About

Origins of the Company:  Formed in 1998 by Michael Scalzi, Innovative Environmental Technologies, Inc. (IET) was inspired by the observed need for a remedial contractor in the environmental industry that could provide state-of-the-art remedial technologies to environmental consultants and engineers.  To achieve this objective, IET would have to continuously develop, patent and license innovative and emerging technologies.  Further, IET would have to position itself as a remedial contractor and technology vendor to a sophisticated and knowledgeable customer base.  Unencumbered by any one product supplier relationship, IET could provide its customers coordinated remedial programs integrating a variety of remedial products.

Evolution of the Company:  In the early years, IET focused on the development of efficient in-situ delivery processes that would be capable of injecting a wide variety of materials to targeted subsurface formations.  These efforts resulted in the patenting of IET’s apparatus for in-situ injections as well as the design and manufacturing of its own proprietary injection tooling (US Patent 7,044,152).  During these early years, IET’s focus was primarily aerobic biomineralization processes for the treatment of dissolved and sorbed phase petroleum hydrocarbons.  The success of these treatment validated IET as a resource to numerous consulting engineering companies across the country.  By 2001, IET was approached by several of its clients to evaluate and propose treatments for chlorinated solvents.  Between 2001 and 2003, IET proposed and implemented many in-situ programs targeting chlorinated ethenes and ethanes.  IET applied various oxidative and reductive technologies during these years, finally focusing on a synergistic biotic-abiotic approach for the treatment of chlorinated solvents (US Patent 7,129,388).  

Establishing and maintaining the relationships with its customers while focusing on the company’s image as a technology resource to these customers required IET to evolve into a value-added contractor.   To add value to it’s services, IET chose to provide free data analysis of the projects it had implemented.  Together with lump-sum pricing for turn-key remediation services, IET has been able to become an invaluable resource to its customers while maintaining a connection to the individual projects’ data.  It has been this “connection” that has allowed IET to evaluate the efficacies of individual remedial compounds and the implemented programs.  The interpretation of the biological, abiotic, geochemical and hydrogeologic changes in conjunction with treatment efficacies has resulted in unique treatment strategies, additional patents and proprietary treatment approaches.  This continuous evolution and innovation has become the hall-mark of IET and its value to our customers.
   
The Company Today:  Today, IET is recognized across the environmental industry as a leader in in-situ remedial technologies.  Having completed hundreds of projects across the country, IET is called upon to design and implement remedial programs for a wide variety of containments in various geologic conditions by both large and small consulting engineering firms.  IET maintains five million dollars in environmental contractors insurance, auto insurance, general liability and workman’s compensation insurance, allowing the company to provide services to all users of its services.  IET hold’s numerous in-house patents, patent applications and licenses, together with dozens of master service agreements with consulting engineering firms across the country.  As a result, IET continues to provide value added services to the environmental industry.

1     10,836,648     Ex situ ferrate generation
2     10,729,132     Xylophage control using antimethanogenic reagents
3     10,219,518     Inhibition of methanogenesis to control wood boring insects and pestilence
4     9,637,731     Heavy metal stabilization and methane inhibition during induced or naturally occurring reducing conditions in contaminated media
5     9,427,786     Chemical oxidation and biological attenuation process for the treatment of contaminated media
6     9,221,699     Inhibition of methane production during anaerobic reductive dechlorination
7     9,126,245     Chemical oxidation and biological attenuation process for the treatment of contaminated media
8     9,126,244     Use of encapsulated substrates that control the release rates of organic hydrogen donors
9     8,766,030     Utilization of ferric ammonium citrate for in situ remediation of chlorinated solvents
10     8,147,694     Method for the treatment of ground water and soils using mixtures of seaweed and kelp
11     7,828,974     Method for the treatment of ground water and soils using dried algae and other dried mixtures
12     7,531,709     Method for accelerated dechlorination of matter
13     7,129,388     Method for accelerated dechlorination of matter
14     7,044,152     Apparatus for in-situ remediation using a closed delivery system