Electro Scan Inc. Wins 2013 Award for ‘Best New CleanTech Product Innovation’
Sacramento-based Leak Detection, Smartphone, and Cloud Application Developer, Selected in Statewide Competition
Chico, California USA, June 27, 2013 – Today, Electro Scan Inc. won the 2013 Award for ‘Best New Product Innovation’ in Cleantech at the 2nd Annual Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge competition.
Presented by Innovate North State, the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge competition was held at the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company’s “Big Room” auditorium in Chico, California.
A GLOBIE Award was presented in each of five industry categories, including Food and Ag, Web and Information Technology, Cleantech, won by Electro Scan Inc., Manufacturing, and Healthcare.
The Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge is the only statewide Most Innovative Product Competition focused principally on California businesses located outside of San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego. Each finalist was given 6-minutes to explain how their new product changes the world, an industry, people’s lives or the environment in a positive, meaningful way.
In March 2013, Electro Scan Inc. was awarded the prestigious Joseph L. Abbott, Jr. Award for Product Innovation by the National Association of Trenchless Technologies (NASTT) at the organization’s No-Dig event.
Over 70 industry experts from throughout California will be on-site serving as judges including CEOs, media representatives, angel investors, venture capitalists, university and government officials and corporate executives.
“We were impressed with Electro Scan’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have Electro Scan win our Cleantech category,” stated Jon Gregory, Managing Director, Innovate North State.
Judges for the Cleantech Industry Sector, included:
– Jessica Appelgren, Saatchi and Saatchi
– Debra Atlas, Environmental Reporter & Industry Blogger
– Ken Brown, Avisen Securities, Inc.
– Denise Gitsham, 7second Strategies
– Ed Grauenheim, Workforce Management Magazine
– Randy Hawks, Claremont Creek Ventures
– Bob Medearis, Founder, Silicon Valley Bank
– Michael Ottolia, Financing Industry Expert
The American Society of Civil Engineers estimate capital needs for the U.S. wastewater infrastructure of $298 billion over the next twenty years with aging pipes discharging 900 billion gallons of untreated sewage, each year.
Judges found that Electro Scan represents a breakthrough in the multi-billion dollar sewer inspection market, overhauling how sewer utilities identify and prioritize pipe defects. More reliable than visual inspection techniques using legacy closed-circuit television cameras, Electro Scan was viewed as a disruptive technology gaining global acceptance.
According to Innovate North State Managing Director Jon Gregory, who serves as the Executive Producer of the event, “the Sierra Nevada Innovation Challenge represents a once-a-year hotbed of the best innovation occurring in emerging markets of California.” He continued, “We were impressed with Electro Scan’s game-changing innovation and are honored to have the company compete as one of the finalists.”
“We were delighted to be recognized by the judges,” stated Chuck Hansen, Electro Scan’s CEO and Presenter. “Electro Scan is being consistently recognized as a groundbreaking technology that truly advancing owner’s ability to correctly assess their wastewater collection infrastructure. Electro Scan’s ability to evaluate existing, newly repaired, and relined sewer for defects, leap-frogs legacy visual inspection techniques that has been around for almost sixty years.”
About Electro Scan
Electro Scan Inc. is a leading global provider of leak detection instrumentation and cloud computing applications that meet the technological needs of water utilities, commercial businesses, residential customers, and engineering organizations worldwide. Electro Scan offers the next generation in condition assessment evaluation technologies that allow customers to manage, protect, operate and certify their infrastructure. “Like” us on Facebook.
About Innovate North State
Innovate North State – a public/private partnership driven by CEOs of leading California North State businesses – was established in early 2012. Innovate North State’s goal is to assist the region’s most innovative companies who have the largest growth potential garner a larger share of their national and global markets resulting in a more vibrant regional economy. It focuses on 5 key industry sectors: Sustainable Agriculture and Food; Manufacturing and Consumer Products; Cleantech and Environmental; Web, Mobile, and IT; and Healthcare and Medical Technology. With the mantra of “connecting to compete” Innovate North State’s strategy involves helping innovative companies connect with each other and also to vital resources located outside the region, making the North State the most economically competitive non-metropolitan region in the U.S. by 2017.
Contacts:
Innovate North State: Jon Gregory, Managing Director, jon@innovate-northstate.com, 530-892-1707
Electro Scan Inc.: Janine Mullinix, info@electroscan.com, 916-779-0660