Rick Farrell and EcoTek Lighting Receive Green Engineering Finalist Award from TechAmerica

July 2, 2009 - PRLog -- Samantha Simonnet and Gregg Gallagher of TechAmerica Orange County presented Rick Farrell, president of EcoTek Lighting, with a Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Finalist Award at EcoTek Lighting’s corporate headquarters in Lake Forest, California.

Gregg Gallagher is chair of the TechAmerica Exec Connect Committee and is the group vice president for Quantum Leaders in Irvine, California.  Samantha Simonnet is the Cleantech director for BridgeGate LLC in Irvine, California.  The Green Engineering Finalist Award was presented to Rick Farrell and EcoTek Lighting for outstanding achievement and leadership in green manufacturing and energy efficiency.  

“Indeed, according to a recent report produced by the Union of Concerned Scientists, “The Climate 2030 Blueprint”, energy efficiency (or the lack thereof) is the third largest cause of GHG (Greenhouse gas) emissions in the United states behind electricity generation and transportation,” said Simonnet. “And according to the DOE (Department of Energy) 2010 Congressional Budget Request, energy efficiency ranks second on the list of government priorities - behind renewable energy, but ahead of low emission transportation technology,”

EcoTek Lighting, a division of Expotrans, Inc., received the Harvey Mudd College Green Engineering Certificate of Merit at the TechAmerica High-tech Innovation Awards dinner on May 14, 2009, at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Mesa, CA.

About EcoTek Lighting
Ecotek Lighting, a division of Expotrans, Inc., is a leading provider of high performance menu boards, light boxes, poster frames and custom displays using LED illumination. Our LED backlit displays yield brilliant luminosity and deliver six times the energy efficiency of displays using edgelit T8 fluorescent lamps. Ecotek Lighting’s Eco-friendly products are 99% recyclable, UL, CUL and CE listed and contribute to LEED-Certified buildings. We design, engineer, manufacture and test each of our products in our state of the art Green manufacturing plant in Lake Forest, California. EcoTek Lighting was created with the mission of saving energy and producing Eco-friendly products. Our innovative Direct Backlit LED Array technology and our Green manufacturing processes significantly contribute to reducing emissions across the entire lifecycle of our products. Learn more at http://www.EcoTekLighting.com

About TechAmerica
TechAmerica is the leading voice for the U.S. technology industry, which is the driving force behind productivity growth and jobs creation in the United States and the foundation of the global innovation economy. Representing approximately 1,500 member companies of all sizes from the public and commercial sectors of the economy, it is the industry’s largest advocacy organization and is dedicated to helping members’ top and bottom lines. It is also the technology industry's only grassroots-to-global advocacy network, with offices in state capitals around the United States, Washington, D.C., Europe (Brussels) and Asia (Beijing). TechAmerica was formed by the merger of AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA) and the Government Electronics & Information Technology Association (GEIA). Learn more at www.techamerica.org.

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EcoTek Lighting is a leading electronics and lighting manufacturer, specializing in energy efficient LED illumination. Dawna Lee Heising is the director of marketing for EcoTek Lighting. For more information, contact dheising@ecoteklighting.com.