinking water for communities and municipalities, irrigation water for agriculture, and process water for industry.

Corporate Knights based the judging criteria on creativity and original approach, solving business problems, having a clear business objective, and having the best chance of breaking through into key markets.

Corporate Knights unveiled the Next 10 Emerging Cleantech Leaders late October.

Saltworks continues to be at the forefront of innovation in the desalination industry. Recently, Saltworks presented a paper at the International Water Association (IWA) 2010 World Water Congress and Exhibition in Montreal highlighting a conceptual hybrid reverse osmosis desalination technology that would work well with its thermo-ionic process.

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Saltworks’ Breakthrough Desalination Technology to Showcase at Governors’ Global Climate Summit in California

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Saltworks' Breakthrough Desalination Technology to Showcase at Governors’ Global Climate Summit in California

November 8^th, 2010

Saltworks Technologies will present its innovative desalination technology at the third annual Governors’ Global Climate Summit on November 15 in Davis, California.

Saltworks’ Thermo-Ionic™ desalination technology produces freshwater from seawater using 80 percent less electricity than current commercial methods. The patented technology has freshwater production applications for irrigation, municipal, and industrial use. The technology can also economically and sustainably treat waste saltwater produced by inland desalination plants and industrial processes.

Hosted by California Governor Schwarzenegger, the two-day Global Climate Summit brings together top leaders of local, regional, national, and international organizations. The goal is to broaden partnerships through an increased understanding of environmental and economic challenges as the world continues to grow a clean, green economy.

Saltworks Technologies is a clean technology company based in Vancouver, Canada. The company currently operates an energy-efficient desalination pilot plant, taking seawater from Vancouver harbour and producing freshwater at a rate of 1,000 L/day. Saltworks is currently scaling up the plant to 50,000 L/day for waste saltwater treatment for an oil and gas application.

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Saltworks Deploys First Mobile Desalination Plant

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Saltworks Deploys First Mobile Desalination Plant

June 30^th, 2010

A fully outfitted, containerized desalination plant built by Saltworks Technologies Inc. is on its way to the interior of British Columbia for summer trials.

Saltworks’ mobile plant, with a capacity of 1,000 litres of water a day at continuous flow on seawater, was recently completed at the company’s Port of Vancouver headquarters and sent to the Okanagan region of BC for trials at the company’s solar-thermal test facility. The plant has a higher capacity when treating waste saltwater and will be used for pilot runs at customer sites.

The Okanagan solar-thermal facility is used for testing Saltworks’ novel heat capture process in an arid climate. Both the plant and solar-thermal facility demonstrate a first of its kind process patented by Saltworks. In addition, the plant and facility encompass valuable assets whereby the company can demonstrate its innovative Thermo-Ionic technology that uses up to 80 percent less energy relative to leading desalination processes.

Saltworks President Joshua Zoshi, says “the plant is an important step in demonstrating the technology’s operation.”

Zoshi acknowledges the highly valuable contribution to the project from the British Columbia Innovative Clean Energy fund, Sustainable Development Technology Canada, and the National Research Council. Sustainable Development Technology Canada is an arm’s-length, not-for-profit corporation created by the Government of Canada.