Green Gate Consulting currently represents six environmental companies headquartered in the United States and in Europe. Our clients specialize in providing creative and cost effective solutions in the hazardous waste management sector, wastewater/sanitation sectors and the renewable energy sector. We assist our clients in advancing their organizational missions and entering foreign markets while expanding their sales and international presence.

Below are some examples of GGC’s current project engagements:

Case #1: Introducing Innovative Polish Technology in Hazardous Waste Management into the U.S. Market

GGC has been working with a Polish company who operates in the hazardous waste sector and who owns an innovative hazardous waste stabilization technology. The company has invented, developed, and patented (both in the European Union and United States) a unique system to neutralize and/or recover hazardous and toxic waste such as ash, sludge, and solids contaminated with heavy metals, hydrocarbons and pesticides. It is a scientific breakthrough in the field of neutralization of hazardous and toxic waste.

The company approached GGC to assist it in entering the U.S. market in order to develop sales and distribution partnerships with U.S. market leaders in the hazardous waste sector. The company owns a unique technology, but lacks sufficient connections and cultural understanding needed to enter and to operate in the U.S. market.

Case #2: Assisting Poland’s Largest Water Supply and Sewage Company Producer to Identify Innovative Water Technologies in the U.S. Market

Since April 2012 GGC has been representing Poland’s largest, and one of the largest in Europe, water supply and sewerage joint stock company. Located in Southern Poland, it supplies drinking water to over 3.5 million people and to the industries located in the region. It manages 11 wastewater purification plants, which purify both surface water and source (deep underground) water. The company has been successfully operating in the Polish water sector for many years, and it has been well recognized in Poland.

Under our representation agreement with Poland’s largest water supplier and sewage company, GGC has been identifying for our client innovative American water technologies that the Polish company could implement in its Polish operations in Southern Poland.

Case #3: Assisting Polish Producer of Unique, Patented Valve Systems to Form a Strategic Partnership in the U.S. Market

Since January 2012 GGC has been representing a producer of an innovative, patented solution for water and sewage management markets, including both sewage fittings and sewage pumping products. The latest developments of this company are system fittings with no-return valves and columns enabling aeration and flushing of the pipeline in any direction.

GGC’s Polish client particularly prides itself as a producer one of the world’s most advanced valves, which combines the functions of traditional no-return valves and elbow valves. It is a 3-in-1 solution combining an elbow, check-valve and gate-valve. The system eliminates one flange connection and ensures measurably higher effectiveness when compared to traditional solutions. It also uses fewer parts when compared to alternatives, and it significantly reduces the weight of check valves by more than half in comparison to the traditional solutions. Moreover, the system minimizes loss of pressure and provides reliable and robust operation permitting easier access to the interior of the valve. This also enables easier inspection and clearing of the pipeline before and after valve mounting.

Case #4: Expanding the European Footprint of Leading U.S. Wastewater Sanitation Firms

Two of GGC’s other clients operating in the wastewater and sanitation sector are headquartered in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Both companies represent interesting and unique technologies, they are successful and accomplished in the U.S. market and to some extent internationally, but they intend to expand their presence in Europe, more precisely in Poland.

GGC was asked to develop a tailored sales campaign in Poland and to provide market intelligence and custom research on potential opportunities. We have provided both clients with strategic business insight and advice on the risks and opportunities while operating in the Polish market. We have also informed our clients on the current economic and political environments that can affect their ability to successfully operate in Poland.

Case #5: Navigating U.S. Government Procurement Opportunities for an American Company Operating in the Wastewater Sector

One of our clients is a medium sized U.S. based Midwestern wastewater treatment company. GGC has been working with this company on expanding its services to the European market, and recently the company asked GGC to help it navigate relevant U.S. Government procurement opportunities. The goal of this company is to become a part of the U.S. Government procurement opportunities process, and to actively participate in government awarded contracts. It has been successful in private sector, but now the company wishes to explore the government possibilities related to its line of work.

Based on our contacts and understanding of the U.S. Government procurement marketplace, GGC has been assisting this company to navigate U.S. Government procurement opportunities by monitoring and screening procurement announcements that most match our client’s offerings, with a special emphasis on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), U.S. Trade Development Agency (USTDA) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).

Case #6: Marketing World’s First Solar Bulb to International Markets

Since June 2011 GGC has been working with an American company who invented and patented the world’s first solar bulb. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, the company owns and innovative and useful product, but lacks the appropriate connections and understanding needed to enter and to operate in the international markets.

Based on our international contacts and understanding of the global marketplace, GGC has been assisting our client to effectively market its solar products in Latin America and Asia. Recently, we have also taken an effort to introduce our client’s solar bulb in Europe. GGC has started a global marketing campaign for our client and we are looking forward to continue this campaign in months to come.

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Case #7: Exporting American Mobile Solar Power Generation Products to India and Other Developing Countries

One of our clients was a New Jersey based manufacturer of leading solar water purification, solar power generation, and solar agricultural irrigation systems. This manufacturer’s solar products can inexpensively supply an entire town with potable water from freshwater, seawater or brackish water sources as an alternative to diesel generators or other expensive technologies that damage the environment.

GGC was hired to provide strategic and tactical business advice in order to raise the client’s international profile and to brand its innovative solutions on the solar energy market. We developed a customized strategy that included producing tailored business development plans, market entry strategies, and partnerships to assist the client in entering both the Asian and European markets (The Netherlands and Central Europe).