ION.BE

Belgian real-estate developer ION was looking for sustainable heating alternatives for a new residential area in the city of Veurne when it received a proposal from a surprising source: PepsiCo. The food and beverage giant suggested a collaboration between the community and a nearby potato chip plant operated by Lay’s, a subsidiary. The vapor from cooking up to 20 tons of potatoes per hour could heat a water circuit, replacing natural gas with a more environmentally efficient process while simultaneously providing PepsiCo with a valuable carbon offset.

The project (which is also the winner of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards) is the result of a group effort from PepsiCo, the community of Veurne, and Belgian companies Noven which designed the technology and Fluvius which runs the utility grid in the area. The technology will deliver heating in radiators and tap water to its first homes sometime in the first half of 2022, topping out at 500 households upon the project’s completion in the next 10 years.

The venture will help PepsiCo meet its targets to cut carbon emissions by more than 40% by 2030 (against a 2015 baseline) and achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, “but also helps us give back to the local communities where we operate” says Wim Destoop, vice president and general manager of PepsiCo Northwest Europe. While the system started off as a convenient intersection of needs in one area, with the right conditions and interested parties, Destoop says, the process could be replicated elsewhere.

To this respect, today’s Web Award goes to ION.BE which is the website of the Belgian real-estate developer, on which all this beautiful project is based.

ABOUT THE WEBSITE:

Domain Name: ION.BE
-Registered: Fri Aug 27 2010
-Registrar: Combell NV
-Nameserver 1: adel.ns.cloudflare.com
-Nameserver 2: norm.ns.cloudflare.com

Server IP: 104.26.14.181
-ASN: AS13335
-ISP: Cloudflare Inc
-Server Location: Ghent, Belgium

Technologies;
-CMS: WordPress
-Blog: WordPress
-Programming Language: PHP
-Databases: MySQL
-SEO: Yoast
-Security: reCAPTCHA
-Web Servers: Apache
-Font Scripts: Font Awesome
-Tag Managers: Google Tag Manager
-JavaScript Libraries: FancyBox, jQuery
-Maps: Leaflet

Profile;
-Title: Property developer ION
-Description: Property developer ION from Waregem pushes boundaries for a high-quality living environment with leading architecture and an eye for the future.

Traffic;
-Global Rank: #2,488,438
-Country Rank (Belgium) #28,881
-Category Rank (Real Estate) #329
-Total Visits: 15.0K
-Pages per Visit: 3.13
-Bounce Rate: 13.91%
-Average Visit Duration 00:01:15

About;
-Company: ION
-Year Founded: 2011
-Employees: 51 – 200
-HQ: Belgium, Waregem
-Annual Revenue: $5.0M – $10.0M

Audience Demographics;
-Gender Distribution:
Female 54.90%
Male 45.10%
-Age Distribution:
18-24: 16.61%
25-34: 24.34%
35-44: 20.86%
45-54: 17.08%
55-64: 12.16%
65+ 8.95%

SEMrush;
-Domain: ion.be
-Rank: 3,919,381
-Organic Keywords: 46
-Organic Traffic: 75

Search Engine Indexes;
-Google Index: 677
-Bing Index: 104
-Yahoo Index: 1,490

Website Speed;
-Page Speed – Desktop: 99
-Page Speed – Mobile: 87

Compression: BR
-Original size: 50.82 KB
-Compressed size: 8.76 KB
-File reduced by: 42.07 KB (82%)

Security & Trust Report;
-Google Safe Browsing: Clean
-Mcafee Site Advisor: Clean
-Kaspersky: Clean
-BitDefender: Clean
-Avira: Clean
-Eset: Clean
-Comodo: Clean
-Yandex Safe Browsing: Clean
-Spamhaus: Clean
-FraudScore: Clean
-Trustwave: Clean
-AlienVault: Clean
-BlockList: Clean
-Sucuri Site Check: Clean
-Phishing Database: Clean
-Malwared: Clean
-Nucleon: Clean
-Sophos: Clean
-Baidu: Clean
-Tencent: Clean

SSL Check: Website supports HTTPS
-Certificate Issuer: Let’s Encrypt
-Certificate Type: E1
-Issued On: 2022-05-31
-Signature: ecdsa-with-SHA384
-SSL Certificate is installed correctly.

WEBSITE SCORES BY THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE JURY:

• Content: 90%
• Usefulness: 90%
• Design: 89%
• Creativity: 92%
• Usability: 87%
• Responsiveness: 87%

AND THE AWARD GOES TO:

Today’s Web Award goes to ION.BE, thanks to its excellence in quality, originality, design and content.
Congratulations.

Website Address: https://www.ion.be/

© Copyright & Credits: ION.BE