LiqTech Names Finn Helmer As New CEO
-Successful Business Executive Assumes Strategic Role-
BALLERUP, Denmark, March 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LiqTech International, Inc. (OTCQX: LIQT), a clean technology company that manufactures and markets highly specialized filtration technologies, announced today a new CEO to guide the Company.
Mr. Aldo Petersen, Chairman of LiqTech, stated, "We are extremely pleased that Finn Helmer, a proven leader, has agreed to accept the role as CEO of LiqTech. Over the course of more than 40 years Finn has in many different situations successfully demonstrated his talent for leading and growing companies into meaningfully larger and more profitable companies."
Mr. Petersen continued, "Mr. Helmer's record of success includes some notable transactions including, in particular, his role as CEO of GIGA A/S, a small company in the NKT Group. When he joined GIGA as its seventh employee, it had limited capital, was not profitable and had revenue of less than $1 million. In less than 5 years, GIGA employed 100 people, was generating revenues and pre-tax profit of $135 million and $73 million, respectfully. In 2000 Intel (USA) acquired GIGA for $1.25 billion."
Mr. Petersen concluded, "Finn's ability to grow small technologically advanced companies is going to be invaluable to LiqTech, particularly as we enter into a very important period for our silicon carbide membrane technology. I look forward to Finn's leadership and enthusiastically support his addition to the management team."
Finn Helmer stated, "I am proud to be associated with LiqTech. I have studied its technology and I see many similarities to GIGA. LiqTech has a new and disruptive technology, with unique competitive advantages, in large and growing markets, where the need for new solutions in its targeted end markets provides great growth potential. My goal is to help LiqTech become Denmark's next GIGA."
Lasse Andreassen, LiqTech founder and former CEO, stated, "I fully support Finn's joining LiqTech. Finn brings the technological background to understand and appreciate the value of LiqTech's disruptive silicon carbide membrane technology as well as the business acumen to help it flourish. With Finn joining the Company in his new role, I can focus on refining our production processes and continuing to develop additional products and technological advances of our silicon carbide membranes. I am excited to work with Finn in building LiqTech. I believe this move should be very beneficial for LiqTech, its customers and its shareholders."
ABOUT LIQTECH INTERNATIONAL, INC. LiqTech International, Inc., a Nevada corporation, is a clean technology company that for more than a decade has developed and provided state-of-the-art technologies for gas and liquid purification using ceramic silicon carbide filters, particularly, highly specialized filters for the control of soot exhaust particles from diesel engines and for liquid filtration. It also manufactures kiln furniture. Using nanotechnology, LiqTech develops products using proprietary silicon carbide technology. LiqTech's products are based on unique silicon carbide membranes, which facilitate new applications and improve existing technologies. For more information, please visit www.liqtech.com.
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