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Pump Company Index Aker Solutions 14 Alaska Pump & Supply 11 Alfa Laval 14,15 Amarinth 9 Ampco-Pittsburgh 15 Andritz 14,15 Armstrong 10 Atlas Copco 14 14,15 Baker Hughes BHEL 15 11,15 CECO Environmental Colfax 6,15 Crane 10,15 Curtiss-Wright 15 DMW 15 Dover 11,12,15 DXP Enterprises 11 Ebara 14,15 Edwards 12 Energy Recovery 15 FEDCO 13 Finder 11 Flotronic 14 Flowserve 12,14,15 FLSmidth 10,14,15 Franklin Electric 6,10,12,15 Gamma Vacuum 12 Gardner Denver 11,13 GE 15 GE Oil & Gas 11,16 Geveke 11 Gévelot 15 GLV 15 Gorman-Rupp 7,14,15 Graco 15 7,15 GUD Holdings Hayward Gordon 12 Hayward Tyler 15 Hyundai Heavy Industries 15 Idex 8,15 Indutrade 10,12,14 Ingersoll Rand 15 Innomag 12 ITT 8,15 Jyoti 15 KETO 12 Kin Pompentechniek 12 Kirloskar Brothers 5,9,15,16 Kirloskar Brothers Europe 5 5 Kirloskar Brothers International Kirloskar Brothers (Thailand) 5 Kirloskar Ebara 5 KMT 11 KRG Industries 13 KSB 14,15 Kubota 15 Layne Christensen 15 Lindsay 15 Lufkin 11 Met-Pro 11 Metso 14,15 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 15 National Oilwell Varco 15 Nikkiso 11,15 Norris Production Solutions 12 OneSubsea 11 Pentair 15 Pfeiffer Vacuum 15 Pioneer Pump 12 ProMinent 13 Pump Solutions Group 1,10,11,13 11 Pump Technology & Solutions Pump Technology Services 12 15 Roper Industries Roto 15 Saudi Pump Factory 1 Schlumberger 12,14,15 Shakti 15 Siemens 10,14 SKF 14,15 Someflu 9 Spirax Sarco 15 SPIRIT Global Energy Solutions 12 SPX 15 Sulzer 1,12,14,15 Tapflo 11 Teikoku Electric 15 Temag 11 Tencarva 11 Torishima 9,13,14,15 Tsurumi 15 Valin 12 Valmet 9,14,15 Voith Hydro 9 Wärtsilä 9,15 Weatherford 15 Weir 14,15 WPIL 15 Xylem 15
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WATER & WASTEWATER
Scottish Water appoints JV as preferred bidder for £340mn programme
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joint venture of Amey and Black & Veatch has been appointed preferred bidder to provide a range of wastewater services valued at more than £340 million in a collaborative alliance with Scottish Water. Amey and Black & Veatch, operating as BBV, will start work in April 2014 and be responsible for programme management, design, stakeholder engagement and construction of sewer infrastructure work across Scotland. The Quality and Standards IV (Q&S) Investment Programme will run until April 2021. Under an alliance agreement Amey and Black & Veatch will operate as equal joint venture partners working in collaboration with Scottish Water. Each of the joint venture partners has provided wastewater services on behalf of Scottish Water for over 20 years. This latest work forms part of a wider investment by Scottish Water to improve infrastructure for its five million customers across the country.
Osmoflo forms wastewater business
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ustralian water solutions and desalination company Osmoflo has established a wastewater business to serve increasing demand from industry and the utilities sector for efficient wastewater treatment systems that maximise water reuse. Osmoflo’s wastewater business will offer a full range of wastewater treatment systems in addition to membrane-based technologies. Contract options include engineering, procurement and construction (EPC); design, build, operate and maintain (DBOM); build, own and operate (BOO); rental; and commercial lease. The wastewater business will be based at Osmoflo’s manufacturing facility in Burton, South Australia with technical representatives located at the company’s offices throughout the country. “Osmoflo has wide Australian and international experience in provision of
plants enabling reuse or the discharge of treated water in full compliance with regulatory standards however the new business signifies a dedicated approach within the company to wastewater management, one that we believe industry has come to expect from providers of water solutions” said Jamie Roodenrys, Osmoflo manager, wastewater. “Demand for reuse is being driven by growing community and industry expectations relating to sustainable, cost effective and reliable wastewater treatment coupled with the implementation of increasingly stringent regulatory standards particularly relating to environmental discharge. These factors are bringing about a renewed focus on all aspects of wastewater treatment and recycling,” added Roodenrys.
Amiad awarded US$1.1mn filtration contract in Angola
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miad has won a US$1.1 million contract from the Mitrelli Group to supply and install drinking water filtration systems in the Angolan province of Moxico as part of Mitrelli’s ‘Water for All’ project. During 2014, Amiad will install and commission 50 filtration systems that will be at the core of the water treatment and filtration solution to pump water from the local river to supply clean water to the villages in Moxico and Kuanza Sul. Arik Dayan, CEO of Amiad Water Systems, said: “Access to clean drinking water is fundamental to the wellbeing of the Angolan population and we’re delighted to have been selected to take part in this important project and make this a reality. This contract builds on our previous work in Angola, and elsewhere in the continent, and furthers our strategy of expanding in growth territories such as Africa.”
Severn Trent to supply world’s largest fixed-film denitrification system to Baltimore WWTP
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rcher Western Contractors LLC has selected Severn Trent
February 2014
market prospects Services to provide its TETRA Denite denitrification filter technology for the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The TETRA Denite fixed-film biological denitrification process will be used to reduce high levels of nutrients discharged into the Chesapeake Bay from the Back River WWTP. The installation will be the world’s largest fixed-film denitrification system. The US$24 million project consists of 52 filters — four sets of 13 (3.6m X 30.5m). Each set will operate independently of the others with its own controls and operation programming. All 13 systems will share the same backwash and chemical feed system. When the project is completed, Back River WWTP’s effluent quality will be less than 5mg/l Total Suspended Solids, less than 1.0 mg/l Nitrate-Nitrogen, less than 4.0 mg/l Total Nitrogen and less than 10 mg/l Chemical Biological Oxygen Demand.
Water Summit aims to help efforts against corruption
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he first African Water Integrity Learning Summit will take place in Lusaka, Zambia, on 29–30 April 2014. Hosted by UNDP-Water Governance Facility, the Water Integrity Network, UNDP/Cap-Net, WaterNet and the Stockholm International Water Institute, the summit marks the conclusion of a three-year regional integrity training programme in Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme has successfully trained more than 400 stakeholders across 36 countries, the impact of which will be documented and analysed at the summit, in order to further disseminate practical insights on how to respond to misconduct in the water sector. The summit also aims to energise local African relationships in the water community, and at political levels to take resolute action against corruption. Organisers say the event is particularly aimed towards water sector stakeholders in regulation, controlling, planning, policy development, representatives from ECOWAS, EAC-Lake Victoria Basin Commission and SADC countries who have been trained during the regional integrity
February 2014
programme, and other stakeholders such as media representatives, water user associations and advocacy organisations.
Californian MBR facility selects Anaergia membranes
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alifornia’s Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) will use Anaergia Inc’s FibrePlate hybrid membrane technology for new two subregional membrane bioreactor (MBR) facilities. The MBR facilities will produce a combined two million gallons per day of high quality effluent for landscape irrigation. They will provide a drought-proof supply of water and reduce the overall load on the collection system, enabling VVWRA to defer costly infrastructure expansion and reduce the energy costs associated with pumping recycled water. “FibrePlate membranes are a game changing technology and they are the first 100% newly designed membrane that the industry has seen in a long time. The hybridmembrane combines the best advantages of hollow-fibre and flat-sheet technologies to deliver a significant capital and operating cost advantage to our clients,” said Andrew Benedek, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Anaergia.
ACQUEAU workshop held on Water beyond Europe
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he ACQUEAU workshop ‘Water beyond Europe II’ took place on 20 February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium, with a wide range of presentation topics delivered by European and South African speakers. The presentations from the ACQUEAU workshop on ‘Water beyond Europe II’ are now available via the ACQUEAU website at www.acqueau.eu. South Africa has identified Water Research Innovation as one of the main areas to focus advancement efforts in the South Africa-EU science and technology partnership. This has
led to confirmation from the SA Department of Science & Technology and the SA Water Research Commission that South Africa will participate in the EUREKA ACQUEAU cluster in the 2014 programme. With this collaboration, any South African projects awarded with the ACQUEAU label will receive funding for the South African partners, as long as they adhere to all evaluation criteria and have a European partner. The biannual ACQUEAU workshops aim to bring together relevant R&D and innovation stakeholders – large enterprises, SMEs, research centres, and public authorities – to develop project ideas around a selection of water priority issues.
DESALINATION
IDE Technologies expands into South American water industry
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DE Technologies, the water treatment solutions business, has announced its expansion in the South American water industry with a new office in Chile. The company plans to increase awareness and sales throughout Latin America for IDE’s small-to-large-scale membrane and thermal desalination solutions as well as its industrial water treatment solutions. “A rapidly-growing market with many water-challenged regions, Latin America is turning to our eco-friendly and costeffective desalination solutions to assure reliable and continuous access to highquality water,” said Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies. Chile is the world’s leading producer of copper, and with the expansion of new mines, there is an increased need for water in areas with water scarcity. By increasing its presence in Chile, which has a strong economy and a high external investment rate, IDE is set to help meet this need through projects that desalinate seawater on the coast and pump the water to the mining operations. IDE specialises in the development, engineering, construction and operation of some of the world’s largest and most advanced thermal and membrane desalination facilities and industrial water treatment plants.
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Pump Company Index Aker Solutions 14 Alaska Pump & Supply 11 Alfa Laval 14,15 Amarinth 9 Ampco-Pittsburgh 15 Andritz 14,15 Armstrong 10 Atlas Copco 14 14,15 Baker Hughes BHEL 15 11,15 CECO Environmental Colfax 6,15 Crane 10,15 Curtiss-Wright 15 DMW 15 Dover 11,12,15 DXP Enterprises 11 Ebara 14,15 Edwards 12 Energy Recovery 15 FEDCO 13 Finder 11 Flotronic 14 Flowserve 12,14,15 FLSmidth 10,14,15 Franklin Electric 6,10,12,15 Gamma Vacuum 12 Gardner Denver 11,13 GE 15 GE Oil & Gas 11,16 Geveke 11 Gévelot 15 GLV 15 Gorman-Rupp 7,14,15 Graco 15 7,15 GUD Holdings Hayward Gordon 12 Hayward Tyler 15 Hyundai Heavy Industries 15 Idex 8,15 Indutrade 10,12,14 Ingersoll Rand 15 Innomag 12 ITT 8,15 Jyoti 15 KETO 12 Kin Pompentechniek 12 Kirloskar Brothers 5,9,15,16 Kirloskar Brothers Europe 5 5 Kirloskar Brothers International Kirloskar Brothers (Thailand) 5 Kirloskar Ebara 5 KMT 11 KRG Industries 13 KSB 14,15 Kubota 15 Layne Christensen 15 Lindsay 15 Lufkin 11 Met-Pro 11 Metso 14,15 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries 15 National Oilwell Varco 15 Nikkiso 11,15 Norris Production Solutions 12 OneSubsea 11 Pentair 15 Pfeiffer Vacuum 15 Pioneer Pump 12 ProMinent 13 Pump Solutions Group 1,10,11,13 11 Pump Technology & Solutions Pump Technology Services 12 15 Roper Industries Roto 15 Saudi Pump Factory 1 Schlumberger 12,14,15 Shakti 15 Siemens 10,14 SKF 14,15 Someflu 9 Spirax Sarco 15 SPIRIT Global Energy Solutions 12 SPX 15 Sulzer 1,12,14,15 Tapflo 11 Teikoku Electric 15 Temag 11 Tencarva 11 Torishima 9,13,14,15 Tsurumi 15 Valin 12 Valmet 9,14,15 Voith Hydro 9 Wärtsilä 9,15 Weatherford 15 Weir 14,15 WPIL 15 Xylem 15
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WATER & WASTEWATER
Scottish Water appoints JV as preferred bidder for £340mn programme
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joint venture of Amey and Black & Veatch has been appointed preferred bidder to provide a range of wastewater services valued at more than £340 million in a collaborative alliance with Scottish Water. Amey and Black & Veatch, operating as BBV, will start work in April 2014 and be responsible for programme management, design, stakeholder engagement and construction of sewer infrastructure work across Scotland. The Quality and Standards IV (Q&S) Investment Programme will run until April 2021. Under an alliance agreement Amey and Black & Veatch will operate as equal joint venture partners working in collaboration with Scottish Water. Each of the joint venture partners has provided wastewater services on behalf of Scottish Water for over 20 years. This latest work forms part of a wider investment by Scottish Water to improve infrastructure for its five million customers across the country.
Osmoflo forms wastewater business
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ustralian water solutions and desalination company Osmoflo has established a wastewater business to serve increasing demand from industry and the utilities sector for efficient wastewater treatment systems that maximise water reuse. Osmoflo’s wastewater business will offer a full range of wastewater treatment systems in addition to membrane-based technologies. Contract options include engineering, procurement and construction (EPC); design, build, operate and maintain (DBOM); build, own and operate (BOO); rental; and commercial lease. The wastewater business will be based at Osmoflo’s manufacturing facility in Burton, South Australia with technical representatives located at the company’s offices throughout the country. “Osmoflo has wide Australian and international experience in provision of
plants enabling reuse or the discharge of treated water in full compliance with regulatory standards however the new business signifies a dedicated approach within the company to wastewater management, one that we believe industry has come to expect from providers of water solutions” said Jamie Roodenrys, Osmoflo manager, wastewater. “Demand for reuse is being driven by growing community and industry expectations relating to sustainable, cost effective and reliable wastewater treatment coupled with the implementation of increasingly stringent regulatory standards particularly relating to environmental discharge. These factors are bringing about a renewed focus on all aspects of wastewater treatment and recycling,” added Roodenrys.
Amiad awarded US$1.1mn filtration contract in Angola
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miad has won a US$1.1 million contract from the Mitrelli Group to supply and install drinking water filtration systems in the Angolan province of Moxico as part of Mitrelli’s ‘Water for All’ project. During 2014, Amiad will install and commission 50 filtration systems that will be at the core of the water treatment and filtration solution to pump water from the local river to supply clean water to the villages in Moxico and Kuanza Sul. Arik Dayan, CEO of Amiad Water Systems, said: “Access to clean drinking water is fundamental to the wellbeing of the Angolan population and we’re delighted to have been selected to take part in this important project and make this a reality. This contract builds on our previous work in Angola, and elsewhere in the continent, and furthers our strategy of expanding in growth territories such as Africa.”
Severn Trent to supply world’s largest fixed-film denitrification system to Baltimore WWTP
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rcher Western Contractors LLC has selected Severn Trent
February 2014
market prospects Services to provide its TETRA Denite denitrification filter technology for the Back River Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The TETRA Denite fixed-film biological denitrification process will be used to reduce high levels of nutrients discharged into the Chesapeake Bay from the Back River WWTP. The installation will be the world’s largest fixed-film denitrification system. The US$24 million project consists of 52 filters — four sets of 13 (3.6m X 30.5m). Each set will operate independently of the others with its own controls and operation programming. All 13 systems will share the same backwash and chemical feed system. When the project is completed, Back River WWTP’s effluent quality will be less than 5mg/l Total Suspended Solids, less than 1.0 mg/l Nitrate-Nitrogen, less than 4.0 mg/l Total Nitrogen and less than 10 mg/l Chemical Biological Oxygen Demand.
Water Summit aims to help efforts against corruption
T
he first African Water Integrity Learning Summit will take place in Lusaka, Zambia, on 29–30 April 2014. Hosted by UNDP-Water Governance Facility, the Water Integrity Network, UNDP/Cap-Net, WaterNet and the Stockholm International Water Institute, the summit marks the conclusion of a three-year regional integrity training programme in Sub-Saharan Africa. The programme has successfully trained more than 400 stakeholders across 36 countries, the impact of which will be documented and analysed at the summit, in order to further disseminate practical insights on how to respond to misconduct in the water sector. The summit also aims to energise local African relationships in the water community, and at political levels to take resolute action against corruption. Organisers say the event is particularly aimed towards water sector stakeholders in regulation, controlling, planning, policy development, representatives from ECOWAS, EAC-Lake Victoria Basin Commission and SADC countries who have been trained during the regional integrity
February 2014
programme, and other stakeholders such as media representatives, water user associations and advocacy organisations.
Californian MBR facility selects Anaergia membranes
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alifornia’s Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority (VVWRA) will use Anaergia Inc’s FibrePlate hybrid membrane technology for new two subregional membrane bioreactor (MBR) facilities. The MBR facilities will produce a combined two million gallons per day of high quality effluent for landscape irrigation. They will provide a drought-proof supply of water and reduce the overall load on the collection system, enabling VVWRA to defer costly infrastructure expansion and reduce the energy costs associated with pumping recycled water. “FibrePlate membranes are a game changing technology and they are the first 100% newly designed membrane that the industry has seen in a long time. The hybridmembrane combines the best advantages of hollow-fibre and flat-sheet technologies to deliver a significant capital and operating cost advantage to our clients,” said Andrew Benedek, executive chairman and chief technology officer of Anaergia.
ACQUEAU workshop held on Water beyond Europe
T
he ACQUEAU workshop ‘Water beyond Europe II’ took place on 20 February 2014 in Brussels, Belgium, with a wide range of presentation topics delivered by European and South African speakers. The presentations from the ACQUEAU workshop on ‘Water beyond Europe II’ are now available via the ACQUEAU website at www.acqueau.eu. South Africa has identified Water Research Innovation as one of the main areas to focus advancement efforts in the South Africa-EU science and technology partnership. This has
led to confirmation from the SA Department of Science & Technology and the SA Water Research Commission that South Africa will participate in the EUREKA ACQUEAU cluster in the 2014 programme. With this collaboration, any South African projects awarded with the ACQUEAU label will receive funding for the South African partners, as long as they adhere to all evaluation criteria and have a European partner. The biannual ACQUEAU workshops aim to bring together relevant R&D and innovation stakeholders – large enterprises, SMEs, research centres, and public authorities – to develop project ideas around a selection of water priority issues.
DESALINATION
IDE Technologies expands into South American water industry
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DE Technologies, the water treatment solutions business, has announced its expansion in the South American water industry with a new office in Chile. The company plans to increase awareness and sales throughout Latin America for IDE’s small-to-large-scale membrane and thermal desalination solutions as well as its industrial water treatment solutions. “A rapidly-growing market with many water-challenged regions, Latin America is turning to our eco-friendly and costeffective desalination solutions to assure reliable and continuous access to highquality water,” said Avshalom Felber, CEO of IDE Technologies. Chile is the world’s leading producer of copper, and with the expansion of new mines, there is an increased need for water in areas with water scarcity. By increasing its presence in Chile, which has a strong economy and a high external investment rate, IDE is set to help meet this need through projects that desalinate seawater on the coast and pump the water to the mining operations. IDE specialises in the development, engineering, construction and operation of some of the world’s largest and most advanced thermal and membrane desalination facilities and industrial water treatment plants.
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