Awards December 20, 2013

Broomfield-based Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) received Can of the Year honors for three packaging innovations at the 2013 Canmaker Summit, held recently in Edinburgh, Scotland. In the beverage two-piece category, the Coors Light World’s Most Refreshing Can won a gold award, and the Coca-Cola Dynamark can won a silver award. In the aerosol category, the Fa Sport Ultimate Dry impact extruded can won a silver award.

Boulder-based WeatherCloud received the 2013 Emerging Cleantech Company Award from the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association. Duer Reeves, founder of WeatherCloud, accepted the award from Christine Shapard, the association’s executive director. WeatherCloud has developed a vehicle-mounted sensor array that transforms vehicles into mobile weather sensors. Each sensor-equipped vehicle wirelessly uploads the data it collects to a database containing data from all other WeatherCloud-equipped vehicles. The result is continuously updated description of current and forecasted road and weather conditions at ground level.

Boulder-based Elevations Credit Union received a 2013 Peak Award from Rocky Mountain Performance Excellence, a nonprofit that helps organizations improve performance and achieve results. The award represents the highest level of execution in business process management and marks a key milestone in a company’s pursuit of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Assurance Award. Peak awards are presented to applicants that demonstrate role-model results, plus systematic and mature approaches, effective deployment, process learning and process integration in their operations.

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