Award-winning Carlow company voted Business of the Year announces new CEO

Aquamonitrix, which is based in Tullow, is delivering a dataset to the water industry on nitrates and nitrites that are toxic to fish, but which were previously impossible to measure in real time.

Chief Operating Officer (COO), Colm Lynch, has taken over as CEO effective from 1st January 2024. Colm has been COO of Aquamonitrix since the company was founded in August 2021. A graduate of UCD and Trinity College, he has 25 years’ experience in the environment industry holding senior roles in Irish Building Chemicals, Labscan and GKA Technologies before joining TE Laboratories as Head of Operations in 2018.

Current CEO and company founder, Mark Bowkett, will continue with Aquamonitrix in a director role, supporting Colm on commercial activities.

The company was announced as the BIM Aquatech Business of the Year 2023 at a conference in Killarney titled “Aquatech – Ireland’s Global Opportunity”

Carlow company is BIM Aquatech Business of the Year

Recently Aquamonitirx announced it has agreed a year-long nitrite and nitrate testing trial with Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water and sewerage company which has around fifteen million customers across London and the Thames Valley. The trial will demonstrate that nitrite and nitrate monitoring in wastewater can improve wastewater treatment performance.  

Incoming Aquamonitirix CEO, Colm Lynch, said he is very excited to be taking up the new role, 'Organisations around the world have embraced the need for innovative technologies that provide opportunities for continuous emission reduction, and I am delighted to be working with a dedicated team bringing new products that will make a difference.'  

'If successful, the implementation of our technology in the day to day operations of Thames Water operations could hugely reduce energy consumption and process emissions, and make a serious contribution towards emission reductions.'

'With ongoing concern around the impact of climate change, we are very excited to be on the frontline of projects on the scale of Thames Water which will be making a significant contribution to making the world a more environmentally friendly place to live in.'

Aquamonitirix state-of-the-art facilities, based in Tullow, Co Carlow, house four laboratories and a R&D centre, in a dedicated 40,000 square foot facility staffed by an expert, multi-disciplinary team. The company currently employs over fifty people, most of whom are chemists, engineers or full-time researchers.