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Treating industrial wastewaters with electrochemical oxidation

Industrial manufacturing operations in virtually every market generate wastewaters contaminated with toxic, non-biodegradable organic pollutants, which are difficult and expensive to treat, subject to tough regulations and pose health risks to communities and the environment. Axine Water Technologies, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, has developed a cost-effective, on-site solution utilizing electrochemical...

Six MaRS-supported companies named to this year’s Cleantech 100 list

Canada is ranked among the best places in the world for cleantech innovation, with more than 800 cleantech companies employing over 55,000 people across the country. Here at MaRS, we support more than 200 cleantech ventures that are transforming industries ranging from energy and advanced manufacturing to agriculture and transportation. MaRS-supported...

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Vancouver-based innovator Axine offers a solution for wastewater treatment

By cleaning wastewater from pharmaceutical manufacturing plants, the company will help halt the rise of antibiotics resistance. Canadian health care is on the edge of a crisis. For the past 70 years, antimicrobial drugs, including antibiotics, have been used to successfully treat infections, but over time bacteria have developed resistance to...

Axine Chosen for the 2019 Global Cleantech 100

Out of over 13,000 innovators from over 90 countries, Axine Water Technologies secures a place in the 2019 Global Cleantech 100 Vancouver, Canada, January 29, 2019 –  Industrial wastewater treatment provider Axine Water Technologies was named by Cleantech Group in the prestigious 2019 Global Cleantech 100.  The Global Cleantech 100 is...

BC leading-edge cleantech solutions treat the toughest organic pollutants on-site

Axine Water Technologies provides on-site wastewater systems that treat the toughest toxic organic pollutants produced by pharmaceutical, electronic, chemical and other industrial facilities. Based on a breakthrough electrochemical technology, Axine systems use advanced catalysts and electricity to oxidize pollutants to harmless trace by-product gases with zero waste generated. Axine's unique...

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Axine inks wastewater treatment deal with ‘leading’ pharma manufacturer

The Vancouver tech firm behind an electrochemical method of cleaning harmful wastewater has signed a deal with a “leading” pharmaceuticals manufacturer headquartered in the U.S. Axine Water Technologies CEO Jonathan Rhone said the contract is worth six figures over a five-year term. “For the pharmaceutical industry this is a relatively new market...

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Axine Signs Multi-Year Wastewater Service Agreement with a Leading Pharmaceutical Manufacturer

Vancouver, Canada, January 8, 2019 – Industrial wastewater treatment provider Axine Water Technologies has signed a multi-year wastewater services agreement with a leading pharmaceutical manufacturer. Under the multi-year agreement, Axine will own, operate, service and maintain a wastewater treatment system at the customer’s manufacturing facility in the Northeastern United States. Based...

Vancouver company’s water purification system has a ready market

Technology renders wastewater pollutants harmless

Breakthrough clean technology that removes complex, toxic pollutants from the wastewater produced by heavy industry and renders them benign has put a Canadian firm among the world’s top cleantech companies. While its technology has gotten the Vancouver, B.C.-based Axine Water Technologies Inc. noticed worldwide, for president and chief executive officer Jonathan Rhone, the innovation doesn’t...

Axine Introduces On-Site Pharmaceutical Wastewater Treatment Solution for Toxic Organic Pollutants

Vancouver, Canada, November 28, 2018 – Industrial wastewater treatment provider, Axine Water Technologies announced today that it has developed a new low cost, waste-free solution for treating toxic organic pollutants in pharmaceutical wastewater. Based on its commercially-proven electrochemical oxidation technology and service model, Axine’s new solution is designed to treat...