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Press
Release Archives: 02/01/2007
Itronics President Dr. John Whitney Named an
Entrepreneur of the Year
RENO, Nev., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Itronics
Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: ITRO; Frankfurt and Berlin
Stock Exchanges: ITG) today announced that it's
President, Dr. John Whitney, has been named
"Entrepreneur of the Year," Agriculture/Environment by
The Business Report of Northern Nevada, published by the
Reno Gazette-Journal.
The Judges comments, accompanying the article, said:
"Dr. Whitney has transformed a once-hazardous material
into a groundbreaking chemical process that actually is
good for the environment."
The article salutes Dr. Whitney as "a leader with
business sense as well as technical expertise" in the
development of Itronics, a business "that uses a
proprietary process to turn hazardous chemical waste
into precious metals and environmentally friendly
fertilizers."
The article continues: "Creating a process to separate
the silver from the effluent was one challenge, but Dr.
Whitney discovered the byproduct had nutritional
qualities that could potentially benefit agriculture.
After extensive testing and tweaking, the fertilizer
GOLD'n GRO was born, and it has proven to be a winner,
even in a competitive field dominated by large
fertilizer companies."
"We've shown you can completely eliminate the waste
stream," the article quotes Dr. Whitney saying. "And it
is one of the most complicated waste streams that
exist."
The article said, "Now Itronics boasts a business with
several revenue centers ... It is growing at a clip of
40 percent a year ... It has emerged with a strong
growth path toward profitability."
Itronics has won a number of other prestigious awards
including being one of five finalists for the
Kirkpatrick Chemical Engineering Award, the most
prestigious worldwide award in chemical engineering
technologies. Itronics was awarded second place, Highly
Commended in the Environmental Technology category, at
the prestigious Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
2005 Worldwide Environmental Award ceremonies at the
Royal Courts of Justice in London, England and was
awarded the USA Gold Award at the House of Commons in
London in November 2005 as part of the International
Green Apple Environmental Awards contest, one of the
largest and most prestigious of its kind in the world.
It won the International Green Hero award in 2006 for
its leadership on environmental issues. Itronics' GOLD'n
GRO fertilizer was named one of the top 10 new
technologies representing the best of agricultural
innovation by the Canadian Association of Agri-Retailers
in its December 2005 publication "Communicator." Dr.
John Whitney, Itronics President, was selected as
Nevada's Inventor of the Year and is a member of the
Inventor's Hall of Fame at the University of Nevada,
Reno.
About Itronics
Itronics, through its subsidiary, Itronics
Metallurgical, Inc., is the only company in the world
with a "Beneficial Use Photochemical, Silver, and Water
Recycling" facility that extracts more than 99 percent
of the silver and virtually all the other toxic heavy
metals from used photoliquids and converts the resulting
liquids into environmentally beneficial, chelated,
multinutrient liquid fertilizer products sold under the
GOLD'n GRO trademark, and 5 troy ounce, 0.999 pure,
Silver Nevada Miner numismatic bars. The environmentally
friendly liquid fertilizers can be used for lawns and
houseplants, and are available, along with GOLD'n GRO
liquid fertilizer injectors, at the Company's "e-store"
catalog at http://www.goldngro.com . The popular Silver
Nevada Miner bars are available at the Company's
"e-store" catalog at http://www.itromet.com .
Headquartered in Reno, Nevada, Itronics Inc. is a
"Creative Environmental Technology" company and a world
leader in photochemical recycling. The Company also
provides project planning and technical services to the
mining industry and operates the global Gold Producing
Stocks web site, http://www.insidemetals.com .
VISIT OUR WEB SITE: http://www.itronics.com
("Safe Harbor" Statement under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release
contains or may contain forward-looking statements such
as statements regarding the Company's growth and
profitability, growth strategy, liquidity and access to
public markets, operating expense reduction, and trends
in the industry in which the Company operates. The
forward-looking statements contained in this press
release are also subject to other risks and
uncertainties, including those more fully described in
the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. The Company assumes no obligation to update
these forward-looking statements to reflect actual
results, changes in risks, uncertainties or assumptions
underlying or affecting such statements, or for
prospective events that may have a retroactive effect.)
Contact: Paul Knopick
888-795-6336
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Source: Itronics Inc.
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