KURION BUYS GEOMELT TECHNOLOGY FROM BANKRUPT IMPACT SERVICES

Waste treatment company Kurion announced yesterday it has purchased the GeoMelt vitrification business portion of Impact Services, the embattled company that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy last week. Kurion also acquired GeoSafe rights related to the technology in an acquisition that closed May 16, just two days before IMPACT Services closed its doors, and one week before the company filed for bankruptcy. “The GeoMelt In-Container Vitrification approach complements and shares several key traits of Kurion’s Modular Vitrification System,” Kurion CEO John Raymont said in a release. According to Kurion, GeoMelt has been used to treat 26,000 metric tons of waste internationally, contaminated with radioisotopes, industrial chemicals and heavy metals. “It is a cost-effective, modular, robust and easily deployable in-container solution,” Raymont said. “Where the ICV approach has strengths in debris-laden or pre-containerized waste, the MVS is ideal for liquid and tank wastes where temperature, glass former and process flexibility is important to address waste streams with varying and/or challenging chemistries and densities.”