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Canada’s GLV Inc has announced a C$153 million offer for Austrian water treatment technologies company Christ Water Technology AG.
Holders of Christ Water Technology shares will be offered €3.35 in cash per share representing a total equity purchase price of approximately C$105 million, in addition to GLV assuming an estimated C$48 million of net debt from the company.
GLV’s [...]
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Manufacturer of the PX Pressure Exchanger family of energy recovery devices for osmosis desalination plants, Energy Recovery Inc. has introduced the PX300 to its portfolio.
The PX300 dramatically reduces energy usages and associated costs for large seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination plants, handling brine flow rates of 68 m3 /hour (300 gallons per minute). Energy Recovery Inc’s PX [...]
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Finnish company Finnchain Oy has developed a new surface scum removal system with reduced water consumption and no energy-consuming devices.
Finnchain says that it has introduced the system as an alternative to rectangular sedimentation tanks that use traditional scum skimming with a scum pipe, which require a considerable quantity of water to carry the scum in the [...]
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US company Parkson Corporation has opened a Water Research Facility (WRF) in Pompano Beach, Florida – near the company’s headquarters in Fort Lauderdale.
The new Parkson facility provides for the piloting of water and wastewater technologies and includes an on-site laboratory, which is designed to speed the evaluation of process-effectiveness testing. Parkson adds that the on-site laboratory [...]
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GE Water and the National University of Singapore have signed an agreement to establish a water technology centre on the campus of the university.
The GE Water and the National University of Singapore (NUS) water technology centre will house GE scientists and engineers who will develop new solutions for low-energy seawater desalination, water reclamation and more efficient [...]
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Water and wastewater treatment solution provider Ashbrook Simon-Hartley have acquired Centriquip Ltd, a centrifuge manufacturer who supply the water and wastewater industries with centrifuge equipment.
Centriquip Ltd, based in Clay Cross, Derbyshire, UK, are the largest decanter centrifuge manufacturer in the UK and as well as providing centrifuge equipment to the water and wastewater industries, they also [...]
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Clogging, or ‘ragging’, is a major headache for operators of sewage pumping stations, and can be very costly in terms of downtime and possible sewage pollution. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Paul Uwe Thamsen of TU Berlin – Fluidsystemdynamik explains how recent research may change all this.
Sewage pumping stations serving medium-sized to large cities often comprise one or more [...]
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| Tagged pump clogging, pumping stations, pumps, sewage plant, sewage pumping system, wastewater systems
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Seprotech Systems Inc has finalised its acquisition of Envirosearch Operations Inc, a private water company located in Ontario, Canada.
Envirosearch is an operator of water and wastewater treatment plants in Ontario with historic annual revenues (unaudited) of approximately CA$2,000,000.
In October 2008 Seprotech established a division focused on operating and servicing water and wastewater treatment systems. This division will [...]
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Veolia Water has been awarded two design, build & operate contracts for major wastewater treatment plants in Mullingar and Castlebar in Ireland worth an estimated cumulative turnover of around €74 million for Veolia Water over 22 years.
The two contracts form part of wider plans for the sustainable development of both towns due to steady demographic growth [...]
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Australian wastewater solution provider CST Wastewater Solutions has formed a partnership with Talbot & Talbot wastewater and energy environmental solutions group.
CST says that this partnership will help it further develop, following CST’s expansion of industrial and municipal services and technologies from a new headquarters established in Sydney and a name change from Contra-Shear Technology.
As a result of [...]
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