Kurion, Inc., an innovator in protecting people and the environment from nuclear and hazardous materials, announced it was named to the 2015 Global Cleantech 100 list.

“Kurion is honored to be named one of the 2015 Global Cleantech 100,” said Kurion CEO William Gallo. “We support the Cleantech Group’s mission to accelerate sustainable innovation and are proud to be recognized as a company with potential to make the most significant market impact. Kurion strives to provide cost-efficient, clean technology solutions that make deploying clean tech an easy and obvious choice.”

The Global Cleantech 100 features private companies that are best positioned to solve tomorrow’s clean technology challenges and represents the most innovative and promising ideas in clean tech. The list includes companies from 17 different countries and was determined using proprietary Cleantech Group research data, weighted qualitative judgments and specific inputs from a global 100-person Expert Panel. In 2015, a record number of nominations were received: 6,900 distinct companies from 60 countries.

Kurion provides clean technology solutions to access, separate and stabilize nuclear and hazardous waste. Its technologies have been used in clean-up efforts at some of the largest nuclear waste sites worldwide. Kurion Ion Specific Media (ISM) technologies helped clean millions of gallons of contaminated water at Fukushima, and GeoMelt® vitrification technologies have been used worldwide to convert nuclear and hazardous waste into more than 26,000 tons of leach-resistant glass since the 1990s.

Kurion continues to develop new, innovative technology and recently announced that it’s building a prototype Modular Detritiation System using a patent-pending approach to economically process and remove tritium from contaminated water – a particularly problematic and expensive waste form to treat, that can spread easily if released into the environment.

ABOUT KURION

Kurion creates technology solutions to access, separate and stabilize nuclear and hazardous materials and to isolate them safely from the environment for a cleaner future. Kurion’s suite of technologies and engineering capabilities offer a platform to address the needs of the most-challenging nuclear and hazardous sites worldwide. Founded in 2008, Kurion operates eight facilities across California, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and Texas and has subsidiaries in Warrington, UK, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, please visit www.kurion.com.

ABOUT CLEANTECH GROUP

Founded in 2002, Cleantech Group’s mission is to accelerate sustainable innovation. Core to this mission is i3, an online platform that connects corporates with innovation, at scale, by allowing them to find, vet, and connect with start-ups—efficiently building an innovation pipeline. The i3 platform comes to life at our global Events, which convene corporates and start-ups, along with other players shaping the future of sustainable innovation.

Cleantech Group is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in London.

For more information, visit; www.cleantech.com