Enterprise Ireland high potential start-up company OxyMem scoops one award after another this autumn. The company has just been named the 2014 Innovative Startup category winner at the Bank of Ireland Startup awards for the development of its breakthrough technology for wastewater aeration. But it’s only one of its accomplishments.

Earlier this month the Athlone-based company won the Overall Excellence in Intellectual Property Award at the Intellectual Property (IP) Awards 2014 as well as the Tech IP Award. The awards, devised and organised by Event Strategies, aim to recognise and celebrate those involved in the IP process and generate awareness of the wealth that IP creation and monetisation brings to Ireland.

Earlier this year OxyMem won the overall ‘Innovation of the Year’ Award at the 2014 Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards. In June, it won the first Water Innovation SME Award in Europe for Membrane Technologies.

OxyMem was also included in the Global Top 30 for the Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA) 2014 Later Stage Awards. The prestigious Top 30 consist of mid-to late-stage companies that originate from a variety of cleantech industries and have a proven track record in their home market, with the goal to expand internationally. The Global Top 10 winners and one Grand Prize winner will be determined by a panel of investors and announced at the 5th annual CleanTech Investing Seminar in Lausanne, Switzerland on December 3, 2014.

OxyMem was also shortlisted for Platts Global Energy Award the only Irish company to make the finalists. The 2014 finalists were chosen from nearly 250 nominees from 36 nominating countries.

OxyMem was co-founded in 2013 by Prof Eoin Casey and Dr Eoin Syron as spin-out from UCD’s School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering. The company is commercialising a breakthrough UCD technology to address the global need for a more energy efficient aeration solution for wastewater treatment. It currently employs 24 people and plans to increase staff numbers to 35 within the next year.

On receiving the Innovative Startup of the Year 2014 Award, Managing Director of OxyMem, Wayne Byrne said "We are delighted to have won the Innovative Startup of the Year award amongst very deserving entries. To be acknowledged as being amongst the most pioneering of Ireland’s startups is a real honour for OxyMem." Mr Byrne added “This is a great boost also for our staff, whose hard work and dedication has played an integral part in our success.”

We want to take this opportunity to wish the company further successes on the path to growth.