SHANGHAI, CHINA—URBN Hotels & Resorts announced a partnership with sustainable water experts, Environtech (an operating brand of Hallmark Environmental Technologies, Inc). The two companies have joined forces on a project which will bring clean, pure, potable tap water to all of URBN’s three food and beverage outlets at the URBN Hotel in Shanghai, including their new restaurant Downstairs with David Laris.
Environtech will provide the URBN Hotel with an on-site Re:Water water recycling system, which will increase the quality of water to meet or exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) drinking water standards. For the restaurant, this means all food will be washed and cooked in 100 percent pure water and free of heavy metals and bacteria.
Besides allowing URBN to provide an improved water quality standard in their kitchens, the Re:Water water recycling system will increase the hotel’s water efficiency by up to 70 percent.
Significant Industry Experience
Hallmark Environmental Technologies, Inc. (HET) and its operating brand, Environtech, is a systems and solutions company backed by 25 years of experience in the water/wastewater industry. HET owns an exclusive and proprietary portfolio of water/wastewater systems and solutions patents. The company’s proprietary patent-pending Triple “R” water recycling solution for five-star hotels and grade A business and commercial buildings is currently being marketed and deployed under the brand Re:Water.
URBN’s managing director, Scott Barrack, is excited about the collaboration. “We will offer all our guests the most sustainable restaurant in Shanghai with the freshest drinking water.”
The new water recycling system has already been deployed in the first URBN Hotel in Shanghai and will be deployed in other URBN establishments in 2011.
