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De.mem sells water treatment plant in Vietnam
IN BRIEF/NEWS
In Brief • China’s Newater Technology Inc raised US$8.0 million in gross proceeds from its recent initial public offering (IPO). Newater Technology’s shares are now trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol NEWA. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Yantai, Shandong Province, Newater Technology develops and manufactures membrane filtration products and related hardware and engineered systems for the treatment, recycling and discharge of wastewater. www.nasdaq.com • Nonwovens company Atex Inc has announced a capacity increase for its meltblown and composites production in Gainesville, Georgia, USA. The expansion allows Atex to meet increasing demand for products in the specialty wipes, filtration, medical and sorbents markets. www.atex-spun.com • Aquaporin A/S, Liqtech A/S and Veolia Water Technologies are participating in BONUS CLEANWATER, a public private partnership between universities, high-tech companies and wastewater operators to develop eco-technology solutions for the removal of micropollutants and microplastic from contaminated water. The €3.8 million project is funded by the European Union, via the BONUS programme, and by Vinnova (Sweden), Innovation Fund Denmark, and the German Ministry for Education and Science. Aquaporin, Liqtech and Veolia Water Technologies will work alongside Biofos A/S, Primozone Production AB, Aalborg University, Aarhus University, Lund University and The German Federal Institute of Hydrology. www.bonusportal.org/projects/blue_ baltic_2017-2020/cleanwater • WaterBridge Resources LLC has acquired EnWater Solutions LLC, a US produced water gathering and disposal company operating in the southern Delaware Basin. www.H2OBridge.com and www.enwatersolutions.com
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Filtration Industry Analyst
Elk Grove Village, Illinois-headquartered Transor Filter USA has offices in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia providing sales and service. For further information, visit www.transorfilter.com
De.mem sells water treatment plant in Vietnam
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ingapore’s De.mem Ltd has sold a water treatment plant located in Vietnam’s Nghe An province to Hung Thanh Environmental Ltd in a A$500 000 deal. De.mem designed, built, owned and operated the plant under a build, own, operate (BOO) scheme. The facility uses De.mem’s patented hollow fibre membranes to generate water output for the nearby municipality and a number of factories. The purchase price will be paid in instalments over the next 30 months, with the first A$240 000 payment due immediately. In the short-term, Hung Thanh Environmental intends to adopt De.mem’s membrane technology as part of an upgrade of the water treatment plant. “The sale of De.mem’s water treatment plant marks a significant transaction within the Vietnamese water treatment market, where membrane based water treatment is emerging,” said De.mem CEO Andreas Kroell. “The transaction underlines De.mem’s growing brand and market position in Vietnam as a supplier for modern water treatment technology. It also brings along a strong validation of our BOOT/BOO (build, own/operate, transfer/build, own, operate) product offering,” added Kroell. De.mem recently opened a facility in Singapore to produce hollow fibre membranes and membrane modules for industrial and municipal wastewater projects (see Filtration Industry Analyst, July 2017). The company’s low-pressure hollow fibre nanofiltration (NF) membrane was developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). The technology, which NTU exclusively licenced to De.mem in 2016, is said to allow for lower operating cost and reduced investment relative to other water treatment technologies. The new De.mem facility located in Woodlands has the capacity to produce membranes as well as industry standard
4-inch and 8-inch membrane modules at volumes which are sufficient for small-scale commercial projects. It will also be possible to manufacture other types of hollow fibre membranes at the new site. De.mem is currently preparing for pilot testing at select customer sites ahead of planned commercial market launch of the technology later this year. De.mem raised A$4.5 million in an initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) earlier this year (see Filtration Industry Analyst, April 2017). For further information, visit www.demembranes.com
Xylem leads workshops at World Water Week in Stockholm
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ylem co-convened two workshops at World Water Week 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. On Sunday 27 August 2017, Albert Cho, Xylem’s vice president of strategy and business development; Alex Fischer of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford; and Martin Doyle of Duke University and the Aspen Institute led a forum entitled “Data Drought: An Assessment of Global Hydrological Monitoring Systems”. Xylem co-convened a second workshop on Tuesday 29 August 2017, entitled “Powering the Wastewater Renaissance: Emissions Reduction in Wastewater Management” along with the European Water Association and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. This session was led by Xylem’s Randolf Webb and Aleksandra Lazic, Károly Kovács of the European Water Association and Christian Baresel of IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Xylem’s Albert Cho also took part in the “21st Century Technology: Bridging the Gap to Wastewater Reuse” workshop on Monday 28 August 2017. This year’s World Water Week focused on the theme of “Water and Waste: Reduce and Reuse”. World Water Week also features the Stockholm Water Prize Award Ceremony and the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Ceremony. Xylem is a founding sponsor of the Stockholm Water Prize and founding global sponsor of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
For further information, visit www.xylem.com and www.worldwaterweek.org
August 2017
In Brief • China’s Newater Technology Inc raised US$8.0 million in gross proceeds from its recent initial public offering (IPO). Newater Technology’s shares are now trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol NEWA. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Yantai, Shandong Province, Newater Technology develops and manufactures membrane filtration products and related hardware and engineered systems for the treatment, recycling and discharge of wastewater. www.nasdaq.com • Nonwovens company Atex Inc has announced a capacity increase for its meltblown and composites production in Gainesville, Georgia, USA. The expansion allows Atex to meet increasing demand for products in the specialty wipes, filtration, medical and sorbents markets. www.atex-spun.com • Aquaporin A/S, Liqtech A/S and Veolia Water Technologies are participating in BONUS CLEANWATER, a public private partnership between universities, high-tech companies and wastewater operators to develop eco-technology solutions for the removal of micropollutants and microplastic from contaminated water. The €3.8 million project is funded by the European Union, via the BONUS programme, and by Vinnova (Sweden), Innovation Fund Denmark, and the German Ministry for Education and Science. Aquaporin, Liqtech and Veolia Water Technologies will work alongside Biofos A/S, Primozone Production AB, Aalborg University, Aarhus University, Lund University and The German Federal Institute of Hydrology. www.bonusportal.org/projects/blue_ baltic_2017-2020/cleanwater • WaterBridge Resources LLC has acquired EnWater Solutions LLC, a US produced water gathering and disposal company operating in the southern Delaware Basin. www.H2OBridge.com and www.enwatersolutions.com
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Filtration Industry Analyst
Elk Grove Village, Illinois-headquartered Transor Filter USA has offices in the US, Latin America, Europe and Asia providing sales and service. For further information, visit www.transorfilter.com
De.mem sells water treatment plant in Vietnam
S
ingapore’s De.mem Ltd has sold a water treatment plant located in Vietnam’s Nghe An province to Hung Thanh Environmental Ltd in a A$500 000 deal. De.mem designed, built, owned and operated the plant under a build, own, operate (BOO) scheme. The facility uses De.mem’s patented hollow fibre membranes to generate water output for the nearby municipality and a number of factories. The purchase price will be paid in instalments over the next 30 months, with the first A$240 000 payment due immediately. In the short-term, Hung Thanh Environmental intends to adopt De.mem’s membrane technology as part of an upgrade of the water treatment plant. “The sale of De.mem’s water treatment plant marks a significant transaction within the Vietnamese water treatment market, where membrane based water treatment is emerging,” said De.mem CEO Andreas Kroell. “The transaction underlines De.mem’s growing brand and market position in Vietnam as a supplier for modern water treatment technology. It also brings along a strong validation of our BOOT/BOO (build, own/operate, transfer/build, own, operate) product offering,” added Kroell. De.mem recently opened a facility in Singapore to produce hollow fibre membranes and membrane modules for industrial and municipal wastewater projects (see Filtration Industry Analyst, July 2017). The company’s low-pressure hollow fibre nanofiltration (NF) membrane was developed at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). The technology, which NTU exclusively licenced to De.mem in 2016, is said to allow for lower operating cost and reduced investment relative to other water treatment technologies. The new De.mem facility located in Woodlands has the capacity to produce membranes as well as industry standard
4-inch and 8-inch membrane modules at volumes which are sufficient for small-scale commercial projects. It will also be possible to manufacture other types of hollow fibre membranes at the new site. De.mem is currently preparing for pilot testing at select customer sites ahead of planned commercial market launch of the technology later this year. De.mem raised A$4.5 million in an initial public offering on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) earlier this year (see Filtration Industry Analyst, April 2017). For further information, visit www.demembranes.com
Xylem leads workshops at World Water Week in Stockholm
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ylem co-convened two workshops at World Water Week 2017 in Stockholm, Sweden. On Sunday 27 August 2017, Albert Cho, Xylem’s vice president of strategy and business development; Alex Fischer of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford; and Martin Doyle of Duke University and the Aspen Institute led a forum entitled “Data Drought: An Assessment of Global Hydrological Monitoring Systems”. Xylem co-convened a second workshop on Tuesday 29 August 2017, entitled “Powering the Wastewater Renaissance: Emissions Reduction in Wastewater Management” along with the European Water Association and IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. This session was led by Xylem’s Randolf Webb and Aleksandra Lazic, Károly Kovács of the European Water Association and Christian Baresel of IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. Xylem’s Albert Cho also took part in the “21st Century Technology: Bridging the Gap to Wastewater Reuse” workshop on Monday 28 August 2017. This year’s World Water Week focused on the theme of “Water and Waste: Reduce and Reuse”. World Water Week also features the Stockholm Water Prize Award Ceremony and the Stockholm Junior Water Prize Ceremony. Xylem is a founding sponsor of the Stockholm Water Prize and founding global sponsor of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize.
For further information, visit www.xylem.com and www.worldwaterweek.org
August 2017