HydroFLOW USA Receives the 2015 Kitchen Innovations Award

By JenBow | Posted: Monday, March 09, 2015 02:40 PM

The National Restaurant Association has awarded HydroFLOW USA the 2015 Kitchen Innovations Award. For over a decade, the industry has trusted the IK Awards Program to vet and recognize products that meaningfully improve the back of the house. Recipients enjoy not only industry-wide exposure, but a powerful endorsement that opens the door with foodservice operators, specifiers and dealers for many years to come.

Bjorn Pearson and Roland Eppert, owners of HydroFLOW Midwest, a distributor of the eco-friendly water conditioners in the upper Midwest, are honored to receive the award.

The National Restaurant Association is the leading business association for the restaurant industry, which is comprised of one million restaurant and foodservice outlets and a work force of 14 million employees. The Kitchen Innovations Awards recognizes and celebrates cutting-edge equipment and technology that specifically improves the back of the house and benefits foodservice operators.

"We are seeking new kitchen equipment and technology innovations that deliver the most significant benefits to operators," said Dan Bendall of FoodStrategy, Inc., and Kitchen Innovations Awards judge. "Our panel of judges believes continuous innovation is the life-blood of our industry growth and profitability. It’s our mission to evaluate the latest innovations and select those which are major advances in the kitchen efficiency, quality, safety, conservation, integration with front of the house, and of course improving the work environment."

Restaurants often struggle with problems of scale and bacteria. The maintenance of these problems can be expensive and time-consuming. HydroFLOW uses a chemical-free technology that treats lime scale related problems in residential, commercial and industrial sectors.

About HydroFLOW USA: HydroFLOW USA is an American-owned company which distributes one-of-a-kind water conditioners. HydroFLOW water conditioners provide a chemical-free and eco-friendly solution for build-up problems in many applications, from restaurant equipment to pools, water heaters, cooling towers, boilers and waste water treatment.

HII Technologies, Inc. Announces Two New Customer Wins for Bacteria Testing and Removal

By Market Wire, March 10, 2015 09:58:00 AM EDT

HOUSTON, TX -- (Marketwired) -- 03/10/15 -- HII Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB:HIIT) ("HII Technologies" or the "Company"), an oilfield service company focused in frac water management with supporting divisions in oilfield power and safety services, today announced it has new agreements with two major E&P companies in West Texas to provide on-site testing and elimination of bacteria using the Company's AES HydroFLOW and Rapid-B test technologies.

Bacteria introduced into a well causes a range of problems that may damaage the producing formation, cause corrosion, and result in loss of production. The cost of treating Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion(MIC) is estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars per year, and hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single well. The traditional approach for preventing bacteria build-up has been to use oxidants and biocides to treat bacteria in water prior to it going downhole for fracing. Previous testing techniques required operators to wait one to three weeks for results and by the time the sample results were produced, some bacteria have survived the biocide treatment and remained in the water. The Vivione Rapid-B system makes in-field bacteria testing available in real time so that quantitative data can be used to calculate dosing of biocides, The Rapid-B system in combination with AES HydroFLOW successfully destroys up to 99% of bacteria in water without the use of chemicals resulting in cost savings for operators in the field.

A major E&P company with a market capitalization of over $50 billion hired AES Water Solutions to test for bacteria in water and frac fluids in West Texas in order to systematically identify potential points of bacterial contamination throughout all stages of the frac. AES dispatched a mobile bacteria testing lab and collected fluid samples at each key point in the process, including discrete samples of various size proppants and gels. The Rapid-B technology was able to provide living bacteria counts within 15 minutes of initiating the test, resulting in identification of several samples with high bacteria levels detected after the biocide treatment. Rapid-B identified quantitative values for living bacteria allowing time to apply additional treatment of biocides based on real-time data before the fluid entered the formation.

Another major E&P company with large drilling and completion programs in West Texas began using the AES HydroFLOW to kill bacteria in fresh and produced water pits, which resulted in maintained lower bacteria levels in stored water without use of chemicals. AES Water Solutions attached HydroFLOW devices on exterior of pipelines used to recirculate water in large pits (~250,000 bbls) and ruptured the cells of bacteria in the water. When compared with periodic dosing of oxidants which were no longer present in the water after the initial reaction, the HydroFLOW continuously treated the water with greater long term effectiveness at neutralizing bacteria, and at a significantly reduced cost per month. The customer engaged AES Water Solutions to operate HydroFLOW units during water transfer to a hydraulic fracturing operation for on-the-fly bacteria treatment.

"We are pleased to announce these new customer wins with active oilfield operators for the testing and removal of bacteria using AES HydroFLOW systems," said Brent Mulliniks, President of AES Water Solutions. "Both contracts are with new customers in our core operating region of West Texas. This progress provides further evidence of the demand for the commercialization of AES HydroFLOW and Rapid-B systems. The additions of large new customers gives us confidence that we can expect growth in this segment in an environment where the single service providers are losing market share to full bundled service providers."

The HydroFLOW system provides lower cost bacteria treatment than chemicals (up to 70% savings), and is supported by testing from the Vivione Rapid-B that validates HydroFLOW's effectiveness. HydroFLOW is able to not only reduce the cost for neutralizing bacteria, but also considerably reduces the footprint and traffic of treatment equipment. AES Water Solutions provides a cost-competitive combination of water transfer and bacteria neutralization that saves time, cost and significantly reduces the footprint of on-site equipment.

About HII Technologies, Inc.

HII Technologies, Inc. is a Houston, Texas based oilfield Services Company focused on Total Frac Water Managemnt with operations in the Southwest United States. It has two supporting divisions in oilfield power management and safety services. By focusing on the critical service areas of Water, Safety and Power, the company's bundled services approach has allowed them to become a cutting edge technology provider and cost saving solution to oilfield operators who are looking for ways to improve efficiencies in the current price environment. The Company's frac water management division does business as AES Water Solutions, Hamilton and AquaTex, its on-site oilfield contract safety consultancy does business as AES Safety Services and its mobile oilfield power subsidiary does business as Sage Power Solutions, formerly South Texas Power (STP). HII Technologies' objective is to bring proven technologies to these operationg divisions to build a long-term competitive advantage for its stakeholders.