Vecor Group Green Building Materials: Asian Innovation Award Finalists

July 29, 2010

HONG KONG, July 28 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Green building materials company Vecor Group has been selected as a finalist for the Asian Innovation Awards 2010. Vecor's breakthrough recycling and manufacturing technologies stood out from nearly 300 entries to be shortlisted for the prestigious award. Vecor is also a finalist for the Credit Suisse Technopreneur Award, handed to the company that best applies a technology with the greatest potential for commercial success. Vecor Group has developed a suite of innovative processes and proprietary equipment that enable high-value recycling of fly ash -- a solid waste produced by coal power stations. Fly ash is a significant landfill liability in most industrial nations, with nearly 1 billion tons of fly ash destined for landfill in countries like the USA, China and India each year. Utilizing an exclusively licensed patent from the University of New South Wales, Vecor cleans up the fly ash, prepares and fires it to produce high-quality sintered ceramic tiles, pavers, bricks, blocks, and aggregates. Vecor's products are lighter, stronger and require less energy and water inputs to manufacture compared with standard building materials.

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