Tag: South Korea
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Global green group seeks to carve carbon emissions out of desalination
The Global Clean Water Desalination Alliance - H₂0 minus CO₂ initiative, launched at the current climate talks in Paris, has called on its 17-nation membership to use clean energy to power new desalination plants. The call was part of the alliance’s aim to tackle the water-energy nexus and climate change.
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LG Chem bags five orders worth US$ 8 million
LG Chem has acquired new orders for water purification filters totalling US$ 8 million under exclusive deals with five desalination projects. The projects are at sites in Israel, Spain, Malta, Egypt and Mexico, the company said.
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LG Chem to supply eight desalination projects
LG Chem, has signed an US$ 8 million deal to supply reverse osmosis (RO) filters for eight seawater desalination projects in five nations from its newly constructed plant at Cheongju in South Korea’s North Chungcheong province.
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Vietnam island to get Korean-financed desalination
Having acquired electricity only last year, Vietnam’s Ly Son Island is to build a VND 264 billion (US$ 12.5 million), 2,000 m³/d desalination plant to provide potable water to 16,000 islanders.
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New LG Chem filter plant to drive market leadership bid
South Korean chemical firm, LG Chem, has claimed its recently completed construction of a reverse osmosis (RO) water filter production plant in Korea will springboard its drive for global market leadership.
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Toray membranes for giant Korean purification plant
Toray Industries has received an order to supply Torayfil hollow fibre ultrafiltration membrane modules to South Korea’s largest membrane-based water purification facility in Yeosu.
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Doosan lands wastewater package at Iraqi oil refinery
Doosan Hydro Technology has won an order for a zero liquid discharge (ZLD) wastewater treatment package at the US$ 6 billion, 140,000 barrels-a-day Karbala oil refinery under construction at South Karbala, 100km from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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IDA picks São Paulo as 2017 World Congress venue
The International Desalination Association (IDA) has selected São Paulo, Brazil as the venue for its 2017 World Congress on Desalination and Water Reuse. The event will take place in the second half of 2017. Specific dates and details about the venue are being finalized.
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Saudi and South Korea sign desalination deal
Saudi Arabia and South Korea have signed a water desalination agreement and a memorandum of understanding for technology transference to Saudi.
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Saudi strikes desalination deal with Korea in bid to stem foreign influence
Saudi Arabia’s Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) has signed a deal with Korea for access to the latest seawater desalination technologies in a bid to reduce foreign influence on the kingdom’s power and water industries.