Ingenium, a full-spectrum innovative environmental services company, has opened a new facility in Kent, with the capability to serve the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The company provides creative, sustainable solutions for regulated waste management.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Corey Johnson, an environmental science professional with more 12 years in the industry, heads operations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“It’s a smaller company but it’s their initial presence in the Northwest,” said Josh Hall, economic development specialist for the city of Kent. “They are looking to grow and expand.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ingenium’s Kent operation, at 8206 S. 192 St., is expected to bring new jobs to the area and help businesses that produce hazardous, biomedical and radiological waste find solutions that go beyond disposal.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Company officials hope to have a workforce of 30-40 employees within two years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We are proud to be in the vanguard of regulated waste management in California and other Western States Ingenium currently serves,” Gary Lundstedt, executive director of Ingenium, said in a news release. “With Washington and other Pacific Northwest states commitment to going ‘green,’ it’s a natural move for us to expand in this area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“Our planned expansion was even further expedited when we were able to bring Corey on board,” Lundstedt said, “and we look forward to serving the region’s businesses with all the latest in sustainable procedures and processes.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Ingenium, based out of Escondido, Calif., is the latest “green” company to discover and help diversify Kent. Lundstedt better classifies his company as a “greener” one committed to the sector of environmental services that support business.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“We try to offer more green and sustainable solutions for people in the area of waste management and hazardous waste management,” Lundstedt said. “We try to actually get the businesses to not do business with us. We want them to not generate hazardous waste. We work with them on process changes and implementations to eliminate the volume of the waste that they do. And then, during that process, we also try to put processes in place where the waste that they do generate has a residual value, either as fuels or a recoverable value.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Kent is Ingenium’s third market, joining the San Diego and San Jose areas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In preparation for the move, Ingenium became a member of the WBBA (Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association), www.washbio.org<\/a>. The company’s goal is to assist WBBA life science members with information and support for the latest techniques in minimizing waste production, carbon footprint and reducing costs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n “We are very pleased to have as a member a service provider with Ingenium’s unique approach to our special waste issues,” said Dennis Kroft, director of marketing and Membership of the WBBA. “We have already met to discuss ways to develop panel discussions to assist our member companies, and the Seattle area as a whole, in understanding that materials once managed as hazardous waste or medical waste can now be recycled or re-purposed in other ways.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Ingenium was recently recognized by Inc 5000 as one of the fastest growing environmental services companies in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n