Itronics Named a Medium Entrepreneurial Technology Company of the Year by NCET Technology Awards
February 02 2012 - 5:01PM
Marketwired
Itronics Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ITRO) is pleased to announce that it has
been named runner up Medium Entrepreneurial Technology Company of
the Year in the upcoming NCET Technology Awards/Reno Gazette
Journal Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Dr. John Whitney, founder
and President, will be presented the award on February 16, 2012, at
the awards dinner at the Eldorado Hotel Casino in Reno by
Lieutenant Governor Brian K. Krolicki.
"We are pleased by the recognition and all the employees of
Itronics are delighted to be honored with this award. Reno has been
our home for 24 years and to be one of its 'top' entrepreneurial
technology companies is a great honor indeed," said Dr. Whitney.
"Itronics' technologies maximize sustainability, including
eliminating toxic photowaste by stripping out silver and converting
the demetalized liquid into environmentally beneficial
fertilizers."
The NCET Technology award celebrates individuals and companies
who have greatly enhanced the growth and prestige of the Nevada
Technology Community. It recognizes outstanding leaders at all
levels of business.
Itronics has won a number of other prestigious awards including
being one of five finalists for the Kirkpatrick Chemical
Engineering Award in 2001, the most prestigious worldwide award in
chemical engineering technologies. Itronics was awarded second
place, Highly Commended in the Environmental Technology category,
at the prestigious Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) 2005
Worldwide Environmental Award ceremonies at the Royal Courts of
Justice in London, England and was awarded the USA Gold Award at
the House of Commons in London in November 2005 as part of the
International Green Apple Environmental Awards contest, one of the
largest and most prestigious of its kind in the world.
Itronics won the International Green Hero award in 2006 for its
leadership on environmental issues. Itronics' GOLD'n GRO fertilizer
was named one of the top 10 new technologies representing the best
of agricultural innovation by the Canadian Association of
Agri-Retailers in its December 2005 publication "Communicator." Dr.
John Whitney, Itronics President, was selected as Nevada's Inventor
of the Year in 2000 and is a member of the Inventor's Hall of Fame
at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dr. Whitney was also named
"Entrepreneur of the Year," Agriculture/Environment in 2008 by The
Business Report of Northern Nevada, published by the Reno
Gazette-Journal.
About Itronics
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is a "Creative
Clean Technology" company. Itronics, through its subsidiary,
Itronics Metallurgical, Inc. is the only Company with a fully
permitted "Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water
Recycling" plant in the United States that converts used
photoliquids into pure silver and GOLD'n GRO liquid fertilizers.
The Company is developing environmentally compatible mining
technology, provides project planning and technical services to the
gold mining industry, and operates the popular InsideMetals.com web
site, http://www.insidemetals.com, which provides a value-added
WORLD VIEW of Gold Producer Stocks, Mineral Producer Stocks, Junior
Gold Stocks, and Junior Mineral Stocks.
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