MAR Systems Named by BusinessWeek as One of 'America's Most Promising Startups'
MAR Systems has been named as one of America's Most Promising Startups by BusinessWeek magazine. This ongoing series highlights new companies from across the country that embody the creativity and resilience seen in today's entrepreneurs, but haven't become a household name yet.
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MAR Systems Awarded "Top 50 Water Innovation Leaders" Distinction at BlueTech Innovation Forum
The Artemis Project™ announced MAR Systems as one of its Top 50 Water Innovation Leaders at the BlueTech Innovation Forum.
A diverse group of companies-from Australia to England and New Mexico to New Jersey-won accolades for their ground-breaking approaches to water management, addressing everything from water scarcity to water purity to infrastructure upgrades and much more.
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Collaboration Looks to Clean Up Contaminated Water: As Featured in Case Western Reserve University Corporate Relations
Claude Kennard (MGT '91) says he founded MAR Systems, a clean water technology company headquartered in Solon, OH, to develop a faster, cheaper and greener solution to clean up contaminated water streams, particularly with regards to mercury.
Working hand-in-hand with the company to achieve that goal is Case Western Reserve University Macromolecular Science and Engineering Chair David Schiraldi, PhD, and his research team. MAR Systems funding supports one of Schiraldi's postdoctoral fellows and supports the surface analysis of a proprietary material for MAR Systems.
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MAR Systems Finds Faster, Cheaper, Better Way to Strip Bad Stuff Out of Water: As Featured in Hi Velocity
The presence of mercury, as well as other heavy metals, in our drinking water can lead to serious physical injury over time. Fortunately, new regulations are strictly limiting the quantities of these metals that companies can discharge into waterways. And fortunately for MAR Systems, the Cleveland-based enterprise has developed a "faster, cheaper and greener" way to strip these contaminants from water.
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Cleanup Plan: As featured in Inside Business Magazine
By Shawn A. Turner | September 2009 | Inside Business
MAR Systems has created a new, faster, portable water-cleaning process that could make the small Solon firm a major player in the water purification market.
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MAR in the News: Job push in clean energy pays off
June 13, 2009 : The Columbus Dispatch
Green is the "in" color for jobs these days, and Ohio is one of the states leading the way, according to a report.
Ohio ranked No. 4 nationally in the number of clean-energy jobs at the end of 2007, with just more than 35,000, said the report, produced by Pew Charitable Trusts, an independent nonprofit foundation based in Philadelphia.
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MAR Systems Welcomes New CEO
March 11, 2009
(SOLON, Ohio) March 11, 2009 – MAR Systems LLC, a Cleveland-based water purification company, welcomed Tony Lammers as its new chief executive officer. He began his position March 02.
Lammers brings more than 20 years of executive experience to MAR Systems with direct knowledge in managing day-to-day activities of consumer products, marketing, manufacturing and distribution operations. Lammers is returning to the United States from China, where he served as vice president of Office Solutions and Hobby and Craft Divisions for RT Sourcing Company since 2007.
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MAR Systems Offers New Technology for Safer, Cleaner Water
April 17, 2008
JumpStart, Inc.
CLEVELAND -- A few years ago, the U.S. government released more stringent drinking water standards that would require new technologies; water was coined "the new gold" by the investments industry; and the global water contaminant extraction industry went from tiny to huge, reaching multiple billions of dollars. An analyst for Goldman Sachs told a leading newspaper, "Water is a growth driver for as long and far as the eye can see." During that time, MAR Systems was quietly co-developing with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a "clean technology" that uses recycled alumina catalysts to remove metal contaminants from drinking water and industrial fluid waste streams.
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Company issued patent for water treatment media
April 15, 2008
Water Technology Online
CLEVELAND — MAR Systems, LLC, based here, announced in an April 14 press release that in March the company was issued U.S. Patent No. 7341667 for certain processes for reducing the level of arsenic in aqueous liquids, such as water and industrial fluid waste streams.
MAR Systems said it has commercialized its Sorbster™ brand of products for use in these and other processes.
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MAR Systems issued U.S. Patent for new water treatment media
April 14, 2008
Water World Online
MAR Systems, LLC, a Cleveland-based company, was issued United States Patent No. 7,341,667 on March 11, 2008, for certain processes for reducing the level of arsenic in aqueous liquids, such as industrial fluid waste streams. MAR Systems has commercialized its Sorbster™ brand of products for use in these and other processes. Claude Kennard, MAR Systems CEO, is a co-inventor of the media that extracts arsenic, mercury or other heavy metals from waste fluid streams.
Media is the term used for the product that extracts contaminants from water and industrial fluid waste streams. Iron oxide is currently the most used media in water treatment facilities.
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MAR Systems raises $650,000
January 2, 2008
Crain’s Cleveland Business
CLEVELAND -- Water purification technology company Mar Systems LLC has received new investments totaling $650,000 — funding that will be used to help the company grow and commercialize its technology.
The Mayfield Village startup in December closed deals to receive $500,000 from Lazy River Investments, a group of individual investors in Charleston, W. Va., and $150,000 from Cleveland venture development organization JumpStart Inc. Mar Systems previously received a $350,000 investment from JumpStart in May 2006.
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Water Experts to Gather Here
September 2, 2007
The Enquirer
CINCINNATI -- Business opportunities for developing clean, safe and sustainable water resources will be the focus of a first-of-its kind international meeting Wednesday and Thursday in Corryville.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Andrew W. Breidenbach Environmental Research Center will host the first Clean Water Partnership Summit at the research center and the Marriott Kingsgate Conference Hotel. The summit brings together 200 officials, researchers and venture capitalists looking for innovations in safe and clean water technology to commercialize.
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JumpStart Invests in MAR Systems
May 5, 2006
PR News Wire
CLEVELAND -- JumpStart Inc., Northeast Ohio's non-profit venture development organization announced an investment commitment of $350,000 in MAR Systems.
MAR Systems, a spin-off of Cleveland-based, minority owned Metaloy, provides proprietary processes for the removal of metals from water and gases through the use of recycled alumina catalysts.
"With the emergence of more stringent standards surrounding arsenic and heavy metals contained within drinking water and industrial effluents, our patent pending process offers an environmentally safe and friendly solution to a global concern," offered MAR Systems CEO, Claude Kennard. "The technology was developed jointly with the United States Environmental
Protection Agency," Kennard added.
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