BEIJING, July 15 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Vecor Group, an Australian green building materials company, was selected as a finalist in the 2010 Asian Innovation Awards. Vecor has developed a suite of breakthrough technologies for cleaning and recycling coal power plant waste to produce high-performance, energy efficient building materials. As a finalist in these awards, Vecor will be featured in an article in the Wall Street Journal Asia, in both online and print editions. Vecor will also be featured in a short video that provides an introduction to their innovative recycling and sintered building material technologies.
The Asian Innovation Awards, presented by the Wall Street Journal Asia in a three-year sole partnership with Credit Suisse, recognize innovations that break with conventional processes in creative ways to improve quality of life or productivity.
About Vecor Group
Each year coal power plants around the world produce nearly 1 billion metric tons of fly ash waste. This waste is dumped in landfill sites and fly ash lagoons. Vecor Group, an Australia based company, has licensed and developed a suite of innovative technologies for recycling industrial fly ash waste. The core technology, invented at the University of New South Wales, enables the production of high-quality sintered building materials such as ceramic tiles, pavers and aggregates that are made of 60-90% recycled material. Vecor building materials are of excellent strength and durability, very cost-competitive and require significantly less energy and water inputs to manufacture compared with traditional building materials. The preparation and sintering processes utilized by Vecor clean up the fly ash and render constituent components inert.
Vecor is currently engaging partners to expand their business in Europe, China, India and Australia. For more information, please visit http://www.vecor.com.au
About the Asian Innovation Awards
The Asian Innovation Awards is committed to finding the next big ideas in Asia, from entirely new inventions to the advancement of a classic. Entries to the awards come from individuals, small businesses, large corporations and academia in Asia Pacific.
This year, the Wall Street Journal Asia received more than 300 entries. An independent panel of judges selected by The Wall Street Journal Asia will judge this year's entries. The three criteria for judging are: level of creativity or degree of innovation; quality of execution; and the potential impact on quality of life or productivity.
For more information please contact:
Ms. Anita Zhang, Admin. Manager
Tel: +86-1371-370-5812
Email: a.cheung@vecor.com.au
