Enval founder wins ACES innovation awards for recycling tech

Metal Recycling News  |  2011-02-04 06:59:41   |   By

Enval Ltd is commercializing waste recycling and environmental technologies that can recover clean aluminium from packaging waste such as toothpaste tubes.

ZURICH (Scrap Monster): Ludlow from the University of Cambridge, founder of Enval Ltd has won Europe’s academic innovators ACES award for the development of waste recycling technology for laminated materials  in Materials/Chemistry category .

Enval Ltd is commercializing waste recycling and environmental technologies that can recover clean aluminium from packaging waste such as toothpaste tubes.

The recovered aluminium can, in turn, be resmelted. Twenty customers worldwide are testing Enval’s technology, which provides the first alternative to dumping such waste in landfill. In Europe alone, Enval could treat an estimated 2 million tonnes of waste per annum which would otherwise be sent to landfill. The judges were impressed by Enval’s technology and large commercial potential.

Academic entrepreneurs from Switzerland, Finland, the United Kingdom and Israel were recognised in the third annual ACES awards, held in Zurich on 3 February and awarded by the Science|Business Innovation Board

The ACES is a pan-European competition among companies spun out from universities – to recognise the best academic entrepreneurs from across all technology disciplines.  The competition is open to entrepreneurs in the European Union and countries affiliated with European Union’s 7th Framework Programme for research, including Israel and Russia. This year, the ACES drew nominations from Europe to Bashkorostan and culminated in an awards ceremony hosted by the ETH Zurich.

The ACES Awards 2011 are sponsored by the GE, Foley & Lardner LLP, ETH Zurich, the Office for Economy and Labour of the Canton of Zurich, the Swiss Innovation Promotion Agency of the Swiss Confederation, and the Innovation Board. This year’s ACES conference is also supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).