An Auckland engineering company is scaling up to meet global demand for its technology that turns steelmaking-waste into valuable raw materials.

RNZ recently interviewed Avertana’s CEO, Sean Molloy on the recent IChemE Award win, and their future global plans.

Auckland process technology company Avertana has won a leading global engineering award, taking out the Sustainability category at the respected IChemE Global Awards, an annual worldwide competition for excellence in chemical engineering, for its process that turns industrial waste from steelmaking into essential raw materials.

See below for further details on the award and Avertana’s process.

The winners of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Global Awards were announced last week on 7 November 2019.  Avertana is pleased to announce that it has won the Sustainability category this year.

The IChemE Global Awards celebrate chemical and process engineering excellence. Now in their 25th year, they are widely considered the world’s most prestigious chemical engineering awards.