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Energy Recovery delivers PX devices for Israel’s largest desalination expansion project

Global Environmental Solutions (GES) has selected Energy Recovery Inc’s PX Pressure Exchanger devices for the largest desalination plant expansion in Israel.
01 March 2012

Municipal water treatment facilities to spend US$4.5 billion on filters in 2012

According to the data in four reports by McIlvaine, municipal water treatment facilities are set to spend US$4.5 billion this year on filters and clarifiers.
29 February 2012

Voltea completes €4.5mn funding round

Voltea has raised €4.5 million in financing to support the commercialisation of its Capacitive Deionization (CapDI) technology.
22 February 2012

Amiad wins filtration contracts in Australia

Amiad Water Systems Ltd has won two contracts, worth almost US$10 million, for projects in Australia through the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Amiad Australia Pty Ltd.
21 February 2012

Toray provides RO membrane elements for Tuaspring desalination plant

Toray Industries Inc is supplying reverse osmosis (RO) membrane elements to the Tuaspring Desalination Plant in Singapore later this year.
13 February 2012

Desalination units selected for Chilean power station

Mechanical Vapor Compression (MVC) desalination units from IDE Technologies have been selected by Norgener (an AES Gener company) for a power station facility in Chile owned by AES.
09 February 2012

IDA launches desalination academy

The International Desalination Association (IDA) has created the IDA Desalination Academy, a global institute of desalination higher learning that will offer an accredited set of training events available in various global locations.
27 January 2012

Oasys Water appoints Bob Muscat as new CEO

Former GE executive Bob Muscat has joined Oasys Water as CEO to drive the commercialization of the company’s forward osmosis technology.
25 January 2012

Hitachi water solutions on show at World Future Energy Summit

Hitachi Plant Technologies Ltd will showcase number of advanced water environment solutions at the forthcoming World Future Energy Summit 2012 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
13 January 2012

Filtration dictionary at a discount

Members of the Filtration Society can receive a copy of a new Dictionary of Filtration and Separation at a discounted price.
06 January 2012

New appointments at WEF

The Water Environment Federation (WEF) has promoted Dr Eileen O'Neill to the position of deputy executive director and Matthew Ries to chief technical officer.
22 December 2011

EIB finances seawater desalination plant in Israel

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to provide €120 million in funding to finance the design and construction of a seawater desalination plant in Ashdod, Israel.
12 December 2011

Tri-Tech wins US$8.3mn Middle East desalination contract

Tri-Tech Infrastructure LLC is to provide a seawater desalination unit for Qatar Petrochemical Co Ltd’s (QAPCO) utility plant at Mesaieed Industrial City in Doha, Qatar.
12 December 2011

GE desalination technology improves water quality in the Bahamas

The new Tarpum Bay/Rock Sound Reverse Osmosis Desalination Plant on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas is using GE desalination technology.
07 December 2011

Protesa to install piping at desalination plant

Protesa, a Spanish manufacturer of GRP (glass fibre reinforced polyester) pipes, has been awarded a contract for the supply and installation of GRP piping in Israel’s Sorek desalination plant.
25 November 2011

QUA launches two water treatment membranes

QUA, a US developer of advanced membrane products for water and wastewater treatment applications, has developed two new membrane products for the global water treatment marketplace, the FEDI fractional electrodionization (EDI) and Q-SEP hollow fibre ultrafiltration modules.
17 November 2011

NanoH2O RO membrane receives Aquatech innovation award

NanoH2O, Inc’s QuantumFlux seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) membrane has received the 2011 Aquatech Innovation Award in the Water Supply category.
11 November 2011

Membrane industry to double by 2020

The international membrane industry will grow from US$1.5 billion in 2009 to US$2.8 billion in 2020, according to a new report by Lux Research.
10 November 2011

APTwater and Rochem merge

Water technology companies APTwater Inc and Rochem AG have merged.
10 November 2011

Lanxess to launch membrane elements

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess showcased a new range of Lewabrane membrane elements at Aquatech 2011, which took place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 1–4 November.
09 November 2011

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