BEIJING, CHINA–(Marketwired – June 9, 2016) – West Mountain Environmental Corp. (the “Company” or “West Mountain”) (TSX VENTURE:WMT) announced that its proprietary Thermal Phase Separation (TPS) technology has been recognized by the Ministry of Environmental Protection 3iPET Program as a Top 100 Environmental Remediation Technology. The award was presented to West Mountain at the 2016 Global Clean Tech and Green Finance Summit held on June 7th – 8th in Beijing.
The 3 iPET Program was created by the Foreign Economic Cooperation Office of the Ministry of Environmental Protection for China to identify, assess and deploy the best available environmental technologies from around the world to China. Glenn Antle, Executive Vice President of West Mountain China, said, “I want to thank our Chinese partners, the Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences, Hangzhou Dadi, BCEER and Yantai Jereh for their efforts to bring this important technology to China.”
West Mountain, one of the first Western environmental soil remediation companies to come to China, has been operating in China since 2012. “Our Chinese team has built a reputation in the market for efficiency, reliability and success on major soil remediation projects across the country,” states Timothy Mahoney, President and CEO. “With our knowledge of the Chinese market, we are working hard to bring to China the best environmental remediation technologies available.”
About West Mountain
West Mountain is an established Canadian environmental solutions company specializing in the thermal treatment of a variety of hazardous and non-hazardous waste streams. Through its subsidiaries it employs a unique indirectly heated, closed loop technology that allows it to extract even the most hazardous contaminants from soil and industrial sludge converting much of it into reusable oil and synthetic natural gas that it uses to sustain the process. This methodology offers significant opportunity for greenhouse gas reduction over traditional hazardous waste destruction technologies. The Company’s management team maintains expertise in hazardous waste management and contaminated site remediation with experience spanning North America and 15 countries internationally.
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Mr. Timothy Mahoney
President and CEO
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