BioGill listed in top 50 most promising high-tech water companies

Clean tech company BioGill has been selected for the 2012 Artemis Top 50 Water Tech Listing.

“The Artemis Top 50 is the water industry’s benchmark for innovation that will matter. It identifies the new solutions that will meet the world’s water challenges,” stated Laura Shenkar, Chair of the Artemis Top 50, based in San Francisco.

“The top 50 are some of the most promising companies in the emerging high-tech wave in water.”

BioGill was selected by an international jury that included experts from corporations such as Intel, Archer Daniels Midland, IBM, Ecolab and Syngenta as well as McKinsey, CH2M Hill, Carollo Engineers and Singapore’s Public Utilities Board.

John West, BioGill CEO, explained: “The beauty of our technology is that we take nature’s best decomposers, bacteria and fungi, and create the ideal, oxygen-rich, above-ground habitat for these microorganisms to work even more effectively.

“The result is a low-cost, low-energy water cleansing technology with many wastewater treatment applications including commercial kitchen waste, greywater, wastewater from food and beverage processing, aquaculture and sewage.”

BioGill was established to commercialise this wastewater treatment technology developed in the research laboratories of the Australian government agency ANSTO. Worldwide patents are in place for both the Nano-Ceramic Membrane and the wastewater treatment process.

In March this year, BioGill secured a significant investment through Singapore-based BW Ventures, a subsidiary of global maritime company BW Group.