Company Working To Solve Global Water Shortage Relocates To Tampa

TAMPA, FL ? An advanced technology start-up that's developed pioneering technology that could end the global water crisis announced Tuesday that it is opening its corporate headquarters in Tampa.

Now based in Kansas City, Genesis Systems LLC currently has 25 employees but plans to add 125 new positions in the next five years as it launches its first line of products from Tampa.

?Genesis vetted multiple cities across the country to answer which city would provide our unique mission to solve water scarcity with the best talent and the best lifestyle to support the talent we attract,? said Shannon Stuckenberg, CEO of Genesis Systems. ?Our people are heroes solving hard problems for all humanity. They deserve to live in a city that supports them. In the final analysis, there wasn?t even a close second. Tampa won hands down.?

Founded in 2016, Genesis Systems has developed a new atmospheric water generation technology that is capable of inexpensively generating fresh water on an industrial scale. The firm's proprietary technology?running entirely on green energy and renewables?is the only technology in existence that can provide up to 10,000,000 gallons of water per day with no access to a water source required while consuming far less energy per gallon than any current water purification system.

About the size of a shipping container, the Genesis Systems? WaterCube? system can be deployed virtually anywhere and can harvest mass quantities of water directly from the air where it is most needed?even in earth's most arid regions like the Southwestern United States and the Middle East to North Africa and Australia. The company has plans to fabricate the WaterCube? in Tampa and is currently looking at options for its headquarters.

?With sustainability and resilience as one of our city?s strategic goals, which includes improving water resiliency, I am extremely excited to welcome Genesis Systems to Tampa,? said Tampa Mayor Jane Castor. ?Advanced manufacturing is a key industry for our city, and the work Genesis Systems is doing is not only innovative, it?s also solving real world challenges. I?d like to extend a warm welcome to the Genesis team and thank them for investing in our community.?

The Genesis AWG requires only 0.5 kilowatts or less of energy per gallon, so it can be powered by a variety of clean energy sources such as wind or solar, and it requires no access to the electrical grid or other energy or water infrastructure.

The Genesis AWG technology drives the cost of potable water toward parity with many municipal and desalination water systems. And because water is harvested from the atmosphere with no water source or other infrastructure required?the Genesis technology can offer an invaluable solution to many land-locked regions facing drought conditions.

?The Genesis technology has the potential to be genuinely transformative in regions and economies that are constrained by access to clean, fresh water,? said Stuckenberg. ?We believe WaterCube? will help the world sustainably adapt to a drier climate and that it will play a critical role both in high-income countries and in the developing nations that are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.?

Over the past 10 years, manufacturing employment in the Tampa metro area has grown to the second largest in the state with more than 8,000 jobs added. During the same time period, Tampa saw an increase of 13 percent or nearly 350 new manufacturing businesses established.

In 2020, the manufacturing industry produced $11 billion in Gross Domestic Product for the Tampa area, with the average annual percent change in the past 10 years up 4.5 percent, compared to the nation?s 2.3 percent.

Genesis Systems joins a growing list of manufacturing companies that have recently announced plans to relocate its headquarters or open operations in Hillsborough County, including Signode Industrial Group, Anuvia Plant Nutrients, NuCycle Energy and Advanced Airfoil Components.

?Advanced manufacturing is growing in Tampa and Hillsborough County, and the companies in this sector, like Genesis Systems, are developing technology that is making a significant impact worldwide,? said Jim Weiss, chairman of the Tampa Bay Economic Development Council and regional president of Fifth Third Bank. ?Genesis Systems is bringing high-quality, high-paying jobs to our community as well as a new level of innovation and commitment to sustainability. This is a fantastic project all around.?

Once established in Tampa, Genesis Systems will be hiring executives, engineers (civil, mechanical, chemical and design), technicians and programmers, assembly workers (welders, pipe fitters, sheet metal workers), project managers and administration.

Genesis Systems LLC is a woman-led, privately owned company that is expected to grow into a multi-trillion-dollar organization within the next five years.