Built by someone who actually ran the machines.
Fireless Cremation® was not developed from a laboratory bench or a specification sheet. It was developed from hands-on experience—loading, operating and improving the equipment one cycle at a time.
Experience on the funeral home floor—not just on paper.
Ed personally operated the first Fireless Cremation® units, learning firsthand what worked, what did not, and what funeral directors and grieving families needed from a water cremation system.
That hands-on experience became the foundation for Fireless Cremation®'s patented process, co-invented by Ed. The process uses ethanol as a co-solvent to achieve complete lipid dissolution at atmospheric pressure and roughly 160°F.
It is a technology designed around the practical problems operators experienced with earlier alkaline hydrolysis systems—including cycle time, dissolution, loading and retrieval, and recovery of bone fragments.
Fireless Cremation® is Ed's latest environmental venture, but not his first. His career has focused on bringing practical clean technologies to market. Today, that experience is being applied to one of the most personal services a funeral home provides.
Ed inside a Fireless Cremation® dissolution tank on the manufacturing floor—hands-on, the same way the process was developed.
A career built around practical clean technology.
Cycled Life
In 2010, his company sold the first alkaline hydrolysis system to a funeral director. He contracted Bio-Response Solutions to design and manufacture this Aquamation® system. The system failed to complete dissolutions, so he closed the business. Incredibly, these systems were still being sold, so in 2019, he launched Fireless Cremation to address the numerous problems with first-generation water cremation systems.
Aardex
Led development of a double Platinum LEED office building, the most sustainable office building in Colorado.
Demand Technologies
Developed technology designed to reduce air conditioners' contribution to peak electrical demand and the need for new power plants.
Fuel Tech
Created a publicly traded clean-technology company focused on reducing smokestack emissions, acid-rain pollution, from power plants using platinum catalyst.
Dignity, sustainability and honesty about the process.
Gentleness Over Force
Water, not fire. A process designed to honor the body rather than consume it.
Built From Experience
Designed by someone who operated the equipment himself—not simply engineered it in theory.
Stand Behind It
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From Denver to the world.
Fireless Cremation® is based in Denver, Colorado, with manufacturing and licensing partners around the globe.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with providers including AquaSeris, The Natural Funeral and Joseph H. Brown, Jr. Funeral Home.
Manufacturing and licensing through Fireless Cremation Phils. Inc. Patents granted in China, Japan, and Hong Kong.
Licensed through Aquasolve, bringing Fireless Cremation® technology to the European market.