Tag: Middle East
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New desalination plant will meet Sharjah’s demand
A water desalination plant with a capacity of 100 million litres a day has opened at Al Hamriya at a total cost of Dh446 million ($120 million).
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Hitachi to partner with Veolia on overseas desalination projects
Hitachi and Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies are to cooperate on desalination projects, mainly in emerging countries.
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Fluor to build Dow’s RO membrane factory in Saudi Arabia
Fluor Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Dow Chemical Company to build Dow’s reverse osmosis (RO) membrane manufacturing facility in Jubail Industrial City II in Saudi Arabia.
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NanoH2O confirms its acquisition by LG Chem
Desalination membrane manufacturer NanoH2O confirmed on 12 May 2014 the finalization of its sale to Korea’s LG Chem on 30 April 2014.
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Hyflux sees Dahej desalination funding ‘within year’
Hyflux has extended the time it foresees for financial closure on its Dahej seawater desalination plant in India to “within this year”.
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Gulf red-tide early-warning system funding ‘soon’
A new early-warning system in the Gulf for harmful algal blooms (HABs), also known as red tides, using satellite imagery, remote sensing, and modeling could be one result of a conference on HABs held on 16‑17 April 2014 by the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC).
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MEDRC to run two RO courses in May 2014
The Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC) in Oman is running two three-day courses on operation of reverse-osmosis (RO) plants in May 2014:
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Menningmann becomes president of Biwater AEWT
Jorg Menningmann has joined Biwater’s desalination and membrane treatment sector as president of Biwater AEWT.
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Algae biomass membrane order for Denmark’s LiqTech
Denmark’s LiqTech International Inc has received a purchase order of around US$ 300,000 for a prototype filtration system to be used in an algae biomass project.
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Pang joins Seven Seas Water as senior vice president
Ark W Pang has joined Seven Seas Water Corporation as senior vice president, chief business development officer and a member of the executive committee.