Envirofit secures funding for Philippines project

FORT COLLINS – Envirofit International Ltd. has secured financial backing from the Fort Collins-based Bohemian Foundation and the Swiss government to launch a pollution-reduction program in the Philippine city of Vigan.

Envirofit is a nonprofit company based on engine retrofit technology developed at Colorado State University. The company specializes in converting heavily polluting two-stroke engines into more fuel efficient machines.

In January Envirofit signed a formal memorandum of understanding with Vigan, located in the northeastern Philippines, to retrofit the city’s entire fleet of about 3,000 two-stroke engine powered tricycle taxis.

The taxis are popular in densely populated Asian and African cities.

The Vigan retrofit…